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.
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Write to : Benton K. Partin , 8908 Captains Row , Alexandria , Virginia 22308.