EYEwitness Tour – Albert Ashwood

Albert Ashwood served in the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management in various positions since 1988. He was appointed Director in 1997 and retired from that position in 2018. Following the April 19, 1995, bombing, he was first on the scene for the department, arriving approximately 25 minutes after the explosion. He led the department’s forward operations for the first three days of the incident before turning his attention to the administration of recovery efforts. Ashwood had the difficult task of leading through this crisis while awaiting word on his sister-in-law Susan Ferrell’s fate. Susan worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and was one of the 168 individuals who were killed in the bombing.