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Disaster relief? Dealing with Oklahoma City bombing fund ‘horrible,’ victim says
Eighteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, a fund set up to help the injured and the families of those killed still has $10 million dollars in the coffers. Meanwhile victims say they’ve been denied aid for years. Rock Center’s Harry Smith reports
By Anna Schecter
Rock Center
A group of survivors and relatives of those killed in the Oklahoma City bombing are outraged that there is $10 million sitting in a disaster relief fund designed to help them. Meanwhile they say they’ve been denied help for years.
“They tell us that there are all these restrictions,” said Deloris Watson, whose grandson, P.J. Allen, was severely injured in the April 1995 explosion.
Watson said she was led to believe the fund was depleted because it has been so difficult over the past 18 years to get financial aid.