courtesy of Bud Welch
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. One hundred sixty eight people were killed, including Julie Marie Welch.
Her father, Bud Welch, remembered her at StoryCorps.
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Originally aired April 18, 2025, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
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