[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 16 (Monday, April 24, 1995)]
[Pages 670-671]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6786--Victims of the Oklahoma City Bombing

April 20, 1995

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

     On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 
Oklahoma City was brutally bombed in an appalling act of cowardice. As a 
mark of respect for those killed in the bombing, I hereby order, by the 
authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by 
section 175 of title 36 of the United States Code, that the flag of the 
United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon 
all public

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buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on 
all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia 
and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions 
through Monday, April 24, 1995. I also direct that the flag shall be 
flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States 
embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, 
including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day 
of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
nineteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:04 p.m., April 20, 
1995]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April 
24.