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Misc. information about John Doe 2 and which witnesses helped with the sketches:

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THE SUNDAY OKLAHOMAN
August 10, 1997, Sunday
NEWS; Pg. 1

Some Witnesses Leery Of Bombing Grand Jury
This story was written from reports by staff writers Judy Kuhlman, Diana Baldwin and Ed Godfrey.

(snip - lots of information about how the witnesses are afraid to testify.)
[Debbie] Nakanashi was a postal clerk stationed at the post office on Fifth Street when the bombing occurred. Unlike other witnesses, she is anxious to testify before the grand jury.

She said two days before the bombing, McVeigh and another man entered the post office and asked where to go to fill out a federal job application. She pointed out the Murrah Building.

As they were leaving, McVeigh said something to his companion and laughed, Nakanashi said.

"Well, I know now he said, We almost blew up the wrong building' or something of that nature. Of course, I didn't hear any of that."

She said she was first interviewed by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and then frequently by the FBI in the months following the bombing.

"I met always with two men, always a different set of men, four, five, six times. I picked McVeigh out of a photo lineup, but I did admit I had seen him on television.

"Then they asked about John Doe No. 2, the guy I spoke with. I told them the guy they had a composite sketch of was not my guy at all."

Nakanashi said the FBI later released a sketch of suspect John Doe 2 based on her description.

"My John Doe No. 2 was the second sketch with the side view with the high cheek bones - that is my guy, the guy I saw."

She described John Doe 2 as being in charge of McVeigh that day.
"That is the man they need to catch and try for the murder of those people. I don't feel like McVeigh was the mastermind of this at all. This guy was the guy with authority. He was the one in command of that particular situation."

Nakanashi said the FBI dismissed her story.

"It got dropped and nothing more was said. ... I would love to go before the grand jury so I could tell this once and for all to a group of people who I feel like would at least be interested to listen to me."

FBI agents dismissed her account because of photos and other evidence proving McVeigh was in Kansas two days before the bombing. Also, agents have testified that the sketches of John Doe No. 2 were solely based on the recollection of a mechanic, who now thinks he described an innocent Army private renting a different Ryder truck.
[Tom] Kessinger, the former mechanic at Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City where McVeigh rented the Ryder truck, testified at a pretrial hearing in Denver. Kessinger testified a second man was with McVeigh when the truck was picked up April 17, 1995.

Kessinger provided the descriptions that led the FBI to release three sketches of suspect John Doe 2. He has since admitted he made a mistake and was actually describing Army Priv. Todd Bunting, who was helping a friend rent a truck one day later, April 18, 1995.

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[Rodney] Johnson told reporters in June during the closed-circuit trial telecast at the Federal Aviation Administration center that he saw McVeigh with another man the day of the bombing.

"I kept my mouth shut for two years," Johnson said at the time. "He (John Doe 2) was dark-skinned, shorter, probably about 5-8 and maybe 160 pounds. He was wearing blue jogger pants with a stripe across the side. He had slicked-black hair."
Johnson, who was driving a catering truck in Oklahoma City in 1995, said he had to brake to miss the two men who were running from the Murrah Building into the parking lot across the street.

"They were in a fast march, in step, one behind the other," he said.