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McVeigh was such an eager evangelist for The Turner Diaries that he handed it out to friends and sold it at gun shows--often at a loss. The government will probably present testimony by Fortier and McVeigh's sister to confirm this zeal and may argue that McVeigh thought the book provided a model for how he might retaliate against the government for its Waco raid. For example, the bomb the narrator builds is, like the one used on the Murrah building, made out of ammonium nitrate mixed with heating oil and is loaded into a truck...
...remain--proving that he physically committed the crime. The government hopes to convince the jury of a basic narrative that runs like this: by the fall of 1994 McVeigh and Nichols had begun collecting the fertilizer and other materials necessary to make a large bomb. In December McVeigh and Fortier inspected the Murrah building, which McVeigh had chosen as the target. A few months later, on April 14, McVeigh registered at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas. On the same day, he bought a 1977 Mercury and reserved a Ryder truck. He stayed at the motel for four nights...
...testify that a man calling himself "Robert Kling" prepaid for the truck on April 15, 1995 and picked it up on April 17. Elliott will identify "Kling" as McVeigh. Elliott will also say that in filling out the rental agreement, McVeigh used a South Dakota driver's license. Lori Fortier, Michael's wife, will testify that she made the license for McVeigh. An employee at Elliott's, Vicki Beemer, may also be called; she says she spoke to McVeigh on the 14th, when he called to reserve the truck, and saw him when he came into the shop...
Phone records will show that McVeigh, Nichols and Fortier made hundreds of calls around the country to various establishments that sold fertilizer, chemicals, explosives, remote-control switches, racing fuel and 55-gal. plastic drums. Many of these calls were charged to a prepaid phone card issued in the name of Daryl Bridges by the Spotlight, a far-right publication. The FBI maintains this card was actually used by McVeigh and Nichols. McVeigh allegedly used the card to call Nichols to pick him up in Oklahoma City. Agents have documented McVeigh's and Nichols' travels, and many of the calls charged...
...Michael Fortier, prosecutors hope, will fill in the colors of the picture they have drawn. He will provide the vivid, firsthand account of McVeigh, the friend he asked to be best man at his wedding. He can describe McVeigh's visits to Kingman, Arizona, where Fortier lived and where McVeigh spent the weeks before the bombing. Most crucially, Fortier can say that on Dec. 15 and 16, 1994, he and McVeigh were in Oklahoma City, where they walked around inside the Murrah building (in which Christmas decorations adorned the day-care center). According to Fortier, McVeigh said this...