Posted on 10/06/2005 6:13:39 PM PDT by digitalbrownshirt
29 minute interview with Joel Hinrichs Jr., father of the Oklahoma suicide bomber. He discusses his son's childhood, what the FBI told him, his son's criminal past as a minor.
Could you ping this to the list? Thanks.
"Heather Holeman interviews father of Norman bomber" ping.
Thanks to FReeper digitalbrownshirt.
I suppose the lack of emotion could be attributed to shock. I suspect they weren't a close family.
Thanks! I havent been able to participate in much of the discussion, but I appreciate being on the ping list.
I have a question - didnt one of the terrorists involved in 9/11 have an OU connection? I seem to recall one of them having sent some emails on another student's laptop while traveling on the bus.
Surely, another FReeper has already brought up this connection already - but I havent been able to stay close to this because of work.
Maybe someone can give me more details as I know I dont have all the facts described accurately.
Thanks for the ping.
Any chance of a synopsis, especially details of JoeIII childhood, for those of us who are video/audio-impaired? TIA
It was Zacarias Moussaoui. He didn't attend OU as far as I know, but he did attend a flight school in Norman. He also used Nick Berg's laptop while on a bus trip.
Usual father/son turmoil. Son had been in trouble with the law. Arrested before high school. Went to a continuation school. Dad trashes VP of his son's school. Describes what FBI told him about the bomb. Suggests that bomb was in backpack because of back of bench missing. Back of son missing isn't mentioned. Says that people are taking 2 and 2 and getting 22 instead of 4. Son had a full scholarship, but lost it.
Boring, monotone delivery. I'm actually very interested, but still had a hard time watching it. He's like a junior college professor discussing post war economics. That's how detached he seemed.
One of 9/11 hijacker's airline ticket purchased online from OU library computer terminal.
Thx! Any idea what the "trouble with the law" was? Oh well, I guess it wasn't suicide bombing.
Thanks for the memory jog - I finally got it straight now. My memory was a bit hazy on that stuff.
Too much going on around OU besides football. Now there is another game this Saturday at the Cotton Bowl.
The father said the last time he remembers his son relating to people his own age was when he was 5 years old.When he started school he was a very bright child and the teachers gave him all kinds of attention.In return,Joe only associated with the teachers and older people.He never learned to relate to people his own age, when he became a young adult, he didn't have any friends.
There are many details of Joe's life the father didn't know,he was told of them by Joe's brother.
It's at about 24:35 into the tape. He doesn't say exactly what he did. He indicates that he was getting bullied in 8th grade. He brought a "large object" to school that the authorities decided warranted him getting arrested. The father indicates the authorites thought it might be used as a club. He said the records were sealed and he wasn't going to reveal the details.
BUMP 4 later
Apparently, he (Joe)was being bullied in school. The father says that Joe recognized a "pattern" to the bullying. When something else was on their (bully's) mind or they were otherwise preoccupied, they left him alone. When they (bullies) were bored, they picked on him (Joe).
He chose to take something to school (the father merely describes it at something impressively large) that he figured would just keep them occupied for awhile and away from him. The father seems to describe it as something for them (bullies) to perhaps ruminate on.
The VP of the school, I gather, saw it as a threat and called the police. He spent a few nights in juvie and then was sent to an "alternative" school to finish the year. I got the impression it was towards the end of the year. The records are sealed. The father would not say what the "large object" was.
Actually, the father came across in the interview as being proud that Joe came up with the idea and proud ofwhat the father believes he was trying to accomplish.
The father, to me, come across as someone with a highly sophisticated scientific mind, whic is why he comes across as pretty dry and monotone. Think Ben Stein as the science teacher in The Wonder Years.
Now be grateful that I typed all that. I'm a very slow typist.
You're more motivated than I am. That's a lot of typing.
At least Ben Stein is funny. I've got some friends that are science professors that look like Jerry Seinfeld compared to Joel Jr.
You don't know dry humor until a microbiology professor tells a joke.
Thanks! OK, that would've been 1997-98, so they were probably in Illinois then.
Wish I could find some divorce records for the parents. I thought I heard earlier that it had been in the past 2 years, but then I never found that bit of info again and it didn't show up in CO.
And I had previous addresses for them in Silicon Valley, plus two Chicago-area IL cities, two Dayton, OH area towns, one in FL and one in Wichita, KS.
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