Benton K. Partin

Partin said, at critical structural points at the third floor level. Did the bombers plant explosives in other parts of the building as well.

Eyewitness accounts `before' the bombing strongly suggest that demolition charges were placed elsewhere.On the Friday before the bombing several persons at the Murrah building saw three men (they took for maintenance or utility workers) working in a reserved area of the underground parking structure.
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One of these experts is Benton K. Partin, brigadier General U.S.A.F. (Retired), who did extensive analysis and study of the pattern of damage to the Murrah Building, and concluded that it could not have been caused solely by a truck bomb, parked outside the building, regardless of how much explosives it contained! Because the asymmetrical damage pattern to the building was not consistent with a single point of detonation.

Who is Benton K. Partin, and what qualifications does he possess to make such critical analysis? To begin with, General Partin could rightfully be called the expert's expert, when it comes to high-explosives and bomb-damage analysis for the following reasons : In addition to spending 31 years active duty in the U.S. Air Force, 25 of those years were spent in research, design, development, test and management, of nearly every non-nuclear weapons-device in the Air Force.This included hands-on work at the Ballistic Research Laboratories, and Commander of the Air Force Armament Technology Laboratory.His military and professional accomplishments would literally take two or three more paragraphs to list (including : Air Force Systems command, Air Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).

He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, an M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering and is a Ph.D. Candidate (academics completed) in Operations Research & Statistics.So, when one refers to General Partin as the expert's expert, concerning high-explosives and bomb-damage analysis, it is done so for a very good reason.After extensive analysis of hundreds of photographs and much videotaped footage, he released an extensive forensic report on July 30, 1995, entitled : Bomb Damage Analysis Of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.It is an incredibly detailed scientific analysis and includes five color photographs (or Tabs).Preceding his analysis, he has a two-page info copy of a letter of the same date (July 30, 1995), which he sent to U.S. Senator Trent Lott of the Senate Intelligence Committee.In addition to Senator Lott's letter, General Partin sent info copies of this letter to all 535 members of Congress! Due to space limitations here, I will now quote just the first paragraph of this most important letter :.

The attached report contains conclusive proof that the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was not caused solely by the truck bomb.Evidence shows that the massive destruction was primarily the result of four explosive charges placed at critical structural points at the third floor level..

A man of General Partin's military and educational background most certainly do not use such terms as conclusive proof and evidence shows lightly, especially when writing about high-explosives and bomb analysis.
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Write to : Benton K. Partin, 8908 Captains Row, Alexandria, Virginia 22308.