Of all the national touring acts coming through Oklahoma in the coming months, few can relate to the tragedy the state just experienced than the Dropkick Murphys, themselves barely more than a month removed from a disaster. “It’s clichéd, but Boston is a tough town and always has been,” drummer Matt Kelly said of April […]
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‘Darkly similiar’
Then-Gov. Frank Keating hours after the April 19, 1995 bombing Credit: Mark Hancock Keating had taken office three months before the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 people and injured more than 500 others. Then, on April 15 of this year, two brothers in Boston allegedly set […]
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Miles to go
courtesy: OKC National Memorial & Museum Unimaginable tragedy struck Oklahoma City the morning of April 19, 1995, when the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people and injured more than 500 others. Eighteen years later, more than 24,000 people from across the globe are rising up in the wake of fear […]
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Dispatches from Boston
Ryan Siler Credit: Shannon Cornman Harth, creative director at OKC’s Ackerman McQueen advertising agency, finished her first Boston Marathon — the pinnacle event for long-distance runners — about 20 minutes before two bombs exploded near the finish line. Shrapnel ripped through the crowd, killing three people and wounding more than 170 others. Harth said that […]
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Safe runnings
Police Chief Bill Citty Credit: Shannon Cornman OKC Police Chief Bill Citty called the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon a “reminder that we need to be as vigilant as possible all the time. I think the increased law enforcement presence will make everyone a little more relaxed.” Multiple law enforcement agencies will comprise […]