Former President Bill Clinton returns to Oklahoma City 30 years after the bombing

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thirty years after the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history, former President Bill Clinton will return to Oklahoma City on Saturday to remember the people who were killed and comfort those affected by the bombing.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thirty years after the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history, former President Bill Clinton will return to Oklahoma City on Saturday to remember the people who were killed and comfort those affected by the bombing.

Clinton was president on April 19, 1995, when a truck bomb exploded, destroying a nine-story federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. He will deliver the keynote address at a remembrance ceremony near the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum.

Bill Clinton at the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 21, 2024.Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty ImagesClinton, now 78, was widely praised for how he helped the city grapple with its grief in the wake of the bombing, which killed 168 people, including 19 children. He says it was a day in his presidency that he will never forget.

“The nation’s eyes were there. The nation’s heart was broken there,” Clinton said in a video statement posted to the Clinton Foundation website. “I was privately praying that I would find the right words, the right tone, the right rhythm to somehow get into the mind and heart of as many Americans as possible.”

Bill Clinton after a prayer service for the victims of the deadly truck bomb attack in Oklahoma City in 1995.Pat Sullivan / AP fileClinton has visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum several times in the years since the bombing and delivered speeches on major anniversaries.

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