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 d been in there with a friend that had rented a ryder truck. so we now realize it was a misidentification of people transposing two different events and putting two different occurrences together. mcveigh 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 is 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 elohim city, a so-called christian identity community in northeastern oklahoma, about 170 miles from oklahoma city near the arkans
been close friends with mcveigh since they served together in the army. like mcveigh, nichols is known to harbor anti-government views. terry nichols, just four 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 nichols 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. the search for bodies will last for two full weeks. most of the survivors wanted to go to most of the funerals, and that s tough going to 16 funerals, let me tell you. that was really hard, but we needed to do it. two women are believed to be still in the building with an elderly man.
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colorado. the prosecution presents first and lays out a timeline of events that led up to the bombing. by mid-1994, mcveigh and nichols, along with their army friend michael fortier, were ready to put their plan into action. mcveigh decided the most effective weapon would be a truck bomb. in september 1994, mcveigh and nichols begin stockpiling ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer often used in truck bombs. you combine the ammonium nitrate, the oxidizer with the fuel and you have an explosive mixture. it s cheap, readily available and not particularly complicated to make. over the next few months, the two men start quietly gathering more components, including racing fuel, explosive charges, and 544 blasting caps they steal
terrifying days in american history. this is just devastating. smoke and debris and fire on the ground. there are numerous injuries. the human toll is overwhelming. 168 people killed. at least 650 injured. among the dead are 19 children. there is very little hope for those that are left in that building. the oklahoma city bombing will go down in history as one of those elemental moments that people will remember where they were at the time. this is the grisly, meticulous search effort to find bodies. less than 90 minutes after the blast, about 75 miles north of oklahoma city, state trooper charlie hanger stops a 1977 mercury marquis for not having a license plate. the driver of the car is one timothy james mcveigh. when he got out of the car, he looked like a clean-cut young man, military-type appearance. he had a short haircut and had a light windbreaker jacket on zipped up at the bottom. as he removed the billfold, that jacket tightened up, and i saw a bulge that appear