The Truth About the Biggest Act of Domestic Terrorism in American History
September 4, 2026
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5 min readThe Truth About the Biggest Act of Domestic Terrorism in American History
On April 19, 1995, Kathy Sanders woke up and went to wake her two grandsons, Chase and Colton, ages two and three, who lived with her and her daughter Edie in Oklahoma City. The boys weren't in their room—they had toddled down the hall during the night and climbed into bed with their mother. "We always started with the song," Sanders recalls. "'Good morning to you. Good morning to you. We're all in our places with sunshiny faces. What a nice way to start a new Wednesday.' And the little boys begin to giggle." Edie and Kathy got the boys dressed, fed them breakfast, and dropped them at the daycare inside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building before heading to their own offices nearby.
Edie had been sick and planned to stay home that day, but a coworker called and said the office was having birthday parties for employees with April birthdays—including Edie. She agreed to come in. She was walking across the floor to blow out the candles on her own birthday cake when the bomb went off.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:04) **The "Lone Wolf" Pattern and the OKC Bombing** - Carlson introduces the recurring official narrative that political violence is always the act of a lone, random crazy person, and frames the Oklahoma City bombing as a case where that story may be a lie.
- 2 (01:57) **Kathy Sanders' Story Begins: The Morning of the Bombing** - Kathy Sanders, who lost her two grandsons in the bombing, recounts the morning of April 19, 1995, and the normal routine that was shattered.
- 3 (04:53) **The Explosion and the Search for the Children** - Sanders describes the immediate aftermath of the bombing, the chaos, and the devastating discovery that her grandsons were killed.
- 4 (10:35) **The First Cracks in the Official Story: The Bomb Squad and the Warning** - Sanders reveals that shortly after the bombing, she learned from other grieving families that a bomb squad was seen downtown before the explosion, contradicting the official narrative.
- 5 (15:30) **The ATF Informant and the Elohim City Connection** - Sanders introduces the key evidence of an ATF informant at Elohim City who warned her handler about a planned bombing months in advance.
- 6 (19:58) **The Disappearance of John Doe Number Two** - Sanders explains how the FBI initially launched a massive manhunt for McVeigh's accomplice, John Doe Number Two, but then abruptly claimed he never existed.
- 7 (26:58) **ATF Agents and the Night Before the Bombing** - Sanders presents evidence that ATF agents were brought in the night before the bombing, and questions why they weren't in the building when the bomb went off.
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Show Notes
The Clinton administration told us the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was a lone wolf attack by a deranged white supremacist. That’s not true. Kathy Sanders lost two grandchildren that day. She’s spent thirty years gathering the facts.
(00:00) The Oklahoma City Bombing
(11:10) The Strange Bomb Squad Sightings
(28:02) The ATF's Visit to Sanders and the Details That Don't Add Up
(31:49) Timothy McVeigh's Accomplices
(37:36) Sanders's Conversation With McVeigh's Sister
(59:03) Sanders's Conversations With the FBI
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