Days That Shook the World S02E08 · Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln/Oklahoma City Bombing

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14 April 1865 and 19 April 1995 Eye-witness accounts, key figures and court transcripts are used to retell tow terrorist acts which shook America. The killing of the President and the bombing of a federal office over a century apart were both committed by Americans seemingly at war with their own country.

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