Remembering The 51 Day Standoff In Waco, Texas – 25 Years Later

Motivation For The Oklahoma City Bombings

Photo Credits: J. Pat Carter

Timothy McVeigh, the terrorist responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing cited the Waco incident as his primary motivation. He even went as far as denotating the bomb on the same day April 19, two years later in 1995, that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. He claimed to be a sympathizer of an anti-government militia movement in order to avenge the government’s handling of the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents. He even drove from Arizona to Waco to watch the federal standoff and was photographed at the event selling anti-government bumper stickers outside of the courthouse.