Posted by HCN - Archives/Commentaries on Extremism on Wednesday, October 23, 2024
The first post in this section, Archives and Commentaries about Extremism, hit upon the topic of what happened over 150 years ago to this date in 2024. After April 9th of 1865.
This post will briefly touch upon another event on US soil, that also happens to reference April, not the 9th, but the 19th, and in the 1990s, 1995 to be exact. The 1990s may still be considered by some as relatively recent, or modern, it is 'today', as one does not need to be of several generations elderly to the average aged adult to have been a witness.
Unless one was very near the scene, many that heard about the Murrah Building incident, likely had the sources of the news come from TV, newspaper, or radio. The Internet was still up and coming, and it took comparatively long lengths of time for pages to load. For those of the public that wanted up to the minute updates, TV and radio may have been the dependable methods.
Standout memories were several, a destroyed building, moreover one that had something to do with government, a vehicle, that was the focus of the blame for carrying the core set of destructive materials, perhaps what can be more bluntly referred to as explosives, weapons of mass destruction, or incendiary devices, and the third aspect was the length of focus on the incident just after it happened by the media, almost excluding many other news stories that ordinarily may have shared a larger fraction of time.
