Religious Terrorism in the U.S., Long Before Al-Qaeda

The conventional timeline for religious terrorism in the United States begins in 1993, with the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. But radical sects of Christianity have inspired some of the most grotesque acts of violence in American history: the 1963 Birmingham Church bombing that killed four young girls; the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968; and the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995. In America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States, author Stuart Wexler looks at religious terrorism throughout history.