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With those words, Timothy McVeigh responded to 11 charges in the Oklahoma City bombing. Each bears a possible death penalty. Fellow defendant Terry Nichols also entered a not guilty plea...
Last week's indictment of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh surprised hardly anyone. But events breaking around the indictment did present an unpredictable opportunity to TIME correspondent Patrick E. Cole, who began covering the Oklahoma City story hours after the April 19 explosion. Unexpectedly, Stephen Jones, McVeigh's attorney, gave Cole permission to interview William and Jennifer McVeigh, his client's father and sister. "I always wonder how the accused and the family feel when they're in the spotlight," Cole says. "Getting to the McVeigh family for their first in-depth interview was thus all the more exciting...
...suspect himself added to the excitement, balking at the interview at the last minute because he did not want family members answering questions about him. Jones' associate, Robert Nigh Jr., hurried to the El Reno prison near Oklahoma City and persuaded Tim McVeigh to let Cole proceed. McVeigh may have relented, in part, because he trusted the correspondent's work; he had answered a set of written questions from Cole the week before that resulted in an exclusive TIME interview...
...along, I wanted to cover legal issues and important cases," Cole says. "The Oklahoma City bombing story has allowed me to use my legal background in a perfect way. When you deal with lawyers like Jones, you understand how they develop strategy." The case against Tim McVeigh will take many months to unfold, and Cole is grateful for his "bird's-eye view" of this process. So are his colleagues and readers...
Four months after the nation's deadliest terrorist attack, a federal grand jury indicted the two prime suspects in the Oklahoma City case, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, on bombing and murder charges that could bring the death penalty to both. The indictment identified McVeigh as the driver who detonated the truck bomb. As part of a deal with prosecutors, Michael Fortier, a close Army buddy of McVeigh's, pleaded guilty to lesser charges, including lying and failing to notify authorities about the crime. He is expected to become the government's star witness...