On an April morning in 1995 in Oklahoma City workers were starting their morning when an enormous bomb truck drove through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. It left a scene of destruction the death roll was 168 including 19 children from the buildings day care. Right after the attack the media suspected that it was foreign terrorists to blame. But within 48 hours the FBI apprehended two home grown suspects. Gulf war veteran Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice Terry Nichols.

The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1 Footage of the Oklahoma City Bombings

This video clip shows a news story on an abortion clinic that was bombed on January 29, In the 1980's, extremist groups gained momentum; however, the authorities did not think of them as any special threat, they were merely treated as common criminals.

Benjamin Nathaniel Smith was a white supremacist that began targeting African Americans, Asians, and Jews in Illinois and Indiana. He killed two people and wounded nine others before taking his life.

Eric Robert Rudolph is said to be part of the racist Christian Identity Church. This church believes that only Caucasian people have soles. Eric Robert Rudolph bombed abortion clinics, a gay night club, and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He was arrested and has a life sentence with no ability for parole.

The approach of the new millennium created a new group of extremists called Survivalists. Those were the people that believed the world could end in the year Although survivalists are still present, when the turn of the millennium happened without incident, this group faded into the shadows.

This act was enacted in 2001 in response to The USA Patriot Act dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, communications, medical, financial, and other records. (This means the government can track anyone and listen in on anyone’s phone calls.) This has a good and bad side to it, and some people believe that it has taken away from our rights.

EXTREMISM 1984 – Present Right – Wing Extremist Violence