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McVeigh checked into the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, on Friday, April 14, signing his own name in the register and giving the Decker, Michigan, address of James Nichols. During his stay, McVeigh rented a Ryder truck and parked it in the Dreamland lot far from his room, No. 25. He checked out on Tuesday, the day before the bombing...
...ended in flames and despair. On April 19, 1995, Richard Wayne Snell, a member of the white supremacist group The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, was executed for the murder of a Jewish businessman and a black police officer. And when Timothy McVeigh rented the Ryder truck, he used a forged South Dakota driver's license on which the date of issue was listed as April 19, 1993. "He probably meant that he woke up on that day," says Cole. "I can see his perspective on that...
...blast that size also required a great deal of explosive material--4,000 lbs. by one estimate. If the terrorists bought ammonium nitrate in standard 50-lb. bags, that's 80 bags--a cumbersome load for sure, but one that would fit snugly into a midsize Ryder truck. If all the material detonated--and there is reason to believe it didn't--the explosion released more energy than the blast from a ton of dynamite...
...safety measure. Law enforcement officials have found a receipt for a ton ofammonium nitratewith bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh's fingerprints on it in the Herington, Kan. home of Terry Nichols, the DallasMorning Newsreported today. FBI agents are also searching a lake near Herington where a witness saw a Ryder truck days before the bombing. Authorities believe the ingredients needed to make the bomb could have been assembled at the lake. Arizona state police announced the FBI is looking for a 1982 white Thunderbird, Arizona plate JWK923, driven by Gary Allen Land, who may have been a witness to the bombing...
...planning to produce a feature film based on my life. I'm working on the script right now, and Tarantino has agreed to direct (we are old friends). We are already working out the casting: perky Winona Ryder will play me as a wide-eyed idealistic freshman, and the 400-pound transvestite actor Divine will play me as the bitter, disillusioned senior (yeah, I know Divine is dead but I'm sure we can prop him up or something. They can do anything with dead people in the movies these days--didn't you see The Crow?). My Roommate will...