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Blowback

The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing

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By: Margaret Roberts
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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The breakout investigative work on the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing featured on The Tucker Carlson Show, Newt's World, Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec, The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer, ZeroHedge, Just the News, Judicial Watch's On Watch, and Federalist Radio Hour, among others.

"This isn't just history rhyming. This is history repeating itself." —Senator Ron Johnson

"Astonishing story . . . deserves to be a bestseller." —Newt Gingrich

"It lays out piece by piece a staggering case." —Jack Posobiec

"A great book." —Tucker Carlson

Tragedy unfolded on April 19, 1995, when a massive bomb exploded in America's Heartland, killing 168 people, including 15 children in their daycare center.

Thirty years later, it still stands as America's deadliest domestic terror attack.

History says the Oklahoma City bombing was a lone-wolf terror by Timothy McVeigh, a twenty-six-year-old Gulf War Army veteran.

Yet the FBI never captured the second suspect who rode next to McVeigh in the bomb truck. Soon the Bureau canceled its global manhunt for "John Doe 2," claiming twenty-four eyewitnesses who saw him with McVeigh were mistaken.

None of this rings true to award-winning journalist Margaret Roberts. As former news director of America's Most Wanted, she worked high-profile manhunts alongside the FBI. How could so many witnesses be wrong?

Blowback chronicles Roberts's investigation into a baffling prison murder mystery wrapped inside the Oklahoma City bombing case. In pursuit of answers, she conducts journalism's only face-to-face prison interviews with McVeigh co-conspirator Terry Nichols.

Contrary to the official story of lone-wolf terror, Roberts uncovers evidence of a sprawling neo-Nazi plot behind the bombing in which the FBI played a hidden role. Then, while covering its tracks, the FBI allowed terror suspects to walk free, denied the bombing victims justice, and hid the truth from all of us.

After an FBI whistleblower steps forward, Roberts puts the puzzle together, though one burning mystery remains: The FBI has kept surveillance videotape of McVeigh's accomplice locked away all these years. Is John Doe 2 the FBl's guilty secret?

©2025 Margaret Roberts
Americas Biographies & Memoirs Freedom & Security Historical Military Murder Politics & Government Terrorism True Crime United States War & Crisis
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Incredible story that provides details many of us were unaware of. Very well researched and written.

A must read!

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The author appears authentic in her search for truth. She's not just grinding an axe against someone or something. Where there is room for doubt, she says so. This is a great resource for anyone who wants to quickly get up to speed on all the evidence that the DoJ and FBI have either obfuscated, ignored, or destroyed since the day of detonation.

Excellent summary of what is known so far

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It is difficult to weed through what seems obvious, that Tim McVeigh did not act alone in the Oklahoma City bombing, and then to understand why the FBI and our government would want to deceive us and allow the perpetrators to go free. The only reasonable explanation is that the other perpetrators included someone “John Doe number two” who was a government informant and the FBI either wanted to protect his identity and involvement or wanted to cover it up because they failed to stop the attack when they should have known. It seems relatively clear that the Aryan Revolutionary Army was involved in the bombing, if not behind it and led the plot. I never agreed with the decision to execute Tim McVeigh because the secrets of who else were involved seemed to die with him. The author makes a convincing argument for a conspiracy, but her argument is weakened by some outlandish conspiracy theories about the FBI, and several Attorneys General who are unfairly smeared by allegations that remain unproven and are difficult to believe.

A deeply disturbing story of conspiracy and coverup of the worst act of domestic terrorism in our nation’s history.

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Story is well told , helpful if you listened to other okc books or know the story . Kinda lost me at the end where she mentions JAN 6 but with no proof , just adding there might have been fbi there. Also this is before the Epstein stuff and now we know the depths of the current admin , so the end is just her opinion . Good overall

Pretty good, adds on to other OKC books

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I disliked the nasty truth the book reveals. apart from that I liked it all

love all the details regarding the investigation

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