On April 19th 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and it’s workers was victim of a domestic terrorist attack. Only two men by the names of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were convicted for this terrible attack, but they weren’t the only ones. Many witness sightings and evidence suggest there was more to the story than what we’ve been told. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are not the only perpetrators of these attacks. Timothy McVeigh was born in Lockport, New York on April 23, 1968. In May of 1988, at the age of 20, he graduated from the U.S Army Infantry School. McVeigh aspired to join the special forces, but failed on the second day of the test. McVeigh decided to leave the army and was honorably discharged in 1991. McVeigh …show more content…
Trying to escape the farm life that he hated, he joined the army in 1988. Due to him being the oldest of his platoon, he became the leader of it. Timothy McVeigh was in his platoon and they became close friends. After his wife filed for a divorce, he requested and was approved for a hardship discharge in 1989. Nichols and Timothy McVeigh grew very close after both being discharged from the army, Nichols offered McVeigh to stay at his farm and sell military surplus and supplies at local gun shows. Growing up in the Michigan area, anti government views were very common among the citizens. In 1993 he and Timothy McVeigh was outraged after viewing the Waco siege escalate to an extreme level. Immediately they began plotting on how to get revenge against the government. Both of these men were convicted for the 1995 Oklahoma City …show more content…
3 cars were first seen following the infamous Ryder truck to an unknown location, wherever the truck went, the cars followed soon behind. A few minutes prior to the explosion these cars moved to different locations and closer to the bomb blast. McVeigh claims he used his own personal Mercury as the getaway car but this information was incorrect.“McVeigh’s Mercury had many problems, it was leaking oil, had a lousy transmission and a broken fuel gauge.” (Gumbel & Roger, 2012)(Pg. 59). Based on that, people believe that his own car was just used to get to a drop car because he made it out of Oklahoma City without his own car breaking down. “McVeigh was seen heading towards Kansas in the Mercury. The pickup and white sedan left in the same direction, around the same time” (Gumbel & Roger, 2012, p.