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Michael Fortier, McVeigh's accomplice, was his Army roommate.
McVeigh's criterion for potential attack sites was that the target should house at least two of three federal law-enforcement agencies: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), or the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ).
" The card was later used as evidence during McVeigh's trial.
Investigators discovered incriminating evidence at his home: ammonium nitrate and blasting caps, the electric drill used to drill out the locks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter ( a 1989 novel by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance ) and a hand-drawn map of downtown Oklahoma City, on which was marked the Murrah Building and the spot where McVeigh's getaway car was hidden.
McVeigh's sister Jennifer was accused of illegally mailing bullets to McVeigh, but she was granted immunity in exchange for testifying against him.
In April 2010, Joseph Hartzler, the prosecutor at McVeigh's trial, questioned how he could have decided to pass over a prior target building because of an included florist shop but at the Murrah building not "... notice that there's a child day-care center there, that there was a credit union there and a Social Security office?
McVeigh's execution was the first federal execution in 38 years.
" On the morning of McVeigh's execution a letter was released in which he had written " For those die-hard conspiracy theorists who will refuse to believe this, I turn the tables and say: Show me where I needed anyone else.
One of the reasons they parted ways was McVeigh's boredom with Fortier's drug habits.
McVeigh admitted to the police officer ( who noticed a bulge under his jacket ) that he had a gun and McVeigh was subsequently arrested for having driven without plates and illegal firearm possession ; McVeigh's concealed weapon permit was not legal in Oklahoma.
McVeigh's death sentence was delayed pending an appeal.
McVeigh's request for a nationally televised execution was also denied.
2002 then saw Hird's worst injury, an horrific facial injury sustained in a match against when he collided with teammate Mark McVeigh's knee, breaking or fracturing all but a couple of the bones in his skull ; Hird was in hospital for a week and missed several weeks of the season.
The search turned up blasting caps, detonating cords, ground ammonium nitrate, barrels made of plastic similar to fragments found at the bombing site, 33 firearms, anti-government warfare literature, a receipt for ammonium nitrate fertilizer with McVeigh's fingerprints on it, a telephone credit card that McVeigh had used when he was shopping for bomb making equipment, and a hand-drawn map of downtown Oklahoma City.
Elohim City security director Andreas Strassmeir was a known associate of Timothy McVeigh's ( having met him at a Tulsa gun show ), and federal investigators determined that McVeigh had made a phone call to Elohim City on April 5, 1995, just two weeks prior to the Oklahoma City bombing ( although no one at Elohim City claims to have spoken with him ).
Additionally, five separate women from a nightclub in Tulsa have each identified Brescia as the man who was paying for Tim McVeigh's drinks on April 8, 1995, just three days after McVeigh's suspicious phone call.
In McVeigh's third season however, it was clear that the game had grown on him as he stood up as an up and coming youngster.
The program was criticized as providing a forum for McVeigh to air his viewpoints, and as blunting the effect of McVeigh's cold statements with flashy, computer generated images.

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McVeigh's original plan had been to detonate the bomb at 11: 00 am CST, but at dawn on April 19, 1995, he decided instead to destroy the building at 9: 00 am CST.
Working at a lakeside campground near McVeigh's old Army post, he and Nichols constructed an ANNM explosive device mounted in the back of a rented Ryder truck.
* Timothy McVeigh's Prison Dossier at The Smoking Gun
While at the time the news media paid little attention to Victor Feguer or his execution, Timothy McVeigh's execution sparked renewed media interest in Feguer.
McVeigh's co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, is currently serving a life sentence at ADX.

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McVeigh's co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, had assisted in the bomb preparation.
McVeigh had previously visited Moore's ranch, but doubts have been raised about Nichols and McVeigh's involvement in the robbery for several reasons.
During McVeigh's trial, Lori Fortier ( the wife of Michael Fortier ) stated that McVeigh claimed to have arranged the barrels in order to form a shaped charge.
After an April 21, 1995, court hearing on the gun charges, but before McVeigh's release, federal agents took him into custody as they continued their investigation into the bombing.
McVeigh's requests for a bulletproof vest or transport by helicopter were denied.
Federal agents obtained a warrant to search the house of McVeigh's father, Bill, following which they broke down the door and wired the house and telephone with listening devices.
McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones, filed a motion to delay the demolition until the defense team could examine the site in preparation for the trial.
Opening arguments in McVeigh's trial began on April 24, 1997.
In his opening statement Hartzler outlined McVeigh's motivations, and the evidence against him.
The prosecution called 137 witnesses, including Michael Fortier and his wife Lori, and McVeigh's sister, Jennifer McVeigh, all of whom testified to confirm McVeigh's hatred of the government and his desire to take militant action against it.
" Despite McVeigh's wishes, Jones attempted to discredit the prosecution's case in an attempt to instill reasonable doubt.
In May 2001, the FBI announced that it had withheld over 3, 000 documents from McVeigh's defense counsel.
Although the defense teams in both McVeigh's and Nichols trials suggested that others were involved, Judge Steven W. Taylor found no credible, relevant, or legally admissible evidence, of anyone other than McVeigh and Nichols having directly participated in the bombing.
Even many who agreed with some of McVeigh's politics viewed his act as counterproductive, with much of the criticism focused on the deaths of innocent children ; critics expressed chagrin that McVeigh had not assassinated specific government leaders.
McVeigh's anti-government rhetoric became more radical.

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that he personally had an IQ of 141 and was currently reading the Mushr to Ozon volume of the encyclopedia.
Jensen's most controversial work, published in February 1969 in the Harvard Educational Review, was titled " How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?
" It concluded, among other things, that Head Start programs designed to boost African-American IQ scores had failed, and that this was likely never to be remedied, largely because, in Jensen's estimation, 80 % of the variance in IQ in the population studied was the result of genetic factors and the remainder was due to environmental influences.
On June 3 police interrogated Jessie Misskelley Jr. Misskelley, whose IQ was reported to be 72 ( making him borderline intellectual functioning ), was questioned alone ; his parents were not present during the interrogation.
Ulric Neisser estimates that using the IQ values of today the average IQ of the US in 1932, according to the first Stanford – Binet Intelligence Scales standardization sample, was 80.
The IQ difference between the groups, although only five points, was still present at age 12.
Exposure during the birth year to malaria eradication was associated with increases in IQ.
When modern IQ tests are devised, the mean ( average ) score within an age group is set to 100 and the standard deviation ( SD ) almost always to 15, although this was not always so historically.
g was earlier often subdivided into only Gf and Gc, which were thought to correspond to the nonverbal or performance subtests and verbal subtests in earlier versions of the popular Wechsler IQ test.
Psychologist Peter Schönemann was also a persistent critic of IQ, calling it " the IQ myth ".
The term " idiot " was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.
IQ, or intelligence quotient, was originally determined by dividing a person's mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age.
In addition, his speech was slowed down a bit to keep up with his still almost genius IQ.
The first IQ test was created between 1905 and 1908 and revised in 1916 ( the Stanford – Binet Intelligence Scales ).
45 percent of those surveyed thought that black-white differences in IQ were the product of both genetic and environmental variation, while 15 percent believed that the differences were entirely due to environmental factors ; the rest either declined to answer the question, or thought that there was insufficient evidence to give an answer.
* Cyril Burt was an English educational psychologist who made contributions to educational psychology and statistics. Burt is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ.
( Some had taken an IQ test in high school, and the median correlation of the AFQT and those tests was. 81.

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