A Utah attorney conducting his own investigation of the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing managed to get the FBI to release four different videotapes of the area around the former Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on the morning of the explosion. But all of the tapes begin after the detonation, and reveal the chaos that ensued inside or outside nearby buildings only, which has led Jesse Trentadue to claim the FBI edited the footage before releasing it.

“Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain’t no such thing as a coincidence,” Trentadue told the Associated Press. “The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02,” he said, noting the time of the explosion. “The absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn’t want anybody to see.”

Trentadue’s brother, Kenneth, was arrested a few months after the bombing, and although Kenneth was never a bombing suspect, Jesse Trentadue claims prison guards mistook his brother for one and beat him to death during an interrogation. A judge in 2001 awarded Kenneth Trentadue’s family $1.1 million for extreme emotional distress related to the government’s handling of his death.
                                                                                                                                                   -Noel Brinkerhoff

Attorney: OKC Bombing Tapes Appear Edited (by Tim Talley, Associated Press)
Secret Footage Specifies Chaos Minutes After the Oklahoma City Bombing (by Nolan Clay, The Oklahoman)