Editor’s Note: This column ran last year and is being republished to mark the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma Bombing on April 19, 1995 that killed 168 people. May their memory be a blessing.
Twenty nine years ago today I was at Wayne County Circuit Court in downtown Detroit digging through court records for a story on fraud when the media reported that the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Buliding in Oklahoma City had been bombed, resulting in 168 people dead and 500 others wounded.
Covering the federal courts and law enforcement beat for the Detroit News, I made some phone calls to see what I could find out. Someone mentioned, almost half jokingly, that there’s always a Michigan connection to crazy events in the country. Some speculated that it could be a foreign terrorist attack…