Posted on 04/13/2015 10:17:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Twenty years ago, on 19 April 1995, a disaffected veteran named Timothy McVeigh drove a Ryder truck stuffed with explosives into downtown Oklahoma City and destroyed a federal office building, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and maiming hundreds of others. That much we know.
We also know that, within 90 minutes of the bombing, McVeigh was pulled over near the Kansas border and arrested, alone, at the wheel of a glaringly improbable getaway car, an ancient, spluttering rust bucket of a Mercury sedan with no licence plates, which made him a sitting duck for any passing highway patrolman.
How could such a callous, carefully planned attack have come to such an incongruously slapdash end? After a vast investigation headed by the FBI, three trials mounted against McVeigh and his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, and an avalanche of court documents, there is still no definitive answer to that question.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the Oklahoma City bombing – by far the most destructive act perpetrated by a home-grown assailant against fellow Americans – is not how much we’ve learned over the past 20 years but rather how much we still do not know.
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You may already know it but he was zotted from FR many years ago. Great poster! He was tearing this story wide open along with Jayna Davis' work.
Four years isn’t exactly ‘shortly’ and did they give him lung cancer?
And yes, OKCSub was all over the story...
Timothy McVeigh has about as much to do with the OKC bombing as Lee H. Oswald had to do with the Kennedy assassination. Little or nothing.
Oswald was murdered by a private citizen?
Bwahaahaahaahaahaa!
Oswald was assassinated precisely because he had absolutely nothing to do with the assassination of JFK.
Are truthers of any variety banned on FR?
I.e., Waco, OKC, 9/11, ISIS?
I think you’ll be OK.
Timothy McVeigh waived all his appeals.
I vaguely remember that happening, but remember he had a lot of info about it.
Why did he get banned?
IIRC, he was stopped for a missing rear license plate—the reason being, it was blown away by the explosion.
I never heard why.
Your history is lacking. Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, a strip club owner. And the case proving that Oswald shot JFK is overwhelming.
Except that there's no evidence of that, and the evidence is quite compelling that it was a spur of the moment act.
From a little research:
The FBI initially stated that they thought the license plate had blown off/been loosened by the explosion and asked for help searching for it. But the prosecutor in his closing argument stated that the evidence showed that McVeigh had removed it before the explosion.
Apparently the plate came from another car that McVeigh had owned, which broke down.
The car was parked far enough away that the explosion would not have blown parts off of it.
McVeigh's motivation for removing the plate may have just been to prevent anyone from tracking the origin of the car while it was parked in Oklahoma City for several days. He may have figured that after the explosion the police would be headed in the opposite direction. But since it was not a reliable vehicle, making a getaway doesn't seem to have been a top concern.
Why was he zotted? I loved reading his posts...
Ed
I have no idea.
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