What if? It's a question that haunts investigators and family members who lost loved ones in the worst domestic terrorist attack in America, the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. They wonder if information from an unlikely spy might have prevented the attack. Carol Howe came from a wealthy, country club kind of family in Oklahoma. She joined the neo-Nazi movement, then turned government informant. She was spying on white supremacists in Oklahoma when Timothy McVeigh carried out the deadly bombing. Could her information have prevented the bombing? Award winning journalist Jon Ronson had heard stories about Howe for years. He investigates her descent into hate-fueled extremism and what information she turned over that might have changed the course of history in his Audible series, The Debutante.
The bombed remains of automobiles with the bombed Federal Building in the background. The military is providing around the clock support since a car bomb exploded inside the building on Wednesday, April 19, 1995. Photo: Staff Sgt. Preston Chasteen
