Introducing: Law & Order: Criminal Justice System S2

Law & Order: Criminal Justice System is back with Season Two, turning its focus to a threat that hides in plain sight, harder to predict and even harder to stop: terrorism. Hear the real stories from those who lived it, worked it, and risked everything to confront it.

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Episode Transcript

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December twenty ninth, nineteen seventy five, LaGuardia Airport.

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The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new
Christmas toys. Then at six thirty three pm, everything changed.

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A bomb went off with such force that it ripped
apart the ground level, locker room and baggage area of
the main terminal. Eleven people lost their lives and seventy
five others were injured.

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The injured were being loaded into ambulances, just a chaotic scene.

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In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged and
it was here to stay. Terrorism, law and order criminal
justice system is back in season two. We're turning our
focus to a threat that hides some plain sight, that's
harder to predict and even harder to stop. That was
not just a small bomb that turned out to be

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twenty two sticks of They.

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Left one fingerprints in there. One hundred and thirty bombings.

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We're exploring some of the most destructive acts of terror
in America's modern age.

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It created a crater half the size of a football field.

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It registered three point two on the Richter scale, like
an earthquake. I was a tremendous roar, and how it
shaped the playbook we still use today.

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She put together that drawing of Timothy McVeigh. Within an hour,
we've got McVeagh identified.

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From investigators on the front lines.

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One of the guys jumps up on the hood of
the armored car and opens fire into the windows.

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I then returned fire with my shotgun to everyday people
whose lives changed in an instant.

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That's when the bomb went off.

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It was just this extremely loud roaring in my head.

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It was devastating to go one minute from celebrating your
ninth birthday with your dad to him being dead for
no reason.

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Terrorism never sleeps, but neither do the people fighting it.
I'm Ana Sega Nicolazzi and from Wolf Entertainment and iHeart Podcasts.
This is Law and Order Criminal Justice System Season two.
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