Timothy McVeigh Tapes: MSNBC Documentary April 19 8pm

The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist Airs Monday April 19 8pm

On April 19 it will be 15 years since the Oklahoma City Bombings when Timothy McVeigh blew up a truck with explosives in front of the Alfred P. Murrah building. The bombing killed 168 people and injured over 680 more. Besides the September 11 attacks, it is the most destructive act of terrorism in America.

Now MSNBC has made a documentary to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the attacks called The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist. The documentary is made from 45 hours of taped interviews with Timothy McVeigh while he was on death row in the early 2000s.

They have been condensed down in to a two-hour documentary and it is one of the few occasions where McVeigh's voice will be heard in public as there were not many interviews with him before he was executed.

In the tapes McVeigh says:

The documentary is hosted by Rachel Maddow and uses news reports from Buffalo News reporter Lou Michel who had access to McVeigh while he was in prison. Lou Michel did write a book with Dan Herbeck called American Terrorist after McVeigh was put to death.

In the tapes, McVeigh is not sorry for what he did, merely saying to his victims that they have to accept what happened and just move and 'get over it'.

The biggest criticism of the documentary seems to be the use of computer recreations to create the McVeigh interviews as it is hard to make TV out of audio tapes.

Still it will bring home the voice of the man behind the Oklahoma City Bombing 15 years to the day that it rocked the American nation and its people.