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SPECIAL EXHIBIT REVEALS U.S. HISTORY - TV/Radio Release

SPECIAL EXHIBIT REVEALS U.S. HISTORY
SHROUDED IN TERROR, YET EVER RESILIENT
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum first stop on national tour

What: THE ENEMY WITHIN: Terror in America – 1776 to Today
Where: Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, 620 N Harvey Ave., Oklahoma City
When: Public opening is Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006. Exhibit runs Feb. 19 – Aug. 6. Admission is included with paid Memorial Museum admission – $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $6 for students.

Background:
The journey through this powerful exhibit is as real as history gets. Visitors explore the over 230 years of hatred and terror this country has encountered on its own soil. They will learn about attempts at revolution, sabotage, radicalism, hate and anarchy, and will emerge with pride in a nation that has stood her ground and proven time and time again she will not be defeated.

THE ENEMY WITHIN reveals nine major events and periods in U.S. history when Americans were threatened by enemies within its borders. With each major event, guests track the terror as it happened, witness how the government and public responded, and examine the challenge of securing the nation without compromising the civil liberties upon which it was founded.

Visual Imagery Opportunities
• A timeline that traces over 80 acts of terror
• American Protective League badge and ID card (1917)
• Anarchist globe bomb (c. 1886) (replica)
• Ritual Ku Klux Klan red robe (c. 1965)
• Ku Klux Klan “business cards”
• Weather Underground video presentation
• Fragments of the planes that hit the World Trade Center (2001)
• Under Siege – a powerful eight-minute film exploring the terrorist threat today
• Visitor polling station

Audio Opportunities
The exhibit has several multi-media stations featuring historic and recreated audio and video association with each of the periods and events highlighted in the exhibit. There are multiple opportunities to capture audio from each section.

***A preview for members of the media will be held February 15, 2006, from 1-3 p.m., as artifacts are installed in the exhibit.***
Please contact Nancy Coggins at 405.235.3313 or 405.760.9053 for more information

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