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...rests his case early this week, Hartzler will be able to look back on a prosecution that has performed almost without flaw. McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier, the government's key witness, testified convincingly that McVeigh planned the bombing; the witness who says he rented McVeigh the Ryder truck used in the bombing identified him without hesitation; the technical testimony has been pithy. There have also been some surprises--like the ignition key to the truck that was found near the spot where McVeigh allegedly stashed his getaway car. All the while, the prosecutors have created drama and pathos...
Fortier's testimony provided details about McVeigh's preparations that had never been heard before. He said, for example, that when he and McVeigh traveled to Oklahoma City from Arizona in December 1994 to case the Murrah building, McVeigh saw a Ryder truck on the road, pointed at it and said it was the kind of truck he wanted to use in the bombing. Fortier also said that McVeigh considered a suicide mission, driving the truck into the building and remaining at the wheel when it exploded. Then came the strangest moment of the trial, when Fortier remarked...
...other people close to McVeigh testified for the prosecution. One was Lori Fortier, Michael's wife, who described how McVeigh used soup cans to illustrate how he would arrange the barrels of explosives in the truck. She also testified that she helped make a false driver's license for McVeigh in the name of Robert Kling, the name the prosecution says McVeigh used when he rented the Ryder truck. McVeigh's sister Jennifer corroborated the accounts of other witnesses who said that McVeigh harbored a deep hatred of the Federal Government and believed it had not atoned...
...other key testimony, Eldon Elliott, the owner of Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City, Kans., pointed out McVeigh as the man who rented the Ryder truck from him. Dealers in fertilizer, racing fuel and other possible ingredients in the bomb testified that McVeigh had approached them trying to buy these products in very large quantities. Finally, Eric McGown, who worked at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, the place McVeigh stayed in the days before the bombing, testified that he had seen McVeigh in a Ryder truck in the motel's parking...
Jones had his best moments cross-examining McGown. The truck was picked up on April 17, 1995, but McGown could not remember whether he had seen it that day or the day before, Easter Sunday. Obviously, if McGown saw the truck on April 16, it could not have been the same truck McVeigh is said to have rented. Nineteen years old, McGown became incoherent and stammered as Jones bore...