MCVEIGH WENT TO `ACTION STAGE,' SISTER TESTIFIES.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Timothy McVeigh's sister took the stand against him Monday and recalled his festering fes·ter v. fes·tered, fes·ter·ing, fes·ters v.intr. 1. To generate pus; suppurate. 2. To form an ulcer. 3. To undergo decay; rot. 4. a. hatred for the government and his statement that he was ``in the action stage'' just months before the Oklahoma City bombing See Terrorism "The Oklahoma City Bombing" (Sidebar); Venue "Venue and the Oklahoma City Bombing Case" (Sidebar). . In calm, matter-of-fact testimony that came under immunity from prosecution, Jennifer McVeigh also spoke of her brother's fear of private eyes and wiretaps, his use of disguises and an alias, and his anecdote about transporting 1,000 pounds of explosives. The testimony by the upstate New York Upstate New York is the region of New York State north of the core of the New York metropolitan area. It has a population of 7,121,911 out of New York State's total 18,976,457. Were it an independent state, it would be ranked 13th by population. student centered on her brother's fixation on his safety in early 1995, and his warning for her to use pay phones to talk to him because he suspected wiretaps. ``I won't be back - forever,'' he wrote her in a letter in early 1995, according to Jennifer McVeigh. She said he also advised her to keep an eye out for private investigators. ``They will more likely be looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. me than cops.'' She said that in another letter sent earlier McVeigh wrote of his shift in political attitude. ``He indicated that he was not in the propaganda stage, which was like passing out papers. He was now in the action stage,'' she said. About four months after that letter, April 19, 1995, a truck bomb went off outside the downtown Oklahoma City Downtown Oklahoma City is located near the geographic center of Oklahoma City and is the main business district of the city. Downtown OKC also is the economic, financial, and entertainment center of the state of Oklahoma. federal building, killing 168 people and injuring more than 500. As McVeigh testified, she kept most of her attention focused on prosecutor Beth Wilkinson, but occasionally the 23-year-old with light brown hair stole a glance at her brother. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion