but they still have not identified john doe number two. john doe number two, if the fbi can t find him, does he exist? fbi chief louis bree sent this message, there is no place on earth where you will be safe. the michigan address on mcveigh s driver s license is the home of a man named james nickels. it s a critical development. nickels brother terry has been close friend s with mcveigh since they served together in the army. like mcveigh, nickles is known to harbor anti-government views. nickles days before the blast took out a new insurance policy on his pickup truck. an arrest warrant is quickly issued and later that same day nickles turns himself in. by now, the rescue operation at the murrah building has become a recovery effort. authorities in this building behind me are coming across more bodies.
in his distorted view, his actions were a response to violence perpetrated to the government by his people. defense attorney steven jones knew a necessity case was unwinnable so he chose a different course, arguing that mcveigh was only part of a much larger conspiracy. the greatest mystery of the oklahoma city bombing case is who else, besides tim mcveigh, terry nickels and michael fortier were involved because there were most assuredly others. there was a man reportedly seen with mcveigh at the truck rental company. known as john doe number two, the description did not fit nickles or michael fortier. they concluded he didn t exist. the gentleman fit john doe
you murderer! when mcveigh is transported to oklahoma city, he is met by an angry crowd and screams of baby killer. we re hoping that it wasn t an american. it s hard to believe americans blowing up americans. it just boggled my mind. what tim mcveigh did was the worst act of domestic terrorism in american history. the entire country was shocked and riveted that somebody could come from white bread suburbia and commit such a hell ashs act. it s strange to think that she ll grow up in this is scary. investigators are certain that mcveigh is the john doe number one in the police sketch, but they still have not identified john doe number two.
been in there that generally fit the description of john doe number two, but it turned out it had been on a different day. he had been in there with a friend that had rented a ryder truck, so we now realized that it was a misidentification of people transposing two different events and putting two different occurrences together. they swore to us over and over again that there was no john doe number two. no one was with him on the day of the bombing. the biggest misconception out there about the oklahoma city bombing in my view is this was something that sprang from the brain of timothy mcveigh, was masterminded by timothy mcveigh and substantially carried out by timothy mcveigh with a little bit of help from terry nichols. if there were other people involved with the bombing, who were they? some believe there may have been a connection between mcveigh and elehim city, a christian identity community in oklahoma about 170 miles from oklahoma city near the arkansas border.
violence perpetrated by the government against his own people. but defense attorney steven jones knew a necessity case was unwinnable, so he choose a different course. arguing that mcveigh was only part of a much larger conspiracy. the greatest mystery is who else besides tim mcveigh, terry nichols, and michael fortier that were involved because they were most assuredly others. most of it centered on the man known as john doe number two, the description did not fit either terry nichols or michael fortier. investigators concluded that john doe number two never existed. we found a gentleman that had been in there that generally fit the description of john doe number two, but it turned out it had been on a different day.