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...wake of the recent terrorist bombing of thefederal office building in Oklahoma City, Kennedysaid the country must increase its vigilance, butin doing so cannot trample individual rights ofthe nation's citizens...
Timothy McVeightold his friend "something big is going to happen" three days before the Oklahoma City bombing. In a hearing today Terry Nichols testified that McVeigh spoke to him three days before the April 19 bombing and asked to be picked up in Oklahoma City. The FBI confiscated 33 firearms and a 60mm anti-tank rocket from Nichols' home, as well as some blasting mechanisms. Federal workers across the country joined people inOklahoma Cityfor a moment of silence at 9:02 CDT, the time the bomb went off exactly a week before. In Washington, President Clinton attended the funeral...
...national polls following the Oklahoma City bombing, most Americans supported measures that wouldallow the government more toolsfor tracking down terrorists, even at the cost of personal privacy. In a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll, 72 percent agreed that law enforcement offices could infringe on civil liberties when actively investigating armed resistance groups. But four out of ten cautioned that the federal government is already so large and powerful that theconstitutional rights of ordinary citizens are threatened. However, 71 percent believe stockpiling weapons should not be included among such freedoms, while 78 percent say that citizens should not be allowed...
Terry and James Nichols, the Michigan brothers held as material witnesses in the Oklahoma bombing case, were charged with conspiring with suspect Timothy McVeigh to makeexplosive devices. McVeigh, a friend of Terry Nichols who had spent time at James Nichols' Decker, Mich., farmhouse, was named as co-conspirator. An FBI affidavit says James Nichols had "observed McVeigh and Terry Nichols making an exploding bottle bomb at his residence in 1992, using brake fluid, gasoline and diesel fuel." The affidavit also says Daniel Stomber, a nearby resident, heard James Nichols say that "judges and President Clinton should be killed, and that...
...people responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing should be "tried, sentenced and executed pretty fast," Ross Perot remarked at the National Press Club today. "We don't need anO.J. trial."Oklahoma Explosion Page