The Morning The Building Fell: Oklahoma City, Domestic Terror, and the Cost of a Public Morning - Softcover

The Morning The Building Fell : Oklahoma City, Domestic Terror, and the Cost of a Public Morning

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At 9:02 a.m., a public morning became a national wound. On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was full of ordinary public life: federal workers, visitors, credit-union customers, parents, children, and people moving through a Wednesday that had not yet become history. Then the building fell. The bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children, injured hundreds, and forced a city and a country to confront domestic terror on American soil. But the story is larger than the blast. It is also the story of responders entering danger, families waiting for word, hospitals and public agencies trying to count harm accurately, investigators following evidence through the OKBOMB case, courts assigning accountability, and a Memorial built to preserve absence without turning grief into spectacle. Scott K. Murphy's The Morning The Building Fell is narrative nonfiction with a strict source discipline. It does not invent dialogue, private motives, rescue scenes, courtroom atmosphere, or victim details. It avoids operational bomb-making detail and refuses to make extremist ideology the book's center. Instead, it returns again and again to the people and public systems the attack tried to erase: the dead, the injured, the survivors, the families, the first responders, the investigators, the legal record, and the city that turned a ruined block into a place of memory. Artikel-Nr. 9798188258382

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