OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — For the first time, a federal bankruptcy judge has discussed his unique spot in history — as a witness to the two most deadly terror attacks on U.S. soil.
Judge Richard L. Bohanon was in his office, a block away from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, when a truck bomb exploded on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people. On Sept. 11, 2001, he was in New York on a temporary assignment in an office near the World Trade Center towers.
"Somehow, I was spared — twice," Bohanon told The Oklahoman.
Bohanon, 71, said that even now, he struggles with his emotions when he considers the enormity of the two events.
His wife, Annie, said she's had to wonder twice if she had been widowed. "I have anxiety dreams that I don't know where Dick is and I can't find him," she said.