Service held to mark 20 years since Oklahoma City bombing
By TIM TALLEY, Associated Press
Apr 19, 2015 10:43 AM CDT
Bagpipers walk through the Field of Empty Chairs at the Oklahoma City National Memorial at the start of ceremonies to commemorate the 20 year anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing in Oklahoma City, Sunday, April 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)   (Associated Press)

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — About 1,000 gathered at the former site of the Oklahoma City federal building to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the terrorist bombing there that killed 168 people and injured many others.

Former President Bill Clinton and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin were among those who spoke at Sunday's service at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood.

The service started with a 168-second moment of silence and concluded with survivors and tearful relatives of the dead reading the names of those killed in the April 19, 1995, attack.

Timothy McVeigh, an Army veteran with strong anti-government views, was executed for carrying out the bombing. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, is serving life in prison.

At the time, it was the deadliest attack on U.S. soil.

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