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Jan 25, 1995 - The defense gave its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, saying Simpson was the victim of a "rush to judgment" by authorities who had mishandled evidence and ignored witnesses. Jan 30, 1995 - The Smithsonian Institution abandoned plans for a major exhibit on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, yielding to critics who charged the exhibit would have portrayed America as the aggressor and Japan as the victim in World War II. |
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March 20, 1995 - A gas attack by the Aum Shinri Kyo cult on Tokyo's subways killed 12 people. More than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five separate subway trains. Masato Yokoyama, a cult leader, was sentenced to death in 1999. |
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April 19, 1995 - A car bomb ripped a nine-story hole in a downtown federal office building today, killing at least 20 people, including 17 children at a day-care center, and injuring hundreds. Bodies were spotted in the building and 300 people were unaccounted for. Other victims were trapped in the rubble. Within a week a suspect, Timothy MacVeigh, was caught and charged. Two suspects, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, faced trial. McVeigh was arrested during a routine traffic stop 78 miles from Oklahoma City on weapons charges the same day. Thirty-four of the thirty-five dogs used to search for the victims were trained at CAMP ATTERBURY, Indiana. |
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May 4, 1995 - An Iranian nuclear official said spent fuel from Iran's Russian-made reactors, potential raw material for nuclear bombs, would be returned to Russia for safeguarding. May 6, 1995 - Thousands of World War II veterans celebrated the 50th anniversary of V-E Day. May 8, 1995 - Fifty years after Nazi Germany's capitulation in World War II, leaders representing the victorious powers gathered in Berlin to remember the dead and pledge peace for the future. May 10, 1995 - Former President Bush's office released his letter of resignation from the National Rifle Association in which Bush expressed outrage over its reference to federal agents as "jack-booted government thugs." May 12, 1995 - President Clinton, during a stopover in Ukraine, visited Babi Yar, where the Nazis massacred more than 30,000 Kiev Jews in 1941. May 20, 1995 - President Clinton announced that the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House would be permanently closed to motor vehicles as a security measure. May 23, 1995 - The nine-story hulk of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was demolished. That day, James Nichols, whose brother and a friend were charged in the Oklahoma bombing, was released from federal custody. |
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June 2, 1995 - A US Air Force F-16C was shot down by a Bosnian Serb surface-to-air missile while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot. June 9, 1995 - One week after being shot down over Bosnia by a Bosnian Serb missile, and a day after being rescued, US Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady was warmly welcomed by his comrades at Aviano Air Base in Italy. June 23, 1995 - Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, died in La Jolla, California, at age 80. Dr. Salk visited the CAMP ATTERBURY POW compound during WW2. |
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July 27, 1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington by President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam. |
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Aug 12, 1995 - USAF vindicates the Tuskegee Airmen who had received letter of reprimand for their actions at Freeman AAF, April 3, 1945 |
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Sept 2, 1995 - At a military cemetery on a hill high above Honolulu, President Clinton marked the 50th anniversary of the end of World War Two, saying it taught Americans that "the blessings of freedom are never easy or free." Sept 29, 1995 - The O.J. Simpson trial was sent to the jury. |
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Oct 3, 1995 - The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the former football star innocent of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman |
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Dec 4, 1995 - Col Willis leaves and Col Jack E. Noel assumes command of CAMP ATTERBURY
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