Timothy McVeigh was indicted by a federal grand jury for the planting of an explosive device in a truck next to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995. The explosion led to the deaths of 168 men, women, and children, and injuries to hundreds of other people. As the explosion occurred in Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma Western Federal District Court was the appropriate venue. McVeigh sought a change of venue. Why did he seek a change of venue? Why was the trial to be held in a federal rather than state court? Did he succeed in obtaining a change of venue?