Timothy McVeigh

 Born April 23, 1968  Upstate New York  Gun enthusiast  Veteran of Persian Gulf War

 May 1988 graduates US Army Infantry School ◦ Fort Benning, GA  Assigned to 1 st Infantry Division ◦ Stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas  Awarded Bronze Star for service in Gulf War  Tried out for Special Forces but quit  Discharged from Army ◦ December 31, 1991

 Traveled US visiting gun shows  Became angry with government ◦ Too liberal ◦ High taxes ◦ Gun control/Brady Bill  1993 – drove to Waco, Texas ◦ Show support for Branch Davidians ◦ Distributed pro-gun rights pamphlets

 April 19, 1995  Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building  9:02 am  Truck bomb  Killed 168 ◦ 19 children ◦ 450 injured  Terry Nichols ◦ accomplice

 Stopped for having no license plates 90 minutes after explosion ◦ Carrying a concealed weapon  April 21 – taken into custody as bombing suspect ◦ August 10 – indicted on 11 federal counts  Conspiracy to use WMD  Using a WMD  8 counts of 1 st degree murder

 June 13, 1997 ◦ Convicted and sentenced to death  Housed at ADX Florence ◦ “Bomber’s Row”  Ted Kaczynski  Ramzi Yousef  June 11, 2001 – executed ◦ Terre Haute, Indiana ◦ 1 st federal execution since 1963