Gore Breaks Ground for Blast Memorial

Thousands came to the site of the Oklahoma City bombing to break ground for a memorial to the 168 people who died. Vice President Al Gore dug the first scoop of dirt. After speeches by Gore, Atty. Gen. Janet Reno and other officials, Gore took a shiny shovel and dug it into the ground where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood. He handed the shovel to young Clint Seidl, who was in the second grade when his mother died in the 1995 bombing. The $24.1-million memorial will include a reflecting pool, an interactive museum and 168 stone chairs built atop glass bases, one for each of the people killed.