30 years later, Oklahoma City bombing survivor recalls vow to change her life while trapped

Visitors walk around the Reacting Pond at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum in Oklahoma City on March 12, 2025. LM Otero/AP hide caption toggle caption LM Otero/AP Oklahoma City, Okla.— Saturday marks 30 years since the Oklahoma City bombing. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. On the morning of April 19, 1995, Amy Downs remembers the sky in Oklahoma City as a perfect shade of blue. "The red buds were all blooming, like it was a gorgeous spring morning," said Downs, 28 years old at the time. Her husband had dropped her off in front of the federal building where she worked in a credit union for employees. She checked in with her best friend Sonja Sanders, who was headed into the CEO's office, then sat at her desk next to a big window overlooking downtown. "And one of my coworkers, who was seven months pregnant, came and sat down beside me to ask me a question, and that's when the bomb went off," Downs said. "I heard screaming, then realized I w...