Word: ryder
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...make a large bomb. In December McVeigh and Fortier inspected the Murrah building, which McVeigh had chosen as the target. A few months later, on April 14, McVeigh registered at the Dreamland Motel in Junction 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...
...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...
...screams of the victims and the sound of rubble falling. ?We could see things coming down on us,? Klaver said. ?We were all disoriented.? Michael Norfleet, a Marine fighter pilot, told of parking in front of the building moments before the explosion, a few cars ahead of the Ryder truck. When the bomb went off ?it filleted my eye,? Norfleet recalled. Stumbling down six flights of stairs, now blind in his right eye and covered with deep lacerations, Norfleet found his way out of the rubble by following the trail of another victim?s blood, losing nearly half...
...road to publicity hell for WINONA RYDER was paved with others' good intentions. As part of the national Kick Butts Day, Molly Patterson, a student from Petaluma, California, decided she and her classmates would write an open letter to hometown girl Ryder asking her to stop smoking in movies. Before the letter was sent, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, sensing a good way to spread its message, told the media about it. Ryder, who has lit up in four of her 18 movies (including Reality Bites, above) was horrified at the story and phoned Patterson at school. She also...
...shown its sketch to the witnesses at the Ryder outlet in Junction City, Kansas, who still claim to have seen McVeigh with an unknown second man on the day the bomb truck was rented. Nor apparently has the FBI shown the Jacques sketch to folks around Nichols' home in Herington, Kansas. There, Barbara Whittenberg remembers a Ryder truck pulling up in front of her 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...