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...Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was leveled last April. The victims and their families have come at least some way toward healing. President Clinton visited in his role as national grief counselor. As the first anniversary of the explosion approached, the hard but orderly business of the McVeigh trial followed its course...
...accused, this Timothy McVeigh? What kind of person would park a rented truck filled with several thousand pounds of explosives next to a building busy with the early-morning comings and goings of innocent people? Federal investigators and journalists quickly began digging into McVeigh's past, looking for pieces of the appalling Oklahoma City puzzle. Not surprisingly, the fragments did not fit together in a way that would convincingly explain a monstrous deed...
...McVeigh grew up in Pendleton, New York, a town of 5,010 some 15 miles east of Niagara Falls. His parents divorced when he was 10; he and one sister stayed with his father, another sister stayed with his mother. McVeigh's high school teachers and classmates remember him as intelligent (his IQ is a well-above-average 125), an excellent student in subjects that interested him and a quiet but friendly companion. His final grade-point ranking was not quite high enough to qualify him for a course in computer programming that he hoped to take, and he eventually...
Then began a strange period of drifting that led, prosecutors charge, toward Oklahoma City. In the military, McVeigh had become close friends with Terry L. Nichols, who was later to be charged as an accomplice in the bombing; after leaving the service, McVeigh moved to the Dexter, Michigan, farm owned by Terry's older brother James. Neighbors later reported that explosions had been set off outside the farmhouse. People who met McVeigh during this time noticed that he always carried a weapon. Some witnesses claim that he became involved in the notorious Michigan militias, ad-hoc paramilitary groups preaching armed...
...McVeigh has claimed he visited the Branch Davidian compound near Waco during the federal siege that ended in fire and death on April 19, 1993, exactly two years before the Oklahoma City bombing. "It was very poorly handled," he says. Was it Waco that set him off on a path through Arizona and on to Kansas, where he allegedly rented the Ryder truck that carried the bomb, and then to Oklahoma City, where eyewitnesses saw him on the morning of the explosion? Will his trial, sometime in 1996, exonerate him? And if not, will it somehow make comprehensible the mind...