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According to a state police affidavit recentlyreleased by the FBI, Smith pointed his gun at theBrinks guard, William B. Crowley, 26, as Crowleywheeled two bags of currency into the Bank ofBoston branch on Mass...
Earlier in the week Nichols was charged with "malicious damage" to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and with aiding and abetting McVeigh. According to an official affidavit presented last week, Nichols began stockpiling large amounts of fertilizer last September in several lockers near his home in Herington, Kansas. When agents searched Nichols' home after he turned himself in to police on April 21, they found 60-ft. primadet cords with blasting caps, fuel meters and a receipt for fertilizer that had McVeigh's fingerprints on it. During the search, Nichols allegedly asked the agents not to "mistake household items...
...source for authorities. Although he, like McVeigh, has adopted something of a bunker mentality -- refusing to sign a card acknowledging that he understands his Miranda rights, for instance -- he did provide a chronology of McVeigh's alleged activities prior to the bombing. According to the affidavit, on the Sunday before the blast, McVeigh called Nichols at his home in Herington, Kansas, and asked Nichols to pick him up in Oklahoma City and drive him 270 miles to Junction City. During this drive, McVeigh allegedly told Nichols, "Something big is going to happen." Nichols asked, "Are you going...
...north, a bomb ravaged an Oklahoma City federal building, blasting concrete and metal and lives, and creating a whole nation of mourners. At first the timing of the explosion seemed like nothing more than an eerie coincidence. But soon evidence of a connection surfaced. In an FBI affidavit taken after Timothy McVeigh's arrest, a former co-worker claimed that the bombing suspect had been unusually aggrieved by the government's conduct in Waco...