Oklahoma City : What the Investigation Missed--And Why It Still Matters

from Shrike58

A surprisingly restrained examination of a super-heated topic. Essentially, the authors seek to reconstruct the social environment that Timothy McVeigh functioned in before the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, explain why it was so hard for federal authorities to penetrate that world before the str...

from jen.e.moore

A thorough and fascinating account of the ways the government case against Timothy McVeigh was abbreviated (and the reasons why), and the various people who should probably also have been tried for their role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

from librarianbryan

This book is a muddled mess. A rubble pile of names, dates, and cross cut chronology, I could have made better sense of it if it included 1) a list of all the law enforcement, right wing radicals, and witnesses that were profiled and interviewed; and 2) a timeline of events as authors hypothesize...

from ReviewsFromTheHeart

"It was the FBI's finest hour!" at least that is what they thought. In light of the world's worst terrorist attack prior to 9/11, we still have a lot to learn and you would have thought we would have learned plenty by now. On April 19, 1995 at 9:02am, security as we thought we knew it would compl...

from ReviewsFromTheHeart

"It was the FBI's finest hour!" at least that is what they thought. In light of the world's worst terrorist attack prior to 9/11, we still have a lot to learn and you would have thought we would have learned plenty by now. On April 19, 1995 at 9:02am, security as we thought we knew it would compl...