In the midst of this atmosphere of optimism and change , Timothy McVeigh drove a rented truck full of explosives to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19 , 1995 . The explosion killed 168 people ( including 19 children ) and injured more than 680 , as well as damaging and destroying many surrounding buildings . Until the attacks of September 11 , it was the largest terrorist attack on American soil , and it remains the single largest domestic terrorist attack in American history
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