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...odds" of a mixed marriage for members of an ethnic group so tiny as American Jews is 95 percent.) Nevertheless, the four factors of demography, propinquity, parental pressure and religious commitment, which have been responsible for maintaining the high degree of Jewish inmarriage, will continue to diminish in the near future, and certainly over the next several generations...
...Federal Government. When the FBI raided the Branch Davidian compound on April 19, 1993, precisely two years before the Oklahoma bombing, McVeigh was outraged. In March of 1993, he made a pilgrimage to Waco that, by chance, another visitor recorded on video. Sources tell TIME that photographs show McVeigh near Waco handing out bumper stickers that asked, IS YOUR CHURCH ATF APPROVED...
...City, Kansas. On the same day, he bought a 1977 Mercury and reserved a Ryder truck. He stayed at the motel for four nights and was seen coming and going in a truck. During that period, he and Nichols constructed the bomb. In the meantime, McVeigh parked the Mercury near the Murrah building, and Nichols took him back to the Dreamland. On the morning of April 19, McVeigh drove the truck to the building and detonated the bomb at 9:02 a.m. He raced to the Mercury and headed out of town on the Interstate...
...hour and a half later, a state trooper stopped McVeigh near Perry, Oklahoma, because his car had no rear license plate. The trooper saw he had a gun and arrested him. Using the vehicle-identification number on the Ryder truck's axle, which survived the blast, the FBI learned from Ryder which location the truck had been rented from. Descriptions of McVeigh by two people at the rental office were the basis of a sketch that agents showed to motel desk clerks in the area. The owner of the Dreamland recognized McVeigh and gave his name. Federal agents...
...Pontiac). Manning has stated that McVeigh left the store for a few minutes while they were making the deal. Records show that at 9:53 a call to Elliott's was placed from a pay phone across from the Firestone store. Another piece of evidence shows that McVeigh was near Elliott's shortly before the truck was picked up--a security camera recorded McVeigh at a McDonald's a mile from the shop...