Judy Woodruff:

In the bomb's immediate aftermath, early news reports suggested links to international terrorism. But the investigation quickly led back home to three American army veterans, Terry Nichols, Michael Fortier, and Timothy McVeigh, who planned and carried out the attack.

Following the Persian Gulf War and rejected by the Special Forces, McVeigh became disaffected, latching on to a growing pro-gun anti-government ideology that gained traction in the 1990s in the aftermath of federal law enforcement actions at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and at the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas, where more than 70 died in a fire, as federal agents moved on the heavily armed Branch Davidian religious cult.

Timothy McVeigh was at Waco that day, observing from a hill nearby, and, exactly two years later, would bomb the federal building in retaliation.

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