Watch Bill Clinton's Oklahoma City speech

Will Barack Obama rise to occasion tonight the way the 42nd president did back in 1995?

Published January 12, 2011 11:35PM (EST)

Much has been made of the parallel between last weekend's carnage in Tucson and the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people. As President Obama prepares to address a memorial service tonight, we thought we'd look back at Bill Clinton's memorable address in the wake of that '95 tragedy:


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