nichols. we got him. two years and 44 days after the worst terrorist attack on united states soil, a verdict has been rendered in the bombing trial of timothy mcveigh. on june 2nd, 1997, timothy mcveigh is found guilty on all 11 counts of murder and conspiracy. he is sentenced to death. outside the courthouse in denver, tears, smiles, and all emotions in between. later that year, on december 24th, terry nichols is also convicted. he is currently serving life at the federal supermax prison in colorado. for cooperating, michael fortier receives a 12-year sentence. he is now part of the witness protection program. people are going to remember timothy mcveigh as a murderer. not a martyr. on june 11th, 2001, timothy mcveigh is put to death at the federal correctional complex in
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elohim city? timothy mcveigh made calls to elohim city. he drove near the area, we know, but beyond that, any connection to elohim city or the notion there were others involved is speculation heaped on top of speculation. even assuming others were involved, why would mcveigh so strongly insist that he acted alone with help only from nichols and fortier? he believed that in lying, he would protect the others, so they wouldn t be convicted. and he spun a series of lies to shield the others. i think it s possible that there were other people that helped along the way, but did not know they were helping with the bombing. but i believe the ones that actually knew what they were working on were the three men that were punished by the government. mcveigh, fortier, and
not abandoned. please do not tow. will remove by april 23rd. needs battery and cable. two days later, mcveigh and nichols rendezvous where they assemble the bomb in the truck. the ammonia nitrate would have been mixed in barrels, something kin to a 5-gallon plastic barrel. the barrels were then likely connected with the detonating cord that led to boosters and that detonating cord would come together where the caps were. but at the last minute, terry nichols, like michael fortee, bails out. as time grew near to the time of the bombing, nichols got cold feet. he decided he didn t want to do that and decided that he was
rental company. known as john doe number two, the description did not fit 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 was on a different day. he had been there on a different day with a friend who had rented a ryder truck. so we realized, it was a misidentification of people chance posing 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 bonl bombing, in my view, is that this was something that