The new HBO documentary An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th explores the possible anti-government viewpoints and political violence that may have led to the Oklahoma City bombing. Those ideals continue today, and An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th will hopefully give viewers a wider look at this tragic event. Director Marc Levin talked about his new documentary which is produced by Daphne Pinkerson.
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It was on April 19, 1995 when Timothy McVeigh ignited a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. One hundred sixty eight people, including 19 children, were killed in the nation’s deadliest act of homegrown terrorism.
Bud Welch, whose daughter died in the Oklahoma City bombing (Photo: HBO)
Former President Bill Clinton, bombing survivor Nancy Shaw, former Oklahoma police officer Daniel Coss, and former domestic terrorist Kerry Noble are among the documentary’s interviewees.
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum (Credit: HBO)
The documentary’s origins started back in 1996 when Marc Levin and producer Daphne Pinkerson produced the Dateline NBC special Oklahoma City: One Year Later. Bill Moyers traveled to his native Oklahoma for the special.
“It focused on the victims and the families of the victims and survivors,” said Levin. “We were there after the bombing. And some of the characters that you see in (An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th), we met them all 29 years ago. So in a way, this is coming full circle. On the other side of that equation is, of course, everything that’s happening now. The rise of the threat of domestic terrorism and the political violence and extremism and the sense that (it is important to) understand how we got here, what we’re dealing with now.”
Full interview with Marc Levin:
An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th hits HBO and will be available on Max on April 16.
