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University Pyess
Friday, April 28,1595
Photo by Allen Pearson
Loyce Sinegal, director of student support services, addressed a crowd
Wednesday in the Quadrangle regarding the cutting or elimination of federal
loans, grants, and financial aid by Congress. She distributed response forms
that will be mailed to Sen. Edward Kennedy. Kennedy is opposing the cuts in
Congress.
Hughes
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side the office when I heard the con-
cussion. It sounded like an airplane
had slammed into the side of City
Hall. It was really loud, and I knew
something huge and major had
happened,” Tina Hughes said.
“After the concussion, there was a
rumbling. Maybe it was the floors (of
the Murrah Building) caving in. I
could see papers floating around the
federal courthouse, and I immediate-
ly thought ‘bomb,’ because it was in
that direction,” Hughes said.
Hughes and her secretary hurried
to the street and began walking
toward the dark smoke. Within two
or three minutes, they heard sirens
and the police rushed past them.
As Hughes moved closer, she
could see the top of the Murrah
Building, and she passed a woman on
j the sidewalk who could barely stand.
“She was hysterical and crying,
‘My children are in there,’ as she stag-
gered toward the building,” Hughes
said.
Hughes approached the south side
of the Murrah Building.
“There was no north side. You
could see straight through the build-
ing. On the ledges, a few people were
alive and waving clothing and arms
trying to get help. They evidently had
no way of getting down.
“Mothers began to converge, but
the police made a barricade. So,
many of the mothers gathered on the
steps of the church east of the
Murrah Building. The church had
gaping holes, and the steeple had
been blown off,” Hughes said.
Hughes said she felt helpless and
wasn’t sure what she could do.
help. I was feeling so useless and
finally decided to just get out of the
way,” Hughes said.
Hughes returned to the office and
immediately called her parents and
her church to let them know she was
safe.
Hughes’ phone call to her parents
was not the first they had received.
“My daughter-in-law called and
said there was a big explosion in
Oklahoma City,” Wayne Hughes said.
“I felt like Tina must be dead. The
way my daughter-in-law described it,
it sounded like half of downtown had
blown up and I didn’t know how to
get in contact with Tina.”
“Until I heard from Tina herself, I
was pretty shook up. I had no way £>f
knowing,” Wayne Hughes said. *
The evening of the bomb, Tiija
Hughes was home removing her
clothes, and black dust drifted fo
the floor. Earlier in the day, n$t
being so prompt prevented some-
thing besides soot from falling o*n
Hughes. -i
“She is like her mother, pretty
punctual. Me, I’m always running
late,” Wayne Hughes said. *
Being like Dad, well, some days
being late is a good thing.
Hughes’ observations as of this week *
Tina Hughes said the city’s devastation has changed many aspects of daily
life. These are some things she has witnessed and chose to comment on:
‘I was looking for some way to
• We have more help than we know what to do with. Rescue workers
from California and Arizona have been sent home.
• Rescue workers continue to cut away huge pieces of concrete. Every "
time the wind kicks up, pieces are falling from the girders. »
• Major structural damage has occurred to some of the buildings down
town. Glass is being replaced, but some of the buildings will have to be
demolished. '
•Downtown is still barricaded. And, in some cases, we have to drive 20 4
minutes out of the way to get to a location which is only two blocks ♦
away.
•We have had no problem with looting.
•A few people are now able to retrieve their vehicles from the parking *
garage near the Murrah Building courtyard. *
•The “smell of death” that a few of out-of-town reporters have made note ,
of is actually the smell of cattle manure. The southwest winds blow
across downtown from the stockyards. *
•The Oklahoma City Spring Art Festival has been canceled this weekend. 4
•We are still driving with our headlights on in memory of the victims. ,
•We are wearing blue and purple ribbons. The blue represents Oklahoma
and the purple represents the children. v
•We are all looking for something constructive to do. *
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McVeigh
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McVeigh told Nichols: “Something big is going to
happen.” Nichols responded: “Are you going to rob
a bank?” and McVeigh repeated, “Something big is
going to happen.”
The men reached Junction City, Kan., early in the
morning of April 17. The FBI says the Ryder truck
used in the bombing was rented in Junction City
later that day.
The next day, McVeigh borrowed Nichols’ pickup
truck and told him, “If I don’t come back in a while,
go clean the storage shed.” He returned the truck
later that day.
Both McVeigh and Nichols had access to a shed
outside Herington that was rented under an alias,
Rathbun said. Sources have said tire tracks match-
ing the type of truck used in the bombing were
found at the shed.
The bomb exploded the next morning in
Oklahoma City.
Minutes before the blast, and apparently before
the arrival of the truck carrying the 4,800-pound
bomb, three witnesses saw McVeigh in front of the
federal building, a law enforcement official in
Washington told the AP on condition of anonymity?
The truck was in front of the building “les$
than 10 or 15 minutes. There was probably a
very short-fused timing device on it,” the official
said.
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Malick, Stephan. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1995, newspaper, April 28, 1995; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500926/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.