| Collection |
Oklahoma City National Memorial--Hillmann & Carr |
| Date |
11/09/1999 |
| Description |
This is a videotape of interviews with Terry Winston of the Oklahoma City Fire Department and and Jerry Flowers of the Oklahoma City Police Department. This tape concludes the interview with Winston from 3844.93.
Terry Winston discusses working with FEMA, hospitality and support, memorial activities and the bombing site (not participating or visiting), memorializing the bombing, remembering the victims, community/country praise for the Fire Department and wanting the whole thing to be over, incomprehensible nature of the motivations for the bombing, power of non-violence to change a situation, exhaustion.
Jerry Flowers discusses the morning of April 19, 1995, hearing and feeling the blast, learning that there had been an explosion at the federal building, confusion, going downtown with other emergency personnel, black smoke, damage in the plaza, seeing survivors, gray dust, realizing it was a bomb, getting into the building, removing victims, working to find survivors, trying in vain to find a woman calling for help, crawling through debris and rebar, conditions inside the building, dust, entering the Pit, hearing a woman cry out, finding a woman (Terri Shaw) stuck inside a wall and being unable to get her out, hearing another woman trapped in rising water, evacuation order, returning to the building. |
| Object ID |
3844.94 |
| Object Name |
Cassette, Videotape |
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