DENVER A surgeon has described how he amputated the leg of a woman trapped in the rubble after the April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. As the government pushed for the death penalty for convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh, Dr James Sullivan, who rushed to the bombed out Alfred P. Murrah federal building on April 19th, 1995, said he crawled on his belly through the rubble to reach Ms Diana Bradley, who was trapped in a crevice.
At one point, the orthopaedic surgeon said, he mistakenly thought the amputation was over only to find the leg was still connected. "She was still attached and she screamed," he said. Ms Bradley, who lost her mother and two children in the bombing, survived.