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...consolation to the victims' families, the parents and children and spouses whom McVeigh derides as the "woe is me" crowd, to whom he has never shown the least regret, other than that there were not more of them killed, that he did not bring down the entire Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They imagine him sitting in prison, rubbing his hands together, feeling as if it were Christmas. "This is playing right into his hand," says Paul Howell, who lost his 27-year-old daughter Karen. "He can go in there and say, 'Guys, I told you the Federal Government...
That sense of closeness was affecting even the bombing survivors. Randy Ledger was a maintenance man on the first floor of the Murrah building. His views on the death penalty have been challenged by this process. "Six months ago, I would have said it was fine. But the more personal this becomes, the closer it becomes, the more moderate I become. It's very easy to say, 'Just put to death another murderer' when you have no personal feeling involved; but the closer this gets, the more introspective I get--morally and spiritually--and it's very difficult...
...credible eyewitness saw McVeigh construct his 2-ton bomb, nor could anyone positively identify him as the driver of the Ryder truck who parked the explosives beneath the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Prosecutors based their case on evidence that showed McVeigh planned the bombing, rented the Ryder truck, moved into a nearby motel to make preparations and bought a 1977 Mercury as a getaway car. The testimony of McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier, who admitted to helping McVeigh plan the bombing, and the traces of explosives found on McVeigh's clothing were particularly damning. And McVeigh...
When Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, right-wing doomsayers saw him as a leading horseman of the apocalypse. After the 1992 shootout at Ruby Ridge and the 1993 siege at Waco, suspicion of federal agencies and gun-control initiatives reached paranoid levels. Within days of the bombing, conspiracy theorists claimed that the Federal Government had caused the explosions so that it could justify new antiterrorist legislation. The number of active militia groups quadrupled in the year after Oklahoma City. A TIME cover story on the militia movement just...
...When the Terror Comes from Within At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, a bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Its scenes of carnage unleashed fear, anger and sorrow across the nation. America had already learned to expect terror from beyond its borders. Now the country must deal with another reality: the monsters it has bred on its own. May 1, 1995 Read the Cover Story...