Barry Black — The FBI Bomb Technician at the Oklahoma City Bombing | Part 1

Heroes Behind the Badge · Sep 8, 2026 · 26m · transcript

Barry Black spent thirty-one years in the FBI. He joined wanting white collar work, having changed his major and his university to get an accounting degree because that was what the Bureau was hiring. He retired a master bomb technician and a master instructor who trained NATO and allied special forces on every continent but Antarctica. On April 19, 1995, he was one of only two FBI bomb technicians in the state of Oklahoma, and he had held the certification for fifty-three weeks.

That morning he was seven miles from downtown, sitting in an unmarked Oldsmobile with another operator, waiting to…