At the time of McVeigh's trial in , the couple had two children, a four-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son. The Fortiers hosted McVeigh at their Kingman mobile home several times from to early The two would share stories on drug highs as they laid on their backs and gazed into the night sky.
On other occasions, they vented their anger about gun control, "the New World Order," or the ambitious plans of the United Nations. In the Arizona desert, McVeigh proudly detonated his increasingly sophisticated homemade bombs for the entertainment of the Fortiers.
In the Fortier's living room in October , McVeigh laid out his plans to bomb "a federal building in Oklahoma City. Later, when McVeigh tried to recruit Fortier to aid in mixing the bomb's components or help station a getaway car, Fortier refused. After the April 19, , explosion, Fortier lied to FBI investigators, telling them he knew nothing about the bombing.
He told friends, however, that he hoped to get "a cool mil" selling book and movie rights to his story and, that if ever called to testify in the case, "I will Fortier pled guilty and testified in criminal trials against McVeigh and Nichols. McVeigh claimed to bear no ill against his old friend for his decision to turn government witness, and even confessed to feeling guilty for the effects the bombing--which he considered his own action--had on Fortier.
I did not as soon as possible make known my knowledge of the McVeigh and Nichols plot to any judge or other persons in civil authority. When F. For example, I falsely stated that I had no knowledge of plans to bomb the federal building.
His parents' troubled marriage ended when McVeigh was 10, and from that point on he lived mostly with his father. By the time his mother left the family, McVeigh had already developed a facination with guns. Four years later, McVeigh began stockpiling food and camping equipment in preparation for a nuclear attack or communist overthrow of the government. McVeigh performed well on standardized tests in high school and did not miss a single day of school.
Still, he struck classmates as somewhat introverted and disengaged, and his only extracurricular activity was track. Under the entry "future plans" in his high school yearbook, McVeigh wrote: "Take it as it comes, buy a Lamborghini, California girls. In the two years following high school graduation, McVeigh briefly attended a computer school in Buffalo, then took on a series of short-term jobs ranging from gun salesman in a sporting goods store to security guard.
In May , he enlisted in the U. In basic training, the loner McVeigh found a friend in his platoon leader, Terry Nichols, who shared his conservative and somewhat paranoid political views.
McVeigh seemed to fit well into the structured life of the military, performing well enough to be promoted to sergeant. After realizing that he lacked the "right stuff" during the first day of a Green Beret try-out, McVeigh requested and received an honorable discharge in December Following his discharge, McVeigh returned to upstate New York, where he worked security jobs, experienced serious depression, and began espousing increasingly angry views of U.
Do we have to shed blood to reforem the current system? In early , McVeigh moved out of his father's New York home and began a rootless road life that included selling weapons at gun shows often using "Tim Tuttle" as his business name , spending time on the Nichols family farm in Michigan, and taking on temporary work in Kingman, Arizona, the home of military buddy Michael Fortier. McVeigh became further radicalized by the U. McVeigh had been so incensed by the government's actions that he traveled to Waco to promote his pro-gun, anti-government views.
His reading included anti-Semitic and white supremacist newsletters. McVeigh spent most of in the West, especially in Kingman, where he found minimum wage work as a security guard and in a lumberyard. His behavior moved more and more out of the mainstream. He turned his Arizona home into a bunker and began developing and testing homemade bombs. He set off on quixotic missions such as trespassing into "Area 51" near Roswell, New Mexico, top secret government land that he suspected might be critical to a U.
He bought ammonium nitrate, a key ingredient for his bomb, in Kansas, where he also rented a storage unit and stole blasting caps from a quarry McVeigh picked April 19, as the date for the bombing to coincide with the second anniversary of the federal government's assault on the Branch Davidians near Waco.
Around A. At , the truck exploded, bringing down much of the federal building and taking lives. As detailed elsewhere on this website, McVeigh was arrested later that day, tried and convicted in , executed on June 11, , and cremated. McVeigh Letter. A shy boy and an uninspired student, Nichols graduated in from Lapeer High School with a 2.
After one year at Central Michigan University, Nichols returned to Lapeer to help his recently divorced father with the family farm. Nichols married Lana Walsh in and the couple had a son the following year. Science Technology Business U. Son of Oklahoma City bomber accomplice held in Nevada. April 1, GMT. This undated photo from the Henderson, Nev. Authorities say Nichols, the year-old son of convicted Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols, is facing kidnapping, burglary and armed robbery charges in a Feb.
Joshua Nichols was being held Wednesday, April 1, at the Clark County jail following his arrest March 12, on charges in what police said was a gunpoint confrontation of a jeweler at a home in Henderson. Henderson Police Department via AP. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. The Associated Press.
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