charles porter was a employee in the loans department of a bank. one day he was at work when everyone there at the bank heard a very loud explosion. immediately, and because mr. porter was on aspiring photo journalist, he runs to his car and grabs his camera and runs two and a half blocks to the alfred p. murrah building. and as he puts it, it looks like the building -- the front of the building has been completely shaved off. and you can see inside the building. of course, there is chaos everywhere. there is people running. victims getting out of the building. people trying to come in and look at it. but there isn't a whole lot of press because this literally just happened. and mr. porter makes a lot of different photos. he takes a picture of the victims, he takes a picture of a church with the stain glass all exploded all over the ground. and then he noticed something right out of the corner of his eye and he turns around and he notices a policeman handing something over to a fireman. he turns around and of course we see now that what he's doing i