From the 23th floor

This photo was taken when I finally was able to move back in to the Regency Apartments, what was so strange about the move in was they had started with the top floors 24 going down. I had opted to take an apartment on the 23 floor! So, they would move you days apart from the rest of the floors. For example 24, 23, 22 could move in on this week and then a few weeks later they would allow 21, 20 and so on depending on the damage to the floor, some floors went unoccupied for months, then there was the residents that would never return. So, move in day was a media event to say the least, I myself was photographed and interviewed by the Dallas Morning News, they went as far as coming up into my apartment and photographed it as well. The first few weeks living there immediately took a toll on the mental state of mind, the building itself would make noises, I felt like it was moaning from what had taken place just a few hundred feet from where it stood, at night time it would whistle, this coming from the windows that had still not been replaced in the unoccupied apartments below me. Eventually this building would break me.

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When I visit

I’ve decided that every time I visit the Okc Memorial which I do often I’ll do my normal routine which is leave a penny and fulfill a lifetime promise to so many people I know! I will also randomly pick out someone for a hug and a photo. I think it sounds pretty cool! I got the idea from a previous trip up from Dallas to Oklahoma City with my wife! she has this knack for me to tell my story which for the most part I do when people want to listen! But, this last time a little old lady from Iowa came up and grabbed me by the arm and ask me to walk with her! she was so tiny and sweet! Anyway, as we walked through the memorial she ask me (Do you know what happened here son?) I just smiled and said nothing and for once I listened.

Oklahoma City Bombing My Story

I’m going to start a series of photo’s for you showing the Oklahoma City bombing these are pictures that have been giving to me over the past few years! The first picture is the Apartment building I lived in The Regency Tower which is located at 333 NW 5th , North West of the Murrah Building. At the time of the bombing I lived on the 18th floor apartment 1813 ironically the same address of the house I lived in during my high school years.

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh told me he did not know what he would encounter on the other side, once the chemicals from the lethal injection killed him. But on the chance the Pendleton native had an express ticket to hell, he defiantly said he would be in the company of many generals and world leaders who murdered their opposition. As the first and only journalist to repeatedly interview McVeigh face to face, my job was to keep him talking. My colleague Dan Herbeck and I needed every scintilla of his thought process, no matter how outrageous, so that we could provide a window into the worst domestic terrorist in U.S. history. We were working on writing a book, “American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.” Time was sh McVeigh had a date with the executioner. He had been convicted of delivering a homemade, 7,000-pound truck bomb that killed 168 innocent people and wounded more than 800 in and around the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Buil

The Oklahoma City Bombing

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