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DENVER: A key government witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial told jurors that Timothy McVeigh sat in her living room several months before the attack and described his plan to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah building. "He said it was an easy target," recalled Lori Fortier, the wife of McVeigh's close friend Michael Fortier. Mrs. Fortier said that during the conversation, which took place in October 1994 in the Fortier's Arizona mobile home, McVeigh drew a diagram, using soup cans to illustrate how he planned to bundle the bomb in a shaped triangular charge for maximum...
Evidence of McVeigh's admiration for a novel called The Turner Diaries, published in 1978, will aid the prosecution's effort to portray him as a hate-filled radical. The book, a favorite of far-right groups, tells the story of a group of white supremacists who blow up FBI headquarters in Washington at 9:15 one morning--almost exactly the same time of the Oklahoma City bombing. The Turner Diaries oozes invective against blacks and Jews. "We have allowed a diabolically clever, alien minority to put chains on our souls and our minds," a passage reads. "Why didn...
That's a lot of congressional wattage, but hardly a match for the power of Mike Wallace. 60 Minutes delivered a blow to the cause last week in a piece that posed the question, "Are surgeons taking organs from patients who are not quite dead...
...black worker named Dennis Glass--stand trial for the "crime" of protesting against racist Klan terror. They face from one to two years in jail on trumped-up charges of assault and battery stemming from a successful demonstration that turned back a potentially lethal assault by Klan terrorists. This blow against the KKK's racist genocidal designs was a victory for all working people, blacks and minorities...
When President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1986, he stated that Robinson "struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion...