My mom and several of her coworkers had survived, “at least physically,” she said. Any given morning, there could be 20 people in the DEA office. But the day of the bombing, there were five. It was...
Waters told me he could recall working late the night before the bombing. He left the Murrah building around 9 p.m. and saw a pair of strange men staking it out. They looked like hitmen, Waters said.
“It...
Crisis-recovery work was all McCarver did for six weeks after the bombing. She worked late every night, and often into the early morning. She did administrative work, and once spent a whole day driving...
Gina Bonny was sitting at her desk in the Murrah building and working on a report. She had just returned from the Drug Enforcement Administration office at the other end of the building and from visiting...
April 7, 2020
The weekends now come and go in Iowa City with no fanfare.
Parking spots — which are usually hard to come by in the busy Downtown District — are now plentiful along the city streets. The doors...
April 7, 2020
While Cremer waited for customers as he worked at the food truck, UI third-year students Bailey Fitzgibbon and Holly Dannen, communications majors from the Des Moines area, sat on the Pentacrest lawn on...
April 7, 2020
As the seniors absorbed the sights and silence of a mostly empty campus, Street Hawk cook Ben Cremer worked inside the UI’s food truck. The savory aroma of burgers, pulled pork sandwiches, and other...
March 29, 2020
“I never thought grocery stores would be so exciting to a person because now it’s like that’s a date. That’s people’s escape,” said Resident Edvern Daniels, on his way home from shopping. Daniels...
