Justice Brandeis ' opinion was quoted by Timothy McVeigh at his trial for the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

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.

Timothy McVeigh read the novel while awaiting his trial for the Oklahoma City bombing.

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

" McVeigh sold survival items and copies of The Turner Diaries.

* Timothy McVeigh, responsible for the Oklahoma City bombings, was found carrying an envelope containing pages from " The Turner Diaries " after the attack.

The Turner Diaries has also been described as the inspiration for the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, due to the similarity to the book's account of the destruction of a government building in Washington, D. C., and the fact that Timothy McVeigh was an avid reader of The Turner Diaries.

Forensic evidence quickly linked McVeigh and Terry Nichols to the attack ; Nichols was arrested, and within days both were charged.

Michael and Lori Fortier testified against McVeigh and Nichols ; Michael was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to warn the U. S. government, and Lori received immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony.

Specifically, McVeigh arranged the barrels in the shape of a backwards J ; he later said that for pure destructive power, he would have put the barrels on the side of the cargo bay closest to the Murrah Building ; however, such an unevenly distributed load might have broken an axle, flipped the truck over, or at least caused it to lean to one side, which could have drawn attention.

After finishing the truck bomb, the two men separated ; Nichols returned home to Herington and McVeigh with the truck to Junction City.

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.

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 experimented with cannabis and methamphetamine, after first researching their effects in an encyclopedia ; but he was not as interested in drugs as Fortier.

McVeigh defended the practice of owning multiple guns, saying it was like the common practice of keeping an assortment of screwdrivers in one's toolbox ; one needed to be sure of having the right tool for the job.

In between watching coverage of the Waco siege on TV, Nichols and his brother began teaching McVeigh how to make explosives out of readily available materials ; specifically, they combined household chemicals in plastic jugs.

The government's use of CS gas on women and children angered McVeigh ; he had been exposed to the gas as part of his military training and thus was familiar with its effects.

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.

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.

Jail records are also sometimes used ; for instance, after the U. S. Government determined that Timothy McVeigh had perpetrated the Oklahoma City Bombing, he was found in a local jail.

Like McVeigh, incidentally, Kahl was a decorated American soldier ; Kahl earned a Silver Star in the Korean War, and McVeigh a Bronze Star in the first Gulf War – Desert Storm.

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

Additional theories claim the bombing was done by the government to frame the militia movement or to provide the impetus for new antiterrorism legislation while using McVeigh as a scapegoat.

It is claimed that while visiting friends in Decker, Michigan, McVeigh complained that the Army had implanted a microchip into his buttocks so that the government could keep track of him.

Shortly after the bombing, while driving on I-35 in Noble County, near Perry, Oklahoma, McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma State Trooper Charles J. Hanger from Pawnee, Oklahoma.

" Three days later, while still in jail, McVeigh was identified as the subject of the nationwide manhunt.

McVeigh was a registered Republican when he lived in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, and had a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military, but voted for Libertarian Party candidate, Harry Browne, in the 1996 presidential elections.

Indeed for a while David Wright cohabitated with Kathleen McVeigh, a Catholic from Garvagh.

In a 2007 affidavit, Nichols claimed that in 1992 McVeigh claimed to have been recruited for undercover missions while serving in the military.

Nichols claimed that he and McVeigh had learned how to make the bomb from individuals they met while attending gun shows.

In 1988 Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier ( the Oklahoma City bombing conspirators ) met while in training at Ft Benning.

Two more women in Kansas reported that McVeigh and Brescia were frequent associates, while Guthrie bore a distinct physical resemblance to " John Doe Number Two ".

: Ballymoney Primary's principal is Mr. G. McVeigh, while the vice principal is Mrs. Herron.

On April 19, 2010, a two hour special, the " McVeigh Tapes ", narrated by Rachel Maddow, was aired by MSNBC which was based on 45 hours of the interviews that Michel conducted with McVeigh while he was in prison.

The part most relevant to the McVeigh case is in an early chapter, when the book's main character is placed in charge of bombing the FBI headquarters.

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

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.

For his home address, McVeigh falsely claimed he resided at Terry Nichols ' brother James ' house in Michigan.

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

McVeigh claimed to have been a target of bullying at school and that he took refuge in a fantasy world where he imagined retaliating against those bullies.

According to Michel and Herbeck, McVeigh claimed not to have known there was a daycare center in the Murrah Building and said that if he had known it, in his own words:

McVeigh claimed that the bombing was revenge for " what the U. S. government did at Waco and Ruby Ridge.

In a 1, 200-word essay dated March 1998, from the federal maximum-security prison at Florence, Colo., McVeigh claimed that the terrorist bombing was “ morally equivalent ” to U. S. military actions against Iraq and other foreign lands.

Bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh claimed he bombed the building in retaliation for the 1993 Waco massacre.

In 2008 McVeigh suffered an injury which sidelined him for almost half the season, nevertheless he claimed 13 Brownlow votes to his name in only 14 games, no doubt he would have finished in the top 10 if he had not suffered an injury.