The Oklahoma City bombing: a personal account

On April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City (and the United States) lost its innocence. Almost all Oklahomans can relate exactly what they were doing either at 9:02 AM that day or when they first learned of the bombing. Of course, the whole world watched the events unfold through around-the-clock television coverage. One of the resident physicians in the University Hospital Emergency Medicine program, Dr Carl Spengler, was the first physician on the scene and directed early triage efforts. Because the Journal of Child Neurology is the only major biomedical journal with editorial offices in Oklahoma, we considered it appropriate that his personal account of this disaster be published in JCN.