A car bomb ripped apart the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on Wednesday, April 19, 1995, demolishing nearly half the 9-story building. A second, unexploded bomb was found inside. A medical worker estimated that only two of 80 people found in a search that afternoon had survived. At least 19 other people were confirmed dead, 17 of them were infants and children in a day care center on the premises, and hundreds more are injured. Federal officials …showed first 75 words of 742 total…

…showed last 75 words of 742 total…that made us think about our lives and how important they are. It's plain to see that the explosion did more than just remind us that terrorism happens. In our attempt to understand the bombers' motives, many Americans discovered just how bad the paranoia is among a small minority of people. 5. Works Cited 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia         Version 8.0         Reuters/Brettman America Online         1996 World Wide Web         (c)Copyright The News and Observer Publishing Co. Time Magazine         April 1995