Word: mcveigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bomb that exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building two years ago killed 168 people, 19 of them children. Last Friday the decision about whether or not Timothy McVeigh was responsible for the crime was placed in the hands of the jurors, who were to be sequestered until they reached a verdict. If they found McVeigh guilty on any one of the 11 murder and conspiracy counts against him, he could face the death penalty. Juries are notoriously unpredictable, but given the thinness of the defense and the strength of the prosecution, an acquittal would...
...government set out to prove the following: that McVeigh harbored a deep hatred of the Federal Government, that he had spent months acquiring materials for the bomb and planning the attack, that he was the one who rented the Ryder truck used in the bombing, and that traces of explosives were found on his clothes, knife and earplugs when he was arrested. The case was not airtight--no one testified to seeing McVeigh make the bomb or seeing him at the crime scene--but the government made a very powerful presentation. To counter it, Jones had three strategies: raise...
...forensics lab, which did crucial work in the Oklahoma City case; he forbade Jones to try to show that a worldwide conspiracy may have been responsible for the bombing; and he barred testimony by a government informant named Carol Howe, who Jones also hoped would deflect guilt away from McVeigh and onto others...
...discuss five men who traveled frequently to Oklahoma City to inspect the Murrah building. In an internal ATF memo written in April 1995 and obtained by Time, Howe told her supervisors that Elohim City leaders talked to her about blowing up federal buildings in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. If McVeigh is found guilty, Jones will probably appeal, targeting this ruling of Matsch...
...years. Suddenly, though, Bradley, who lost a leg in the explosion, sank her face in her hands and said, "I need to talk to my lawyer." After a recess, she said she had seen two men leave the truck. The second man, she said, could have been McVeigh. Earlier this month, she told the defense she had seen another man, but Jones elected to call her anyway...