In a 2006 letter requesting that a judge give his son a light sentence for assault with a deadly weapon, battery of a police officer, and possession of a stolen vehicle, Nichols admitted his participation in the Oklahoma City bombing but said that McVeigh had forced and intimidated him into cooperating.

In the same affidavit, Nichols admitted that he and McVeigh stole eight cases of the gel type explosive Tovex from a Marion, Kansas quarry, some of which was later used in the Oklahoma City truck bomb.

He admitted that he had helped McVeigh mix the bomb ingredients in the truck the day before the attack, but he denied that he knew the exact target of the bomb.

After booking McVeigh, Hanger searched his police car and found a business card McVeigh had hidden while he was handcuffed.

As an investigative reporter for the newspaper, Kennedy obtained the first interview with the officer who arrested Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh and broke numerous other health care and metropolitan area stories.

That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.

McVeigh, an American militia movement sympathizer who was a Gulf War veteran, had detonated an explosive-filled Ryder truck parked in front of the building.

As he drove toward the Murrah Federal Building in the Ryder truck, McVeigh carried with him an envelope containing pages from The Turner Diaries — a fictional account of white supremacists who ignite a revolution by blowing up the FBI headquarters at 9: 15 one morning using a truck bomb.

McVeigh was also identified by Lea McGown of the Dreamland Motel, who remembered him parking a large yellow Ryder truck in the lot ; McVeigh had signed in under his real name at the motel, using an address that matched the one on his forged license and the charge sheet at the Perry Police Station.

" Several witnesses claimed to have seen a second suspect, who did not resemble Nichols, with McVeigh.

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.

Those who expressed sympathy for McVeigh typically described his deed as an act of war, as in the case of Gore Vidal's essay The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh.

Timothy James " Tim " McVeigh ( April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001 ) was an American domestic terrorist who detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

Most who knew McVeigh remember him as being withdrawn, with a few describing him as an outgoing and playful child who withdrew as an adolescent.

McVeigh was reprimanded by the military for purchasing a " White Power " T-shirt at a Ku Klux Klan protest against black servicemen who wore what he viewed as " Black Power " T-shirts around the army base.

McVeigh later said he considered " a campaign of individual assassination ," with " eligible " targets including Attorney-General Janet Reno, Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. of Federal District Court, who handled the Branch Davidian trial, and Lon Horiuchi, a member of the FBI hostage-rescue team who shot and killed Vicki Weaver in a standoff at a remote cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992.

Domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, who pleaded guilty to the Oklahoma City bombing, was a native of Pendleton.

Stephen Jones, the trial attorney who first represented McVeigh, cited evidence of a meeting in Davao City, Mindanao, in 1992 or 1993, in which 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, al-Qaeda members Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah, and a " farmer " fitting Nichols's description met to discuss the Oklahoma bombing.

In the fall of 1993, Nichols and McVeigh, who were living at the farm, became business partners, selling weapons and military surplus at gun shows.

McVeigh and Nichols also robbed an Arkansas gun dealer who had befriended them at various gun shows.

McVeigh remarked about Nichols's and Fortier's partial withdrawal from the plot, saying they " were men who liked to talk tough, but in the end their bitches and kids ruled.

The defense attempted to cast doubt on the case against Nichols by calling witnesses who said they saw other men with McVeigh before the bombing and by claiming the government had manipulated the evidence against Nichols.

In their concluding argument, the defense said, " People who are still unknown assisted Timothy McVeigh.

The defense argued that Nichols had been controlled by a " dominant, manipulative " McVeigh and urged jurors not to be persuaded by the " flood of tears " of the victims who testified.

While in high school, McVeigh became interested in computers and hacked into government computer systems on his Commodore 64, under a handle – " The Wanderer " – borrowed from the song by Dion DiMucci.

The U. S. Department of Justice brought federal charges against McVeigh for causing the deaths of eight federal officers leading to a possible death penalty for McVeigh ; it could not bring charges against McVeigh for the remaining 160 murders in federal court because those deaths fell under the jurisdiction of the state of Oklahoma.

Pierce gained international public attention following the Oklahoma City bombing, as Timothy McVeigh was alleged to have been influenced by The Turner Diaries ( 1978 ), the novel written by Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

In 2001, Timothy McVeigh was executed for the murder of eight federal law enforcement agents under this title.

After the Oklahoma City bombing it was reported that Timothy McVeigh had taken out a classified advertisement in The Spotlight in August 1993 under the name " T. Tuttle " and had used a telephone card purchased from the newspaper.

An episode of American TV series The West Wing's first season, Take This Sabbath Day, deals with the imminent execution of drug lord and murderer Simon Cruz, likewise sentenced under the " Drug Kingpin " Act and to be executed by injection at Terre Haute ( for killing two individuals in Michigan ), who is described as the first individual to be executed by federal authorities since 1963 ( probably alluding to the case of Victor Feguer, who would have been the last before Garza, had not Timothy McVeigh been executed eight days earlier ).

McVeigh got very few opportunities under Grant and was loaned out to Burnley for the last few months of the season where he scored 3 goals helping them to survive in the championship.

McVeigh had previously visited Moore's ranch, but doubts have been raised about Nichols and McVeigh's involvement in the robbery for several reasons.

McVeigh wrote a letter to Moore in which he claimed that the robbery had been committed by government agents.

In October 1994, McVeigh showed Michael Fortier and his wife, Lori, a diagram he had drawn of the bomb he wanted to build.

McVeigh had originally intended to use hydrazine rocket fuel, but it proved to be too expensive.

McVeigh rented a storage space, in which he stockpiled seven crates of 18-inch-long Tovex sausages, 80 spools of shock tube, and 500 electric blasting caps, which he and Nichols had stolen from a Martin Marietta Aggregates quarry in Marion, Kansas.

" Underneath, McVeigh had scrawled, " Maybe now, there will be liberty!

Before signing his real name at the motel, McVeigh had used false names for his transactions.

FBI investigators used the resulting information gained, along with the fake address McVeigh had been using, to begin their search for the Nichols brothers, Terry and James.

McVeigh later stated that he was unaware of the day-care center when choosing the building as a target, and if he had known "... it might have given me pause to switch targets.

McVeigh, he said, had developed a hatred of the government during his time in the army, after reading The Turner Diaries.

Both Fortiers testified that McVeigh had told them of his plans to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

Michael revealed that McVeigh had chosen the date, and Lori testified that she created the false identification card McVeigh used to rent the Ryder truck.

In addition to arguing that the bombing could not have been carried out by two men alone, Jones also attempted to create reasonable doubt by arguing that no one had seen McVeigh near the scene of the crime, and that the investigation into the bombing had lasted only two weeks.

In addition to Michael assisting McVeigh in scouting the federal building, Lori had helped McVeigh laminate a fake driver's license which was later used to rent the Ryder truck.

McVeigh had indeed contemplated the assassinations of Attorney General Janet Reno, Lon Horiuchi, and others in preference to attacking a building, and after the bombing he said that he sometimes wished he had carried out a series of assassinations instead.