The Real of Edye-Icon: Edye Smith, The Oklahoma City Bombing, and the Mobilization of Ideologies

June 1, 1999

Introduction [1] This essay is a reading of the events that surrounded Edye Smith, the mother of two children who died in the daycare housed in the Murrah federal building that was bombed in Oklahoma City, April 19, 1995. The essay has several goals. First, it reads these events through...