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Glog by Nicole Meckes
The Oklahoma City Bombing
Edited by Tamara L. Roleff
Around 9 A.M. on Wednesday, April 19, 1995, downtown Oklahoma City was rocked by an explosion that destroyed numerous buildings as well as killed 168 people. Timothy McVeigh was later put on trial and executed for the bombing.
I would recommend this book for anyone because it is interesting to read about different aspects of the bombing from many different perspectives. It provides quality and interesting information and is easy to read and relate to.
Part of the book focuses a lot on how Timothy McVeigh was received after he was accused of being responsible for the bombing. Many people were scared and wanted to prevent such an event from happening in the future. This has effected the world today and is one of the reasons for how cautious airports and police forces now are.
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Citation
Priscilla Salyers, Ali Hatton, Brett Brooks, Melissa Webster, Kevin Thompson, Andy Sullivan, Jim Parker, Charlotte Aiken, Edye Smith, Hallie Levine, Aren Almon, Clifford Cagle, Bill Clinton, Timothy McVeigh, Theodore Kaczynski, Jon Hersley, Stephen Jones, Michael Fortier, Lana Padilla, Ron Delpit, Robert Nigh, George W. Bush, Ronald Norick, Hans Butzer, and Leonard Pitts contributed their primary knowledge and experience with the bombing to the book.
Recommendation
"The Oklahoma City Bombing" is a non-fictional book written about the bombing that occured in downtown Oklahoma City in 1995. The book focuses on the victims, their families, the rescuers, the bombing's aftermath, the trial of Timothy McVeigh, and the memorial for the bombing's victims. It is broken down into sections that are written from the perspective of a person who experienced the bombing first-hand.
Summary
The book is extremely historically accurate because of the perspective from which it is written in. All of the book's information was contributed by people who experienced the bombing first-hand. These people wrote their contributions from their point of view making all of the information completely true.
Historical Accuracy and Perspective
