| Collection |
Oklahoma City National Memorial--Hillmann & Carr |
| Date |
2000 |
| Description |
This videotape includes interviews with Nancy Ingram and Bud Welch.
Nancy Ingram discusses physical healing, the nature of Oklahomans and their willingness to help, not making her life about the bombing, and not rehashing the pain.
Bud Welch discusses hearing the blast, thinking a plane had crashed, learning about the bombing, immediately losing hope for Julie's survival, staying by the telephone for the next two days, family members searching for Julie in local hospitals, false hope of her survival, not knowing what to do, Julie's activities on the morning of the bombing, the discovery of her body three days later, official notification at the First Christian Church, participating in the story by Judy Woodruff on CNN, feeling it was now okay to brag on Julie, information about Julie and her goals, bereavement, comfort from his customers who had lost children and other family members, initially wanting to strike back at McVeigh and Nichols, eventually wanting trials/convictions/life sentences for McVeigh and Nichols, the rage he felt immediately after the bombing, abandonment by friends, not knowing what to say to people who had lost family members, uniqueness of each person's grieving process, reminders of Julie at holidays and family gatherings, dreams about needing to go to the airport to pick up Julie, the memorial process, concerns about who would manage the Memorial and how, saving the Survivor Tree. |
| Object ID |
3844.49 |
| Object Name |
Cassette, Videotape |
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