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  • Eldon Elliot: FBI pressured me to drop John Doe 2 claim

    05/08/2003 6:27:27 AM PDT · by JohnBerger · 104 replies · 949+ views
    Daily Oklahoman ^ | 5/8/2003 | Daily Oklahoman
    Witness recalls renting truck to Murrah bomber 2003-05-08 By Nolan Clay The Oklahoman Retired Kansas body shop owner Eldon Elliott turned red and trembled with emotion Wednesday as he testified about learning he’d rented the truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing. “I tried to forget it,” he admitted later in his testimony. [...] The truck used in the April 19, 1995, bombing was picked up two days before from Elliott’s Body Shop in Junction City, Kan. [...] Elliott recalled two meetings with (Timothy McVeigh). He said the customer (McVeigh) paid $280.32 in cash for the 20-foot truck on April...
  • Nichols called senator 2 days before bombing

    05/05/2003 7:42:59 PM PDT · by follow the money · 3 replies · 230+ views
    Associated Press ^ | May 5, 2003 | Associated Press
    Nichols called senator 2 days before bombing OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols called former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker's office two days before the bombing to complain about the deadly end of the Branch Davidian standoff in Texas, an aide to the former senator testified today. "He was very stern and told us about his thinking on the matter," said Lee Ellen Alexander, who worked for the former Kansas senator. She said Nichols also complained about gun laws and former Attorney General Janet Reno. Alexander heard days later that Nichols, who was living in Kansas at the...
  • BOMBSHELL: "Justice Alerted to False Testimony Allegations in McVeigh Case, Did Not Tell Defense"

    05/01/2003 7:38:25 AM PDT · by OutSpot · 228 replies · 913+ views
    Associated Press ^ | By John Solomon Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Ten days before Timothy McVeigh was executed, lawyers for FBI lab employees sent an urgent letter to the attention of Attorney General John Ashcroft alleging that a key prosecution witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial might have given false testimony about forensic evidence. The allegations involving Steven Burmeister, now the FBI lab's chief of scientific analysis, were never turned over to McVeigh or the trial court, though they surfaced as the judge was considering whether to delay his execution because the government withheld evidence. The letter, however, was recently turned over to bombing conspirator Terry Nichols...
  • CÒNTINUED FBI LAB FAILURES "Key McVeigh Witness Criticized FBI Lab"

    05/05/2003 2:28:36 AM PDT · by OutSpot · 4 replies · 201+ views
    A. P. ^ | May 4, 2003; 1:51 PM | JOHN SOLOMON
    A prominent FBI science witness told federal investigators that his lab colleagues had performed shoddy work in the Timothy McVeigh case, then abruptly retracted several statements before appearing as a prosecution witness at trial, a transcript shows.