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Two Minutes Past Nine: Episode 1:  April 19th

Episode 1:  April 19th

BBC Radio 4 - Two Minutes Past Nine, Episode 1:  April 19th

Leah Sottile investigates the legacy of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Leah Sottile investigates the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing in a series that gets into the heart of America’s far right today.

On April 19th 1995 a 26-year-old named Timothy Mcveigh steered a yellow rental truck into downtown Oklahoma city. Inside was a two-ton homemade explosive. 

Oklahoma City Bombing is the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history, killing 168 people and leaving 680 injured.    Journalist Leah Sottile investigates the legacy of the attack.  

Recorded over some of the most divisive and turbulent months in recent American political history, Two Minutes Past Nine explores and questions the changing face of far right extremism in all its chaos and conspiracism.

Presenter: Leah Sottile
Producer: Georgia Catt
Editor: Philip Sellars

Narration recorded by Joe Preston
Additional Research by Robbie Wojciechowski

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25 years on, journalist Leah Sottile investigates the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Twenty-five years on from the largest domestic terror incident in American history, journalist Leah Sottile investigates the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing.

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