It’s been 20 years since the Oklahoma City bombing in the Midwestern U.S. state of Oklahoma.

A car bomb that exploded April 19, 1995, at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people. Anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh detonated a rental truck full of explosives parked in front of the building. The blast was so severe that it ripped the entire front off the building and damaged other structures within a 16-block radius.

The incident remains the worst act of domestic terrorism to have occurred in the United States.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a news release Saturday that the terrorists in Oklahoma City “struck at the heart of all that this country stands for — liberty, democracy and the rule of law.”

But he said that “through the resilience of the American people,” the nation recommitted itself to the fundamental values “that make this country a beacon of freedom.”

McVeigh, who conceived the bombing, was executed in 2001. His accomplice, Terry Lynn Nichols, remains in prison for life.
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