The headlines at home and across the nation told of the tragedy and terror that had struck Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
On Page 1 of The Daily Oklahoman, a historic photo shows a firefighter walking across a parking lot of devastation with the bombed out shell of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in the background.
“MORNING OF TERROR” aptly described the nightmare Oklahomans were living in as emergency and medical workers, as well as ordinary people became heroes, trying to help survivors of the car bomb explosion while also working to recover those who died.
The sacred ground where hundreds were killed or injured looks much different 30 years later. But it was those first moments and hours that were reported the next day across the front pages of U.S. newspapers.
A moment in time: Nation's front pages capture historic moments of Oklahoma City bombing – The Oklahoman
