April 20, 1995 - The Repository

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On this day in Repository history:
April 20, 1995
The Repository Monday, April 20, 2015
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Today’s page — another
in a series of key pages in
The Repository’s 200-year
history — is sponsored by:
An act of terror, and one of the most haunting photographs of all time
It is one of the moments in American history
that can be identified only by the name of a place
— Oklahoma City.
Often the word “bombing” is added at the end of
the name, serving to recall what killed 168 people
on April 19, 1995. Timothy McVeigh filled a rental
truck with explosives, parked it in front of a federal
building, and detonated the explosion about 9 a.m.
The Repository published this front page the
following day. Photographs captured both the fire
and the fear that resulted from “Terror At Home.”
But, one image also poignantly showed the tenderness with which a fireman carried the body of
an injured toddler.
The picture above — firefighter Chris Fields
holding Baylee Almon, who died in the blast, one
day after her first birthday — was taken by an
Oklahoma City banker named Charles Porter,
who later won a Pulitzer Prize.
McVeigh was executed for his crimes on June
11, 2011.
Gary Brown will write
about a different front
page in Repository
history each day during
the paper’s bicentennial
year. Email Gary at
gary.brown
@cantonrep.com.