The Oklahoma City Bombing

Hello Mike, Here is my reflection on McVeigh and below that the story on Terry in which you are quoted. Mike, thank you so much for your help. Lou https://buffalonews.com/2020/04/18/a-journalists-reflections-on-timothy-mcveigh-25-years-after-oklahoma-city-bombing/ A journalist's reflections on Timothy McVeigh 25 years after Oklahoma City bombing Lou Michel at Oklahoma City National Memorial in the Field of Empty Chairs, Thursday, Feb. 27 2020. (Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News) By Lou Michel Published 5:30 a.m. April 18, 2020 ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh told me he did not know what he would encounter on the other side, once the chemicals from the lethal injection killed him. But on the chance the Pendleton native had an express ticket to hell, he defiantly said he would be in the company of many generals and world leaders who murdered their opposition. As the first and only journalist to repea

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh told me he did not know what he would encounter on the other side, once the chemicals from the lethal injection killed him. But on the chance the Pendleton native had an express ticket to hell, he defiantly said he would be in the company of many generals and world leaders who murdered their opposition. As the first and only journalist to repeatedly interview McVeigh face to face, my job was to keep him talking. My colleague Dan Herbeck and I needed every scintilla of his thought process, no matter how outrageous, so that we could provide a window into the worst domestic terrorist in U.S. history. We were working on writing a book, “American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.” Time was sh McVeigh had a date with the executioner. He had been convicted of delivering a homemade, 7,000-pound truck bomb that killed 168 innocent people and wounded  more than 800 in and around the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Buil

 

 

Josh Nichols had been in Kansas visiting his father for the Easter break when the bomb exploded. Terry Nichols also has two other children from a second marriage. They could not be reached for comment. Saving a box of letters Dr. Charles P. Ewing, a University at Buffalo distinguished service professor emeritus who specialized in criminal law and child psychology, says incarcerated parents often try to patch up broken relationships with their children. “It is not uncommon for parents who have gone to prison for much less heinous offenses to be rejected by their children,” Ewing said. Padilla says she is saving Nichols’ unread letters to their son. “I have a little box with all the letters from Terry and I hope Josh will read them someday,” Padilla said. “I hope one day they will reunite, but I don’t know if it is too late for that.”