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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elliott and Kessinger first spoke to the FBI on April 19, when McVeigh was still completely unknown. A composite sketch based on their description of "Kling" was shown to motel owners around Junction City. On April 20, Lea McGown, proprietor of the Dreamland Motel, recognized the man as a guest named Timothy McVeigh. The agents searched a database and discovered that someone of that name was arrested on April 19 for speeding 90 miles north of Oklahoma City; he looked almost exactly like the composite sketch. So, the government argues, Elliott and Kessinger described McVeigh before anyone knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPENING SHOTS | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...leaving the area. L.A. police chief Willie Williams said that "the perpetrator was only there for a few moments or a few seconds, but we don't know what was in his mind." The media were asked not to identify the traumatized witness, who was assisting with a police sketch of the suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'HE WAS MY HERO' | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...Mercedes. She supposedly saw a car fleeing but could not identify the make. The police have announced that something was taken from the crime scene, but Williams would not be specific. On Saturday the L.A.P.D. announced that the motive for killing Cosby was probably robbery. They also released a sketch of a suspect: a white man of average height, 25 to 32 years old. The police also put out a sketch of another white male whom a security guard saw driving away in a blue hatchback. He was being considered a witness. The police said there may be more witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'HE WAS MY HERO' | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...Politically Incorrect's Election Coverage (Comedy Central) It would be a challenge indeed to plumb recent TV history to find a funnier piece of sketch comedy than PI's Republican Party infomercial spoof, which aired the week of the San Diego convention. As the networks lulled us to sleep, Bill Maher's wry, combative round-table show succeeded in covering the campaign with bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE BEST TELEVISION OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...receive decent treatment from other aspects of the organization. But last week, suffering from a cold so bad I could barely think straight, I walked through the doors of the after-hours urgent-care unit and into a bureaucratic nightmare funnier and more disturbing than any Saturday Night Live sketch I have seen in the past year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUN AT UHS | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

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