Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who carried out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others. He was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in the United States prior to the September 11 attacks.
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Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who carried out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others. He was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in the United States prior to the September 11 attacks. He sought revenge against the federal government for the 1993 Waco siege that ended in the deaths of 86 people, as well as the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident and American foreign policy. He claimed to have been a target of bullying at school, and he took refuge in a fantasy world where he imagined retaliating against the bullies. He became intensely interested in gun rights after he graduated from high school and read magazines such as Soldier of Fortune. He briefly attended Bryant & Stratton College before dropping out. After dropping out of college, Mc Veigh worked as an armored car guard and was noted by co-workers as being obsessed with guns. While in the military, he earned a reputation of assigning undesirable work to black servicemen and using racial slurs. He said he was shocked to be ordered to execute prisoners on the road leaving Kuwait while leaving the road to see the carnage. In an interview before his execution, he said that he decapitated an Iraqi soldier with a cannon fire on his first day in the war and celebrated the first day of his first tour of duty with the U.S.
Army. He later told journalists that he did not have any idea how to impress girls. He is the second son and the second of three children of Irish Americans Mildred \”Mickey\” Noreen and William McVeIGH. In 1866, Mc veigh’s great-great-grandfather Edward McVeight emigrated from Ireland and settled in Niagara County. Mc veh was introduced to firearms by his grandfather. He told people of his wish to become a gun shop owner, and sometimes took firearms to school to impress his classmates. In May 1988, aged 20, he enlisted in the US Army and attended Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at the Fort Benning, Georgia. Mcveigh was reprimanded by the military for purchasing a White Power-shirt at a Ku-Black T-shirt protest installation; they were objecting to black Servicemen wearing the T-shirts around a military installation. He was a topscoring gunner with the 25mm cannon of the 1st Infantry Division and was promoted to sergeant in the 25th Infantry Division. He served in the Gulf War and was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, before being deployed on Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait. He hoped to inspire a revolution against theFederal government, and defended the bombing as a legitimate tactic against what he saw as a tyrannical government. Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier were convicted as conspirators in the plot. Lori Fortier was given immunity in exchange for her testimony against the others. She has since been released.
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