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...same time, 200 miles away in Perry, Oklahoma, another restive crowd had gathered. When choppers started dropping down a few blocks from the town square, the word ricocheted fast from courthouse to post office to school: one Timothy James McVeigh, wanted in connection with the bombing in Oklahoma City, was somehow in their jail, right here on the fourth floor of the Noble County Courthouse. Said David Deken, 17, who was in English class when he heard the news: "We were just saying a few minutes before that these guys better not set foot in Perry, and suddenly, well, here...
...last week had left an official toll of 65 adults and 13 children dead and at least 100 still missing in the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Although Nichols and his brother James are being held as material witnesses, their friend and associate McVeigh was charged, under Title 18 of U.S. Code, Section 844, with bombing a government building. According to the complaint filed by the FBI on Friday night, McVeigh was known by a co-worker to hold "extreme right-wing views ... and was particularly agitated about the conduct of the Federal Government...
Several promising leads emerged today in the massive investigation of theOklahoma bombing. Federal authorities now say they have a videotape that showsbombing suspect Timothy McVeigh's Arizona license plate on a different car than the one he was driving when he was arrested, theAssociated Pressreports. Officials believe that John Doe No. 2 may have used the second car to leave the scene of the bombing. Authorities are also investigating the owner of a military supply store in Antigo, Wisconsin and his son to see if they supplied small explosive devices needed totrigger the Oklahoma City bomb, the Los AngelesTimesreported. Police...
...federal magistrate in Oklahoma City this afternoon ordered two lawyers assigned tobombing suspect Timothy McVeighto defend him, despite their arguments that loss of their friends in last week's blast rendered them unable to do so. At McVeigh's first court appearance, the magistrate, Ron Howland, also turned down a request to move McVeigh's trial out of Oklahoma City. FBI agents said at the preliminary hearing that McVeigh's clothing tested positive forexplosives residue, that one witness saw McVeigh driving the rented truck the day before the bombing, and that three other witnesses thought they saw McVeigh outside...
Timothy McVeightold his friend "something big is going to happen" three days before the Oklahoma City bombing. In a hearing today Terry Nichols testified that McVeigh spoke to him three days before the April 19 bombing and asked to be picked up in Oklahoma City. The FBI confiscated 33 firearms and a 60mm anti-tank rocket from Nichols' home, as well as some blasting mechanisms. Federal workers across the country joined people inOklahoma Cityfor a moment of silence at 9:02 CDT, the time the bomb went off exactly a week before. In Washington, President Clinton attended the funeral...