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Timothy McVeigh
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Born April 23, 1968 Upstate New York Gun enthusiast Veteran of Persian Gulf War
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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
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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
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April 19, 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building 9:02 am Truck bomb Killed 168 ◦ 19 children ◦ 450 injured Terry Nichols ◦ accomplice
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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
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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
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