Qualla: Oklahoma City: The City Born in a Day and Scarred by a Bombing https://qualla.com/oklahoma-city en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/6/9/oklahoma-city-memorial-wk/interstate-40-oklahoma.jpg Qualla: Oklahoma City: The City Born in a Day and Scarred by a Bombing https://qualla.com/oklahoma-city Oklahoma City: The City Born in a Day and Scarred by a Bombing: Introduction https://qualla.com/oklahoma-city/ Photo credit Spooderman89, Public domain. Oklahoma City was born on April 22, 1889 - the Land Run that allowed settlers to claim plots at noon, the 'Sooners' who cheated and the 'Boomers' who didn't, a city of 10,000 by nightfall. The instant city built on oil became a mid-century boomtown before the bust cycles revealed the fragility. The 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people, including 19 children in the daycare center, and scarred the city permanently. Oklahoma City rebuilt - the memorial where the building stood, the Bricktown entertainment district, the Thunder basketball team lured from Seattle - becoming something more than tragedy and oil. The city of 680,000 remains a work in progress, still becoming whatever it will be.

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/6/9/oklahoma-city-wk/9y69-oklahoma-city-the-city-born-in-a-day-and-scarred-b-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Oklahoma City: The City Born in a Day and Scarred by a Bombing: The Land Run https://qualla.com/oklahoma-city/ Photo credit DigbyDalton, CC BY-SA 3.0. At noon on April 22, 1889, 50,000 settlers lined the border of the Unassigned Lands. When the cannon fired, they raced to claim homesteads and town lots. By nightfall, Oklahoma City had 10,000 residents, a tent city where nothing had existed that morning. The 'Sooners' who entere...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/6/9/oklahoma-city-wk/9y69-oklahoma-city-the-city-born-in-a-day-and-scarred-b-the-land-run.mp3 0:06 2 full Oklahoma City: The City Born in a Day and Scarred by a Bombing: The Bombing https://qualla.com/oklahoma-city/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. The images - the building's sheared face, the firefighter carrying a dying infant - became the defining photographs of domestic terrorism. McVeigh was exec...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/6/9/oklahoma-city-wk/9y69-oklahoma-city-the-city-born-in-a-day-and-scarred-b-the-bombing.mp3 0:06 3 full Oklahoma City: The City Born in a Day and Scarred by a Bombing: The Oil https://qualla.com/oklahoma-city/ Photo credit Kerwin Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0. Oklahoma City sits atop the Oklahoma City Oil Field - wells drilled on the Capitol grounds, derricks visible from downtown, oil the source of fortunes and boom-bust cycles. The Petroleum Club atop the old Skirvin Hotel represented the industry's social hierarchy. The oil money bu...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/6/9/oklahoma-city-wk/9y69-oklahoma-city-the-city-born-in-a-day-and-scarred-b-the-oil.mp3 0:06 4 full Oklahoma City: The City Born in a Day and Scarred by a Bombing: The Thunder https://qualla.com/oklahoma-city/ Photo credit Soonerfever at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The Seattle SuperSonics became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008, a relocation that Seattle still resents. For Oklahoma City, the Thunder provided major league validation - proof that the city belonged among American metros, that the revival was real. The team reached the Finals ...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/y/6/9/oklahoma-city-wk/9y69-oklahoma-city-the-city-born-in-a-day-and-scarred-b-the-thunder.mp3 0:06 5 full Oklahoma City: The City Born in a Day and Scarred by a Bombing: Visiting Oklahoma City https://qualla.com/oklahoma-city/ Photo credit Kerwin Moore, CC BY 4.0. Oklahoma City is served by Will Rogers World Airport (OKC). The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum is essential and emotionally powerful. Bricktown offers the entertainment district - restaurants, bars, the ballpark. The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum covers fr...

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