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...same day that Stephen Jones announced he would be defending Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing case, he hired a security firm to protect his home outside Enid, Oklahoma. But that has not stopped the phone calls. Late last week the 54-year-old lawyer received a threat from someone the fbi believes is a known violent offender. "I have to take this seriously," Jones says. "The man said if I represented McVeigh, he was going to send a Ryder truck to my house and blow...
...that such prisoner tales of confessions shouldn't be taken seriously. Jones has been pressing his client's case hard in the media the past few days. TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen says this is part of a smart and necessary strategy. "The trial needs to be moved from Oklahoma to someplace where emotions aren't so high. What Jones is doing is speaking to all the potential jurors out there in an effort to counter all of the media reports that in many cases have already convicted McVeigh."Oklahoma Explosion Page
...make matters worse, Chung managed to offend some Oklahoma viewers with a few innocuous questions to the city's assistant fire chief about the community's ability to handle the crisis; cbs News was forced to reel her back to New York City after just three days. The only good thing to come out of her assignment was that the proceeds from T shirts asking WHO THE HELL IS CONNIE CHUNG? went to the disaster-relief efforts...
...While Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh continued to cool his heels in a federal prison, refusing to talk to authorities, law-enforcement officials were growing frustrated in their nationwide manhunt for the elusive second suspect, John Doe No. 2. Federal agents raided a small Missouri motel to capture and question a pair of drifters whose travels before and after the bombing paralleled McVeigh's. But the two men were quickly released for lack of evidence, the parallel taste in small towns and cheap motels an apparent coincidence. In Oklahoma City rescuers ended their search for bodies and survivors...
Continuing the campaign he began in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City tragedy to still what he has called voices of hatred and paranoia, President Clinton used a commencement speech at Michigan State University to address militia groups nationwide that advocate violence. "How dare you call yourselves patriots and heroes?" demanded the President. "There is no right to resort to violence when you don't get your way. There is no right to kill people . Those who claim such rights are wrong and un-American...