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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look very good for McVeigh. But Jones has a plan. First, he will sow suspicion in the jury about the possibility that someone else committed the crime. Jones points out that in 1983 a white supremacist named Richard Snell killed a pawnbroker whom he mistakenly believed to be Jewish and was executed on April 19, 1995. "Snell had threatened to blow up the Murrah building back in the 1980s," Jones says. "One of the hypotheses is, Did a group of people decide to give the old man a going-away gift...

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

Womack, a former Widener library employee, also threatened to blow up Widener and Northeastern's Snell Library unless all Jewish staff members were fired...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: HUPD Dept. Focuses on Investigations | 11/16/1996 | See Source »

...then, were their associates? One key to the answer, Jones thinks, is a white supremacist named Richard Wayne Snell. On the evening of the Oklahoma bombing, Snell was executed in Arkansas for the 1983 killing of a pawnbroker he mistakenly believed to be Jewish. In the early 1980s Snell and some associates conspired to blow up the Murrah building. His last words before his death were, "Look over your shoulder; justice is coming." Aha! says Jones. "Why would Snell think that unless he knew? One hypothesis is that a group of people decided to give the old man a going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: THE STATE VERSUS MCVEIGH | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...Snell's words might seem more prophetic if the blast had not happened 12 hours before he died. In any event, what would connect McVeigh to Snell's avengers? For that, Jones reaches to Andreas Strassmeir, 36, the ultra-right offspring of a politically prominent German family. In 1988 he came to the U.S. to indulge his fascination with the Civil War, racial politics and guns. In 1991 Strassmeir began to live on and off in Elohim City, a far-right religious community in eastern Oklahoma, where patriarch Robert G. Millar preaches his own variation of white-separatist ideology (northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: THE STATE VERSUS MCVEIGH | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

Between 1990 and 1992, Womack terrorized security officials at Widener Library and Northeastern's Snell Library with a series of carefully planned attacks on books relating to church history and linguistics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Slasher Found Guilty Of Destruction | 3/1/1996 | See Source »

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