Acknowledgments

Improving the response to terrorism victims is a work in progress. The foundation was laid by the dedicated and resourceful individuals who responded to the victims of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Their extraordinary work on behalf of victims and victims' families in Oklahoma City and Denver set a standard for other cases that followed and for future terrorist events. The Office for Victims of Crime is deeply grateful to them for sharing their experiences through countless hours of interviews for the development of this report. We take this opportunity to honor them for their remarkable service to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and to recognize the impact their efforts will have on the response to victims in the future.

Gwen Allen
 Executive Director, Project Heartland

K. Lynn Anderson
 Assistant United States Attorney,
U.S. Attorney's Office for the
 Western District of Oklahoma

Suzanne Breedlove
 Director, Victim Services, Oklahoma
 District Attorneys Council

Mary Anne Castellano
 Victim-Witness Coordinator, U.S.
Attorney's Office for the District
 of Colorado

Robin Finegan
 Director, Colorado Oklahoma
 Resource Council

Krista R. Flannigan
 Director, Colorado Oklahoma
Resource Council

Joan Gay
 Victim-Witness Assistance Unit, U.S.
 Attorney's Office for the District
of Kansas

Candace Grosz
 Former Planning/Grants Specialist,
 Office for Victims Programs, Colorado
 Department of Public Safety

James M. Horn
 Director, Forensic Behavioral Science
 Consulting/Training

Jeannette King
 Administrator, Critical Incident
Workshop Group, Inc.

Dahlia Lehman
 Victim-Witness Assistance Supervisory
 Coordinator, U.S. Attorney's Office
 for the Western District of Oklahoma

Diane Leonard
 Former Administrator, Critical Incident
 Workshop Group, Inc.

Carol Morris
 Victim-Witness Coordinator, U.S.
Attorney's Office for the Southern
District of Indiana

Jim Norman
 Psychologist, Project Heartland

Col. Jack Poe
 Chief of Chaplains, Oklahoma City
Police Department

Patrick Ryan
 Former United States Attorney, U.S.
 Attorney's Office for the Western
District of Oklahoma

Steve Siegel
 Director of Program Development,
 Denver Victim Assistance and Law
Enforcement Board

Mary Jo Speaker
 Victim-Witness Coordinator, U.S.
 Attorney's Office for the Eastern
District of Oklahoma

Gayla Stewart
 Victim-Witness Coordinator, U.S.
 Attorney's Office for the Northern
District of Oklahoma

Linda Wagner
 Psychologist, Project Heartland


Several individuals were instrumental in the development of this report. Janet Dinsmore, writer and editor, conducted the interviews and organized the story of the Oklahoma City victim response. Her efforts were supported and guided by OVC Deputy Director Carolyn Hightower and OVC Program Manager Laura Federline, who was responsible for overseeing OVC funding to the various agencies providing services to the bombing victims.

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