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America's Fifth Column ... watch Steve Emerson/PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
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From the Washington Post Magazine, Sunday, March 23, 1997:
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Kessinger told her the whole story, she says. He'd been sitting behind the counter at Elliott's, watching Kling [Tim McVeigh's phony identity] -- the man who rented the truck -- chat with Vicki Beemer while she typed out the rental form. Kessinger's attention was focused on Kling [Tim McVeigh], who was prattling nervously, but he recalled seeing another man lurking in the background. That man never talked to Kling, or even looked at him. He simply drifted in, stood staring at posters on the wall, and drifted out. Kessinger recalled the man's baseball hat and his black T-shirt, but not much about his face, which he'd seen only in profile."He never saw this man from the front view," Boylan says. That fact stunned her. The John Doe 2 sketch was, after all, a front view.
It had been created using a method Boylan considers dangerously manipulative: The sketch artist had shown Kessinger the FBI Facial Identification Catalogue -- a book of 960 photographs of faces, all of them front views -- and asked him to point out the pictures that showed the correct nose and eyes and chin. The artist then used Kessinger's choices to create the sketches. In the case of John Doe 1, this method yielded a sketch that looked remarkably like McVeigh. In the case of John Doe 2, however, it produced a front-view sketch of a man never seen from the front, a bare-headed sketch of a man never seen without a hat.
Boylan concluded that the sketch was useless.
Gently questioning Kessinger about exactly what he'd seen, Boylan created her own sketch, this one a profile. She showed it to Kessinger, who suggested a few small changes and then approved it. "He was very relieved that we finally got it right," she says.
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