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William Maloney was watching television in May 1995 when he heard the name. For days, the news had been full of developments in the April 19 Oklahoma City bombing: first, suspect Timothy McVeigh was arrested; then his alleged accomplice Terry Nichols turned himself in. Now the FBI had picked up two men on suspicion of being associates of McVeigh's. Maloney, a real estate agent in the Ozarks, recognized the sound of one of the names--Robert Jacks. But then the drifter's face appeared on the screen. "When I saw him on TV," recalls Maloney, "I knew they...
...fact, after only 18 hours, the FBI released Jacks and his companion Gary Land. However, according to sources close to the Oklahoma City case, the government has been quietly looking for another "Robert Jacks." The FBI has talked with Maloney, and believes he is credible when he says that several months before the bombing, he met McVeigh, Nichols and, most important, a third man, whom the FBI would very much like to question. An investigation for Impact, the TV newsmagazine produced by CNN and TIME, has uncovered not only the mystery of the Oklahoma case's missing...
...Santa Fe Trail Diner a day or so before the bombing. "There was three gentlemen that came in and sat down and ordered coffee," she says. One, she says, was Nichols, another, McVeigh. "The one question I asked was where were they going. And the third person said, 'Oklahoma.'" The three left without breakfast...
...advisory" and a composite sketch of two men believed to be driving a U-Haul truck filled with enough ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel to blow up several small homes or one larger government complex--a bomb potentially on par with the one that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City only two years ago. After catching the men, the armed Federal agents discovered--much to their embarrassment, I would imagine--that the two men were traveling industrial cleaners and that the "ammonium nitrate fertilizer" was only soap. It was soon determined that the two cleaners posed no danger...
...second, more disturbing issue is a pervasive sense of fear that has overtaken our everyday lives. In the wake of national tragedies and terrorist scares, it no longer seems unreasonable to see terrorists lurking inside every U-Haul truck. The most lasting legacy of the Oklahoma bombing and last summer's TWA explosion over the New York skyline is a deep feeling of vulnerability and a heightened desire for caution. In this environment, every suspicious person is a threat and every credible threat must be dealt with seriously...