Children dress for school or day care. A brief history of the Murrah building explains that Alfred P. Murrah was a orphan who overcame great obstacles to become a federal district judge. The nature of terrorism is explained, as well as it can be explained. Then visitors collect around a door, the door that Sugar Smith commands. A distorted blast sends the meeting participants into panic as 168 faces flash on a huge plate-glass window.
TV screens help visitors relive the earliest recorded moments of the tragedy.
More video screens and interactive computers supplement photos and displays to tell the story of the rescue efforts, world reaction, and the aftermath, including the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. With the photos rests a memento selected by each victim's family. A Christmas ornament. A child's toy. A golf trophy.