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Oklahoma City Bombing: The Suppressed Truth
According to the author, this book explains exactly why a truck bomb could not and did not cause the major damage to the Federal Building in Oklahoma City at 9:02 am on April 19th, 1995. Also included are how the building was really blown up, the media and FBI cover-up, McVeigh's too-easy arrest, an eyewitness to the bombing who suddenly became secret, the much lied-about John Doe #2, government foreknowledge of the bombing, NBC's suppression of its own stories, and much more.
- GenresTrue CrimeNonfiction
116 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
About the author
Jon Rappoport
23 books35 followersAmerican investigative reporter.
He studied philosophy for four years at Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1960. He has published the web site nomorefakenews.com since 2001.
He advocates alternative medicine with his wife Dr. Laura Thompson.
He studied philosophy for four years at Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1960. He has published the web site nomorefakenews.com since 2001.
He advocates alternative medicine with his wife Dr. Laura Thompson.
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May 7, 2025
I remember watching a comedian say that it’s a strong stance to take that the government never lies to its citizens, because he, as a father in charge of one son, lies to him all the time.
This book raises a lot of questions about the official version of events on April 19th 1995. According to the author’s interviews with Gen Ben Partin and other bomb experts, the bomb inside the Ryder truck could not have caused the explosion of the federal building. The truck bomb (ammonium nitrate) would have caused a circular pattern vs a linear pattern, but that’s if it didn’t lose power with distance. The columns pose another question. Some of the reinforced concrete columns were destroyed but not the weaker ones right next to them.
Why was Timothy McVeigh being so careless right after setting the bomb? He got stopped for no license plate and no drivers license. Why would he tell the police officer he is carrying a Glock instead of using the gun on the cop and speeding away? After all he had just killed nearly 200 people, what does he care about one more.
Whether i believe this book or not, it’s vital to always ask questions!
This book raises a lot of questions about the official version of events on April 19th 1995. According to the author’s interviews with Gen Ben Partin and other bomb experts, the bomb inside the Ryder truck could not have caused the explosion of the federal building. The truck bomb (ammonium nitrate) would have caused a circular pattern vs a linear pattern, but that’s if it didn’t lose power with distance. The columns pose another question. Some of the reinforced concrete columns were destroyed but not the weaker ones right next to them.
Why was Timothy McVeigh being so careless right after setting the bomb? He got stopped for no license plate and no drivers license. Why would he tell the police officer he is carrying a Glock instead of using the gun on the cop and speeding away? After all he had just killed nearly 200 people, what does he care about one more.
Whether i believe this book or not, it’s vital to always ask questions!
May 5, 2026
This is a semi-wacky take on the inconsistencies of the official story of the OKC bombing. Lots of 2A perspectives and even some hat tipping to the Sovereign Citizen movement, but nothing super out there. The information here is good, but not necessarily novel, and it never strays so far into the deep end that it becomes entertaining for its own sake-save for one section where he implies that that the final day of the siege on the Branch Davidians was intentionally selected so as to line up with the start of the American Revolution in 1776, and that this should be a sign to always-capitalized Patriots that the time to act could very well be now.
I read through this in two quick sessions, but you could definitely get through it in an afternoon. Not the worst book for those brand new to the web of crossthreads that is the OKC bombing, but not necessary for those who already have a decent amount of knowledge about the topic already.
I read through this in two quick sessions, but you could definitely get through it in an afternoon. Not the worst book for those brand new to the web of crossthreads that is the OKC bombing, but not necessary for those who already have a decent amount of knowledge about the topic already.
May 21, 2024
A ‘CONSPIRATORIAL’ EXPLANATION OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING
Jon Rappoport is a free-lance investigative reporter and blogger; in 1994, he ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress in Los Angeles (he received 20% of the vote).
He wrote in the introductory section of this 1995 book. “Know that you are looking at a cover-up that began on the morning of April 19th, just after the Federal Building bombing, and continues to this day… If for any reason [Timothy] McVeigh does not come to trial, if he does not survive, realize that one more murder has taken place in Oklahoma. Citizens believe that political truth is something you speak. Governments command that truth is something you bury with lies.” (Pg. 1)
He laments, “No names at first. Nobody wants to give me his name. Off the record only. But I don’t care. I’m already into strange territory, so I’ll talk to anyone, even if he’s a ghost.” (Pg. 8)
He asserts, “The April 19th bombing … is given one media-twist: It was the work of amateurs. The portrait is sketched in of two or three wackos who were super-patriots, obsessed with Waco and in need of causing violence… weird rednecks who were connected to larger militias run by other rednecks… Now think this through with me… These stupid ex-soldiers blew up the building, and then McVeigh drove off in a car without a license plate and he was stopped by a cop a hour and a half later… Why does a killer of a hundred sixty-eight people balk at killing a cop… to avoid being arrested… stupid misguided Patriot wackos… That’s all we need to know. Except it turns out that the explosion was not stupid, it was extremely vicious.” (Pg. 8-9)
He continues, “the whole ammonium nitrate setup in the truck, as the government describes it… is a … very unlikely way of causing damage. Except … A quarter of the building went down… To any half-conscious reporter, this would signal a problem. Things don’t fit. The bomb… accomplishes a horrendous objective that requires, apparently, a pro.” (Pg. 11)
He recounts, “I spoke with a producer at ABC. I gave him all this information, and more, concerning the explosion… Finally he said, “Keep me posted on what you find out.’ … He has more resources at his fingertips in one day than I’ve had in thirteen years, and he wants ME to keep digging. No sorry. If I were in his place, I’d leap at the chance to discredit the government scenario, even if I didn’t have all the answers in a neat package…” (Pg. 13-14)
He states, “It all stars with the explosion. If it turns out that the Ryder truck setup couldn’t have done the damage that occurred, you’re in new territory. You’ve made a reality shift, and things have new meanings... In the Oklahoma City case, we’re certainly looking at an attempt to discredit the Patriots… Many Patriots state… that the IRS is an illegal institution… The feds are terrified of all this… Are terrified of the idea that many, many Americans will stop paying income taxes. Discrediting ALL Patriots has become a priority for Washington.” (Pg. 15-17)
He recalls, “I spoke with Ran Brown, a geophysicists at the University of Oklahoma. Brown works for the Geological Survey there… [He] has pored over the seismographic evidence of the explosion…. Two shock waves, ten seconds apart… Even allowing for what Brown calls overlap of the first and second wave… we are ‘not talking about one explosion and then a follow-up echo or reverberation of the buildings in the area… right now we are looking at two events. With the overlap factor, they might have been four or five seconds apart. But that’s still a lot.’” (Pg. 28-29)
He interviewed Charles Makin, head of the Geological Survey at the University of Oklahoma: “‘Is it possible that the falling of the building was … the second shock wave?’ ‘Of course we thought about that, but no, we’ve ruled that out… The US Geological Survey … has announced that they’re satisfied there was only one shock wave…. They seem to have a theory that would explain how two waves are one… Their theory is, the same wave can travel at different speeds through different layers of rock…’ … Sure, and we’ll give you a Nobel.” (Pg. 34-35)
He notes, “Channel 4 has indeed run two stories on an Iraqi soldier and McVeigh… The term ‘Iraqi soldier’ could suggest that Saddam of Iraq was trying to get revenge on the US. But the US government uses all sorts of strange cutouts in operations. These are people who have hard-to-trace connections with the CIA or Defense Intelligence, and so on.” (Pg. 41-42)
Later, he adds, “I have now… interviewed a man who was near the bomb scene… He has told me, off the record, very much off the record, that he heard at least two distinct explosions. But definitely two. From his manner… I would say he is in his right mind… and he is speaking the truth… he did not want his name to be circulated… he recognized that after going on the record, he would be a person federal law enforcement and intelligence people would want to interview… It made him feel wary…” (Pg. 48-49)
He contends, “The one group in America … which comes the closest to understanding this is the Patriots… They are rebellious. They are interested in… gold and silver, and … some of them, begin issuing their own currencies… Therefore, for the elite of this country, who depend on a unity of currency… the Patriots become a target. Oklahoma City provides the opportunity to focus that target.” (Pg. 52-53)
If not McVeigh, who did the bombing?: “Why say that an intelligence/military group did the real killing at the Fed Bldg? Because these are the people who know how to pull off such an operation… Of course, rogue military types, formerly associated with government work, have been in the free-lance business for some years now… so that is a possibility too.” (Pg. 77)
He suggests, “Whoever has limited the parameters of the investigation for the FBI is clearly covering up the truth… the FBI is being controlled by him… I assume that this controller is outside the FBI, since decisions of this magnitude would have to come from someone more powerful than the Bureau director.” (Pg. 98)
If you believe that the mass media, government agencies, political leaders, etc., are all promoting ‘Fake News,’ and that vast conspiracies are behind such events as the Oklahoma City bombing, this book may appeal to you. The rest of us will remain quite unimpressed.
Jon Rappoport is a free-lance investigative reporter and blogger; in 1994, he ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress in Los Angeles (he received 20% of the vote).
He wrote in the introductory section of this 1995 book. “Know that you are looking at a cover-up that began on the morning of April 19th, just after the Federal Building bombing, and continues to this day… If for any reason [Timothy] McVeigh does not come to trial, if he does not survive, realize that one more murder has taken place in Oklahoma. Citizens believe that political truth is something you speak. Governments command that truth is something you bury with lies.” (Pg. 1)
He laments, “No names at first. Nobody wants to give me his name. Off the record only. But I don’t care. I’m already into strange territory, so I’ll talk to anyone, even if he’s a ghost.” (Pg. 8)
He asserts, “The April 19th bombing … is given one media-twist: It was the work of amateurs. The portrait is sketched in of two or three wackos who were super-patriots, obsessed with Waco and in need of causing violence… weird rednecks who were connected to larger militias run by other rednecks… Now think this through with me… These stupid ex-soldiers blew up the building, and then McVeigh drove off in a car without a license plate and he was stopped by a cop a hour and a half later… Why does a killer of a hundred sixty-eight people balk at killing a cop… to avoid being arrested… stupid misguided Patriot wackos… That’s all we need to know. Except it turns out that the explosion was not stupid, it was extremely vicious.” (Pg. 8-9)
He continues, “the whole ammonium nitrate setup in the truck, as the government describes it… is a … very unlikely way of causing damage. Except … A quarter of the building went down… To any half-conscious reporter, this would signal a problem. Things don’t fit. The bomb… accomplishes a horrendous objective that requires, apparently, a pro.” (Pg. 11)
He recounts, “I spoke with a producer at ABC. I gave him all this information, and more, concerning the explosion… Finally he said, “Keep me posted on what you find out.’ … He has more resources at his fingertips in one day than I’ve had in thirteen years, and he wants ME to keep digging. No sorry. If I were in his place, I’d leap at the chance to discredit the government scenario, even if I didn’t have all the answers in a neat package…” (Pg. 13-14)
He states, “It all stars with the explosion. If it turns out that the Ryder truck setup couldn’t have done the damage that occurred, you’re in new territory. You’ve made a reality shift, and things have new meanings... In the Oklahoma City case, we’re certainly looking at an attempt to discredit the Patriots… Many Patriots state… that the IRS is an illegal institution… The feds are terrified of all this… Are terrified of the idea that many, many Americans will stop paying income taxes. Discrediting ALL Patriots has become a priority for Washington.” (Pg. 15-17)
He recalls, “I spoke with Ran Brown, a geophysicists at the University of Oklahoma. Brown works for the Geological Survey there… [He] has pored over the seismographic evidence of the explosion…. Two shock waves, ten seconds apart… Even allowing for what Brown calls overlap of the first and second wave… we are ‘not talking about one explosion and then a follow-up echo or reverberation of the buildings in the area… right now we are looking at two events. With the overlap factor, they might have been four or five seconds apart. But that’s still a lot.’” (Pg. 28-29)
He interviewed Charles Makin, head of the Geological Survey at the University of Oklahoma: “‘Is it possible that the falling of the building was … the second shock wave?’ ‘Of course we thought about that, but no, we’ve ruled that out… The US Geological Survey … has announced that they’re satisfied there was only one shock wave…. They seem to have a theory that would explain how two waves are one… Their theory is, the same wave can travel at different speeds through different layers of rock…’ … Sure, and we’ll give you a Nobel.” (Pg. 34-35)
He notes, “Channel 4 has indeed run two stories on an Iraqi soldier and McVeigh… The term ‘Iraqi soldier’ could suggest that Saddam of Iraq was trying to get revenge on the US. But the US government uses all sorts of strange cutouts in operations. These are people who have hard-to-trace connections with the CIA or Defense Intelligence, and so on.” (Pg. 41-42)
Later, he adds, “I have now… interviewed a man who was near the bomb scene… He has told me, off the record, very much off the record, that he heard at least two distinct explosions. But definitely two. From his manner… I would say he is in his right mind… and he is speaking the truth… he did not want his name to be circulated… he recognized that after going on the record, he would be a person federal law enforcement and intelligence people would want to interview… It made him feel wary…” (Pg. 48-49)
He contends, “The one group in America … which comes the closest to understanding this is the Patriots… They are rebellious. They are interested in… gold and silver, and … some of them, begin issuing their own currencies… Therefore, for the elite of this country, who depend on a unity of currency… the Patriots become a target. Oklahoma City provides the opportunity to focus that target.” (Pg. 52-53)
If not McVeigh, who did the bombing?: “Why say that an intelligence/military group did the real killing at the Fed Bldg? Because these are the people who know how to pull off such an operation… Of course, rogue military types, formerly associated with government work, have been in the free-lance business for some years now… so that is a possibility too.” (Pg. 77)
He suggests, “Whoever has limited the parameters of the investigation for the FBI is clearly covering up the truth… the FBI is being controlled by him… I assume that this controller is outside the FBI, since decisions of this magnitude would have to come from someone more powerful than the Bureau director.” (Pg. 98)
If you believe that the mass media, government agencies, political leaders, etc., are all promoting ‘Fake News,’ and that vast conspiracies are behind such events as the Oklahoma City bombing, this book may appeal to you. The rest of us will remain quite unimpressed.
November 23, 2023
This wasn't a perfect book by any means But it did one thing exceptionally well... It reminded me (and its readers) that 9/11 wasn't Not our Federal Government's 1st Building Bombing False Flag operation! That's right! While the book sounds a bit like a rant and skips through the presentation of statements, arguments, information and questions which Imply that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols didn't conspire and use a truck bomb with fertilizer to blow up the Oklahoma City Federal Building! AND the author presents More than enough evidence of a government cover-up conspiracy similar to the same crap they pulled with 9/11 WTC building collapses (3 of them). There are likely better written, better organized books on the subject and I intend to read those too!
April 4, 2022
Brilliant! Should be mandatory reading for any High School curriculum being set for Civics or Clear Thinking/Philosophy. The bombing took place in 1995. Look at the shocking place that all thinking beings on the planet inhabit now, 27 years later, not to mention the suffering that has been incurred, is being incurred and will continue to be incurred.
March 10, 2025
A lot of finger pointing towards FBI agent Larry Potts, little did Rappoport know at the time it was for good reason, considering Potts was McVeigh's FBI handler for the bombing.
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