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22 October 2002
The Oklahoma City Bombing
The images of lifeless bodies are forever burned into damaged minds. ... The Oklahoma City Bombing was a successful act of terrorism. ... , just after trustworthy parents dropped their children off at day care in the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, the unthinkable happened. ...
Sixty miles away, near Perry, Oklahoma, Highway State Policeman, Charles Hanger, was making his usual rounds. ...
Back in Oklahoma City, investigators were searching the area for clues that could lead them to the perpetrators. ... They found a piece of axle and a license plate, which was believed to have been part of the truck used in the bombing. ... A check with the agency revealed that the 1993 Ford was rented out of Elliott’s Body Shop in Junction City, Kansas. ... When McVeigh’s ex-Army buddy, Terry Nichols, discovered that he, too, was wanted for questioning, he voluntarily surrendered to police in Herington, Kansas, and was later charged in the bombing. ... The Oklahoma City Bombing occurred on the second anniversary of the fire that destroyed the Branch Davidian complex (Clark, 17).
In light of the arrests of the American suspects, many observers moved from earlier speculations on what organization or persons could have committed the bombing and reflections on U. ...
When the trials were supposed to be held, defense lawyers in the Oklahoma City bombing case agreed to drop Lawton, Oklahoma as potential site for the murder, conspiracy and terrorism trial. ... The attorneys said that was the kind of pretrial publicity that would make it impossible to find an unbiased jury in Oklahoma. ... Just three and a half days after starting McVeigh’s defense rested in the Oklahoma City bombing trial. ... In Time, Oklahoma City criminal attorney, Richard Matsch, explained, “I don’t see why they’ve damaged the government at all” (Coatney, 36). ...
Despite their argument, McVeigh and Nichols were found guilty in the bombing. ...
McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy for the bombing of the Alfred P. ... Attorney General John Ashcroft said survivors and relatives of the Oklahoma City bombing victims would be allowed to view Timothy McVeigh’s execution on closed-circuit television. ... ” Ashcroft added:
The Oklahoma City survivors may be the largest group of crime victims in our history. ... The execution was should live via closed-circuit television to a group of several hundred survivors and victims’ family members gathered in Oklahoma City (Reaves, Who Has the Right to Watch McVeigh Die? ...
Just six days before McVeigh was scheduled to be executed for his role in the bombing, the FBI announced that it had discovered more than 3,000 documents that were not turned over to McVeigh’s defense team during the trial. ... ” If he had a soul, he never acknowledged it, and on this morning, six years after the terrible bombing, the victims of his crime finally felt that fate had reckoned with their loss. ...
According to John Brady in his issue of Bad Subjects, Get out of My Backyard:
It is important for the left to emphasize this aspect of the bombing, not simply because it is the element least likely to appear in public discussions, but also because the focus on the state has traditionally been central to leftist politics.
Approximate Word count = 2452
Approximate Pages = 9.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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