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DENVER: Michael Fortier was the prosecution's star witness whose riveting testimony helped convict Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. But last week, Fortier proved little help in the effort to convict alleged co-conspirator Terry Nichols...
...Fortier testified that while McVeigh told him in detail about the plot to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, he never once heard Nichols talk about it. He only knew of Nichols involvement because of (hearsay) statements by McVeigh...
Explosive attacks on the powers that be didn't start with the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. In December 1905, in Caldwell, Idaho, a sagebrush railroad town near Boise, a bomb attached to a garden gate killed the state's former Governor, Frank Steunenberg. Blame for the murder was quickly pinned on traveling "sheep dealer" Harry Orchard, who confessed to being a paid assassin for the Western Federation of Miners, one of the era's most powerful labor unions. The union's highest officials were indicted, and the young Clarence Darrow hired to defend them. The result was a kind...
...came up against discrimination and were beaten down. Linda McVeigh Mathews, a distinguished journalist, resigned from a newspaper when her editors would not allow her to cover the same foreign beat as her journalist husband, and has just left another paper after being "emotionally battered" by her boss. In a variety of corporations Marilyn Wilt "encountered the glass ceiling again and again" and quit the business world to "empower" herself...
Earlier this year, The Dallas Morning News published a story saying Timothy McVeigh had told his defense team that he bombed the Oklahoma City federal building, and that he intended to leave a "body count" in order to "make our point" to the Federal Government. In your story naming the Morning News one of America's best papers, you assert that publishing that story constituted some kind of journalistic faux pas. I find that assessment as puzzling as it is unsupported by fact. The Morning News story was accurate, the documents it quoted were legitimate, and the reporter engaged...