Word: mcveighs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, two letters that McVeigh wrote to his hometown newspaper in upstate New York have come to light. For the most part, they resemble many missives from cranky citizens published in small-town papers. But they also contain ominous passages. "Is civil war imminent?" he wrote the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal in February 1992. Some of McVeigh's views are apparently shared by his younger sister Jennifer, 21, who wrote a letter to the paper herself last month, raging about Waco. Authorities are now questioning Jennifer, a student at Niagara County Community College and a former barmaid at the Crazy...
...Nichols has proved to be a key source for authorities. Although he, like McVeigh, has adopted something of a bunker mentality -- refusing to sign a card acknowledging that he understands his Miranda rights, for instance -- he did provide a chronology of McVeigh's alleged activities prior to the bombing. According to the affidavit, on the Sunday before the blast, McVeigh called Nichols at his home in Herington, Kansas, and asked Nichols to pick him up in Oklahoma City and drive him 270 miles to Junction City. During this drive, McVeigh allegedly told Nichols, "Something big is going to happen." Nichols...
...days later, McVeigh again called Nichols and asked to borrow his buddy's truck. The two men drove to a storage shed in Herington, and McVeigh said, "If I don't come back in a while, you'll clean out the storage shed." When authorities searched a locker believed to have been rented by McVeigh in September 1994, it was empty. Nichols' home, however, yielded a 60-mm antitank rocket, 33 firearms and nonelectric detonators, four 55-gal. plastic drums, literature about Waco, antitax and antigovernment pamphlets and three empty 50-lb. bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the material used...
...time last year, McVeigh lived in Michigan, with the Nichols brothers. However, in the past couple of years, his home base appears to have been Kingman, Arizona. For at least part of his time there, he lived with Michael Fortier, another Army buddy; although fbi agents have questioned him, they say Fortier is not John Doe No. 2. But Kingman residents mostly express surprise that a man so unobtrusive should now be so notorious. Bob Ragin, the owner of the Canyon West Mobile & RV Park, where McVeigh lived in a blue-and-white 40-ft. trailer for four months...
Nevertheless, according to the Anti-Defamation League last week, McVeigh in 1993 ran an ad to sell a military launcher in the Spotlight, a publication put out by the right-wing Liberty Lobby. Though the notice ran under an alias, T. Tuttle, it listed a Kingman address, and authorities say McVeigh has been known to use Tuttle as an alias. Dressed in combat boots and fatigues, McVeigh picked up his mail at the Mail Room in Kingman with noticeable regularity. However, Mail Room manager Lynda Willoughby recalls that during a two-week period in late February and early March...