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...Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was leveled last April. The victims and their families have come at least some way toward healing. President Clinton visited in his role as national grief counselor. As the first anniversary of the explosion approached, the hard but orderly business of the McVeigh trial followed its course...
...City, Kansas, about 200 miles from Oklahoma City, where he was registered under his own name. Other witnesses say that in the moments before the explosion they saw McVeigh, a Ryder truck and the beige Mercury in which McVeigh was later arrested all in front of the Alfred P. Murrah building...
...farm. To clinch its case, the prosecution does have one star witness: Michael Fortier, another Army buddy of McVeigh's arrested in connection with the case. Last summer Fortier cut a deal to testify against his friend in return for lesser charges. He says he and McVeigh cased the Murrah building several months before the bombing...
...with tentacles stretching around the world, a scenario suitable for Oliver Stone's next big picture about the Big Picture. Jones starts from the assumption that McVeigh and Nichols could not by themselves have built an ammonium nitrate bomb as powerful as the one that demolished the nine-story Murrah building...
...answer, Jones thinks, is a white supremacist named Richard Wayne Snell. On the evening of the Oklahoma bombing, Snell was executed in Arkansas for the 1983 killing of a pawnbroker he mistakenly believed to be Jewish. In the early 1980s Snell and some associates conspired to blow up the Murrah building. His last words before his death were, "Look over your shoulder; justice is coming." Aha! says Jones. "Why would Snell think that unless he knew? One hypothesis is that a group of people decided to give the old man a going-away gift. Just blow up the building that...