Episode 1: April 19th
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On April 19th 1995 a 26-year-old named Timothy Mcveigh steered a yellow rental truck into downtown Oklahoma city. Inside was a two-ton homemade explosive. Oklahoma City Bombing is the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history, killing 168 people and leaving 680 injured. Journalist Leah Sottile investigates the legacy of the attack. Recorded over some of the most divisive and turbulent months in recent American political history, Two Minutes Past Nine explores and questions the changing face of far right extremism in all its chaos and conspiracism. Presenter: Leah Sottile Producer: Georgia Catt
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