Trial
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Oklahoma City Bombing
(McVeigh) Trial
by Douglas
Linder (c)
2006
Prosecutor
Joseph Hartzler: Did you have any discussion
[with Tim McVeigh] about the deaths that such a bomb would cause?
Michael Fortier: I
asked him about that... I said, "What about all the people?" And he
explained to me, using the terms from the movie "Star Wars" -- he
explained to me that he considered all those people to be as if they
were the storm troopers in the movie "Star Wars." They may be
individually innocent; but because they are part of the -- the evil
empire, they were -- they were guilty by association.
(Testimony of Fortier, 5/12/1997)
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Timothy McVeigh
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Prosecutor
Joseph Hartzler began his opening statement in the Timothy McVeigh
trial by reminding the jury of the terror and the heartbreak:
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, April 19th, 1995, was a beautiful
day in Oklahoma City -- at least it started out as a beautiful day. The
sun was shining. Flowers were blooming. It was springtime in Oklahoma
City. Sometime after six o'clock that morning, Tevin Garrett's mother
woke him up to get him ready for the day. He was only 16 months old. He
was a toddler; and as some of you know that have experience with
toddlers, he had a keen eye for mischief. He would often pull on the
cord of her curling iron in the morning, pull it off the counter top
until it fell down, often till it fell down on him. That morning, she
picked him up and wrestled with him on her bed before she got him
dressed. She remembers this morning because that was the last morning
of his life...."
A bomb carried in a Ryder truck exploded in front of the Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995. The
bomb claimed 168 innocent lives. That a homegrown, war-decorated
American terrorist named [Continued]
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