Oklahoma City

...whether to approve or deny the application.

They're the decision-makers.

And you will receive a copy of my proposed recommendation

and can attend that board meeting

and present your information directly to them.

With regard to this proceeding,

basically, there are four elements

that I have to...

Receive information regarding...

Everybody, let's get out of here.

Now!

Watch the electricity line!

All that I can see,

it looks like part of the building

has been blown away.

We'll have to bank around the other side

so I can get a better view of it.

The explosion, though, went off around 9 a.m.,

and we could feel the explosion in the newsroom of Channel 9

at least five miles from downtown.

As the chopper goes around the side of the Federal Building...

Jeez, wow!

Look at that shot.

It is absolutely incredible.

The side of the Federal Building has been blown off.

Jesse?

About a third...

About a third of the building has been blown away.

This is just devastating.

That morning, I was not in my office.

I was at a fundraiser about 30 miles away.

We had a 9:00 start,

when all of a sudden, my phone went off,

and I was told that there'd been some type of an explosion

at the Murrah Building.

The greatest fear I have

is that we have casualties in the thousands.

At any one time, there could be

a couple of thousand people in that building.

I was assigned to the Oklahoma City police tactical team

at the time.

And we immediately started working our way

towards the building.

There were several vehicles

on the north side of the building in a parking lot,

and all of them were burning.

The black smoke was billowing up.

When I walked up there, there was a hole in the ground

about the size of a swimming pool

that looked like about 30 feet in diameter

and about seven, eight feet deep.

Just a big hole in the ground.

That's when it started really sinking in,

this had to be some kind of bomb.

When I first got there,

I could see people trapped on different floors,

and they needed to be rescued.

And so I started my way into the building.

I thought to myself,

"Why Oklahoma City?

"It's a quiet place.

"Nothing happens here.

It's not supposed to happen here."

Yeah, we'd always had threats.

You tell somebody,

"I'm sorry, but," you know,

"your claim's denied," or whatever,

and, yeah, and we'd get threats, but not...

Not anything that we ever considered, you know, viable.

There has been a massive explosion

at a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

It happened just a short time ago.

A large portion of that building has collapsed

and fallen away from the rest of the building.

At the moment, we don't have any specific numbers

on injuries or deaths,

but we can tell you that the situation is obviously serious.

I tried to put the building back in my mind,

of, where would he be?

If I have to dig for my son, where should I dig?

And so, that's what I did.

I visualized the first floor, the second floor,

the childcare was here, his crib would be here,

and that's where I wanted to get to.

As I started to climb up the debris and the rubble,

I remember a man yelling,

"You can't go up there, it's too dangerous!"

And I remember telling him, "Our babies are in there!

Our babies are in there!"

I just kept saying, "Our babies are in there."

When I saw the building for the first time,

I just couldn't see

how anybody could have survived any of that.

So at that point, I think my mind was thinking,

"My kids are gone."

I drove down there and met Claudia.

We walked up to a perimeter

and I asked a officer, I said,

"We have two, two babies in the daycare center.

Can I, can I go in?"

OFFICER (in distance): Move back, move back, move back.

Move back, move back.

I could see people

that are covered with blankets, towels, whatever,

that are gone.

And I'm praying that one of them is not a small child.

I knew a lot of the people in the building.

I knew the D.E.A. agents that were in the building,

I knew the ATF agents that were in the building,

and those people were friends of mine.

I could not believe what had happened to all of them

and how this could be.

How could somebody get to that state in their life

where they could be so angry and upset

that they would do something like this?

Who started the war?

And who was the aggressor?

That's how I look at the Murrah bombing.

To me, it wasn't a start of a war,

it was a counterattack.

The war had already been started.

You guys think you can be ruthless?

Let's see how you like it when the...

when the fight is brought to you.

If you continue with shit like Ruby Ridge and Waco,

this is what's going to happen.

Northern Idaho.

It's a remote place, it's a predominantly white place,

and it's the kind of place

where everybody sort of minds their own business.

In the 1980s, a lot of extremist groups found a sanctuary there.

White power!

What do we need?

White power!

One of those groups was the Aryan Nations.

The Aryan Nations had established itself

in Hayden Lake as a sort of headquarters of hate,

radical right-wing hate.

We the white race lost the war.

A plague known as Jews won the war,

infiltrated our bloodstream of our race

in every country in which we reside.

Richard Butler, like many far-right people at the time,

held that the federal government was in the hands of the Jews.

And the only way to save America

was to assert your Christian sovereignty,

your white Christian sovereignty.

Every major city in the United States is now non-white,

following the catastrophic destruction of our race

in the so-called Civil War, or the War Between the States.

America shall again become white and Christian.

There'll be a lot of blood running one day.

I don't advocate it, I don't want it.

But it's going to come

as sure as day follows night and night follows day.

In the 1980s, in America,

the white race was becoming the minority race.

Racist groups used that as a calling card.

"Come join us, because the white race

is going to be driven to extinction."

The Aryan Nations attracted people

from all walks of life who were, who were white,

all of them looking for someone to blame for the situation.

And they focused their anger on the federal government.

People like Robert Mathews.

Robert Mathews showed up at the Aryan Nations

in the early 1980s.

And there, he met other young men like him,

who thought that it was just talk.

It was no action.

Bob Mathews said, "The time has come for action."

You Jews get the heck out of here!

I didn't come all the way down here to hear you!

Go over there!

...the words of Jesus Christ...

Bob Mathews wanted to start a revolution.

He saw the United States government

as a complete and utter enemy, run by Satanic Jews,

that had to be destroyed.

He had 12 or so other followers,

most of whom he had met at the Aryan Nations,

and they decided

that they would basically declare war on the U.S.

As Bob Mathews was formulating a plan for his organization,

he discovered a book called The Turner Diaries,

written by a racist named William Pierce.

It was a fictional account of a group of patriots

that came together in a very small number,

much like what Bob was planning to do,

and overthrow the United States government.

And as Bob read this, he thought, "This is us.

This is the plan we need to follow."

"Unit 8 will secure a large quantity of explosives,

"between five and ten tons.

"We will then drive

"into the FBI building's freight receiving area,

set the fuse, and leave the truck."

The Turner Diaries culminates

with these anti-government resisters

blowing up the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.