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According to a Justice Department source, the drawing of Jacques is the only remaining unidentified sketch in the FBI's files on the case. While the government is still looking for a man who may have been with McVeigh when he allegedly rented the truck that carried the bomb, the sketches of John Doe No. 2 that accompanied the original search have been discarded. In the meantime, the bureau is not ready to classify Jacques, if that is indeed his name, as a suspect or target in its investigations. The FBI does, however, want to talk to him as part...
...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...
KEEP ON TRUCKIN' Vintage vehicles at Chattanooga's International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum remind us that in America's love affair with the auto, the humble tow truck has been the car's faithful attendant...
...trigger-happy response of the people speaks to one of two possible trends. The first is a national tendency toward the (melo) dramatic that has overtaken our public culture. Why believe that two men in a rented truck are going about their business if you can instead imagine that they are dangerous terrorists on a secret mission to destroy American society and that you are the savvy by-stander who saw the truth and averted national disaster...
...second, more disturbing issue is a pervasive sense of fear that has overtaken our everyday lives. In the wake of national tragedies and terrorist scares, it no longer seems unreasonable to see terrorists lurking inside every U-Haul truck. The most lasting legacy of the Oklahoma bombing and last summer's TWA explosion over the New York skyline is a deep feeling of vulnerability and a heightened desire for caution. In this environment, every suspicious person is a threat and every credible threat must be dealt with seriously...