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1996 Spot News: Oklahoma City Bombing:
Charles Porter was working in the Liberty Bank loan department when "there was just a huge, huge explosion... a loud boom, like a sonic boom. The whole building shook."
An aspiring photojournalist, Porter got his camera and ran toward the blast. "There is glass all over... people lying on the ground. A guy walks by without his shirt, and blood is streaming from his head." It was April 19, 1995. Porter had just arrived at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. "It's like they shaved off the front of the building and then they took an ice cream scoop and scooped right down the center." Porter took pictures, saw a blur, turned to his left. "It's a policeman carrying something. I snap the frame just as the policeman hands it to a fireman. The fireman turns, and he's holding this infant. I take one shot."
The explosion killed 168 people, including the 1-year-old Baylee Almon, the child in Porter's picture. |