This article looks at the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City and its aftermath from the vantage point of transactional analysis, a process that gains added importance if this bombing is, indeed, the first major manifestation of a new kind of terrorism in the United States. The article also delineates previously unnoted functions of the bystander in the drama triangle: crisis creation and definition, scenario construction, and the elaboration of myth.
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