Countdown to 4/19: The Day Of The Bombing | Part Five
Every Last Witness in Oklahoma Saw McVeigh With Others
Countdown to 4/19:
Part I: The Bomber Convoy at Sav-A-Trip
Part II: McVeigh and John Doe #2 at Phillips 66 in Stillwater
Part III: April 18th, Witnesses See McVeigh & Accomplices Downtown OKC
Part IV: April 18th, Witnesses See McVeigh & Accomplices in Newkirk and Guthrie
Part V: The Day of the Bombing
PART V: The Day of the Bombing
In this installment of our five-part series about little-known but significant eyewitness accounts from the Oklahoma City bombing investigation we focus on the morning of the attack. Earlier installments showed that, in the days leading up to the bombing, Tim McVeigh was not acting alone.
The same applies to the scene of the crime: every witness in Oklahoma City who saw Tim McVeigh, and in some cases spoke to him, saw him with one or more accomplices. Not a single person saw McVeigh alone in that truck.
We’ll chronicle these accounts—many based on exclusive FBI 302 reports obtained by this writer—and hopefully, in doing so, the reader will see clearly that Timothy McVeigh was just one soldier among several operating within a cell.
One Hour North of Oklahoma City
Mulhall, Oklahoma, is a small town (population: 212 as of 2020) located about fifty miles north of Oklahoma City. On the morning of the bombing, around 6:00 AM, several witnesses, including the Mulhall postmaster, saw Timothy McVeigh, the Ryder truck, and possible accomplices as they passed through the town—just an hour before they were later seen in downtown Oklahoma City.
The Mulhall witnesses were briefly covered in a Dallas Morning News piece from the fall of 1995. Little else has been said about these witnesses—the town isn’t mentioned in most books about the case, or in other news reports, with practically nothing written about this until now. Recently obtained exclusive FBI 302 reports from the Mulhall witnesses tell the story.1
The Farmer’s convenience store in Mulhall is located right across the street from the “Old Bank building,” a then-unoccupied property. On the morning of April 19th, 1995, around 6:00 AM, multiple residents of the little Mulhall town noticed a Ryder truck parked in the lot of the “Old Bank building.” At least four witnesses reported it to the FBI, and one of the witnesses, Nancy Fillmore, worked at the Farmer’s store. She stated that on the morning of the 19th, the Ryder truck was parked across the street, and two men entered the store. She said she thinks she sold a pack of cigarettes to McVeigh. Other witnesses reported seeing a group of 3-4 young men in the store that morning, suggesting that there might have been more than the usual familiar local customers from the tight-knit community.
Another witness, town postmaster Mary Hunnicutt, says she stood in line inside the store next to Timothy McVeigh. As with the other witnesses, Hunnicutt states that a Ryder truck was parked in the lot of the Old Bank building across the street. Hunnicutt puts the timing at 6:00 AM, noting that it was still somewhat dark out.
Hunnicutt told the Dallas Morning News that the FBI had instructed her not to discuss what she had seen that morning.
Murrah Federal building | around 8:00 A.M.
5th Street
Leonard Long
About an hour before the bombing, motorist Leonard Long reported seeing a "tall, slim, white man with sharp features" wearing a baseball cap backwards driving a brown pickup with a passenger.
Long said he watched as the brown pickup sped out of the parking garage of the Murrah building onto 5th street, changing lanes quickly. He told investigators that he remembered the incident clearly because he had almost been hit by the oncoming vehicle and had to swerve in traffic to avoid a collision.
Long said that the driver, whom he identified as Timothy McVeigh, had a dark-skinned, stocky man wearing a camouflage jacket sitting next to him in the passenger seat.2 Long, who is African-American, said that the passenger spewed racist language at him as the vehicle sped past in a reckless manner.
Long’s sighting confirms that the brown truck was one of the vehicles used by the conspirators in the bombing operation—McVeigh was driving it, after all. Was the brown pickup the same brown truck that was spotted idling on 5th street by witnesses just minutes before the blast? Other witness accounts, a police A.P.B., an FBI teletype, and a flurry of news reports will continue to link a brown pickup truck to the bombing operation.
YMCA Building | 8:02 A.M.
125 NW 5th Street
Morris Kuper
Morris John Kuper, an employee of nearby Kerr-McGee Company, saw Timothy McVeigh and John Doe #2 walking away from the 5th Street YMCA building on the morning of the bombing. Kuper observed both men running toward and entering a yellow Mercury Marquis parked in the Kerr-McGee company’s lot.
Kuper recalls the time because he was late for work and looked at his watch immediately after seeing the two men, and noted that it was 8:02 AM.
Kuper called the FBI on April 21 to report what he had seen. He also suggested that FBI agents check the nearby security cameras at the Public Library and Southwestern Bell buildings, which they did.
When Kuper testified at the Nichols trial, prosecutors attempted to challenge his credibility, telling the jurors that he had never contacted the FBI, essentially calling him a liar. However, in 2001, the FBI released thousands of documents that had been withheld from the Defense team. Among those documents was an FBI lead sheet showing that Morris Kuper had, indeed, contacted the FBI just two days after the bombing to tell them what he saw that morning: Timothy McVeigh and John Doe #2.3
Why was Kuper’s lead sheet withheld from the Defense team? Is it because he saw McVeigh with an accomplice?
Designer Woodwork | approximately 8:15-25 A.M.
6th and Hudson thru 5th and Hudson
Jesse Carretero
Designer Woodwork is situated on Hudson St. between 5th and 6th streets in downtown Oklahoma City. On the morning of the bombing, just before 8:00 AM, shop owner Jesse Carretero opened the shop's garage door and took a seat in a chair in front of the property. He sat outside, enjoying a cup of coffee as the downtown streets started to fill with morning traffic.
Carretero said that around 8:15 to 8:25 AM, he noticed a yellow Ryder truck driving very slowly down 6th Street.
Carretero said the truck was moving slowly, as if the driver was lost, or looking for a parking spot. He said the Ryder truck turned onto Hudson and then east on 5th Street. About five minutes later, Carretero said the truck came back around, down 6th Street once more, again turning south on Hudson and east on 5th Street, following the same route as before.
A few minutes later, Carretero saw the Ryder truck pass by for the third time, following the same route.4 This was the last time Carretero saw the truck, and he estimated the sighting was probably around 8:30 AM. The repeated route the truck was following slowly likely took between ten and fifteen minutes. Carretero said that each time the truck followed the circuitous route, it was moving very slowly as if lost.
Shortly after Carretero’s sighting, the Ryder truck would be spotted at a tire shop where McVeigh stopped to ask for directions. It is clear that McVeigh and his accomplices spent about 30 to 45 minutes before the bombing moving around downtown Oklahoma City.
Near Bank of Oklahoma | 8:30 A.M.
Intersection of Main and Robinson St.
Kyle Hunt
On April 19th, 1995, Kyle Hunt was a Vice President at Bank of Oklahoma. He and his wife were respected members of the community, actively involved in 4-H activities. Based on these facts, Hunt's account is indeed credible and warrants careful consideration.
On the morning of the bombing, Hunt was heading to the BOK building to meet his attorney at 8:30, but was running late. About four blocks from the Murrah Building, he encountered Timothy McVeigh and three others, an experience that would stay with him forever.
Hunt reported that as he was driving east on Main St., he approached a stoplight where, already stopped ahead in the lane next to him, there was a Ryder truck followed closely behind by a four-door sedan driven by Timothy McVeigh.
Hunt stated that the encounter occurred at 8:30 AM, as he'd been checking his watch because he was running late for his scheduled meeting.
As Hunt pulled ahead, slowly passing the sedan and stopping at the light next to the Ryder truck, he got a good look at the driver of the sedan. Hunt said it was driven by a man with angular features and a short military-style haircut, and that there were two other men inside—one in the passenger seat and one in the back seat. One of the men in the sedan had long, dark hair.
Hunt would vividly recall the face of the driver because they made eye contact as Hunt passed the Mercury. Hunt said, “as I pulled closer, the driver of the sedan [McVeigh] warned me off. I got an icy-cold, go-to-hell look from the young man that I now know to be Timothy McVeigh.”5
Hunt saw McVeigh on television just two days later when McVeigh was led out of the Noble County courthouse in Perry, Oklahoma. It was at that moment that he immediately recognized McVeigh's face as the driver who had chillingly stared at him in traffic. A day or two later, Hunt was visited at his home by a friend who was a police officer, and Hunt recounted what he had seen.
The friend advised him to contact authorities about the encounter, and the FBI ultimately interviewed Hunt three times regarding what he observed.
Hunt also described what he saw to grand jury petitioner Glenn Willburn in a tape-recorded interview, and he later testified before the grand jury investigating the bombing.
Hunt's account of this story has never wavered and remains compelling and credible to this day. Who were the other men with Timothy McVeigh? If McVeigh was driving the Mercury, who was driving the Ryder truck? By Hunt's account, this puts a total of four men in the convoy -- as observed by Richard Sinnett hours earlier when the convoy had visited Sinnett's Sav-A-Trip in Kingman, Kansas.
4th and Robinson | 8:38 A.M.
James Linehan
James R. Linehan, an attorney, stopped at a red traffic light at the intersection of 4th and Robinson while on his way downtown. Linehan glanced at his watch, which read 8:38 AM.
A yellow Mercury Marquis, described by Linehan as “caked in dirt,” was stopped in front of him at the red light. The license plate was either obscured with dirt or missing, as Linehan specifically recalled that the vehicle had no visible tag.
Linehan moved into the left lane and pulled up next to the Mercury Marquis, where he observed the driver "hunched over the wheel and looking up at the Murrah Building."
Linehan said that "the person driving is leaning over the wheel so much, trying to look at the Murrah building." He could not see the driver's face clearly, saying it was obscured by hair, a hood, or a cap. Linehan could only recall the driver’s profile, saying "all I could see was the end of a sharp nose, no facial hair. It was smooth features." Linehan said that then “this vehicle just peels out” and that “I don’t see a tag” on the vehicle.6
Linehan would say that his initial "gut feeling" was that the driver was female. Who was driving the Mercury? McVeigh was seen behind the wheel of the Ryder truck within minutes of Linehan’s sighting, leading to the conclusion that someone else—an accomplice—was behind the wheel of the Mercury.
Johnny’s Tire7 | approximately 8:40 A.M.
Mike Moroz
Allen Gorrell, an auto mechanic at Johnny's Tire Company, arrived at work around 8:30 A.M. on April 19th, 1995. Shortly after his arrival, Gorrell noticed a Ryder truck pulling into the parking lot. The manager, Byron Marshall, remarked to Gorrell, "I wonder what he wants" upon seeing the truck pull in.
Mike Moroz, who is also an auto mechanic at Johnny’s Tire, went outside to help when he saw two men in the Ryder truck. Moroz later identified the driver as Timothy McVeigh. He recalls that McVeigh asked him for directions to 5th and Harvey, which is the intersection at the northwest corner of the Murrah building.
Moroz told McVeigh that the building he was searching for was near the Electric Company building, about five blocks away. McVeigh seemed confused by this description, so Moroz invited him to step out of the truck and look down the street while giving him directions.
Face-to-face with McVeigh, Moroz explained that Harvey is a one-way street, and McVeigh would need to drive down Hudson to reach Harvey.
During this exchange, Moroz noted that McVeigh was wearing a dark ball cap backward with no hair showing, and he also observed that there was a passenger in the truck at that time.
Moroz told the FBI that the passenger was larger than McVeigh and had darker hair. In a videotaped interview, Moroz stated that the man in the truck had a darker complexion. As Moroz was giving directions, Allen Gorrell had come out of the office and was standing just outside the doorway, watching.
Gorrell told the FBI that he only heard "something about the downtown area" and remembers seeing Moroz provide directions.
After thanking Moroz for his help, McVeigh got back into the Ryder truck and sat in the cab with his passenger for about five minutes. Finally, the truck started moving again, turning right and heading toward the Murrah Building. Mike Moroz and Byron Marshall commented on how the truck had sat in the parking lot for so long before leaving, joking that they should charge customers for giving directions.
E-Z Mart, Regency Towers | approximately 8:45 A.M.
5th Street
Danny Wilkerson
Danny Wilkerson, manager of the EZ-Mart convenience store located on the ground floor of the Regency Towers apartment complex, encountered Tim McVeigh when he came into the store and purchased two Cokes and a pack of Marlboro cigarettes about 15-20 minutes before the bombing.
The time frame isn't precise, but most accounts place Wilkerson's encounter shortly after 8:30. This suggests Wilkerson’s sighting occurred just after McVeigh and his passenger asked Mike Moroz for directions at Johnny’s Tire, then were seen moving down Broadway, turning onto Park, and then making a right onto Harvey as they approached the area where the Regency, the Post Office, and the Murrah Building are located centrally.
The Regency Towers EZ-Mart is just a short distance from the Murrah building, only about 100 yards away.
Wilkerson noticed the Ryder truck parked outside the store when McVeigh entered, buying two Cokes and a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. Wilkerson asked McVeigh if he was moving. Recounting the event to J.D. Cash of the McCurtain Gazette, he said, "it was after 8:30 A.M. and I asked him if he was moving and he very calmly told me, 'No.'" As McVeigh left EZ-Mart and got into the Ryder truck, Wilkerson saw that there was a second man in the truck's cab. “There was someone sitting in the Ryder truck. And when McVeigh left, he got in the truck with that person and they left together."
About five minutes later, Wilkerson told the FBI that he saw the Ryder truck again—this time further down 5th Street, east towards the Murrah Building. This may have been when McVeigh lit the fuse for the bomb—at 8:57 A.M. Wilkerson told the Oklahoma Bombing Investigative Committee that the truck was parked on the other side of 5th Street and he thought it was for an occupant to use the pay phone there.8
Jannie Coverdale lost her two grandchildren—3-year-old Elijah and 5-year-old Aaron—in the Alfred P. Murrah building bombing. Coverdale lived in the Regency Apartments building and remembers talking to Danny Wilkerson about the bombing shortly afterward. Wilkerson told Coverdale that McVeigh had been in the shop and purchased two Cokes and a pack of cigarettes just before the bombing. Coverdale accurately noted that “Tim McVeigh did not smoke" and questions, "who was the other Coke for?” Coverdale was clear about this, saying that “Someone was with McVeigh. We know Terry Nichols was in Kansas. Who was with Tim McVeigh? Where is that other person who was with Tim that Danny [Wilkerson] saw?”
The Post Office | approximately 8:50 A.M.
5th Street
Leroy Brooks
Leroy Brooks arrived at the Post Office near 5th and Harvey about 10-15 minutes before the bombing. When he pulled into the parking lot, Brooks noticed a large Ryder truck parked on 5th Street, facing east toward the Murrah building, and a Mercury Marquis parked two cars in front of it.
This was exactly where the truck had been seen just minutes earlier by Danny Wilkerson, parked just outside the Regency EZ-Mart.
Brooks saw a man in the passenger seat of the Ryder truck with "a thick neck," wearing a hat. This matches the description of John Doe #2 given by other witnesses, especially the thick neck—the very same words several people used to describe John Doe #2.
Brooks saw Timothy McVeigh standing on the sidewalk next to the Ryder truck, near the back of the truck, talking to another man. The other man was about 5’ 8”, wearing a baseball cap. Brooks was smoking a cigarette, and as he finished, he looked over at the Ryder truck several times, getting a good look.9
Brooks told the Grand Jury investigating the bombing that it looked like McVeigh and the other man might have exchanged something—something in their hands. At first, he suspected it might have been a drug deal based upon the fact that the man standing next to McVeigh looked dirty. The man talking to McVeigh had wrinkled jeans, like he’d slept in them for a few days.
After finishing his cigarette, Brooks went into the post office. When he came back out a few minutes later, the Ryder truck and Mercury Marquis were gone.
Brooks got into his truck and drove the one-minute back to his workplace. As he drove down 5th Street, Brooks noticed the Ryder truck was now parked in front of the Federal building. He saw the same man he’d seen earlier—McVeigh—now on foot, walking briskly away from the Murrah building.
What Brooks observed is crucial, and if he had testified at the Nichols or McVeigh trials, it would have revealed a major issue for the FBI, which by that time was insisting that McVeigh acted alone. In this regard, Brooks is a key witness to the moments before the blast, and his grand jury testimony places McVeigh at the crime scene with men the FBI was unable or unwilling to explain.
Brooks was interviewed by FBI Special Agent John Elvig within days of the bombing. After this first interview, he was questioned again by two FBI agents from the Dallas field office. Following this, Brooks was interviewed once more by an FBI agent and a representative of the U.S. attorney’s office in downtown OKC for nearly three hours.
Interestingly, during his interviews, one of the FBI agents told Brooks that the McVeigh defense team might try to contact him. Brooks recalled thinking, “Why would they want to talk to me?” Brooks didn’t realize that the fact that he saw McVeigh with others was significant.
Eventually, Brooks would realize this fact was essential and would go on to describe what he had seen to Channel 4 reporter Jayna Davis, telling the Grand Jury investigating the bombing that he contacted the news channel because he wanted people to know that McVeigh wasn’t the only person involved in the bombing.
The post office on 5th Street is near the Regency Towers apartment complex and the EZ-Mart where Danny Wilkerson said he saw McVeigh buy a pack of cigarettes and two Cokes. Brooks’s encounter likely happened just minutes after McVeigh left the EZ-Mart. Was it the pack of cigarettes McVeigh had purchased that Brooks observed McVeigh handing to the other man, or maybe one of the two Cokes?
Murrah Federal building | 8:59 A.M.
Daina Bradley
Daina Bradley was standing in line inside the Murrah Building’s Social Security office that morning with her mother, sister, and two children. The front entrance to the Social Security office featured a large floor-to-ceiling array of windows, giving those inside a clear view of the front of the building.
As she stood in line, Bradley watched as the Ryder truck pulled up and came to a stop in front of the building. Bradley says she saw the man in the passenger seat of the truck—John Doe #2—as he stepped out of the truck.
Bradley testified that she is sure this man was not McVeigh. Bradley described the man as an “olive-complexion male with short hair" wearing "a blue jacket, blue jeans, tennis shoes and a white hat with purple/blue flames on the sides." 10
Bradley watched the man as he briskly walked away from the Ryder truck, towards the northeast side of the building.
Murrah Federal building | 9:00 A.M.
Rodney Johnson
Rodney Johnson was a driver for Rolling Inn Catering in Oklahoma City at the time of the bombing. On the morning of the attack, Johnson was traveling eastbound on 5th Street, heading to Cox Tomato in the Bricktown area of downtown Oklahoma City.
Johnson's morning commute usually took him past the Murrah building between 8 and 9 AM. On the day of the bombing, it has been confirmed that Johnson passed the Murrah building around 9:00-9:01 AM — his truck had just gone past the building when it was hit by debris at 9:02, during the explosion.
Just thirty to sixty seconds before Johnson felt and heard the bomb go off, he saw two men on foot hurriedly leaving the Murrah building, running onto 5th Street and in front of Johnson's catering truck. Johnson had to brake his vehicle and allow the men to pass in front of him, which gave him a clear view of both suspects. That night, Johnson contacted the FBI about what he had witnessed, and he was interviewed by SA John Hippard on April 21st.
In his FBI interview, Johnson stated that less than a minute before the bombing, he was forced to brake his vehicle as two men hurried into the street away from the Murrah building and toward an idling truck parked on the opposite side of 5th Street.
Johnson told the FBI that on the north side of 5th Street, there are parallel parking spaces. However, the brown pickup truck he saw was not parked in the designated spots but was within the “driving lane of 5th street,” which he described to the FBI as "an usual place to have a parked pickup truck." Johnson also stated that he could not tell if anyone was inside the pickup truck because of its tinted windows.
Johnson described the taller man who ran in front of his catering truck as approximately 6' to 6'1", late 20s to early 30s, short sandy blonde hair, crew cut, wearing a white t-shirt. When shown a composite sketch of John Doe #1 by the FBI, Johnson stated that it closely resembled the man he had seen.
On April 22nd, when Johnson saw McVeigh's arrest on television, he called FBI Special Agent John Hippard and told him that McVeigh was definitely the man he saw.
The man Johnson saw with McVeigh the morning of the bombing was described to the FBI as being "stocky, about 5'8", with black hair, wearing blue jeans and a dark colored jacket."
Johnson did not get as good a look at the second man as he did McVeigh, who passed closer to Johnson’s truck than the second man who followed. Johnson would later tell reporters about what he saw:
“I saw two individuals, Timothy McVeigh and John Doe #2, cross Fifth Street just minutes before the blast. I remember the Ryder truck, parked against the building. I was making a move from the first lane [of 5th street] to the next left lane when I noticed two individuals, one of them, Timothy McVeigh, and one of them John Doe #2.”11
Johnson is adamant that he saw Timothy McVeigh with another man. In television news footage broadcast after the bombing, Johnson said "I know for a fact Timothy McVeigh was with another individual on the morning of April 19th right before the bombing."
Journal Record building | 9:01 A.M.
Gary Lewis
Gary Lewis, a pressman at the Journal Record, was standing just outside the exit smoking his pipe around 9:01 A.M. From stoop of the building, Lewis could see an alleyway, and from his vantage point he could also see the Murrah building directly across the street.
Just after 9:01 A.M., Lewis saw a yellow Mercury Marquis speeding toward the Journal Records building and nearing the alley beside it.12 This alley was likely covered by the JRB security cameras—with building cameras typically featuring coverage of the ingress and egress points of the property.
Watching as the Mercury Marquis approached the alleyway, Lewis said that the vehicle rapidly accelerated, “peeling out,” loudly, which grabbed his attention. Lewis watched as the car hit and went over a concrete curb, then swerved to avoid hitting a dumpster, before making its way through the alley, speeding away from the Journal Records building.
Lewis got a good look at the vehicle making its getaway and said that there were two men inside, with the driver making eye contact with him.
When the FBI interviewed him, Lewis described the driver of the Marquis as "white male, mid-20s, thin face, short hair with either a crew cut or a buzz cut,” with a passenger who was male and wearing a baseball cap. The passenger was described to reporter J.D. Cash, who interviewed Lewis, as dark-skinned.
Lewis advised the FBI that he recalled seeing the license plate on the vehicle as it entered the alley and that it was "hanging by one bolt in the upper right hand corner."
This is consistent with Lea McGown's observations of McVeigh's Mercury, which she said had a license plate hanging by one screw, and at the time Lewis provided his description to the FBI these details had not been printed in the press. This detail conflicts with the account of witness James Linehan, who said the vehicle he saw appeared to have no license plate on it. This also conflicts with McVeigh’s suspect account in American Terrorist, where he claims that he removed the plate when he stashed the vehicle in the alley on April 16th.
Where had McVeigh’s Arizona LZC-646 license plate gone? Was the plate that Lewis saw on the Mercury Marquis McVeigh’s Arizona plate, or some other (stolen) license plate that fell off during the escape?
Significantly, several news reports published after the bombing state that McVeigh’s Arizona LZC-646 plate had been removed from the Marquis and affixed to a mystery vehicle captured fleeing the scene on security camera footage.13
Two days after the bombing, on the evening news, Gary Lewis saw coverage of McVeigh's arrest in Perry, Oklahoma, as well as footage of his Mercury Marquis. Lewis told the FBI that when he saw the car on TV, he realized it was the same car he had seen on the morning of the 19th, and that McVeigh was the same man he had seen driving the car who had made eye contact with him.
9:02 AM - DETONATION
Strategy: Sowing Confusion and Creating Contradictory Witness Accounts
The bombing team made several stops—and even switched vehicles—with McVeigh seen in the Mercury Marquis by Morris Kuper around 8:00, and again in the Mercury at 8:30 by Kyle Hunt. In both cases, McVeigh was seen with other suspects, both in the Ryder truck and the Mercury.
What becomes apparent from these sightings is that McVeigh and his accomplices may have been making last-minute, on-the-fly changes to their plan, had some difficulty navigating the maze of one-way streets in downtown Oklahoma City, or perhaps the changes in vehicle configurations were a strategy designed to create multiple but contradictory eyewitness accounts. The latter is a strategy undertaken during the commission of the crime, an attempt to make future eyewitnesses unreliable to investigators. This strategy of taking actions intended to influence the later investigation of the crime is one that was practiced by the Aryan Republican Army—a bank robbery gang thought to be connected to McVeigh and his likely accomplices that morning. One example is when ARA leader Richard Guthrie intentionally left a book called “Malcolm and Fidel” — featuring Malcolm X and Fidel Castro on the cover — in the back of the car. Guthrie’s goal was to convince the FBI that the bank robbery was carried out by a leftist revolutionary group, like the Black Liberation Army, which had executed an armored-car heist in 1981.
Ultimately, the perpetrators made several stops before the bombing, switching vehicles and configurations multiple times, leading one to conclude this was intentional: it was an effort to create conflicting or contradictory accounts within the future investigation.
Countdown to 4/19 | all installments:
Part I: The Bomber Convoy at Sav-A-Trip
Part II: McVeigh and John Doe #2 at Phillips 66 in Stillwater
Part III: April 18th, Witnesses See McVeigh & Accomplices Downtown OKC
Part IV: April 18th, Witnesses See McVeigh & Accomplices in Newkirk and Guthrie
Part V: The Day of the Bombing
End Notes
EXCLUSIVE FBI 302 reports, hosted at libertarianinstitute.org/okc:
Leonard Long:
Final Report on the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building April 19, 1995 (The Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, 2001). p. 164.
J.D. Cash, "Startling New Evidence At Least 4 People Involved in Bombing," McCurtain Gazette, January 23, 1996.
Mark Hamm, In Bad Company: America’s Terrorist Underground (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002). p. 229.
Morris Kuper:
FBI 302 report D-10953, 10/25/95, interview w/ Morris John Kuper.
Jo Thomas, "Bomb Trial Focus on John Doe No. 2," The New York Times, December 10, 1997.
David Neiwert, "The Mystery of John Doe No. 2." Salon.com, June 9, 2001.
Jo Thomas, “Document Erases Doubts About a McVeigh Witness,” New York Times, May 27, 2001.
Jesse Carretero:
FBI 302 D-197 4/21 interview w/ Jesse Carretero.
Kyle Hunt:
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1997). p. 32.
James Linehan:
“Witness Disputes Bomb Scenario.” Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 27, 1995.
Brandon Stickney, All-American Monster (Prometheus Books, 1996).
Danny Wilkerson:
Final Report on the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building April 19, 1995 (The Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, 2001). p. 165.
FBI 302 report D-10857 October 13, 1995, interview with Danny Wilkerson
J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay. "Videotape Won't Help Theory," The McCurtain Daily Gazette, September 12, 1996.
Wilkerson pressured by FBI to change his story, see District Court of Pittsburg County, State of Oklahoma. The State of Oklahoma vs. Terry Lynn Nichols. Terry Lynn Nichols' Motion to Dismiss Based on the State's Failure to Comply with Brady v. Maryland. April 13, 2004. pp. 78.
Leroy Brooks:
Grand Jury testimony of Leroy Brooks, September 9, 1997.
Final Report on the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building April 19, 1995 (The Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, 2001). p. 165-66.
Daina Bradley:
FBI 302 report D-4192 5/3/95 interview w/ Daina Bradley.
FBI 302 report D-3025 5/21/95 interview w/ Daina Bradley.
Testimony of Daina Bradley, Timothy McVeigh Federal Trial, May 23 1997.
Rodney Johnson:
FBI 302 report D-3253 4/26/95 interview w/ Rodney Johnson.
Peter Gelzinis. “Truck Driver Who Saw McVeigh Can Never Forget The Horror,” The Boston Herald, June 2, 1997.
“Witness Tells Grand Jury He Saw John Doe 2 With McVeigh,” Associated Press, September 11, 1997.
Neiwert, David. "The Mystery of John Doe No. 2." Salon.com, June 9, 2001.
Nolan Clay. "Nichols' Jurors Hear of McVeigh Sightings," The Daily Oklahoman, May 14, 2004.
Gary Lewis:
The April 27th 1995 Preliminary Hearing testimony of Jon Hersley indirectly references Gary Lewis.