[ml/nj]

There are a couple of loose ends for me still. One concerns Jayna Davis herself. I heard, and have a recording of, Davis and Senator Specter on some Philadelphia talk show where Davis talked about specific details of the OkCity bombing that Specter could only profess ignorance and shock about. He repeatedly said that he would look into the things Davis was talking about and get back to her, and probably the talk show host too. The recording I made came from Davis' website. But for a long time now that audio is no longer available. There never was any of the promised Specter follow-up that I am aware of. Davis has said nothing that I know of about it either. It just fell into a memory hole.

Another thing that did draw some commentary was the weirdness of the way McVeigh was picked up. He was stopped for driving on a highway away from OkCity in a car without a license plate. He was arrested and incarcerated for more than 24 hours when someone apparently thought to ask him about the OkCity bombing. The license plate supposedly fell off his car because of the explosion, but the car was otherwise okay to drive. I guess none of this passes my smell test, but license plates just do not fall off cars. They don't.

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[okie01]

I guess none of this passes my smell test, but license plates just do not fall off cars. They don't.

My recollection is that the plate was wired on. And I don't recall any claim that the explosion caused it to fall off. Instead, it just "fell off" somewhere, probably along I-35 -- as wired on plates are prone to do.

[rlmorel]

I just finished reading the book. It is difficult to imagine, but she got the cold shoulder everywhere she went. The Rat Specter and Burton are two who couldn’t have been bothered.

The FBI called her “The Baby With The Loaded Gun”. It is hard to read that book and not be completely convinced. I sure am. She wasn’t a fruitcake, she was an established reporter who put her career and yes, her life on the line to try to tell the story.

She deserves better than she has got. That whole affair stinks to high heaven.

[metesky]

McVeigh also was said to have a loaded and cocked 9mm pistola on the car seat next to him. My question has always been why, if he just came from a mass bombing, didn't he take out the trooper who stopped him?