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It's frighteningly clear now
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that there is no way
to win the struggle
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in which we are engaged
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without shedding torrents,
veritable rivers of blood.
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It's an endless parade
of the dregs of our society.
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This is your country.
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These are the people
that live next door to you.
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This is what's become
of your country.
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Neutering the Second Amendment
with the assault weapons ban,
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violating the 10th Amendment
with the Brady Bill,
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and slaughtering citizens
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using the ATF
and the FBI Schutzstaffel
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is shredding the Constitution.
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The enemy has many resources
and assets at their disposal.
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The best one
we have here is you.
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- Yeah, now you're on it.
- I don't think so.
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Yeah, the red light's on.
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Does it say "recording" there?
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Every April 19th is bittersweet.
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I remember exactly
what I was doing that morning.
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Who's in that cave?
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What's on my back?
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A raccoon.
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My grandchildren,
Chase and Colton,
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I went in and flipped
the light on in their bedroom,
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and I sang, "Good morning
to you. Good morning to you.
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We're all in our places
with sunshine-y faces.
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What a nice way
to start a new Wednesday."
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And Chase begins to giggle.
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Those are so cute.
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What are you eating, Chase?
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Bye-bye.
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I remember when I left them
at the daycare...
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- Look at his teefers.
- I love you.
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Are we on our way to school?
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... there
in the Federal Building.
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The little donut crumbs
that were on their faces.
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Then, at 9:02...
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It looks like part of the building
has been blown away.
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We'll have to bank around
the other side
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so I can get
a better view of it.
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As the chopper goes around the side
of the Federal Building...
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-Wow.
- Look at that shot.
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- Holy cow.
- It's absolutely incredible.
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The side of the Federal Building
has been blown off.
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Get back!
Get 'em back!
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We got damage and injuries
all up and down Broadway.
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Get them back!
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We need all fire, ambulances
you can get.
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It felt to me
like my skin was burning off.
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It was very hot,
and it was a wind so powerful
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that it felt like
it pinned my hair back.
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I heard a very loud explosion,
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and I noticed a plume of smoke
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coming up
from downtown Oklahoma City.
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So I ran back in the house
and turned on the TV.
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That's where my daughter,
Frankie, works.
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And as we made our way closer
to the building,
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I said, "my daughter is dead".
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I had little hope.
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Because Julie worked
on the first floor.
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And of course the first floor had
more deaths than any other floor.
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April 19th,
my dad had an appointment
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to go down to the Social Security
building that morning.
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I knew my mom
went down with him.
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The news starts to come in,
"There's been a bomb."
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When they said
the Social Security building,
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everything at that moment
just stopped.
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Got two down.
They're unconscious and not moving.
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I need ambulances.
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In the heart of Oklahoma,
in the heart of the capital city,
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a terrible bomb
has been exploded.
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The governor has had a report
that six children were killed
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in a daycare center.
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Got one here!
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In the basement
of the Federal Building,
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there's a children's center.
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We need to get some fire department
officials here as quick as we can.
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I said to my daughter,
I said, "Edye, the babies."
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And we take off running
to the north side of the building,
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and the building's gone.
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My son was
an off-duty police officer.
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He saw his mom and his sister on TV,
he knew something was wrong.
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I looked up at the TV,
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and I saw my mom and my sister
clutching each other,
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and my sister was screaming,
"Where's my babies?"
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My babies were in there!
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Have we got information
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on where they have taken
the children from the daycare?
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I have not been advised.
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Upon arrival at the site, my partner
and I went into the rubble.
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I went to the back side
of the building,
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which would be on the side
of the daycare center.
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They had about 10
to 12 children laid out
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on a piece of concrete slab.
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They were just laid
one next to the other,
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and at the very end
to the right, I found Colton.
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I knew that'd be the last time
I saw my nephew.
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I asked a state law enforcement
officer that was there
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if I could reach down, and hug him,
and kiss him goodbye.
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And he told me, "This is a crime scene.
Do not touch the evidence."
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Of all the sad stories
in Oklahoma City today,
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the most heartbreaking may be
the stories of the children
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who were in the daycare center
when the bomb exploded.
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What is
your overwhelming emotion
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as you face this horrendous tragedy
in your family?
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Those babies were just
like mine, and I loved them.
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And anybody could understand
the loss of a child,
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but to then have to watch
your child grieve
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over the loss of those children,
it's devastating.
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Edye, are you confident that the people
behind this will be caught?
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I don't know. I hope so.
I don't know.
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As a young reporter, I used to cover
Oklahoma City streets.
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Usually, nothing more exciting
than a car crash.
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You know, everyone at NBC News
knew I was an Okie
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because I always bragged about
the fact that I was an Okie.
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So there was no doubt
who they were gonna send.
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When I got to the site
of the Federal Building,
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I thought, "This can't be the place
where I lived, Oklahoma City."
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It reminded me of Beirut.
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It brought back memories
of the Marine barracks,
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and the embassy bombing,
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and other terrorist attacks
that I covered.
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And I said, "This is Oklahoma.
This can't happen here."
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A U.S. government source
has told CBS News
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it has Middle East terrorism
written all over it.
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Everyone was thinking
Arab terrorism
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because there'd been an attempt
to bomb the World Trade Center.
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World Trade Center Bombing
February 26, 1993
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And the bombers,
they were from the Middle East.
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But I went to NBC and said,
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"Let me put together a team
to investigate this."
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The first person I thought
of was Bob Sands.
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I have this friend,
and he had done some work
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for some far right-wing people
in Duncan, Oklahoma.
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So I said, "Just check the boards
and see what the chatter is."
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About an hour later
he called me and said,
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"You're not gonna believe this.
You need to come here."
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People were just going ape over it
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in the far right,
the militia movement,
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saying, "Who did this? What's that
all about? That's awesome."
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I would just ask that you
and the American people
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not rush to any conclusions
unsupported by known evidence
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and that we give investigators
the space they need
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to do their job.
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My initial reaction was,
first of all,
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to try to get everybody to calm down
and not react with their words.
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I didn't wanna stir whatever
was going on up any more.
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And everyone immediately assumed
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that it was
a Muslim extremist attack,
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and I wasn't so sure.
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Shoot from the waist...
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My native state
was almost like honey for bees
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to attract a lot
of these extremist groups,
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and they moved in and out of there.
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When Oklahoma City happened,
my life and experience told me
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that there was a very good chance
that this was a homegrown plot.
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On the drive up there, there's
a lot going through your head.
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You've gotta command
a major bombing investigation,
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and you're thinking of
all the things you have to do.
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And I am thinking,
"April 19th, April 19th, okay."
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I just file it away. I get a call from
a nationally known reporter,
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and she said,
"Is this Middle Eastern?"
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I said, "No, it's Bubbas.
April 19th."
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Two years earlier,
April 19th was the siege in Waco.
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And I thought we were seeing
the results of that anger
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against actions on the part
of the government.
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My thought is it's gonna be Bubbas.
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...damage. Emergency crews
try to assist the injured.
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That day, it was overwhelming
to first go to the crime scene.
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Secret Service, IRS, ATF,
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multiple federal agencies
were housed in that building.
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I was walking approximately a block
and a half from the bomb scene.
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There were two FBI agents
and a sheriff
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looking at this rear axle of a truck.
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They believed it had come
from the truck
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responsible for the bombing,
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and they were removing
the VIN number from the rear axle.
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And I told them to,
"Guard that with your life.
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That's probably gonna be
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the most important piece of evidence
we have in this entire investigation."
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We learned that particular truck
had been rented
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three or four days before
in Junction City, Kansas.
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The person who rented it went
by the name of Robert Kling,
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and he used a birth date
of April 19th.
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The mechanic
that was working there
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probably had the best recollection
of what he looked like.
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Also he had a recollection
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of a person
he thought had been with him,
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commonly called
John Doe Number 2.
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How you doing today, sir?
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We're conducting an investigation
into the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Have you noticed a Ryder truck
or a yellow truck?
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We sent agents
all over the country,
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primarily on I-35,
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going north and south
on the interstates.
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They went to a place
called the Dreamland Hotel.
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They interview the owner,
show her pictures.
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"Yeah, he was here.
His name's Tim McVeigh."
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He was
a very nice young man basically.
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It's very shocking to think somebody
has such a deprived mind.
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We got the registration information.
His name was Timothy McVeigh.
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So an agent runs the name
of Timothy McVeigh
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and he gets a hit,
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and says, "Boss, you're not
gonna believe this bullshit,
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but Timothy McVeigh
is in custody."
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He had been arrested
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an hour and a half after the bombing
in Perry, Oklahoma.
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Here he is
in his junker getaway car
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driving away
from the scene of the crime.
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And he gets on the thruway.
He thinks he's gotten away with it.
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It turns out that McVeigh
was missing a license plate
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from his vehicle.
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When the trooper starts questioning
McVeigh, he ascertains
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that McVeigh is carrying
an unregistered handgun.
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He arrests McVeigh.
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McVeigh was wearing a T-shirt
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celebrating the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln.
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And it always has astonished me
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that nobody put these two things
together at the time.
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But for two full days,
they had no idea
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that he was involved
with the bombing.
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And they were getting close
to letting him go.
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It's just hard to believe.
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You think it's gonna be
a nationwide search,
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and now you're told
that he's roughly 70 miles away.
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I said, "Call them and tell them,
'Don't let that boy out.'"
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You can imagine
my phone ringing off my belt.
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I mean,
the Attorney General's calling,
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the director of the FBI's calling me,
"Get him out of there."
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Well, I was concerned about a rescue
or attempt to kill him.
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And I didn't want to be the man
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who took McVeigh into custody
and got him killed. Not good.
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I'd be working at Dairy Queen
if that happened.
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He was captured about 30 miles
from where I grew up.
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And I thought it was foreigners.
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I didn't want to believe
an American could do this.
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They marched Timothy McVeigh
out of that jail,
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and I go, "You know,
it wasn't a foreigner.
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This is an American
doing this to Americans."
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I was a little surprised
that it was an American.
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I drew a conclusion pretty quick
that this was payback for Waco
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and the kids that were killed there.
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"You killed our kids,
we're gonna kill your kids."
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When I saw him on television,
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I felt like I'd seen him
in the building before.
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I remember being in the elevator,
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and two men got on the elevator,
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and one of them was McVeigh.
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I always wondered
if that was real
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or if I imagined that,
with everything else going on.
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He had that orange jumpsuit on.
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And my thought was, "I hope
that somebody has a rifle
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and can just
pick him off there."
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I mean, I was really wishing
for that.
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You're looking for the monster,
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and you finally get
that day to see him,
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and you're thinking like,
"Wait a minute, is this him?"
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He looked like anyone's kid.
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Just your normal average Joe.
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He's got this look in his eyes.
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I believed that, in his mind,
he wanted to look out at the crowd,
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right straight into the cameras, and go,
"You're goddamn right I did it,
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and you're cowards
if you don't do the same thing."
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There goes Tim McVeigh,
the first confirmed arrest
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in the Oklahoma bombing case.
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After we had McVeigh in custody,
I had McVeigh's father
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flown to Oklahoma City
to meet with me.
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I asked him, "You know your son.
Who would be involved in this?"
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And he said, "Terry Nichols
and Michael Fortier." Like that.
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We learned that he had been
in basic training
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at Fort Benning, Georgia
with a couple of guys
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named Terry Nichols
and Michael Fortier.
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Terry Nichols was older,
but they had struck up a friendship
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based on their political beliefs.
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We then learned Terry Nichols
is now living in Kansas.
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At his residence, we find
the remnants of fertilizer
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that was used
in the bombing itself.
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But one of the biggest and most
important pieces of information
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is a telephone card
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sold by a right-wing group
called Spotlight.
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We pretty much
were able to trace
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where they had been
throughout the United States
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through that calling card.
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We find that Michael Fortier
is now living in Arizona.
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I think people are looking
right now for somebody to hang.
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Now he may feel like
there's nobody on this earth
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that is in any way supportive
of him.
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But there is. There is.
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Everybody should be supportive
of him, because he is an innocent man.
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I interviewed Michael Fortier.
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I said to him, "I need your help."
And he said,
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"You don't understand. We're at war."
I said, "I'd have killed you today.
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I'd have killed you now
if we were at war.
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I'd have killed your buddies.
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We're not. You may be at war
with your country.
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Your country's not at war
with you."
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I do not believe that Tim blew up
any building in Oklahoma.
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And then he said to me,
"It's about the Constitution."
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I said, "You're right.
It is about the Constitution.
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Let me tell you
what's gonna happen.
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I'm gonna indict you
under the Constitution.
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I'm gonna convict you
under the Constitution.
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We'll handle your appeals
under the Constitution.
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And sooner or later,
somebody's gonna put you on a gurney
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and stick a needle in your arm,
and we're gonna kill you.
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You better decide if you're
on my side or their side."
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Later on,
after McVeigh had been charged,
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his attorneys let reporters
meet with McVeigh one-on-one.
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The ground rule is
this is not an interview.
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This is kind of
a "get to know you."
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I had covered
the first Gulf War,
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and I knew he had been
a veteran of that war.
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And we started talking about
the Gulf War, and he kind of lit up
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because it was something
that he could talk about,
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that he felt proud of,
that he had participated in.
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And then I shifted
the conversation
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to his feelings
about the U.S. government.
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And I could see a light switch
go off in his eyes.
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And he went cold.
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And you could see
the anger well up.
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And I thought at that point,
"This guy for sure did it."
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When Tim was identified,
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I just started
delving into the far right.
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I went to Little Rock, Arkansas
and did a lot of research there,
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because back in those days,
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you had to go
actually look at hard paper.
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Turns out way back in 1983,
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this virulent racist by the name
of Richard Wayne Snell
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had decided
that he wanted to blow up
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the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City.
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I was stunned to find out
that the far-right movement
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wanted to blow up
the Murrah Building.
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Well, how come we never heard
about that before?
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Stay low! Get down! Whoo!
336
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Pro-gun patriotism is becoming
more and more popular
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among economically
hard-pressed farmers.
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Traditionally strong, proud,
independent farmers
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are losing their farms
in record numbers.
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We think as many
as a million family farms
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were foreclosed on
during the late '70s and early '80s.
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No sale! No sale!
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There was anger against the federal
government's exploitation of farmers.
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Violence starts to occur
in the heartland
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because they were desperate.
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When Mr. Nixon was president,
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he encouraged farmers to plant
fencerow to fencerow.
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And they did.
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But then when the Soviets
invaded Afghanistan,
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President Carter put an embargo
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on grain sales
to the Soviet Union.
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And the result was
agricultural depression.
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The federal government
mustn't shirk its responsibility
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to help undo some
of the damage that it created.
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We're doing a great deal
to help farmers.
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But the federal government
will not bail out
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every farmer hopelessly in debt.
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So today I have vetoed
this massive new bailout.
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Ronald Reagan basically left
the farmers to just go bankrupt.
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No sale!
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Far-right leaders saw
a political opportunity.
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The first wave
of the patriot movement
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was able to successfully
mobilize farmers
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into this far-right movement,
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and they were willing to take up arms,
and some of them did.
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Everybody in the movement saw
the land crisis, farm crisis,
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as the government
and major corporations
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putting farmers
into a financial bind.
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Where the government is making
war with the American people
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and selling us out.
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I don't want to see
our group or any group
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forced against their will
into a confrontation.
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I'm a former extremist
from a group known as CSA,
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the Covenant, the Sword,
and the Arm of the Lord
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in Northern Arkansas
back in the '70s and '80s.
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For me,
it was like heaven on earth.
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The group was started originally
by Jim Ellison
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to establish a community
based upon the apocalypse.
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God began to deal with us
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about the economic judgment,
collapse, and upheaval
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that was coming
upon all the world.
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And especially on this country.
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He said, "How are you gonna protect
yourself when it collapses,
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and bad people want
what you have?"
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The Bible says we have the right to use
whatever the enemy uses,
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and the enemy, of course,
is gonna have guns.
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Fire!
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We had never talked
about guns before.
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We had never talked about defense.
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Over the next 18 months,
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we started buying guns,
buying military equipment,
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and we trained so well
that a magazine in those days
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called us the number one
civilian SWAT team
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in the United States.
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The church kind of went
to the background.
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Guns and warfare went
to the forefront.
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The first plan
that we talked about
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was the Oklahoma City
Federal Building.
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Sort of a quasi-member
of the group,
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Richard Wayne Snell,
he lived in Oklahoma,
401
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,359
was having trouble with the IRS.
402
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,599
Him and Jim went
and cased the Murrah Building.
403
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,200
There was
a lot of federal offices
404
00:24:17,279 --> 00:24:19,359
in that building,
so it seemed like a good target
405
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,920
of various agencies
being in that building.
406
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,680
So we had our munitions guy
start to develop a rocket launcher,
407
00:24:27,759 --> 00:24:30,119
and all the rockets
would be shot at the same time
408
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,440
toward the Murrah Building.
409
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,640
One of the missiles exploded
in the guy's hands
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that was building them,
scarred his hands real bad.
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So we took that
as a sign from God
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that we weren't supposed
to do that particular plan.
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I was surprised as to the extent
of violence of this group,
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believing that they were
gonna cause the collapse
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00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,119
of the United States of America
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and that they were going
to help create that collapse.
417
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We actually learned
that Richard Wayne Snell,
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a member of the CSA,
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00:25:04,319 --> 00:25:08,039
shot and killed
a pawn shop owner in Texarkana,
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believing he was Jewish,
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00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,440
had killed Louis Bryant,
a state police trooper.
422
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Murdered I believe
that was in '84.
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Got out of my van,
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00:25:17,839 --> 00:25:21,079
and I shot Officer Bryant twice
from the hip.
425
00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:23,480
The death
of Trooper Louis Bryant
426
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was especially heartbreaking
for Bill Clinton.
427
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000
While the governor was visibly
shaken over the slaying,
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00:25:28,079 --> 00:25:29,519
he was also angry.
429
00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:31,920
They don't have a right
to go around carrying weapons
430
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,759
and taking the law
in their hands
431
00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:36,119
and acting as if
they're somehow playing God.
432
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Snell got the death penalty.
433
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Snell's execution was to be
on the night of April 19th, 1995,
434
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which happened to be the day
435
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,880
the Oklahoma City
Federal Building got bombed.
436
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,039
In the movement,
April 19th, of course,
437
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:55,799
is what's called Patriot's Day.
438
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,119
First shot fired during
the American Revolution.
439
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,559
Very special
for the whole movement.
440
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,480
Jim told me one time, he said,
"I will go down in history
441
00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:09,240
in the second
American Revolution."
442
00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:15,400
In '84, I told Jim, I said,
"So you really want all this to start?"
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He said, "Yes."
I said, "So build a bomb,
444
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,279
and we'll start the war."
445
00:26:21,279 --> 00:26:24,599
So they decided to go to find
a good place to do the bombing.
446
00:26:27,279 --> 00:26:29,200
We found the gay church.
447
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,279
We sorta had this stereotype
image in our heads
448
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,880
that there was just gonna be
this sexual orgy going on,
449
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,000
which of course there wasn't.
450
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,440
I started seeing
people lift their hands up
451
00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:46,640
and lift their eyes up, look up,
and start worshipping God.
452
00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:50,200
And I identified with them.
453
00:26:50,279 --> 00:26:54,519
So instantly they ceased being
homosexuals in my eyes
454
00:26:54,599 --> 00:26:57,559
and became Christians,
and I couldn't kill Christians.
455
00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:02,920
Later, I'm trying
to talk to God.
456
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And I said,
"Lord, I wanna leave."
457
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,960
You know,
"I can't handle this no more."
458
00:27:08,039 --> 00:27:10,279
And the Lord spoke to me
and said, "You can't leave."
459
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,559
It looks like a battle zone.
460
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,799
Police and federal agents
blockading the roads,
461
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,359
surrounding
the heavily armed compound
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00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,400
of a white supremacist sect
calling itself
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00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,079
the Covenant, the Sword,
and the Arm of the Lord.
464
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,359
They want to arrest the leader,
James Ellison,
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00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,039
on an illegal weapons charge.
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00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,240
The Covenant, the Sword,
and the Arm of the Lord,
467
00:27:30,319 --> 00:27:31,920
they lived in log cabins.
468
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,480
Every log cabin had a trapdoor.
469
00:27:34,559 --> 00:27:38,240
When you dropped through
the trapdoor, you were in a foxhole
470
00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:40,559
with your weapon
and ammunition ready.
471
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:43,839
Federal officials,
472
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,640
they really wanted
to storm this compound
473
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:47,960
like what later happened
at Waco.
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00:27:49,839 --> 00:27:52,720
We knew
that a frontal assault attack
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00:27:52,799 --> 00:27:55,640
on that entity,
a lot of people would die.
476
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,000
And we didn't want that.
I do not want that.
477
00:27:58,079 --> 00:27:59,519
My job is not to kill people.
478
00:27:59,599 --> 00:28:00,920
I know how,
but I don't wanna do it.
479
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,240
And I didn't want to get
into a shootout in the Ozarks.
480
00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:06,880
They had murder on their mind,
and they were all doing it for God.
481
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,559
I found somebody
I could talk to.
482
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,000
Actually, he came to me.
Kerry Noble.
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00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,839
He said, "I want to make this plain.
We are not gonna shoot first.
484
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,480
We don't wanna kill anybody here.
485
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,680
But if y'all shoot first,
I've got a Huey helicopter.
486
00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:27,880
It's gonna come up.
It's got a .50-caliber machine gun,
487
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,319
and it's gonna start shooting
holes in all of your buildings.
488
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,039
And in 30 seconds,
every man, woman, and child
489
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,119
in your compound
is gonna be dead."
490
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:37,960
So for four days,
I went back and forth
491
00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:39,759
talking to Jim, talking to Danny.
492
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,319
Finally on the fourth day,
Jim got that revelation
493
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,200
that he could justify in his mind
a higher purpose in surrendering.
494
00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:53,119
We get down there,
and then Danny looks at Jim
495
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,160
and says,
"I'm placing you under arrest,
496
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,880
but I'm not gonna handcuff you
right now
497
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,559
because I would not wanna be
handcuffed in front of my men."
498
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:01,480
I'm just bawling.
499
00:29:05,119 --> 00:29:07,920
The four-day siege
ended as quietly as it began.
500
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,640
The FBI got
more than it bargained for.
501
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,319
Other weapons found at the camp
read like an arsenal checklist:
502
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,240
hand-grenade casings,
blasting caps,
503
00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:18,839
dynamite, and various handguns.
504
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,400
We found cyanide
in huge barrels.
505
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,720
They were gonna poison
the water supplies.
506
00:29:23,799 --> 00:29:27,000
In addition to the arrest
of CSA leader James Ellison
507
00:29:27,079 --> 00:29:28,480
by federal
and state authorities...
508
00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:31,799
Jim ended up taking a plea bargain
on the weapons charges.
509
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,880
I got arrested,
ended up plea-bargaining,
510
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,559
five-year sentence.
511
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:42,160
My dream for moving there
had turned into a nightmare.
512
00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:45,920
But the movement
continued to grow.
513
00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:52,720
The white power movement
had come together every summer
514
00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:55,599
at the Aryan Nations World Congress
in Hayden Lake, Idaho.
515
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,759
In 1983, the movement adopted
a number of key strategies,
516
00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:04,119
and it decided to declare war
on the federal government.
517
00:30:05,279 --> 00:30:08,960
There is nothing more
that the white Aryan can do
518
00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:11,480
but obey the commandment
of Yahweh, his God,
519
00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:13,079
and separate himself.
520
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,319
Blood, blood.
521
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,240
The Founding Fathers
shed their blood
522
00:30:18,319 --> 00:30:19,799
to give you this country.
523
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,000
And if you wanna hold on to it,
524
00:30:22,079 --> 00:30:24,519
you're gonna have to shed
some of yours!
525
00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:28,519
They thought mainstream politics
could never, ever deliver
526
00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:31,079
the kinds of social changes
they wanted.
527
00:30:36,759 --> 00:30:41,119
In the '80s, there is a major
campaign of violence and crime
528
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,440
carried out by this movement
across the United States.
529
00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:44,440
Right turn!
530
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:49,720
Robbing of armored cars,
531
00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:52,400
bombings of gay theaters,
assassinations.
532
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,880
Alan Berg was killed in ambush,
arriving at his Denver home.
533
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,680
Ten .45-caliber
shell casings...
534
00:30:57,759 --> 00:30:58,720
It's a spree.
535
00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:03,160
By 1987, the government believes
it has a case
536
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,880
that all of this activity represents
an organized criminal conspiracy
537
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,680
to overthrow
the United States government.
538
00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:14,160
Charges of sedition are filed
against Reverend Butler and others.
539
00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:16,559
In its opening statement,
the government said
540
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,920
it intends to prove that
ten of the defendants plotted
541
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,279
to overthrow the government by force.
542
00:31:21,359 --> 00:31:23,960
Seditious conspiracy is
a hard charge to prove.
543
00:31:24,039 --> 00:31:25,759
Prosecutors have to show
544
00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:28,640
that they intended to overthrow
the U.S. government
545
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,200
and had the capacity to do so.
546
00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:32,640
What the FBI now sees
across the country is
547
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,039
a national network of neo-Nazis
and white supremacist groups
548
00:31:36,119 --> 00:31:38,039
whose goal
is to purge this country
549
00:31:38,119 --> 00:31:40,559
of Blacks, Jews,
and other minorities.
550
00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:44,519
One, I want to praise
Yahweh's holy and precious name.
551
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,960
Two, I want to say to hell
with the federal government.
552
00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:50,880
Louis Beam is really
the intellectual architect
553
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,680
of leaderless resistance.
554
00:31:52,759 --> 00:31:57,440
This has been the biggest legacy
of the white power movement
555
00:31:57,519 --> 00:32:00,599
and the reason
it's been with us since 1983.
556
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,200
Activists can work violently
in common cause
557
00:32:04,279 --> 00:32:06,720
without direct communication
with leaders.
558
00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:08,680
There are still leaders
in leaderless resistance,
559
00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:11,039
but they're not culpable
because you can't trace them
560
00:32:11,119 --> 00:32:12,839
to the individual violent actions.
561
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,720
I understood that
that was their intent.
562
00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:20,200
But I also knew
that an Arkansas jury
563
00:32:20,279 --> 00:32:24,400
would have a hard time
convicting these folks
564
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,039
of attempted overthrow
of the United States government
565
00:32:28,119 --> 00:32:30,440
when they had no capacity,
really, to do that.
566
00:32:30,519 --> 00:32:33,200
That's why it's called
a conspiracy.
567
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,559
The thought was trying
to overthrow the government.
568
00:32:38,599 --> 00:32:42,240
ØActually, they couldn't do it.
But they surely tried.
569
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,640
The government had really
bet the farm on this trial.
570
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,799
They had used
all of these other busts
571
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,160
to kind of amass
state's witnesses.
572
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,480
And it fails spectacularly.
573
00:32:56,279 --> 00:32:59,680
It was the first serious setback
in the federal government's war
574
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:01,960
against suspected
white supremacist groups.
575
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:05,480
Thirteen defendants were found
not guilty of all charges,
576
00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:07,440
which included murder, robbery,
577
00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:09,519
and conspiracy
to overthrow the government.
578
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,720
It was a tremendous defeat
for the government.
579
00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:16,480
And it totally enabled
the far-right movement.
580
00:33:16,559 --> 00:33:18,640
"We're free to go do
whatever we want to do.
581
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,319
They tried. They missed.
582
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,039
We have got them
by the short hairs."
583
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,079
Sheila Beam passed out
584
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,160
and had to be carried off
by her husband,
585
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,400
who now walks free.
586
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,680
Leaderless resistance
was Louis Beam's idea,
587
00:33:29,759 --> 00:33:33,160
and he passed it along
to everybody else in the movement.
588
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,000
The best way
to go after the government
589
00:33:36,079 --> 00:33:39,920
was not to have
this organized CSA compound
590
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,920
but to have individuals,
591
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,440
which led, of course,
to the term "lone wolves".
592
00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:01,839
Iraqi troops have crossed
the border into Kuwait.
593
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,559
As was the case in the 1930s,
594
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,519
we see in Saddam Hussein
an aggressive dictator
595
00:34:08,599 --> 00:34:09,800
threatening his neighbors.
596
00:34:10,519 --> 00:34:14,320
In our history of extremist movements
in the United States,
597
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,840
the most consistent correlation
with spikes in membership
598
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,679
is the aftermath of combat.
599
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,840
Louis Beam understood this veteran
connection very, very well.
600
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,519
He did this very specifically,
601
00:34:31,599 --> 00:34:34,199
going to military bases,
recruiting active-duty troops,
602
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,239
recruiting veterans.
603
00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:39,480
These groups move from, you know,
the white robe and hood
604
00:34:39,559 --> 00:34:41,199
to camouflage fatigues,
605
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,599
able to take in a new generation
of veterans coming home.
606
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,519
Most notably, Timothy McVeigh.
607
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,079
Tim McVeigh came from a family
608
00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:57,480
that was literally
the salt of the earth.
609
00:34:57,559 --> 00:35:00,239
They had come over
in the 19th century
610
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,119
to help with the canal
611
00:35:02,199 --> 00:35:05,559
and earned enough money
to buy some farmland.
612
00:35:05,639 --> 00:35:08,480
You had the dawn
of the automobile
613
00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:12,360
and Harrison Radiator,
this sprawling plant
614
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,679
where as many as 8,000 people
worked at one time.
615
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,760
And that was the world that Bill McVeigh
was offering to his son.
616
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,760
All four houses we lived in,
617
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,760
we always had a pretty good-sized
garden. We had a pool here.
618
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,679
Sometimes in the summer,
I'd come home from work,
619
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,000
and there'd be 15 kids
in the pool.
620
00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:34,760
Family right next door,
the McDermotts,
621
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,559
they had a daughter the same age
as Jennifer, Mollie.
622
00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:39,360
They were good
everyday neighbors.
623
00:35:40,559 --> 00:35:43,679
He would play with us,
he would babysit us,
624
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:48,159
he took us trick-or-treating.
I've known his family forever.
625
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,199
I'm sure that the divorce
of his parents was hard.
626
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,760
When the split occurred,
he chose to stay with his dad.
627
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,639
There was nobody that
McVeigh loved or admired more
628
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,039
than his grandfather,
Ed McVeigh.
629
00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:07,440
He taught Tim McVeigh
630
00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:11,800
all about proper handling
of guns, how to use guns.
631
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,400
I think he equated guns
with his beloved grandfather.
632
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,159
Tim McVeigh's father worked
at a G.M. plant for 30 years.
633
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:25,159
Tim McVeigh's grandfather worked
in the same plant for 30 years.
634
00:36:25,559 --> 00:36:27,679
By the time McVeigh came along,
635
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,880
that plant was shrinking
almost to nonexistence.
636
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,880
The industrial decline
of the Buffalo area
637
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,400
was a formative influence
on McVeigh.
638
00:36:38,159 --> 00:36:41,960
At the same time,
Terry Nichols was growing up
639
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:45,840
on a small struggling farm
in the thumb of Michigan.
640
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:51,320
And the farm crisis
was making it harder and harder
641
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,400
for farmers like him to survive.
642
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,199
So McVeigh and Nichols represent
643
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,519
the crisis in American agriculture
644
00:36:59,599 --> 00:37:03,480
and the crisis in American industry
to an almost perfect degree.
645
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:10,239
I don't know when the idea to go
into the military really came,
646
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:16,519
but the first time I even sensed
Tim seeming different
647
00:37:16,599 --> 00:37:20,400
was after his time over
during the Gulf War.
648
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,840
The bombing in Iraq
began 24 hours ago.
649
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,639
It is still going on.
650
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:29,679
Watch your lane.
651
00:37:32,039 --> 00:37:37,079
At Fort Benning, Terry Nichols became
one of McVeigh's best friends.
652
00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:42,119
He was very influential
on McVeigh's views of politics.
653
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,360
McVeigh became close
to Michael Fortier,
654
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,800
who would smoke dope
when he was out on patrol.
655
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,119
One of the very first
experiences McVeigh had
656
00:37:55,199 --> 00:37:57,880
after joining the Army
was these drill sergeants,
657
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:01,840
they would scream things like,
"Kill, kill, kill!"
658
00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:08,599
McVeigh became
a very skilled sharpshooter
659
00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:11,159
in the Bradley military vehicle.
660
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:17,039
In one instance,
he spotted two Iraqi soldiers,
661
00:38:17,119 --> 00:38:18,639
brought them into his sights.
662
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,239
He said all he saw
was a red mist.
663
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,800
He was proud of his kill.
He got a Bronze Star for it.
664
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,639
But as this very short war
progressed,
665
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,039
he saw the carnage
666
00:38:33,119 --> 00:38:36,159
from all of the bombs
that had been dropped.
667
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:38,400
It was overkill to him.
668
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,800
This unit is trying to talk
the Iraqis into surrendering.
669
00:38:45,639 --> 00:38:49,199
There are a group of men, Iraqis,
to the right carrying white flags.
670
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,840
Over there, a large number
of Iraqi tanks.
671
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,840
I've been in a lot of wars.
672
00:38:54,559 --> 00:38:58,159
And wars and combat affect
different people different ways.
673
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,239
I think what goes on
in a lot of people who leave war
674
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,719
is that they had a purpose.
675
00:39:06,559 --> 00:39:11,079
And the purpose in Desert Storm
was to take back Kuwait
676
00:39:11,159 --> 00:39:13,239
and defeat
Saddam Hussein's army.
677
00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:16,519
And that was a huge purpose,
a huge global purpose.
678
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,079
Then you come back home, and...
679
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:24,039
you might have trouble finding a job,
and you start getting discouraged.
680
00:39:25,559 --> 00:39:30,480
Tim McVeigh and myself,
we both have that title, veteran.
681
00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:32,599
We spend four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine,
682
00:39:32,679 --> 00:39:34,480
ten years of our life
serving our nation.
683
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,159
Then when you get out of the military,
you come back to the United States,
684
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,159
and everyone's telling you
that you're wrong,
685
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,840
you shouldn't be killing people,
we shouldn't be at war.
686
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:48,239
No blood for oil!
687
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,519
My daughter, Julie, demonstrated
with a lot of other students
688
00:39:51,599 --> 00:39:53,599
against the Gulf War.
689
00:39:53,679 --> 00:39:57,159
And the results of that war
is actually the very thing
690
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,880
that ended up causing her death.
691
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,039
How do you mean?
692
00:40:02,119 --> 00:40:07,159
Well, because Tim McVeigh served
in the Gulf War, had PTSD.
693
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,199
Those soldiers saw Iraqis get shot
in the back and saw tanks
694
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,440
that actually buried
some Iraqi soldiers alive.
695
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,280
They saw all of that angry stuff
and came back angry,
696
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:21,639
angry young men.
697
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,840
After the war, McVeigh went
to this Green Beret tryout.
698
00:40:30,199 --> 00:40:33,880
He failed in his tryout
to become a Green Beret.
699
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,920
That was a demoralizing thing.
700
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,320
I think if he had succeeded
and been selected as a Green Beret,
701
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,519
he probably would have been
a great killing machine
702
00:40:44,599 --> 00:40:46,159
for the U.S. government.
703
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,320
He comes home,
and he has a nervous breakdown.
704
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,679
He went over
to his grandfather's house
705
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,199
in February a few months after
he'd been out of the military
706
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:05,119
in a pair of sweatpants
and just socks, no shirt.
707
00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:07,800
And Ed McVeigh
opens the front door
708
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,360
and says, "Tim, Timmy,
what's going on here?"
709
00:41:12,519 --> 00:41:14,559
He says,
"I don't know, Grandpa."
710
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,639
McVeigh having PTSD,
I think, helps to explain
711
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,760
maybe the vulnerability,
the fragility of his thinking.
712
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,400
He would live in his car.
He would sleep in his car.
713
00:41:28,159 --> 00:41:30,119
He would listen
to right-wing radio
714
00:41:31,519 --> 00:41:33,519
and go
from gun show to gun show.
715
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,400
He was operating
as sort of a straw buyer.
716
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,760
He was buying guns for people
who didn't want any kind of record
717
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,800
or even name associated
with buying guns.
718
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,480
And he knew that these people
were part of the insurgency.
719
00:41:50,159 --> 00:41:53,800
They're not just selling weapons.
They're selling ideology.
720
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:56,800
I'm William Pierce,
721
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,519
and I'll be reading my book,
The Turner Diaries, to you.
722
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,679
Listen carefully.
"How it shamed us,
723
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,519
all that brave talk by patriots.
724
00:42:07,599 --> 00:42:10,280
'The government will never take
my guns away.'
725
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,400
And then nothing but meek submission
when it happened."
726
00:42:14,679 --> 00:42:17,719
Timothy McVeigh used
this book as a Bible.
727
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,840
Both The Turner Diaries
and McVeigh
728
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,440
targeted a federal building
729
00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:26,199
that had federal
law enforcement agents in it.
730
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,280
Both used a truck bomb.
731
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,599
Both used a mixture of fuel oil
and ammonium nitrate fertilizer.
732
00:42:33,599 --> 00:42:36,000
The one that strikes me
the most eerie
733
00:42:36,079 --> 00:42:38,599
is the fact
that the bomb that explodes
734
00:42:38,679 --> 00:42:42,320
and blows up the FBI building
in The Turner Diaries
735
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,880
went off at 9:15 AM.
736
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,760
The bomb in Oklahoma City
went off at 9:02.
737
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:55,800
He's got The Turner Diaries
rolling in the back of his head,
738
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:57,119
his love of guns,
739
00:42:57,199 --> 00:43:00,920
and he's buying these videos
about things like Ruby Ridge.
740
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,800
Randy Weaver, a fugitive
on a federal firearms charge,
741
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,760
has been holed up in a cabin near
Naples for more than a year.
742
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,559
Ruby Ridge came about
743
00:43:16,639 --> 00:43:19,599
because of shady dealings
by the federal government.
744
00:43:20,519 --> 00:43:23,000
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms agents
745
00:43:23,079 --> 00:43:25,599
were trying to recruit
Randy Weaver
746
00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:27,920
to be an informant
on the militia movement
747
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,239
by having another informant
sell him a shotgun
748
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,719
that was a quarter of an inch
shy of the legal limit.
749
00:43:35,119 --> 00:43:36,599
That looks a lot like entrapment.
750
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,360
With the sudden appearance
of military hardware,
751
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:44,079
his one-man stand against the law
is suddenly taking on the appearance
752
00:43:44,159 --> 00:43:45,599
of a full-blown war.
753
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,039
A federal agent
has been shot and killed.
754
00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:51,840
Randy Weaver's
13-year-old son died
755
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,639
during the initial shootout Friday.
756
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,280
His blood is on all your hands!
757
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,000
Federal Marshals shot my son,
Samuel, in the back
758
00:43:59,079 --> 00:44:00,000
and killed him.
759
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,280
He was running home to me.
760
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:03,960
His last words were,
"I'm coming, Dad."
761
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:10,000
The FBI adopted military rules
of engagement at Ruby Ridge.
762
00:44:11,599 --> 00:44:14,000
The day after Sammy Weaver
was shot,
763
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,880
a sniper fired at Randy.
764
00:44:19,079 --> 00:44:20,679
The bullet went into the cabin
765
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:24,079
and hit his wife, Vicki Weaver,
in the head and killed her.
766
00:44:27,079 --> 00:44:28,719
Later, an investigation
was done,
767
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,320
and the Department of Justice
settled for $3.1 million
768
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,440
for unlawful death
of Sammy Weaver and Vicki Weaver.
769
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,239
We have just got an update
from federal authorities.
770
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:45,079
Randy's in good health.
Unfortunately, Vicki is dead.
771
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:53,360
This time the federals
came for Randy Weaver.
772
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,840
Next time,
they may come for you.
773
00:44:57,559 --> 00:44:59,199
After Ruby Ridge,
774
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,519
McVeigh was on an odyssey
to nowhere for about two years.
775
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,519
These ideas
would just be turned over
776
00:45:09,599 --> 00:45:11,320
in his head again and again.
777
00:45:12,199 --> 00:45:14,159
His car was an old Chevy.
778
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,760
He nicknamed it
the Road Warrior.
779
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,920
He reconnects with his Army buddies,
Michael Fortier and Terry Nichols.
780
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,920
But there's a lot of alone time.
781
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,320
He's manufacturing his arguments
of why he hates the government.
782
00:45:33,079 --> 00:45:35,719
It may not be popular
in West Virginia or Arkansas,
783
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,840
where half the people have
a hunting or a fishing license or both,
784
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,760
but I think we ought to pass
the Brady Bill
785
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,519
and require a waiting period
before people can get a handgun.
786
00:45:44,599 --> 00:45:47,280
I felt that
if it was ever gonna be done,
787
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:51,079
I was in the best position,
because I grew up in Arkansas.
788
00:45:51,159 --> 00:45:53,559
I had a .22 when I was 10.
789
00:45:53,639 --> 00:45:56,280
I had a .410 shotgun
when I was 14.
790
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:57,639
I grew up in the culture.
791
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,440
There's really only one thing
you need to know.
792
00:46:02,519 --> 00:46:05,199
The Democrats want to do away
with the Second Amendment.
793
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,559
They want to end up
registering every gun
794
00:46:09,639 --> 00:46:11,360
and its owner in this country.
795
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,000
And their ultimate objective
is to see to it that nobody has any.
796
00:46:29,559 --> 00:46:32,159
Some people forget
that Tim McVeigh was at Waco.
797
00:46:34,639 --> 00:46:36,639
He was handing out
anti-government pamphlets.
798
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,239
He was carrying copies
of The Turner Diaries.
799
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,719
He was talking to people
during the standoff.
800
00:46:44,159 --> 00:46:46,800
If you're a true Christian,
and you believe the truth,
801
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,559
and you know the truth,
the truth will set you free.
802
00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:51,800
A group called the Branch Davidians,
it was an offshoot
803
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,480
of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church.
804
00:46:54,519 --> 00:46:56,880
About 100 people
headed up by a gentleman
805
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,480
by the name of David Koresh.
806
00:46:59,559 --> 00:47:01,840
He predicted the end
of the world was near,
807
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,880
that he was the Second Coming
of Jesus Christ,
808
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,320
the apocalypse was going to happen,
and it was going to start there
809
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,079
with a battle
on the plains of Texas.
810
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:15,800
- You have guns?
- That's nobody's business.
811
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,679
The ATF had information
that there were automatic weapons,
812
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,320
they had grenades there,
and as a result,
813
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:27,400
they were gonna launch an attack
on the Branch Davidian compound.
814
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,079
Get my battery, John.
Get my battery behind the bus.
815
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,440
The ATF wanted to conduct
a paramilitary raid.
816
00:47:34,519 --> 00:47:38,079
They had multiple opportunities
to arrest David Koresh.
817
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,440
He jogged up and down
Double EE Ranch Road
818
00:47:41,519 --> 00:47:43,360
right in front
of these surveillance houses.
819
00:47:44,159 --> 00:47:47,719
They could've grabbed him then.
They didn't want to arrest him.
820
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,719
They wanted a big show.
821
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:51,559
And it backfired on them.
822
00:47:56,119 --> 00:47:57,679
The ATF fired the first shot,
823
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,400
shooting the dogs that were
outside guarding the property.
824
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:08,239
And then it erupted into gunfire.
ATF was immediately pinned down.
825
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,119
Four of their agents
were killed.
826
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,599
Sixteen were wounded.
827
00:48:15,679 --> 00:48:18,519
Five Davidians were killed
that day.
828
00:48:18,599 --> 00:48:22,119
The Attorney General says
that FBI should take over
829
00:48:22,199 --> 00:48:23,639
and try to get this thing resolved.
830
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,159
I was dispatched down there
to do the press conferences.
831
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,519
We're dealing with people who are very
committed to what they're doing.
832
00:48:32,519 --> 00:48:35,079
And we ended up
spending 51 days there.
833
00:48:37,519 --> 00:48:41,719
I actually came here
about three weeks into the standoff.
834
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,039
They wouldn't let anybody closer
than, say,
835
00:48:44,119 --> 00:48:46,480
maybe a mile from here.
They had cordoned it off.
836
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,679
A lot of the people who showed up
were far-right patriots.
837
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,599
They weren't aligned with, say,
838
00:48:52,679 --> 00:48:55,480
Davidian religious beliefs
or sentiments.
839
00:48:55,559 --> 00:48:59,119
You have attempted to cover up
the FBI and ATF crimes here.
840
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,480
It was already taking place,
that co-optation of Waco
841
00:49:03,559 --> 00:49:05,280
for the far-right
patriot movement.
842
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,360
Waco is not
a white power community.
843
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,440
It is a multiracial community.
844
00:49:10,519 --> 00:49:13,400
The white power movement
doesn't care about that very much.
845
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,679
And the compound itself,
because this goes on for so long,
846
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,559
becomes a site
where white power activists
847
00:49:18,639 --> 00:49:20,239
can organize
and talk to each other.
848
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,840
McVeigh travels to the Waco site.
849
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,360
I just arrived today.
850
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,400
Somebody told me a lot
of people would be scared
851
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:29,960
to put something on like this.
852
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,599
Tim said to me, "The government
is at war with us."
853
00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:37,840
He kept talking about this war.
854
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:41,199
And I wasn't even privy
to this narrative or story.
855
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,800
So I ask him to explain it to me.
856
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,199
And he tells me
that in the early '80s,
857
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,159
the Reagan administration pushes
for a military role
858
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:50,159
in drug enforcement.
859
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,239
We waged a good fight.
860
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:53,480
The military forces
861
00:49:53,559 --> 00:49:56,519
have dramatically reduced
drug use by 67 percent.
862
00:49:56,599 --> 00:50:00,679
In order for civilian law enforcement
to get military support,
863
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,880
they would have to show what's
called a drug nexus at Waco.
864
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:08,800
The ATF manufactured
a drug nexus that wasn't there.
865
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,280
They claimed that
Branch Davidians had a meth lab.
866
00:50:13,639 --> 00:50:17,360
All those helicopters were part
of the military support.
867
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,119
It's day 33
of that cult standoff
868
00:50:19,199 --> 00:50:20,559
with federal authorities
near Waco.
869
00:50:20,639 --> 00:50:22,280
Discussions about
a surrender have slowed.
870
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,519
All day long,
reinforcements were brought in
871
00:50:24,599 --> 00:50:26,679
from as far away as Fort Hood.
872
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,480
I think the ATF saw
a political opportunity
873
00:50:29,559 --> 00:50:32,679
in the election of Bill Clinton,
who ran on gun control,
874
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,719
to expand its operation
and expand its reputation.
875
00:50:37,159 --> 00:50:39,400
I was really torn by Waco.
876
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,519
The FBI kept pushing for action.
877
00:50:42,599 --> 00:50:47,199
And they acted like this would be,
you know, not too difficult to do.
878
00:50:47,599 --> 00:50:49,519
And I got it, but I mean,
the truth was
879
00:50:49,599 --> 00:50:52,039
they were frustrated
by being defied.
880
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,039
Sometimes the right strategy
is to wait.
881
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,400
And I told them the story
of what we did
882
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,559
with the Covenant, the Sword,
and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas.
883
00:51:01,159 --> 00:51:02,440
But they countered,
884
00:51:02,519 --> 00:51:04,960
and this is what really mattered
to Janet Reno,
885
00:51:05,039 --> 00:51:08,639
with the prospect that Koresh
and his inner circle
886
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,159
were abusing women and children.
887
00:51:12,079 --> 00:51:15,199
Finally, I told them they should go look
at the record of what we did,
888
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:17,679
but I would leave the decision
up to them,
889
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,679
and if they decided to do it,
I would support them.
890
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,239
In Waco, Texas,
the FBI has moved
891
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,079
to a new and more active stage.
892
00:51:25,159 --> 00:51:28,079
An armored vehicle
began punching holes.
893
00:51:28,159 --> 00:51:31,079
They have been filling
the compound with tear gas.
894
00:51:32,679 --> 00:51:34,880
A little bit after noon,
895
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,199
they ended up setting fire
to the entire compound.
896
00:51:40,519 --> 00:51:44,159
Here's another angle. You can see
the black smoke from behind us.
897
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:46,840
And I was told by headquarters
898
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,639
I had to go back
and do a final press conference.
899
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,719
I said, "What am I supposed to say?
There's nobody left."
900
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,840
I have been asked
to read a statement
901
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,320
from the director of the FBI.
902
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,639
I was trying to comfort people,
903
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:03,239
but to see it all collapse
was just overwhelming.
904
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,440
McVeigh is standing
in the parlor
905
00:52:11,519 --> 00:52:14,039
of this old farmhouse
that James Nichols owns,
906
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,679
watching this live image
of Waco burning,
907
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,039
and tears are running
down his eyes,
908
00:52:20,119 --> 00:52:24,559
and he's also thinking about
his experience in the U.S. Army.
909
00:52:26,679 --> 00:52:28,079
It really bothered McVeigh
910
00:52:28,159 --> 00:52:31,159
that the same
Bradley fighting vehicles
911
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:33,719
that he had fought in
in the Persian War
912
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,559
were being used
against the people at Waco.
913
00:52:37,639 --> 00:52:41,000
That was the turning point
for McVeigh.
914
00:52:41,079 --> 00:52:44,000
He said
in that very moment he decided
915
00:52:44,079 --> 00:52:47,239
he was going to commit
an act of terrorism.
916
00:52:54,519 --> 00:52:56,360
After Ruby Ridge and Waco,
917
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,159
we had this mass mobilization
of militias.
918
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,119
This thing just really explodes.
919
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,039
The critical issue is guns.
920
00:53:14,079 --> 00:53:16,719
He became obsessed with the idea
921
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:20,000
the Democratic Party
and Bill Clinton were scheming
922
00:53:20,079 --> 00:53:22,400
to take away
Americans' right to guns.
923
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:27,119
McVeigh told a lot of people
that he was just furious at me.
924
00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:30,480
He really hated
the Assault Weapons Ban.
925
00:53:30,559 --> 00:53:32,559
It was the Assault Weapons Ban,
926
00:53:32,639 --> 00:53:36,320
just as much as Waco
and Ruby Ridge,
927
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,039
that motivated McVeigh
to bomb the Murrah Building.
928
00:53:39,119 --> 00:53:42,440
We will finally ban these assault
weapons from our street
929
00:53:42,519 --> 00:53:45,519
that have no purpose
other than to kill.
930
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,760
McVeigh charged from one end
of the country to the other.
931
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,719
Finally decided to build the bomb
after months of buying
932
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,199
50-pound bags
of ammonium nitrate
933
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,760
at weed-and-seed stores
across the Midwest,
934
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,000
buying racing-car fuel
down in Texas.
935
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:23,280
He ping-ponged back and forth
from Kingman, Arizona,
936
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,079
to Decker, Michigan,
to Buffalo, New York.
937
00:54:34,079 --> 00:54:37,760
McVeigh told us,
"Nichols and Fortier helped me."
938
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,159
He said, "I was the driving force
behind all this.
939
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:44,400
It was my plan.
It was my crime."
940
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:47,880
He came up with an action plan.
941
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:57,679
In Kansas, at the lake,
the day before the bombing,
942
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,519
with some coercion
to get Terry Nichols there,
943
00:55:00,599 --> 00:55:02,159
they build the bomb.
944
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:07,360
McVeigh said Nichols got cold feet
and McVeigh threatened him.
945
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,679
That's why he went along with it.
946
00:55:17,119 --> 00:55:20,119
April 19th,
he gets back on the interstate,
947
00:55:20,199 --> 00:55:21,360
traveling alone.
948
00:55:25,559 --> 00:55:28,719
The enemy has many resources
and assets at their disposal.
949
00:55:29,559 --> 00:55:31,679
The best one
we have here is you.
950
00:55:43,039 --> 00:55:47,840
McVeigh told us that it was like
the Death Star in Star Wars.
951
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,760
He said, "There were all kinds
of people in that Death Star
952
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:54,199
who were just like secretaries
and weren't leaders.
953
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:55,639
They were killed too.
954
00:55:56,519 --> 00:56:00,320
But people all applauded
when the Death Star blew up."
955
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,360
He said, "Yes,
innocent people had to die,
956
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,239
but that's the way it goes."
957
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,519
He calls them collateral damage.
958
00:56:29,559 --> 00:56:32,599
I walked over and introduced myself.
I said, "Mr. McVeigh,
959
00:56:32,679 --> 00:56:34,280
I've been appointed
to represent you."
960
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,880
And I think I said,
"I'm from Enid, Oklahoma."
961
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:40,559
He shook my hand and said,
"I heard you were coming."
962
00:56:40,639 --> 00:56:44,800
He explained very candidly
963
00:56:45,559 --> 00:56:47,760
why he did
what he was accused of.
964
00:56:48,199 --> 00:56:51,320
He exhibited some pride
965
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,719
in that he had managed
to carry it off.
966
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,800
He wanted a defense
based on necessity.
967
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:01,679
Said, "I had to do it
968
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,400
because they were going to kill
other American citizens.
969
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:06,159
They had to be taught a lesson."
970
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:10,079
And I said, "Well, Tim,
tell me why it was necessary
971
00:57:10,159 --> 00:57:12,480
to kill children
under the age of six."
972
00:57:13,159 --> 00:57:15,159
He said, "Well,
there were children at Waco."
973
00:57:16,159 --> 00:57:19,559
And I said,
"Well, that may be true,
974
00:57:19,639 --> 00:57:22,320
but that's not
an explanation of the necessity.
975
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,519
What that is is revenge."
976
00:57:24,599 --> 00:57:26,559
After that wouldn't go anywhere,
977
00:57:26,639 --> 00:57:29,960
what I was trying to do was
to raise a reasonable doubt.
978
00:57:30,039 --> 00:57:34,000
We could argue to the jury
the government hasn't proven it.
979
00:57:34,079 --> 00:57:38,519
I'm hopeful that no one will embarrass
the state of Oklahoma
980
00:57:38,599 --> 00:57:41,960
by doing anything
to any party in this case
981
00:57:42,039 --> 00:57:44,599
which would turn this
into a three-ring circus.
982
00:57:44,679 --> 00:57:46,199
It couldn't be seen
as a show trial.
983
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,320
It had to be seen as lawyers
vigorously representing him.
984
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,079
My opposite number
was Merrick Garland.
985
00:57:54,119 --> 00:57:56,440
He's been detained without bond.
986
00:57:56,519 --> 00:57:59,519
It's important to recognize
how Merrick Garland structured
987
00:57:59,599 --> 00:58:02,639
the criminal investigation
and trial of McVeigh.
988
00:58:02,719 --> 00:58:04,559
... testified that the cause
of the explosion
989
00:58:04,639 --> 00:58:06,800
at the Murrah Building
was a bomb
990
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:09,320
that was placed
inside a Ryder truck.
991
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:13,119
He had a prosecutor's view
in the sense
992
00:58:13,199 --> 00:58:18,519
that he wanted to keep the trial
narrow and focused and limited
993
00:58:18,599 --> 00:58:21,000
to what was needed
to make the case
994
00:58:21,079 --> 00:58:23,400
against first McVeigh
and then Nichols.
995
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:27,360
Can you give us any estimate
of how many people you still expect
996
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,000
to bring additional charges
against in this case?
997
00:58:30,079 --> 00:58:31,880
No, I'm sorry.
I really have to limit myself
998
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:33,440
to what happened
in the hearing today.
999
00:58:33,519 --> 00:58:36,840
Merrick always kind of kept his finger
on the pulse of the case.
1000
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:39,320
You know, I'm not religious,
1001
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:42,119
but I did feel
during that period of time
1002
00:58:42,199 --> 00:58:43,800
like, "Oh, this is
why I'm here."
1003
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:48,039
I mean, I really felt like
I was doing something
1004
00:58:48,119 --> 00:58:50,159
that mattered
and that was worth doing.
1005
00:58:52,039 --> 00:58:55,400
On April 19th, 1995, the bomb went off,
I was in the office.
1006
00:58:58,119 --> 00:58:59,519
DOJ wanted to show
1007
00:58:59,599 --> 00:59:03,199
that the country could give
a fair trial and due process
1008
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:04,280
to these individuals.
1009
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,119
This was right after
the O.J. Simpson case,
1010
00:59:07,199 --> 00:59:10,519
where there was such fanfare
and media attention.
1011
00:59:11,239 --> 00:59:14,880
Merrick wanted this to be all about
the crime that had occurred
1012
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:16,960
and holding
the individuals accountable.
1013
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,920
In the original indictment
itself, it did say
1014
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,239
Tim McVeigh, Terry Nichols,
and "others unknown."
1015
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,840
- Why am I so confident we got...?
- Why are you so confident?
1016
00:59:30,599 --> 00:59:33,440
The thoroughness
of the investigation.
1017
00:59:33,519 --> 00:59:35,599
FBI interviewed so many people
that we could find.
1018
00:59:35,679 --> 00:59:38,800
If you wanted to, you know,
find somebody who said that,
1019
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,079
you know, Madonna did the bombing,
you could find someone like that.
1020
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:47,719
Both Nichols and McVeigh
had big defense teams
1021
00:59:48,079 --> 00:59:49,400
at taxpayer expense.
1022
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,400
And I think
their strategies differed.
1023
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,599
Stephen Jones had this whole
public relations strategy,
1024
00:59:56,679 --> 00:59:58,679
where he, you know,
traveled around the world
1025
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:00,519
to try to find
these "others unknown."
1026
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:04,800
To say that there were
others unknown was true.
1027
01:00:05,639 --> 01:00:07,599
We were accused
of being conspiracy theorists,
1028
01:00:07,679 --> 01:00:10,719
but, of course, it was the government
that alleged there was a conspiracy.
1029
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:12,440
We were just simply arguing over
1030
01:00:12,519 --> 01:00:14,679
how large was the conspiracy
and who was there.
1031
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:22,519
Tim wanted to be seen as,
"This was the perfect mission.
1032
01:00:22,599 --> 01:00:25,440
The building was destroyed,
people were killed,
1033
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,920
there will be a revolution.
I have set the revolution in motion.
1034
01:00:31,199 --> 01:00:33,960
Me. No one else, me.
Me, myself, and I."
1035
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:36,840
It took probably about...
1036
01:00:38,159 --> 01:00:42,800
seven or eight days for me to start
realizing that he was lying.
1037
01:00:43,679 --> 01:00:44,880
Repeatedly.
1038
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,679
Probably the first one, I said,
"Tim, you've told me
1039
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,920
that no one else is involved.
1040
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,480
So why is the government talking
to Michael and Lori Fortier?
1041
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:58,000
What do they know
that we don't know?"
1042
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,840
He didn't wanna reveal
who others were.
1043
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:03,480
He didn't wanna solve
the mystery.
1044
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:11,280
It was actually
my husband, Glenn,
1045
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,119
who started asking questions.
1046
01:01:13,199 --> 01:01:18,360
It's consumed our life. Our life took
a 180-degree turn that day.
1047
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:21,559
And it probably will never be
the same again.
1048
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:25,280
After the bombing,
I was so broken.
1049
01:01:26,599 --> 01:01:29,639
For the first few weeks,
I probably sat in a chair and cried.
1050
01:01:30,559 --> 01:01:33,239
But when I got out of the chair,
1051
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,079
we had a dinner at our home
1052
01:01:35,159 --> 01:01:37,159
for the families
that had lost their children.
1053
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:40,199
The saddest of times.
1054
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:43,000
You get 19 families
that lost their children.
1055
01:01:44,599 --> 01:01:46,119
One of the young mothers said
1056
01:01:46,199 --> 01:01:48,880
when she dropped her boy off
that morning,
1057
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:52,119
that she had seen
the bomb squad downtown.
1058
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:55,440
We're going, "How do you know
it was the bomb squad?"
1059
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:59,519
Finally, very indignantly,
she said they had big blue letters.
1060
01:02:00,519 --> 01:02:03,800
Then we found a newspaper article
from The Panola Watchman.
1061
01:02:06,159 --> 01:02:08,800
It was an interview
about this whole office full of people.
1062
01:02:09,679 --> 01:02:12,760
They had been watching
the bomb squad in the alleyway.
1063
01:02:14,719 --> 01:02:18,679
The next day my husband, Glenn,
goes to the fire station.
1064
01:02:19,519 --> 01:02:22,800
The fire chief said,
"Oh, no, sir, we had no idea."
1065
01:02:23,719 --> 01:02:26,159
As my husband's leaving,
the dispatcher there, he says,
1066
01:02:26,239 --> 01:02:28,199
"I'm not gonna lie for anybody."
1067
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,400
He said, "We got a memo
in this office last week
1068
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,760
to be on high terrorist alert."
1069
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:35,719
The fire department
received a call from the FBI
1070
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,599
five days before the bombing,
warning that
1071
01:02:38,679 --> 01:02:40,559
"there were some people
coming through town
1072
01:02:40,639 --> 01:02:42,960
they should be on the lookout for."
1073
01:02:43,039 --> 01:02:46,719
When the fire chief is confronted
with this information, he said,
1074
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,280
"You know what,
I made a mistake.
1075
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:52,079
It was our bomb squad truck
down there."
1076
01:02:52,679 --> 01:02:56,079
The ATF director told reporters
they had taken some precaution
1077
01:02:56,159 --> 01:02:58,639
for the second anniversary
of the siege in Waco.
1078
01:02:58,719 --> 01:03:00,199
I was very concerned about that.
1079
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:02,639
We did some things
here in headquarters
1080
01:03:02,719 --> 01:03:04,960
and in all of our field offices
throughout the country
1081
01:03:05,039 --> 01:03:08,239
to try to be more observant.
But it was primarily...
1082
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:09,920
We didn't anticipate
something like this.
1083
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:14,559
We were thinking about
demonstrations and things like that.
1084
01:03:14,639 --> 01:03:16,199
I think, yeah,
we should have known
1085
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,440
that there was some danger
in the building that day
1086
01:03:18,519 --> 01:03:24,280
due to the fact that April 19th
is such a special day to the right wing.
1087
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:26,559
So you're not somebody
that could be characterized
1088
01:03:26,639 --> 01:03:29,199
as a conspiracy-theory person,
1089
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,400
in the sense that you feel
the federal government was,
1090
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,440
in some way,
part of this explosion?
1091
01:03:33,519 --> 01:03:35,039
No. Not at all.
1092
01:03:36,119 --> 01:03:40,159
Glenn and I had so many questions.
After the bombing,
1093
01:03:40,239 --> 01:03:42,480
they started the biggest manhunt
in American history
1094
01:03:42,559 --> 01:03:43,840
for John Doe Number 2.
1095
01:03:45,119 --> 01:03:47,599
And then they called it off.
1096
01:03:49,519 --> 01:03:52,400
The government
originally described two men.
1097
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:54,199
They had the sketches of them.
1098
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:56,599
And there were
numerous credible people
1099
01:03:56,679 --> 01:04:00,199
in downtown Oklahoma City
just before the bombing
1100
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:03,639
that claimed that they saw
McVeigh and someone else.
1101
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:06,840
The government then,
about 30 days later,
1102
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:10,039
said there isn't any John Doe 2.
It was a mistake.
1103
01:04:12,039 --> 01:04:16,840
We had learned enough by then that
we knew there was something wrong.
1104
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:22,000
Twenty-two eyewitnesses
told the FBI
1105
01:04:22,079 --> 01:04:24,480
they saw McVeigh downtown
the morning of the bombing,
1106
01:04:24,559 --> 01:04:26,679
and they all saw him
with someone else.
1107
01:04:28,559 --> 01:04:31,559
This is Michael Moroz's testimony
1108
01:04:31,639 --> 01:04:35,920
about McVeigh pulling up
at Johnny's Tire Shop.
1109
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:37,920
There was definitely
a second person, no matter what.
1110
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:40,679
He had dark hair,
maybe a dark complexion.
1111
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:42,320
He wasn't fair-skinned.
I'm fair-skinned.
1112
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:44,639
I can tell the difference
between fair and dark skin.
1113
01:04:44,719 --> 01:04:48,760
They brought him in.
He picks McVeigh out of the lineup,
1114
01:04:49,599 --> 01:04:52,639
and he tells them there was
the man in the ball cap
1115
01:04:52,719 --> 01:04:54,440
in the passenger side of the truck.
1116
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:00,679
I did get a lot of flak
from the families and survivors
1117
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:04,000
when I wanted to find out
about the others involved.
1118
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:08,159
To try and point the blame
at somebody else
1119
01:05:08,239 --> 01:05:10,639
besides the people
who parked the truck out front
1120
01:05:10,719 --> 01:05:12,079
is irresponsible.
1121
01:05:12,159 --> 01:05:15,880
There are unanswered questions
that we want answers to.
1122
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:19,400
I know that Melissa and Sharon
have expressed views
1123
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,920
that they think all the truth
will come out in the trial.
1124
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:24,199
What do you think
the truth is in all of this?
1125
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:27,559
Do you support your parents that there
are many other people involved?
1126
01:05:27,639 --> 01:05:29,199
Definitely. I believe
what they're doing
1127
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,239
is the right thing,
they're gonna find the truth,
1128
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,320
and then when
they find out the truth
1129
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:36,159
and everybody knows
what's been going on,
1130
01:05:36,239 --> 01:05:38,039
then we can put this
all behind us.
1131
01:05:40,039 --> 01:05:44,079
A federal judge has moved
the Oklahoma bombing trial to Denver,
1132
01:05:44,159 --> 01:05:46,920
saying the defendants can't get
a fair trial in Oklahoma.
1133
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,679
The judge said that outweighs
the wishes of victims' families
1134
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:53,159
who wanted the trial in Oklahoma,
making it easier for them to attend.
1135
01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:58,519
What happened April 19th, 1995,
I don't want anybody to ever forget.
1136
01:05:58,599 --> 01:06:01,400
In the beginning,
I started drinking,
1137
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:04,679
and one night walking back
to the bedroom,
1138
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:07,039
I passed out
and cracked my head open.
1139
01:06:07,119 --> 01:06:11,800
And I thought at that time I'd better
find something positive to do
1140
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:13,639
or I'm going to kill myself.
1141
01:06:14,519 --> 01:06:18,599
So I started a group called
Families and Survivors United.
1142
01:06:19,599 --> 01:06:22,519
The pre-trial hearings started.
1143
01:06:22,599 --> 01:06:26,400
Judge Matsch said, "Okay,
you can be in this courtroom,
1144
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:29,039
but if you want to give
an impact statement,
1145
01:06:29,119 --> 01:06:32,960
you better leave,
because you can't do both."
1146
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:37,320
I said, "Wait a minute.
I have a right to be in that courtroom."
1147
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:42,239
On April the 19th, 1995,
1148
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,559
the bomb that shattered
the Alfred P. Murrah Building
1149
01:06:44,639 --> 01:06:47,880
in Oklahoma City
also shattered my life.
1150
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:50,039
The victims' lobby
in the Oklahoma City bombing
1151
01:06:50,119 --> 01:06:52,920
was so powerful that
they actually got a law passed.
1152
01:06:54,119 --> 01:06:57,559
It was a miracle. It went through
the House and Senate
1153
01:06:57,639 --> 01:07:00,000
and was signed by Clinton
in two days.
1154
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,280
Prosecutors in
the Oklahoma City bombing case
1155
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:08,159
have a valuable new witness,
Michael Fortier.
1156
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:11,840
At first, Michael Fortier
refuses to cooperate.
1157
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,000
But he's got
a wife that's pregnant.
1158
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:17,960
He makes a deal
that he will fully cooperate
1159
01:07:18,039 --> 01:07:19,920
as long as Lori
doesn't go to prison.
1160
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:25,760
Fortier said, "McVeigh told me
he wanted to bomb the building
1161
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:28,679
on the anniversary of Waco,
April 19th,
1162
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,679
and that the bombing would trigger
a second American Revolution."
1163
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:35,440
McVeigh confided everything
in him.
1164
01:07:35,519 --> 01:07:36,599
And to Lori.
1165
01:07:37,679 --> 01:07:40,239
The most memorable moment
in the trial to me
1166
01:07:40,559 --> 01:07:45,719
was when Lori Fortier talked
about Timothy McVeigh
1167
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:51,000
getting Campbell's Soup cans
out of the kitchen cabinet
1168
01:07:51,079 --> 01:07:53,880
and laying out
how he was going to arrange
1169
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,519
the barrels of explosives
in the truck.
1170
01:07:56,599 --> 01:07:59,039
It was so real. It was so vivid.
1171
01:07:59,119 --> 01:08:02,880
It was the kind of thing
you couldn't make up if you wanted to.
1172
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:06,800
I sat with Michael Fortier
for hundreds of hours.
1173
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:10,920
I know everybody who was called
on the Spotlight phone card.
1174
01:08:12,599 --> 01:08:15,639
When you ask me
why I'm so confident
1175
01:08:15,719 --> 01:08:17,159
that we got the right guys
1176
01:08:17,239 --> 01:08:19,680
and that there's no one else
kind of out there,
1177
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:22,479
it's because of things
like Fortier and the phone card.
1178
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:26,199
This was the government's
version of the case,
1179
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:30,920
that the Spotlight calling card
is the sum and substance
1180
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:33,039
of McVeigh
and Nichols' contacts,
1181
01:08:33,359 --> 01:08:36,640
and it doesn't disclose
any co-conspirators.
1182
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:43,039
I've seen 302s.
302s are a report by the FBI.
1183
01:08:43,119 --> 01:08:45,199
Private citizens have said
the morning of the bombing
1184
01:08:45,279 --> 01:08:48,560
they saw somebody else
in that truck with McVeigh.
1185
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:50,319
That's very troubling to me.
1186
01:08:50,399 --> 01:08:53,760
And I will tell you why I think
that never got followed up.
1187
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:58,279
Had they introduced that
and followed that line of investigation,
1188
01:08:58,359 --> 01:09:00,159
that would have diminished
his culpability.
1189
01:09:00,239 --> 01:09:01,640
The defense didn't bring it up
1190
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,399
because it's one more witness
that says McVeigh was there.
1191
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:08,800
We didn't call
any of the eyewitnesses
1192
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:11,680
because their testimony would
have been damaging to McVeigh.
1193
01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:13,800
To call them, we're establishing
1194
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:18,159
that McVeigh was
in downtown Oklahoma City
1195
01:09:18,239 --> 01:09:21,600
when the government's case
was largely circumstantial.
1196
01:09:23,239 --> 01:09:25,960
The sister of Oklahoma City
bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh
1197
01:09:26,039 --> 01:09:29,079
says she's sorry she has
to cooperate with prosecutors
1198
01:09:29,159 --> 01:09:30,600
in the case against her brother.
1199
01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:34,079
I think he's been unfairly demonized.
He's just a normal person.
1200
01:09:35,239 --> 01:09:37,319
not this evil thing
they're painting him to be.
1201
01:09:37,399 --> 01:09:40,319
She says FBI agents
frightened her into cooperating
1202
01:09:40,399 --> 01:09:42,800
by threatening her
with prosecution.
1203
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:48,199
I was responsible for trying to prepare
Jennifer McVeigh as a witness.
1204
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:50,840
Jennifer McVeigh's testimony,
1205
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:55,279
I think was dramatic from beginning
to end because of who she was.
1206
01:09:56,119 --> 01:09:59,159
She said when she heard
about the bombing,
1207
01:09:59,239 --> 01:10:01,000
she immediately had
this eerie feeling
1208
01:10:01,079 --> 01:10:05,279
that she knew that her brother
might have been involved.
1209
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:11,039
We did our best.
1210
01:10:11,119 --> 01:10:13,319
We put all of our energy
and effort into it,
1211
01:10:13,399 --> 01:10:15,279
and we'll wait
and see what the jury says.
1212
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,800
Giving the court case number
1213
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:22,800
for The United States
v. Timothy James McVeigh.
1214
01:10:22,880 --> 01:10:25,359
Guilty.
Guilty on all 11 counts.
1215
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:33,079
It's as though
Tim wanted us to fail.
1216
01:10:33,159 --> 01:10:35,119
He wanted to say, "I did it."
1217
01:10:35,199 --> 01:10:39,479
But first, he wanted the jury trial
just in case he got off.
1218
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:43,840
But then when he didn't get off,
then he wanted the fame,
1219
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:46,560
or infamy, that he did it.
1220
01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:49,960
I went to Tim, and I said,
1221
01:10:50,039 --> 01:10:54,960
"Tim, I need to tell you that I'm not
the lawyer you need for the appeal.
1222
01:10:55,039 --> 01:10:56,680
I'm going to seek to withdraw."
1223
01:10:57,439 --> 01:11:00,199
I told him that I had figured out
1224
01:11:00,279 --> 01:11:03,560
where he had lied
and the proof that he had lied.
1225
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:07,880
And when I finished, he said,
"How would the truth help me?"
1226
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:14,399
And I mistakenly said,
"I don't know that it would."
1227
01:11:17,039 --> 01:11:19,640
I think people forget
that a prosecution is not there
1228
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:24,079
to lay out a historical record
of the entire movement
1229
01:11:24,159 --> 01:11:27,079
or in everything that
McVeigh ever did in his life.
1230
01:11:27,159 --> 01:11:30,159
That's what history books are for,
and that's a different goal.
1231
01:11:30,239 --> 01:11:32,359
Here, it was to prove the elements
of the crime
1232
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:34,319
and hold him accountable.
1233
01:11:34,399 --> 01:11:36,560
The criminal law
can only do so much.
1234
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:39,199
And we got everybody
1235
01:11:39,279 --> 01:11:43,439
who was legally, criminally
responsible for the bombing.
1236
01:11:44,319 --> 01:11:46,920
There could have been
other people who were...
1237
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:50,359
If we had the evidence,
could've been criminally culpable.
1238
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:52,479
But then there's
a whole universe of people
1239
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:54,279
who were not criminally culpable,
1240
01:11:54,359 --> 01:11:57,760
but who bear some measure
of moral responsibility.
1241
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:03,199
Tim McVeigh was part of the group
that wanted to declare war on America.
1242
01:12:04,079 --> 01:12:07,039
The government thought,
"We tried to round them all up once
1243
01:12:07,119 --> 01:12:10,640
with this sedition trial in '88,
and we blew it.
1244
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:13,920
We can't do that again.
We have to limit this."
1245
01:12:15,239 --> 01:12:17,399
And the American people
are none the wiser
1246
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:22,760
about how ugly and how serious
some Americans are
1247
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:25,319
about destroying this nation.
1248
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:33,279
We always believed that there had
to be more people involved.
1249
01:12:35,159 --> 01:12:37,119
We started talking
to militia groups,
1250
01:12:37,199 --> 01:12:39,760
people who may have
supported them.
1251
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:42,960
These extreme beliefs just
weren't held by a few people.
1252
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:45,640
Actually, there were
a lot of people out there
1253
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:48,000
who felt the way McVeigh did.
1254
01:12:50,359 --> 01:12:53,720
So we would go to places
like Elohim City
1255
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:55,520
in far eastern Oklahoma,
1256
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:57,920
where we believed
that McVeigh had passed through.
1257
01:13:00,399 --> 01:13:02,880
They were following
Christian identity.
1258
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:06,720
Their belief was anything
that wasn't white was subhuman.
1259
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:09,199
If you just want to boil down to it,
that's what it was.
1260
01:13:12,800 --> 01:13:15,479
Elohim City is key
to a lot of things here.
1261
01:13:16,199 --> 01:13:18,520
I think McVeigh
definitely was at Elohim City.
1262
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,079
ATF had an informant
that put him there, Carol Howe.
1263
01:13:22,319 --> 01:13:25,880
NBC has learned that the community
was penetrated by this woman,
1264
01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:28,520
Carol Howe,
a paid government informant,
1265
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,680
who was gathering information
on possible threats
1266
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:32,199
against the U.S. government.
1267
01:13:32,279 --> 01:13:34,119
The government acknowledges
in federal documents
1268
01:13:34,199 --> 01:13:36,000
that she was their informant.
1269
01:13:36,079 --> 01:13:38,239
Carol Howe was
an Oklahoma aristocrat.
1270
01:13:38,319 --> 01:13:42,279
Her father was the CEO of
a Fortune 500 company in Tulsa.
1271
01:13:42,359 --> 01:13:46,199
But when she was just into her 20s,
she got caught up
1272
01:13:46,279 --> 01:13:49,079
with some really crazy
right-wing folks.
1273
01:13:50,159 --> 01:13:53,840
At the same time,
she became an informant
1274
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:56,199
for the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms.
1275
01:13:57,319 --> 01:13:59,680
We started following
the trail of neo-Nazis,
1276
01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:03,920
and she had a neo-Nazi boyfriend,
a guy named Dennis Mahon.
1277
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:05,119
The faster this country falls,
1278
01:14:05,199 --> 01:14:07,760
the faster we'll be able
to rebuild a nation for ourself.
1279
01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:10,520
Remarkably, Howe and Mahon
appeared together
1280
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:13,479
in a 1994
German television interview.
1281
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:16,000
Howe gave the government
information before the bombing
1282
01:14:16,079 --> 01:14:18,000
on alleged threats
by others in Elohim City,
1283
01:14:18,319 --> 01:14:20,560
including this man,
Andreas Strassmeir.
1284
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:21,880
According to federal documents,
1285
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:24,079
Strassmeir was
the military training officer
1286
01:14:24,159 --> 01:14:25,840
for Mahon's organization.
1287
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:27,720
Strassmeir was last seen
in Germany.
1288
01:14:30,119 --> 01:14:33,359
This is one of Carol Howe's
reports to her ATF handler.
1289
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,039
She's talking about Andreas Strassmeir
at Elohim City.
1290
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:41,199
"Andy leads the young adults
in guerrilla warfare
1291
01:14:41,279 --> 01:14:42,640
and tactical maneuvers.
1292
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:46,359
His 'plans,' quote,
1293
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:50,520
are to forcibly act to destroy
the U.S. government
1294
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:53,439
with direct actions and operations,
1295
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:57,640
assassinations, bombings,
mass shootings, et cetera.
1296
01:14:57,720 --> 01:15:00,880
He believes
we cannot out-breed the enemy,
1297
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:03,880
so we must use
mass genocide against them.
1298
01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:08,039
And of course the biggest enemy,
the U.S. government."
1299
01:15:10,159 --> 01:15:13,720
She reported that there was
an increasing discussion of violence
1300
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,720
and there was a discussion
about blowing up a building,
1301
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:20,199
even to the point
that they made a visit
1302
01:15:20,279 --> 01:15:21,960
to Oklahoma City
and drove around.
1303
01:15:22,039 --> 01:15:25,560
There wouldn't have probably been
an Oklahoma City bombing
1304
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:28,439
had Elohim City been
investigated more diligently.
1305
01:15:29,399 --> 01:15:31,479
Carol Howe knew
what was happening
1306
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:33,680
and she told them
she had seen a guy.
1307
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:35,399
They identified him
as Tim Tuttle.
1308
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:38,359
At the time, she wouldn't have known
anything about who this guy was.
1309
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:40,359
But after the bombing,
1310
01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:43,439
she knew it was Tim McVeigh.
She had seen his pictures.
1311
01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:46,359
Tim was walking through camp
with Andreas Strassmeir,
1312
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:49,920
just some guy named Tim Tuttle
walking with Andy the German.
1313
01:15:51,199 --> 01:15:54,079
Andy Strassmeir
was an important person
1314
01:15:54,159 --> 01:15:56,520
that I thought
needed to be interviewed.
1315
01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,159
I was able to meet
with Strassmeir.
1316
01:16:00,239 --> 01:16:02,720
And I asked
a simple question. I said,
1317
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:08,159
"Why is it that there are 302s,
FBI 302s, interviews,
1318
01:16:08,239 --> 01:16:12,039
with all of these different
radical people,
1319
01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:15,159
but they don't have you?"
1320
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:18,720
As I expected, you know,
he knew nothing.
1321
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:22,319
He might have met Tim
at a gun show. Couldn't remember.
1322
01:16:25,399 --> 01:16:29,000
I forgot about this person
when I walked out of the show in Tulsa.
1323
01:16:29,079 --> 01:16:32,520
You know, because it's just one
of many people I met there.
1324
01:16:33,199 --> 01:16:35,840
But it's possible
that he remembered me
1325
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:39,600
and that he had a card
from our church.
1326
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:41,520
One of the things
that really concerned me
1327
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,399
was when I got a hold
of McVeigh's phone records.
1328
01:16:45,199 --> 01:16:47,239
He called Elohim City
1329
01:16:47,319 --> 01:16:50,199
two minutes after calling
the Ryder Truck company,
1330
01:16:50,279 --> 01:16:53,920
and he asked to speak
to Andreas Strassmeir.
1331
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:56,800
I heard he made
a lot of phone calls.
1332
01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:59,840
And was telling people that
something is going to happen.
1333
01:16:59,920 --> 01:17:02,600
The FBI interviewed
thousands of people
1334
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:04,039
regarding Timothy McVeigh,
1335
01:17:04,119 --> 01:17:07,199
including his second-grade
schoolteacher.
1336
01:17:09,319 --> 01:17:13,039
But they didn't think it was important
to talk to Andreas Strassmeir.
1337
01:17:14,199 --> 01:17:17,079
He wound up leaving the country
and went back to Germany.
1338
01:17:17,159 --> 01:17:18,640
It was like
more than a year later
1339
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:21,279
that the FBI called and did
a telephone interview with him.
1340
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:25,239
Strassmeir,
there's controversy about him.
1341
01:17:25,319 --> 01:17:27,880
Some people think
he's a source of the Israelis,
1342
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:30,520
and some people think he's a source
of the West German government.
1343
01:17:31,319 --> 01:17:34,840
At the time, the German government
was very unhappy with the FBI.
1344
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:39,199
Because we have guidelines on how
we investigate domestic terrorism.
1345
01:17:39,279 --> 01:17:40,479
They're pretty limiting.
1346
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:43,079
And so they wanted to try
to get their own information.
1347
01:17:43,159 --> 01:17:44,640
Somebody should have
looked at it.
1348
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:46,560
I personally was responsible
1349
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:50,600
for searching the intelligence files
here in the United States,
1350
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:53,439
and there's no evidence
there was foreign involvement.
1351
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:55,039
McVeigh had met him
at a gun show
1352
01:17:55,119 --> 01:17:58,159
and called him, you know,
two weeks
1353
01:17:58,239 --> 01:18:00,960
before he engaged
in the bombing.
1354
01:18:01,039 --> 01:18:02,720
That doesn't show
there's any connection.
1355
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:04,520
He met lots of people
at gun shows.
1356
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:07,760
There was certainly evidence
1357
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:11,199
that Tim McVeigh had probably
been at Elohim City.
1358
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:14,119
He kept denying
that he had been there,
1359
01:18:14,199 --> 01:18:18,319
but yet, he was stopped, I believe,
by an Arkansas highway patrolman
1360
01:18:18,399 --> 01:18:21,039
on a road that led
to Elohim City.
1361
01:18:21,119 --> 01:18:23,319
There were people that said
he had been there.
1362
01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:26,880
I told him, I said,
"Tim, you know and I know...
1363
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:30,239
that you were used."
He didn't say anything.
1364
01:18:30,319 --> 01:18:32,399
He didn't say,
"No, that didn't happen."
1365
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:34,479
The way that group
was always together,
1366
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:36,680
there's just no way
he was not there.
1367
01:18:39,479 --> 01:18:42,880
Strassmeir was there,
Ellison was there,
1368
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:45,359
Snell was buried there
in Elohim City.
1369
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:49,199
On the day Snell was executed,
1370
01:18:49,279 --> 01:18:52,560
he asked for the TV
to be turned on in his cell,
1371
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:54,479
and the prison watch log
notes that,
1372
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:57,319
"Inmate Snell smiled
and chuckled
1373
01:18:57,399 --> 01:19:00,079
as he watched the coverage
of the Oklahoma City bombing."
1374
01:19:00,159 --> 01:19:03,840
It's just hard for me to believe
that it was all coincidence.
1375
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,279
It's not a coincidence.
1376
01:19:06,359 --> 01:19:08,279
Remember, the idea of blowing up
the Murrah Building
1377
01:19:08,359 --> 01:19:11,560
was hatched ten years earlier
among members
1378
01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:14,279
of the Covenant, Sword,
and Arm of the Lord.
1379
01:19:14,359 --> 01:19:17,399
This was a plan
that not just McVeigh
1380
01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:19,880
but others
who were at Elohim City
1381
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:22,199
decided to resurrect
from the ashes.
1382
01:19:23,079 --> 01:19:27,199
I came to understand
Elohim City was the training ground.
1383
01:19:27,279 --> 01:19:29,479
The Covenant, the Sword,
and the Arm of the Lord
1384
01:19:29,560 --> 01:19:33,159
had moved its operations
to the Cookson Hills of Oklahoma.
1385
01:19:33,239 --> 01:19:36,399
And that's where they were
gonna train these people
1386
01:19:36,479 --> 01:19:40,159
to overthrow the government.
These guys were ready for war.
1387
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:48,399
In court, McVeigh watched intently
as the jury filed in.
1388
01:19:48,479 --> 01:19:51,039
Judge Richard Matsch
asked for their decision.
1389
01:19:51,119 --> 01:19:53,560
"The jury recommends
the following," said the judge.
1390
01:19:53,640 --> 01:19:56,399
"That Timothy James McVeigh
be sentenced to death."
1391
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:01,359
I went to the bomb site
every day after the bombing,
1392
01:20:01,439 --> 01:20:04,520
asking myself,
"What can I do to feel better?"
1393
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:07,560
And I finally came
to the conclusion
1394
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,159
that the day we would take
Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols
1395
01:20:10,239 --> 01:20:11,680
from their cage to kill them
1396
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:14,880
was simply not going to be
part of my healing process.
1397
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:20,319
My husband was dying
during McVeigh's trial.
1398
01:20:21,239 --> 01:20:23,560
The babies are dead,
and then Glenn died.
1399
01:20:24,600 --> 01:20:26,520
The trials came and went.
1400
01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:28,560
There's a lot
of unanswered questions.
1401
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:34,960
I believe I owed it to them
to continue that journey
1402
01:20:35,039 --> 01:20:37,760
to try to get answers
to these questions.
1403
01:20:39,119 --> 01:20:41,119
Over the years,
it's been a balancing act,
1404
01:20:41,199 --> 01:20:45,199
almost like a tightrope act
for me,
1405
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:48,840
to not get lumped in
with the crazies.
1406
01:20:49,199 --> 01:20:53,359
I needed to just find my truth,
not invent it.
1407
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:58,039
I learned about these groups
around the country.
1408
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:02,800
They thrive on hate.
1409
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:04,600
And I think it's like a cancer.
1410
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:10,039
I went to the Aryan Nation compound
in Hayden Lake, Idaho.
1411
01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:13,520
I'd heard that Timothy McVeigh
had been through there,
1412
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:16,600
and that's how they helped
shape his hateful ideals.
1413
01:21:19,680 --> 01:21:22,840
And I said, "I'm here
to see Pastor Richard Butler."
1414
01:21:24,319 --> 01:21:26,600
For me, he's the head of the snake.
1415
01:21:28,359 --> 01:21:31,199
But I've got a desperation
to know the truth,
1416
01:21:32,359 --> 01:21:35,039
and I'm willing to dance
with the devil to get it.
1417
01:21:36,119 --> 01:21:39,600
We're talking about creating
a national state for the white Aryan.
1418
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,159
He begins his sermon,
and he looks at me, and he says,
1419
01:21:42,239 --> 01:21:45,680
"One man's terrorist is
another man's freedom fighter,"
1420
01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:47,920
and that Timothy McVeigh
was a great man
1421
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:49,439
and a martyr for the cause.
1422
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:51,520
And he actually teared up
when he said,
1423
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:55,319
"I am so sorry about
your little Aryan grandsons."
1424
01:21:55,399 --> 01:21:57,640
He said, "I cried
when I saw them on TV."
1425
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:03,960
Since the tragedy here
in Oklahoma City,
1426
01:22:04,039 --> 01:22:08,279
some of those who lost loved ones
have found a new purpose in life.
1427
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:11,800
Bud Welch, Kathy Wilburn,
good morning.
1428
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:13,920
- So nice to see you both.
- Good morning.
1429
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:16,439
I know that both of you
call Bill McVeigh,
1430
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:19,800
Timothy McVeigh's father,
the forgotten victim.
1431
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:23,479
If I put myself in his shoes,
and I wonder how it must feel to,
1432
01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:25,880
you know, to wait
to have your child executed,
1433
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:27,640
it's got to be terrifying.
1434
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:29,600
We have to recognize
what an execution is.
1435
01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:31,920
An execution is an event.
It's staged.
1436
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:34,159
We know what time
the killing's going to happen.
1437
01:22:34,239 --> 01:22:36,479
It's nothing more
than a staged political event.
1438
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:39,399
It does nothing more or less
for society than that.
1439
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:43,720
Tim McVeigh's father
was on the news.
1440
01:22:45,439 --> 01:22:48,399
I could see this man,
a broken man,
1441
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,159
with grief in his eyes.
1442
01:22:52,039 --> 01:22:53,560
And my thought was,
1443
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:57,439
"I want to go tell that man
that I care how he feels,
1444
01:22:58,239 --> 01:23:01,199
and I don't blame him
for what his son had done."
1445
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:07,520
When Bill opened the door,
and he introduced me to Jennifer,
1446
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:12,720
and there's a picture
kind of behind me of Tim.
1447
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:15,960
I looked at Bill
out of the corner of my eye,
1448
01:23:16,039 --> 01:23:18,760
and I could see at that moment
1449
01:23:20,399 --> 01:23:23,319
a love that this father had
for this son.
1450
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:28,079
And Jennifer just kind of
went to sobbing.
1451
01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:32,319
And I held her face in my hands,
and I said, "Honey,
1452
01:23:33,399 --> 01:23:35,000
I'll do everything I can
1453
01:23:36,399 --> 01:23:39,399
to keep your brother
from being killed."
1454
01:23:40,399 --> 01:23:43,000
All of a sudden, it felt
like this tremendous weight
1455
01:23:43,079 --> 01:23:45,279
had been removed
from my shoulders,
1456
01:23:45,359 --> 01:23:48,439
and I never felt closer to God
than I did at that moment.
1457
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:53,720
Because what I recognized
that Saturday morning was...
1458
01:23:56,479 --> 01:23:59,640
the day that our parents die,
1459
01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:02,000
we go to the hilltop,
and we bury them.
1460
01:24:03,119 --> 01:24:06,880
The day our children die,
we bury them in our heart,
1461
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:09,279
and that never goes away.
1462
01:24:16,079 --> 01:24:19,640
Terry Nichols entered the courthouse
on the first day of his trial.
1463
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:21,439
He will face a crowd of people.
1464
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:24,560
Twelve of those could
ultimately decide if he dies.
1465
01:24:26,319 --> 01:24:30,840
If I had the opportunity
to sit down with Terry Nichols,
1466
01:24:31,359 --> 01:24:34,720
I would press
on who else was involved.
1467
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:36,000
Where did the money come from?
1468
01:24:37,199 --> 01:24:39,359
Yes! Much to plunder.
1469
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:44,199
- You boys had a good mission.
- Nest egg!
1470
01:24:44,279 --> 01:24:47,560
Did the funding for the Oklahoma City
bombing come from those robberies
1471
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:49,640
that were done
by radical groups?
1472
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:53,680
The accused Midwestern Bank
Bandits are white supremacists
1473
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:57,159
who allegedly robbed
22 banks in seven states.
1474
01:24:57,239 --> 01:25:01,920
The take, $250,000.
Law enforcement officials believe
1475
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,479
the money was distributed to
other white supremacist groups.
1476
01:25:05,399 --> 01:25:08,479
Members of the gang were frequent
visitors to Elohim City.
1477
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:12,960
Tim had no visible means of support.
1478
01:25:14,159 --> 01:25:16,720
You gotta feed yourself,
you gotta keep the car going,
1479
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:20,079
you gotta have money to be able
to spend the night someplace.
1480
01:25:20,159 --> 01:25:23,640
He was always renting a room.
Where'd the money come from?
1481
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:29,000
And then I read his sister said
that he told her in this letter
1482
01:25:29,079 --> 01:25:31,439
that he got some money
out of robbing banks.
1483
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:33,039
And there were other robberies.
1484
01:25:33,119 --> 01:25:35,640
He also robbed a gun dealer
named Roger Moore.
1485
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:38,600
About six months before
the Oklahoma City bombing,
1486
01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:41,640
a masked gunman allegedly
robbed gun dealer Roger Moore
1487
01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:44,520
of gold bullion, coins,
and weapons.
1488
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:46,680
McVeigh met
this fellow, Roger Moore,
1489
01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:47,880
at one of the gun shows,
1490
01:25:48,319 --> 01:25:51,560
and they become
something of business partners.
1491
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:55,319
He and Roger Moore
ultimately had a falling out,
1492
01:25:55,399 --> 01:25:59,000
and McVeigh is the mastermind
behind a robbery
1493
01:25:59,079 --> 01:26:00,399
at Roger Moore's house.
1494
01:26:00,479 --> 01:26:03,680
And Terry Nichols
committed the robbery.
1495
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:05,600
Roger Moore
was called as a witness
1496
01:26:05,680 --> 01:26:08,159
because Terry Nichols
and Timothy McVeigh
1497
01:26:08,239 --> 01:26:10,079
stole weapons from him,
1498
01:26:10,159 --> 01:26:14,159
and they were used in part
to fund the bombing.
1499
01:26:16,159 --> 01:26:19,800
At Terry Nichols' trial, he was not like
Timothy McVeigh at all.
1500
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:21,840
He didn't make eye contact
with anyone.
1501
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:23,600
He was always looking down.
1502
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:26,960
When the judge had a recess,
1503
01:26:27,039 --> 01:26:29,399
I saw this little lady
standing out in the hall.
1504
01:26:30,359 --> 01:26:32,920
I realized it was
Terry Nichols' mother.
1505
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:35,640
I walked up to her.
I said, "I'm Kathy Wilburn."
1506
01:26:35,720 --> 01:26:37,960
She begins to cry and said,
"I know who you are.
1507
01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:41,279
I've seen you on TV."
1508
01:26:41,359 --> 01:26:42,920
And I put my arms around her,
and I said,
1509
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:46,399
"Well, I want you to know
how sorry I am for your family."
1510
01:26:46,479 --> 01:26:50,000
And then we went back in the courtroom
and I just sat down with her.
1511
01:26:50,079 --> 01:26:52,560
It was like Terry Nichols,
the bomber,
1512
01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:54,840
became my friend Joyce's son.
1513
01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:00,640
The jury thought he was guilty,
but they didn't know how guilty.
1514
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:02,520
They had questions just like I did.
1515
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:05,119
The jury found Nichols guilty
1516
01:27:05,199 --> 01:27:08,680
of only conspiracy
and involuntary manslaughter.
1517
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:12,319
Nichols won't get the death penalty
for his federal conspiracy conviction.
1518
01:27:13,119 --> 01:27:15,159
There are other people
out there,
1519
01:27:15,239 --> 01:27:18,239
and decisions
were probably made very early on
1520
01:27:18,319 --> 01:27:21,720
that Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols
were who they were looking for,
1521
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:25,279
and the same sort of resources
were not used
1522
01:27:25,359 --> 01:27:27,479
to try to find out
who else might be involved.
1523
01:27:29,399 --> 01:27:32,439
A few days after the trial,
I had a letter.
1524
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:35,159
Return address was Terry Nichols.
1525
01:27:35,239 --> 01:27:40,399
And I thought, "Mm, you know,
I'm not looking for a pen pal.
1526
01:27:41,239 --> 01:27:44,000
And if I was, it wouldn't be
the Oklahoma City bomber."
1527
01:27:44,079 --> 01:27:46,800
And then it kind of like
dawned on me,
1528
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:49,720
"Well, who's going to know
more about the bombing
1529
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:50,960
than the bomber himself?"
1530
01:27:52,680 --> 01:27:54,680
We started writing
back and forth.
1531
01:27:56,159 --> 01:27:59,199
The Terry Nichols relationship,
I still don't really understand it.
1532
01:27:59,279 --> 01:28:00,359
I frequently tell my mom,
1533
01:28:00,439 --> 01:28:02,439
and when we do presentations
around the United States,
1534
01:28:02,520 --> 01:28:06,479
that if I ever saw Terry Nichols
and we were in a room together,
1535
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:07,920
I'd be the only one that comes out.
1536
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:12,279
I have forgiven, yes.
1537
01:28:12,359 --> 01:28:15,319
Do I think people
should be punished? Yes.
1538
01:28:15,399 --> 01:28:18,479
Forgiveness and punishment
are two different things.
1539
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:22,079
I want everybody involved
in this to be accountable.
1540
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:25,600
You know, forgiveness
is a choice you make.
1541
01:28:26,399 --> 01:28:27,840
You can forgive
1542
01:28:29,159 --> 01:28:30,560
or you can stay bitter.
1543
01:28:31,399 --> 01:28:35,920
And forgiving Terry Nichols was one
of the best choices I ever made.
1544
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:37,279
It changed my life.
1545
01:28:39,640 --> 01:28:42,960
Terry Nichols was remorseful,
unlike McVeigh.
1546
01:28:43,039 --> 01:28:46,279
And he told me, "Whenever
I'm not under the threat
1547
01:28:46,359 --> 01:28:49,720
of the death penalty anymore,
I'm gonna tell you everything."
1548
01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:51,119
And he has tried.
1549
01:28:54,199 --> 01:28:57,119
I'd like to read you
part of this letter
1550
01:28:57,199 --> 01:28:59,159
that Terry Nichols sent me.
1551
01:29:00,600 --> 01:29:03,119
"So to put everything
in a nutshell, Kathy,
1552
01:29:03,199 --> 01:29:06,720
Timothy McVeigh was
the manipulated foot soldier,
1553
01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:08,279
Roger Moore the middleman
1554
01:29:08,359 --> 01:29:10,640
who supplied Tim
with encouragement,
1555
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:13,600
instructions, and some explosives.
1556
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:18,359
And the top dog, the director
who orchestrated it all,
1557
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:22,520
is a rogue FBI agent
with the help of others
1558
01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:24,439
who I will not name
at this time."
1559
01:29:27,279 --> 01:29:30,000
I don't know if what he wrote
was true or not,
1560
01:29:30,079 --> 01:29:32,680
but after that letter,
he was notified by the warden
1561
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:35,079
that I was to be taken off
of his calling list.
1562
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:39,239
We've been stopped.
1563
01:29:44,439 --> 01:29:45,479
Here's how it works.
1564
01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:48,039
Timothy McVeigh lives
in a special confinement unit.
1565
01:29:48,119 --> 01:29:50,840
That is the building there
with the green roof.
1566
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:54,840
He will be transported by van
to the execution house.
1567
01:29:58,279 --> 01:30:00,199
He told us that,
1568
01:30:00,279 --> 01:30:02,800
"When the federal government
puts me to death,
1569
01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:07,399
I'm still gonna be the winner,
because it's 168 for Tim McVeigh
1570
01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:09,000
and one for the government."
1571
01:30:15,039 --> 01:30:19,159
You have these three tubes
that are coming out of a wall
1572
01:30:19,239 --> 01:30:22,520
with the three chemicals,
poison, to kill him.
1573
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:28,159
The executioner
was given the order,
1574
01:30:28,239 --> 01:30:31,159
and all of a sudden,
these tubes started swaying
1575
01:30:31,239 --> 01:30:32,920
in, like, this ghostly way.
1576
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:37,600
And meanwhile, McVeigh is
looking straight up at a camera
1577
01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:41,439
that is giving a live feed
to an auditorium
1578
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:44,760
where other victims,
and family members,
1579
01:30:44,840 --> 01:30:47,039
survivors are watching.
1580
01:30:50,279 --> 01:30:53,479
He glares
this "go to hell" look at us.
1581
01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:55,079
They push the button,
1582
01:30:56,119 --> 01:30:57,199
and he went...
1583
01:30:58,079 --> 01:30:59,039
He was gone.
1584
01:31:03,159 --> 01:31:04,840
He died with his eyes open.
1585
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:13,760
I wondered
what would've happened
1586
01:31:13,840 --> 01:31:16,880
if I'd known Timothy McVeigh
when he was a boy.
1587
01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:20,119
I wonder if I would have gone
out of my way to befriend him.
1588
01:31:20,199 --> 01:31:24,359
I wonder if...
I wonder about all that.
1589
01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:28,560
McVeigh was a tragic example
of a guy who thought
1590
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,560
our differences were more important
than what we have in common.
1591
01:31:31,640 --> 01:31:35,640
Were there objective reasons
that he felt the way he did,
1592
01:31:35,720 --> 01:31:39,319
both personal and psychological?
Absolutely.
1593
01:31:39,399 --> 01:31:41,600
And political and economic? Yes.
1594
01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:43,239
But we can't blow the house up.
1595
01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:48,840
It doesn't matter whether he was right
about anything or not.
1596
01:31:49,520 --> 01:31:52,600
What matters is he decided
he should kill people he didn't know,
1597
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:54,000
including little kids.
1598
01:31:55,079 --> 01:31:57,600
But the words he used,
the arguments he made
1599
01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:02,000
literally sound like
the mainstream today.
1600
01:32:02,079 --> 01:32:03,000
Like he won.
1601
01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:25,800
Tim McVeigh set out
to destroy the government.
1602
01:32:26,680 --> 01:32:28,039
He destroyed my family.
1603
01:32:29,039 --> 01:32:32,199
My brothers passed away
in the Oklahoma City bombing,
1604
01:32:32,279 --> 01:32:33,600
and we go there to remember.
1605
01:32:35,039 --> 01:32:38,239
The risk of terrorism, it's always
kind of in the back of your head.
1606
01:32:40,199 --> 01:32:43,119
I think there will be civil war
in our country.
1607
01:32:44,359 --> 01:32:45,439
It's frightening.
1608
01:32:46,640 --> 01:32:48,840
But there are lessons
to be learned
1609
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:51,159
from what happened here
in Oklahoma City.
1610
01:32:52,119 --> 01:32:55,600
The reason
we come back here every year
1611
01:32:55,680 --> 01:32:59,680
is that this wasn't a one-off thing.
It can really happen again.
1612
01:33:01,199 --> 01:33:04,039
Where we're standing now was
the Alfred P. Murrah Building.
1613
01:33:04,880 --> 01:33:08,479
The empty chairs
represent the 168 victims.
1614
01:33:09,159 --> 01:33:11,960
The gate behind me says "9:01,"
1615
01:33:12,039 --> 01:33:15,640
the moment of innocence
before the bombing.
1616
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:19,000
The gate over your shoulder
says "9:03,"
1617
01:33:19,520 --> 01:33:22,039
the aftermath. Today.
1618
01:33:23,920 --> 01:33:28,159
This year we're living in
is not much different from 1995.
1619
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:31,640
People yelling at each other,
1620
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:34,880
not making arguments
based on fact, but emotion.
1621
01:33:36,359 --> 01:33:38,119
Many folks feel left behind.
1622
01:33:38,199 --> 01:33:40,560
Like their American dream
has been stolen.
1623
01:33:40,640 --> 01:33:45,159
No sale! No sale!
1624
01:33:45,239 --> 01:33:46,479
No sale! No sale!
1625
01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:48,760
That rage doesn't disappear.
1626
01:33:49,960 --> 01:33:51,880
It can explode on the fringes,
1627
01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:55,760
as we've seen too many times
since April 19th, 1995.
1628
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:02,000
The Oklahoma City bombing
was a crossroads.
1629
01:34:02,760 --> 01:34:06,000
It was a huge signpost
in history.
1630
01:34:06,079 --> 01:34:07,680
"America, wake up."
1631
01:34:08,399 --> 01:34:11,560
But I think
that sign got blown down.
1632
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:13,000
...in a mass shooting.
1633
01:34:13,079 --> 01:34:15,119
...180-page manifesto.
1634
01:34:15,199 --> 01:34:17,359
He didn't come to worship.
He came to kill.
1635
01:34:17,439 --> 01:34:19,680
Tree of Life Synagogue
has never been the same.
1636
01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:22,119
Every time I hear a news report
on mass shootings,
1637
01:34:22,479 --> 01:34:26,279
and domestic terrorism,
right-wing extremism,
1638
01:34:26,359 --> 01:34:29,680
it always reminds me
of when I was in the movement,
1639
01:34:29,760 --> 01:34:32,279
how dangerously close
we as a group got,
1640
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:37,000
how dangerously close I got
to committing domestic terrorism.
1641
01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:42,920
So much has changed
from our days back in the '80s.
1642
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:47,079
How mainstream
extremism has become,
1643
01:34:48,119 --> 01:34:49,720
that was something we hoped for.
1644
01:34:50,439 --> 01:34:53,199
I'm seeing that now,
and honestly, it scares me.
1645
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:58,119
The closest thing that has happened
since Oklahoma City, of course,
1646
01:34:58,199 --> 01:35:01,359
is the January 6th riot
on the Capitol Building.
1647
01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:06,880
On January 6th,
1648
01:35:06,960 --> 01:35:09,680
I was the emergency planning
specialist
1649
01:35:09,760 --> 01:35:11,840
with the incident commander
and everybody else who showed up.
1650
01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:13,760
So I was at that scene
for about 18 hours.
1651
01:35:15,359 --> 01:35:19,239
When I saw the storming
of the Capitol on January 6th,
1652
01:35:19,319 --> 01:35:21,520
I'm thinking,
"What's the chances
1653
01:35:21,600 --> 01:35:23,640
that my boy's gonna be
down at the bombing
1654
01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:25,880
and gonna be involved
in this as well?"
1655
01:35:25,960 --> 01:35:28,560
And I was concerned
for his safety.
1656
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:33,359
There's no call for
what they did on January 6th.
1657
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:36,319
What they did was wrong,
and they should be prosecuted for it.
1658
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:40,000
Every single day,
we have protests.
1659
01:35:41,359 --> 01:35:43,600
The majority of the people
up there are peaceful.
1660
01:35:45,199 --> 01:35:47,960
But as long as our country
continues to divide itself,
1661
01:35:48,039 --> 01:35:49,680
I believe there's more to come.
1662
01:35:50,840 --> 01:35:54,279
You poke a dog long enough,
the dog's gonna bite.
1663
01:35:54,359 --> 01:35:56,720
If you're gonna push people
to the extremes,
1664
01:35:57,760 --> 01:35:59,159
violence is inevitable.
1665
01:36:08,560 --> 01:36:11,279
I drove up to
this building a hundred times.
1666
01:36:11,359 --> 01:36:16,439
We used to go on our break
up there over that wall.
1667
01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:19,880
We would stay...
We'd take treats and stuff
1668
01:36:19,960 --> 01:36:22,680
and go up there and watch
the kids play in the playground.
1669
01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:26,880
That's where I found Colton.
You know that, right? Right there.
1670
01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:35,720
When I delved into the bombing
and started having questions,
1671
01:36:35,800 --> 01:36:37,560
I told a reporter, I said,
1672
01:36:37,640 --> 01:36:41,279
"You know, it's not going to be
too many years
1673
01:36:41,359 --> 01:36:43,520
that when I tell someone
I lost my grandchildren
1674
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:45,439
in the bombing,
they'll say, 'Which one?'"
1675
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:47,640
- Exactly.
- And that's where we are today.
1676
01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:55,319
It's still hard to believe
it's been 28 years.
1677
01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:57,760
Yeah.
1678
01:36:59,239 --> 01:37:02,079
Love you guys.
We'll see you next year. You ready?
1679
01:37:03,279 --> 01:37:04,960
Yeah. Bye, guys.
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