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...shown its sketch to the witnesses at the Ryder outlet in Junction City, Kansas, who still claim to have seen McVeigh with an unknown second man on the day the bomb truck was rented. Nor apparently has the FBI shown the Jacques sketch to folks around Nichols' home in Herington, Kansas. There, Barbara Whittenberg remembers a Ryder truck pulling up in front of her Santa Fe Trail Diner a day or so before the bombing. "There was three gentlemen that came in and sat down and ordered coffee," she says. One, she says, was Nichols, another, McVeigh. "The one question...
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...
...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 to rob a bank?" McVeigh responded only by repeating, "Something big is going to happen...
...days later, McVeigh again called Nichols and asked to borrow his buddy's truck. The two men drove to a storage shed in Herington, and McVeigh said, "If I don't come back in a while, you'll clean out the storage shed." When authorities searched a locker believed to have been rented by McVeigh in September 1994, it was empty. Nichols' home, however, yielded a 60-mm antitank rocket, 33 firearms and nonelectric detonators, four 55-gal. plastic drums, literature about Waco, antitax and antigovernment pamphlets and three empty 50-lb. bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the material used...
...Alfred P. Murrah federal building were forced to resort to using heavy equipment to dismantle sections of the dangerously unstable structure, as a safety measure. Law enforcement officials have found a receipt for a ton ofammonium nitratewith bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh's fingerprints on it in the Herington, Kan. home of Terry Nichols, the DallasMorning Newsreported today. FBI agents are also searching a lake near Herington where a witness saw a Ryder truck days before the bombing. Authorities believe the ingredients needed to make the bomb could have been assembled at the lake. Arizona state police announced...