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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...
DENVER: Oklahoma City bombing suspect Terry Nichols desperately tried to save his own skin by providing the FBI with statements incriminating Timothy McVeigh, according to an official interrogation summary obtained by TIME magazine. Correspondent Patrick Cole reports in this week's TIME that Nichols said McVeigh was capable of building a bomb on his own, and that McVeigh had said he had "something in the works" three days before the attack. Nichols told the FBI he didn't learn of the bombing until the following day, because his TV reception was lousy...
...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...
DENVER: For the first time since Terry Nichols was accused as Oklahoma City terrorist bomber Timothy McVeigh's co-conspirator, prosecutors who are trying to build a death penalty case against Nichols say they have evidence he built the bomb. They also say in court motions made public yesterday that Nichols acquired fertilizer and other bomb ingredients, robbed a gun dealer to pay for the bomb and helped McVeigh drop off the getaway car. McVeigh was formally sentenced to death last week. Nichols goes on trial Sept...
...Timothy McVeigh, speaking at the hearing on Thursday at which he was officially sentenced to death...