| Collection |
Oklahoma City National Memorial--Hillmann & Carr |
| Description |
This videotape contains raw footage from the "Amazing Grace" documentary. A complete inventory of the contents is provided below.
The tape begins with an interview with the FBI Chaplain who worked the bombing. He recounts his experiences on April 19, 1995; coordinating with Jack Poe; working at the bomb site; searching for lost family friend; counseling the rescuers; emotional reactions to the children lost and the senseless nature of the attack; Oklahoma Standard; funeral services; religious view of the bombing; importance of cherishing/protecting life and freedom; hope; inspiration.
Interview with Phyllis Poe; discusses the response of people around the world; emotional drain on the rescuers, children lost; Oklahoma Standard; importance of finding hope, remembering.
Interview with rescue worker Rod Hill from the U.S. Marshal's Office; discusses rescue activities; helping in the building; people volunteering to help; rescuing Glenda Riley and Rhonda Griffin; biographical background, Marines and Police Department, never leave a lady who needs help.
Roll two begins at 24:30
Interview with Don Hull; response to the explosion; arriving downtown; encountering survivors; entering the building, looking for the daycare center, injured people, conditions inside the building, moaning and crying inside the building; being hit by debris; digging for survivors; removing survivors; encountering a priest; emotional damage; personal reaction to the bombing; finding Joseph Webber, removing him from the building, keeping him breathing, putting him into an ambulance, keeping his parents from seeing him; tracking down Dan Webber, learning that Joseph survived; explaining the bombing and the aftermath to his children; emotional reaction to the bombing, disheartening nature of domestic terrorism.
Interview with Don Rogers of the GSA. Describes the magnitude of the violence and tragedy of the bombing; good to come out of the bombing; help from rescuers; losses in his office (Steve Curry and Michael Loudenslager), Michael's death while attempting to rescue someone from the building.
Interview with Dan Webber; discusses the morning of April 19, 1995; hearing the blast; seeing the building; dust; children at the YMCA; looking for Joseph; Joseph's rescue; danger in Oklahoma vis-à-vis danger in D.C., theoretical rescue in D.C., selflessness of Oklahomans; reevaluating priorities after the bombing; Joseph's recovery; pride at being American.
Interview with "3 Officers;" discusses seeing and hearing the initial blast, feeling the impact inside the building, hearing people crying for help, hearing the offices collapse, helping people out of the building; heading toward the building, seeing broken windows, damage to the building, massiveness of the job; hearing that the Federal Courthouse had been blown up, initial chaos at ground zero, cars exploding, trying to help victims, Richard Dean requesting help inside the "basement," entering the building, conditions in the "basement," water, power lines, Sharon Littlejohn, uncertainty of his own safety in the building, police training; visibility in the building, light from the outside, damage to the interior of the office, helping survivors, looking for missing office staff, returning to the building looking for survivors.
Roll three begins at 1:24:32
Roll five begins at 1:25:23
Interview with "3 Officers"; human reaction to danger, hindsight, military service, searching for others in the building, Sharon Littlejohn; second-guessing himself, wanting to save more people, heroes are those who survived, telling his nephew about the bombing, danger, safety in the building.
Interview with M Vallean; discusses the morning of April 19, 1995, hearing the blast, feeling the shock, working in the Federal Courthouse, trying to figure out where the bomb was, looking for his children at the YMCA, damage to the children's area, looking for his wife, finding her office empty, finding his wife and children, looking for others at the YMCA, taking his children to Children's Hospital, fearing that his children were dead, going back into the building looking for friends, trying to help, unity in the state, realizing that violence can occur in Oklahoma, changes in his relationship with his children.
Interview with Glenda Riley and Rhonda Griffin; discuss their relationship before the bombing, the impact of the bomb; the blast, realizing it was a bomb, preparing to jump from the building, praying, and fears of another bomb.
Tape ends at 1:57:10.
VHS |
| Object ID |
3844.371 |
| Object Name |
Cassette, Videotape |
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