"I wondered why McVeigh was caught within hours and then wanted the death penalty and the govt agreed after a little kabuki"
So Tim McVeigh was the name of the bomber? That's strange, 'cuz I seem to remember the name was Tom McVey when I read the original script.
The Final Jihad
"Governor Frank Keating's brother, Martin Keating, wrote a manuscript in 1991, roughly four years before the OKC bombing... This manuscript, now a published book, is titled The Final Jihad. In this book, Keating lays out a story of terrorists, based in OKC, who decide to bomb a federal building. Guess what the name of the one of the key 'terrorists' in the book is? Tom McVey. And for the kicker of this fictional work: The terrorists in The Final Jihad are stopped by an Oklahoma highway patrolman for a broken tail light. "