Here’s a look at where key figures from that day are now.
Terry Nichols
His co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, was convicted of 161 counts of first-degree murder, which included one count of fetal homicide for killing an unborn child, and other charges. A jury deadlocked on the death penalty, so Nichols, 60, is currently serving multiple life sentences with no possibility of parole at a federal penitentiary in Colorado.
Bill Clinton
“You have lost too much, but you have not lost everything. And you have certainly not lost America, for we will stand with you for as many tomorrows as it takes,” he said in a moving speech from an Oklahoma City prayer service on April 23, 1995, four days after the bombing.
op-ed in the New York Times about lessons learned from the attack.
In a photo that became the most symbolic image of the attack, Oklahoma City firefighter Chris Fields is seen cradling limp, bloodied Baylee, who’s covered in soot.
“I was the last one to hold her baby,” he said, his voice breaking. “It’s still emotional to talk about it.”
told the Tulsa World earlier this week, “I’ve heard people say that it kind of wraps everything up into one picture, and I guess that makes sense.
The photo of Fields and Baylee was plastered on newspapers’ front pages around the world, and won a Pulitzer Prize. It was taken by Charles Porter IV, an aspiring photojournalist and banker who was 25 years old.
He told the Newseum in Washington last month that he ran to his car to get his camera as soon as he heard the blast, which sounded like “a sonic boom.”
Porter didn’t know right away that he had an iconic photo. He had it developed at a nearby Walmart, then submitted it to The Associated Press after a friend told him he should. He was shocked by the resulting global media response.
Aren Almon-Kok was a 23-year-old single mother when Baylee was killed in the bombing. She spoke to NBC Nightly News about how hard anniversaries — Baylee’s birthday, the day of the attack — have been for her.
Now married with two children, Almon-Kok said the photo represents so much more than just the death of her daughter.
Almon-Kok and her family throw a birthday party every year in Baylee’s honor, and she’s stayed in touch with Fields, the firefighter.
The Youngest Survivor
“Whenever I look at or go through any of the limitations I have to deal with, any of the after- effects of that day, I just look at it as a blessing. What happened to me was what needed to happen for me to survive,” Allen, now 21, said. He and Joe Webber, another survivor from the daycare, sat down for an interview with NBC Nightly News; they were two of only six children at the daycare to make it out of the building.
“It wasn’t really till high school that it dawned on me how significant it was, the event itself and that I made it out,” Webber said
The Man Who Caught Timothy McVeigh
Oklahoma’s News 9 last month that he thought he was just making a routine traffic stop.
“There was a lot of divine intervention that took place,” Hanger told News 9. “This is an arrest you never dream of making.”
Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Clark was a veterinarian with the Department of Agriculture who stopped by her Murrah Building office for last-minute business when the bomb went off and killed her. She left behind three little girls who her sister, Susan Winchester, decided to help raise.
Winchester is now on the board of the Oklahoma City National Museum and Memorial, and is spearheading the Oklahoma Standard campaign, which aims to perpetuate the swell of volunteering seen in the bombing’s aftermath.