OKC Bombing -- still with us
"I didn't want to knit anymore. I had just lost my joy," said Salyers, who fell five stories after the bombing and was discovered under a pile of rubble. "But if I didn't grab back on to what I love, they may as well have killed me." Some of her colleagues at the U.S. Customs Office on the fifth floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building recovered a basket of yarn, covered with debris, and returned it to her. Salyers said she became motivated to return to knitting after learning that other survivors had similar experiences — one man who lost a daughter and a grandson who no longer enjoyed woodworking and a woman who couldn't start sewing again. She finally used the yarn to craft a sweater with 168 stars, one for each victim of the April 19, 1995, blast... The "First Person: Stories of Hope" lecture series will continue every Friday during the summer at the museum.
A judge has denied a request by Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols for a court-appointed lawyer to help him with a lawsuit over prison food.
There are many problems with the official story of the bombing ... no plausible explanation of how he traveled the mile and a quarter from McDonald's to the rental agency, carless and alone as he claims, without getting soaked in the rain. ... took 44 days for the FBI to convince the car rental agency owner that John Doe 1 was Timothy McVeigh ... what was the Army doing with a Ryder Truck just before the Murrah blast? ... [Report:] the second explosive was found and defused. ... men in suits and ties were literally stepping over the wounded in their haste to gather up files and certain other items in the debris. ... taping plastic sheeting over portions of the building wreckage!
Despite Timothy McVeigh's guilty verdict, numerous unanswered questions about the murderous Oklahoma City bombing remain. Indeed, there are so many unanswered questions, it is amazing that the prosecution was able to secure a conviction at all. So pull up a front-row seat for the McVeigh lynching, folks, and contemplate a few of the contradictions in the official account of the OKC bombing before it all gets flushed down the memory hole. If this list doesn't make you paranoid, you must be one of them!
A lot of conspiracy theories have circulated around the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, not all of them consistent with one another, some of them plausible, none of them proven. Although I have no specific theories of my own, I've had the suspicion from the start that someone in the federal government had advanced knowledge that something nasty was going to happen in Oklahoma City that day. As to the details, I am as much in the dark as anyone who wasn't there. Compounding the matter is the fact that — so far, anyway — McVeigh himself isn't talking. He seems to have dismissed all conspiracy theories and reports of "John Doe No. 2's" with the remark in a recent interview that "You can't handle the truth. And the truth is that it is pretty scary that one guy can do this all alone."
A variety of conspiracy theories have been proposed regarding the Oklahoma City bombing. These theories reject all or part of the official government report. Some of these theories focus on the possibility of additional, unindicted co-conspirators or additional explosives planted inside the Murrah Federal building. Other theories allege that government employees and officials, including US President Bill Clinton, knew of the impending bombing and intentionally failed to act on that knowledge. Government investigations have been opened at various times to look into the theories.
This documentary examines eyewitness accounts and news media reports documenting the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. Included with this presentation is a video affidavit of bombing survior Jane C. Graham and her sightings of strange individuals in the building prior to the tragic event. [video]
A federal judge has denied Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols' request for a special diet. Nichols had asked for a court order to force prison officials to provide him with a high fiber diet that includes raw vegetables.
the Obama administration's attempt to justify a controversial "right-wing extremism" report by citing Timothy McVeigh, a counter-terrorism group has posted a video statement by a prominent Democrat investigator who contends the Oklahoma City bomb plot was hatched not by right-wingers but by Islamic jihadists.
Henry said he hopes his choice of the memorial will be approved by federal officials and that the design will include the Survivor Tree. "The Survivor Tree really is the symbol of this place that's so powerful and moving and sad and uplifting at the same time," the governor said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. "This (is a) symbol of that Oklahoma standard — the courage, the kindness, the compassion, the charity that rose up above the evil of April 19, 1995. I think it really does depict the resilience."
The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum already means so much to so many people and the entire nation will soon have another reminder of what it stands for. Governor Brad Henry announced Thursday that the memorial has been chosen to represent the state on a special quarter.
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