Beyond weird. I live here, and never heard a word about it. Makes one wonder what else isn’t being told. The program hosted by Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, 20/20 broadcast a very compelling episode about the OKC bombing a few years after the incident. I believe Tom Jarriel was the reporter. It was fascinating with claims of missing logs from the fire department, a recording of a city staff meeting across the street that recorded two explosions, I think there was a recording by local a news station about a government official (can't remember who) who claimed there was an unexploded bomb in the building, ... etc. During the final discussion of the episode, all three joined in their closing discussion that you typically see on the show. Jarriel closed by saying there was too much to squeeze into a single episode so they would continue the story the following week. AND, that if the audience thought the first episode was compelling, "just wait until next week."
Well, that never aired. I ordered a VHS tape of the first episode and watched it again. The final discussion speaking about the upcoming second episode was removed and a totally different discussion was recorded on the tape. Also, the producer that had worked for 20/20 for years, I think the name was Rodriguez was fired by ABC.
Wow, I did some poking around to confirm some of the info in this post and found this ...
In February of '97, ABC planned a follow-up to their 20/20 "Prior Knowledge" piece, which included an interview with ATF informant Carol Howe. Hours before the piece was to air on "World News Tonight,"
it was killed.
According to ABC producer Roger Charles: "They were uncomfortable with it after a series of phone calls from high-level Justice Department and ATF people, saying that well, yes, the story is right, but you're going to draw the wrong conclusions unless we can explain it." According to an interview with ABC conducted by McVeigh's defense team, the conversation went something like this:
This is the first evidence I have ever found that corroborates what I have said for years - that ABC killed the second episode. There is much more at this link that fills in the details involving OKC and Carol Howe that was part of the missing episode.
https://archive.org/stream/OklahomaCityBombingAndThePoliticsOfTerror/Oklahoma-city-bombing-and-the-politics-of-terror-david-hoffman-1998-domesticTerrorismMcveighOklahoma_djvu.txt I know this is old, but I think this is very important.