Word: truckful
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Frank has only hazy memories of the year the bottom fell out. His father was hospitalized, losing his job as a mechanic and forcing Ida to go on welfare. Delno regained his health but never his economic footing. For a while he picked beans at a truck farm on the city outskirts, making little money but guaranteeing that the family would have at least one thing on the table at suppertime. The Raines family ate beans so often "I'm amazed I can still eat them," Frank says now. Ultimately, Delno, who died last August, supervised a maintenance crew...
...last week's filing of a brief that gives a new, comprehensive description of the witnesses the government plans to call. In much more detail than an account back in 1995, the brief describes the witnesses' confusion about the man they said accompanied McVeigh when he rented a Ryder truck--the infamous John Doe No. 2. The disclosure calls into question the reliability of these crucial witnesses...
...with the interviews it has conducted. Last week accusations based on these interviews were leaked to the press. Lab personnel were quoted as saying that McVeigh's black jeans were stuffed in a brown paper sack instead of a sealed, plastic evidence bag and that a shipment of bomb-truck fragments arrived in a "mess." But these raw interviews may not become part of the report, because some of the complaints have been refuted...
Prosecutors say Eldon Elliott, owner of Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City, Kansas, will testify that a man calling himself Robert Kling and fitting the description of McVeigh came into his shop on April 15, 1995--four days before the bombing--to pay for a truck he reserved the day before. On April 17, "Kling" returned and spoke with Elliott, Tom Kessinger, a mechanic, and another employee, Vicki Beemer. Kessinger told the FBI "Kling" was accompanied by a heavyset, dark-haired, brown-eyed young man wearing a baseball cap with a blue-and-white zigzag pattern. Kessinger said...
...weeks the FBI hunted John Doe No. 2. Then, in May, they interviewed Todd Bunting, an Army private whose name appeared on the agency's records of people who rented trucks in April. On April 18 Bunting went to Elliott's along with Army Sergeant Michael Hertig. When FBI agents located Bunting in Fort Riley, Kansas, they found he fit the description of John Doe No. 2. According to the brief, when he rented the truck he was wearing a Carolina Panthers hat with a blue-and-white pattern, and he even has a tattoo on his left...