Word: mcveigh
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When the truck bomb went off in Oklahoma City 2 1/2 years ago, virtually everyone in the country learned of it instantly and sat gazing at the television, immobilized by shock. Everyone, that is, except Terry Nichols, the man accused of helping Timothy McVeigh build the bomb. Nichols didn't have cable service at the time and his TV reception was lousy, so he didn't know about the incident until the next day. While the whole wired world was rapt by the tragedy, the alleged accomplice was hanging around his house in Herington, Kansas, as if April...
That is the story that Nichols, whose trial begins this week, told four FBI agents who questioned him two days after the bombing. Nichols is an even more inscrutable figure than McVeigh, and what went on during that nine-hour interrogation has always been one of the mysteries of the Oklahoma City bombing case. TIME has now obtained an official summary of the session, and it discloses in detail how Nichols tried desperately to save his skin, even giving incriminating statements against McVeigh. It is not clear if Nichols will take the stand, and he has made no public comments...
...questioning took place at the Department of Public Safety in Herington, where Nichols had turned himself in after learning the authorities were looking for him because of his longtime friendship with McVeigh. According to the report, the agents read Nichols his rights and asked him his Social Security number. He gave one, but said he could not be sure it was right. He told the agents that like others who resist government control, he no longer used a Social Security number. He refused to sign a form called "Interrogation: Advice of Rights" because, he said, the word interrogation reminded...
...times, Nichols seemed to be trying to protect his friend McVeigh. "I cannot see why he would do it," the summary quotes him as saying. Nichols also said that on April 18 he and McVeigh attended a weapons auction. That is the date that eyewitnesses at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, say McVeigh apparently left with the Ryder truck used in the bombing. However, Nichols made much more significant statements about McVeigh that were very damaging. On April 16, Nichols and McVeigh drove from Oklahoma City to Herington together. The agents asked Nichols if McVeigh had said anything...
...jury selection for the Nichols trial starts Monday, the case against him is not airtight, since no one claims to have seen Nichols and McVeigh actually building the bomb. Unlike McVeigh, Nichols has not been placed in Oklahoma City on the day of the bombing, and some observers believe that may save him from the death penalty...