The Oklahoma City Bombing And The Politics Of Terror Part 41

251. (201) Marylin Hart, Interview with author, 1/15/96.

252. (202) New York Times, 4/23/95.

253. (203) Steve Wilmsen and Mark Eddy, "Who bombed the Murrah Building?" Denver Post, date unknown.

254. (204) FBI 302 of Lebron, Op Cit.

255. (205) Patrick E. Cole, "I'm Just Like Anyone Else," Time, 4/15/96.

256. (206) "An Ordinary Boy's Extraordinary Rage", Was.h.i.+ngton Post, 7/2/95.

257. (207) New York Times, 4/24/95.

258. (208) Mark Schaffer, "Gun Cla.s.s Sheds New Light On McVeigh," The Arizona Republic, 5/28/95, quoted in Keith.

259. (209) New York Times, 12/31/95.

260. (210) Kevin Flynn and Lou Kilzer, "John Doe 2 Remains a Mystery: OKC Bombing Case's Unknown Suspect Could be More Than One Man, Investigators Believe," Rocky Mountain News, 3/3/97.

261. (211) New York Times, 4/24/95.

262. (*) The child protective services went to the compound, knocked on the door, walked in, and interviewed the children. They found no evidence of abuse and left.

263. (*) This will be explored more fully in Volume Two.

264. (212) Media Bypa.s.s, March, 1995.

265. (213) New York Times, 7/5/95.

266. (214) Tim Kelsey, "The Oklahoma Suspect Awaits Day of Reckoning," London Sunday Times, 4/21/96.

267. (215) Robert Vito, "Three Soldiers," CNN News, 8/9/95.

268. (216) Trial of Timothy McVeigh.

269. (217) Opening statement of lead prosecutor Joseph Hartzler at Timothy McVeigh's trial.

270. (218) Howard Pankartz and George Lane, "Sister Testifies Against Brother," Denver Post, 5/6/97.

271. (219) George Lane, "Letters Provide Damaging Evidence," Denver Post, 5/6/97; "Sister's Role Seen as Pivitol," Denver Post, 5/6/97.

272. (220) Time, 5/1/95.

273. (221) New York Times, 5/4/95.

274. (222) "Oklahoma Bombing Plotted for Months, Officials Say, but Suspect Is Not Talking," New York Times, 4/25/95, quoted in Keith, p. 28.

275. (*) Nichols' discharge in the spring of 1989 for "hards.h.i.+p" reasons is also interesting. Another parallel is that of Thomas Martinez, the FBI infiltrator within the radical right Silent Brotherhood, who was given an honorable discharge during basic training. The Army choose not to explained why. (Keith, Op Cit.) 276. (223) Emma Gilbey, "Brothers in Arms with a Destructive Hobby," London Sunday Telegraph, 3/24/95.

277. (224) Affidavit of FBI Agent Patrick W. Wease.

278. (225) Newsweek, 5/15/95.

279. (226) Robert Jerlow, interview with author.

280. (*) The letter to the girlfriend apparently was indicative of plans to bomb other locations. Interesting that the suspect would leave such an curiously incriminating trail of evidence.

281. (227) New York Times, 7/5/95.

282. (228) Dateline, NBC, 2/13/96.

283. (229) Was.h.i.+ngton Post, 7/2/95.

284. (230) New York Times, 7/5/95.

285. (231) Ibid.; Was.h.i.+ngton Post, 7/5/95.

286. (232) The Spotlight, 5/26/97.

287. (*) Catina told London Sunday Telegraph reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard that the man was "always" there. "He seemes out of place, but he was always around."

288. (233) Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the a.s.sa.s.sins, (New York, NY: Warner Books, 1988), p. 157.

289. (*) In a rather prophetic statement, Michael Fortier's mother was heard to remark that McVeigh led "a double life."

290. (234) Media Bypa.s.s, 3/95; New York Times, 7/5/95.

291. (235) Beth Hawkins, "The Michigan Militia Greet the Media Circus," Detroit Metro Times, 3/26/95.

292. (236) David Van Biema, Time, 6/26/95.

293. (*) In what may appear to be an ominous coincidence, America in Peril made its debut just as the ATF and FBI were making their own apocalyptic plans for the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.

294. (**) The Michigan Militia has officially disowned him.

295. (237) Was.h.i.+ngton Post, 7/2/95.

296. (238) Ken Armstrong, No Amateur Did This (Aptos, CA: Blackeye Press, 1996), p. 17.

297. (*) Interestingly, Jennifer was found burning papers on an outdoor grill when the FBI showed up on April 23.

298. (239) J.D. Cash, "McVeigh's Sister Laundered Bank Robbery Proceeds: ATF Surveillance Confirmed by Informant," McCurtain Daily Gazette, 1/28/97.

299. (*) Interestingly, authorities wouldn't find any traces of ammonium nitrate in these lockers.

300. (*) As pointed out previously, FBI chief chemist Frederick Whitehurst, who tested McVeigh's clothes, said no explosive residue was found. Whitehurst has since gone on to publicly accuse the FBI of manufacturing and tainting evidence in dozens of cases.

301. (240) Arnold Hamilton, "Bombing Accounts are Varied," Dallas Morning News, 10/8/95.

302. (241) Connie Smith, interview with author. These accounts appeared in the McCurtain Gazette, The New American, and the Denver Post, among other places.

303. (242) Dr. Paul Heath, interview with author.

304. (243) Hoppy Heidelberg, interview with author.

305. (244) Trish Wood, The Fifth Estate, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; J.D. Cash, "Is a Videotape From a Tulsa Topless Bar the 'Smoking Gun' in Oklahoma City Bombing?" McCurtain Daily Gazette, 9/25/96.

306. (245) Tony Boller, a.s.sistant Project Manager, Goodwill Industries, interview with author.

307. (246) Jane Graham, interview with author. Graham is a friend and co-worker of Joan's.

308. (247) J.D. Cash, McCurtain Daily Gazette, 7/14/96.

309. (248) Sherie, confidential interview with author.

310. (*) She saw the truck at 6:00 a.m. at the diner, then it left before 7:00 a.m. She then saw it at Geary Lake in the afternoon on her way to Junction City, then saw it there on return trip around 3:00-4:00 p.m. The mainstream-press originally said Whittenberg saw the truck on Tuesday, parroting the FBI's line that McVeigh had rented the truck on the 17th.

311. (249) Dan Parker, "McVeigh Defense Questions Co-Defendant's Claim," Daily Oklahoman, date unknown; Steve Wilmsen and Mark Eddy, "Who bombed the Murrah Building?" Denver Post, date unknown; Timothy McVeigh's Pet.i.tion for Writ of Mandamus, 3/25/97, p. 36.

312. (250) Linda Kuhlman and Phyliss Kingsley, interviews with author.

313. (251) Mark Eddy, "Witnesses tell a different story," Denver Post, 6/16/96.

314. (*) What is interesting is that McVeigh's friend James Nichols said that McVeigh never wore a baseball cap, much less backwards. He said McVeigh only wore an Army-issue cap.

315. (252) Chuck Allen, interview with author.

316. (253) Ibid.

317. (254) Jane Graham, interview with author. Graham is a friend and co-worker of Johnston's.

318. (*) It is interesting that McVeigh would choose to hang around the scene of the crime, along with his easily identifiable yellow Mercury Marquis, minutes after it occurred. Johnston described the John Doe 2 as shorter and darker than McVeigh.

319. (255) "Feds Charge Terry Nichols in Bombing," Los Angeles Times, 5/10/95, quoted in Keith, p. 185.

320. (256) FBI FD-383 (FBI Facial Identification Fact Sheet) of Tom Kessinger, dated 4/20/95, copy in author's possession.

321. (257) London Sunday Times, 4/21/96.

322. (258) Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Henry C. Gibbons, 4/21/95, copy in author's possession.

323. (259) Garrison, Op Cit., p.65, 77.

324. (260) Bid, p.66.

325. (261) Ibid., p. 79.

326. (262) Julie DelCour, "Informant Says Tulsan Talked About Local, OC Bombings," Tulsa World, 2/9/97.

327. (263) "TNT, $5 a stick. Need more. Call after 1 May, see if I can get some more."

328. (264) William Pepper, Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, (New York, NY: Carol & Graf), 1995, p.156.

329. (265) London Sunday Times, 4/21/96.

330. (266) Kevin Johnson, "McVeigh Lawyer Says FBI Agents Using Trickery," USA Today, 8/14/95, quoted in Keith, Op Cit, p. 57.

331. (267) Lana Padilla, interview with author.

332. (268) Bob Papovich, interview with author.

333. (269) "A Look at Terry Nichols," a.s.sociated Press, 4/5/96.

334. (270) Lana Padilla, interview with author, Diane Sawyer, ABC News Prime Time Live, 5/10/95.

335. (271) Padilla and Delpit, Op Cit., p. 36.

336. (272) a.s.sociated Press, 4/5/96.

337. (273) Steve Wilmsen and Mark Eddy, "Who bombed the Murrah Building?" Denver Post, date unknown.

338. (274) Serge F. Kovaleski, "In a Mirror, Nichols Saw a Victim," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, 7/3/95.

339. (275) "A look at Terry Nichols," a.s.sociated Press, 4/5/96.

340. (276) Media Bypa.s.s, date unknown.

341. (277) Ibid.

342. (278) Kovaleski, Op Cit.

343. (279) Padilla and Delpit,Op Cit., p. 168.

344. (280) Keith, Op Cit., p. 179.

345. (281) Kovaleski, Op Cit.

346. (*) In October of 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald appeared suddenly at the American Emba.s.sy in Moscow, and dramatically handed over his U.S. Pa.s.sport and a letter renouncing his American citizens.h.i.+p.

347. (282) a.s.sociated Press, 4/5/96.

348. (283) Kovaleski, Op Cit.

349. (284) Lana Padilla, interview with author.

350. (285) Elizabeth Gleick, "Who Are They? The Oklahoma blast reveals the paranoid life and times of accused bomber Timothy McVeigh and his right-wing a.s.sociates." Time, 5/1/95.

351. (286) Ibid.