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Bad Day Dawning. That we can learn a lot about a man from the books and
films he chooses is borne out by Timothy McVeigh. One of ...
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That we can learn a lot about a man from the books and films he chooses is borne out by Timothy McVeigh.
One of his favorite films: the 1984 Patrick Swayze epic Red Dawn. It follows a group of small town teens\' conversion to guerilla fighters when a foreign army invades America.
Like McVeigh, the teens stock up on survival gear - mainly guns and ammo - in order to defend their country from annihilation.
And one of McVeigh\'s favorite books: The Turner Diaries written by former American Nazi Party honcho William L. Pierce, under the pen name Andrew Macdonald. Its hero - Earl Turner - responds to gun control by making a truck bomb and blowing up the Washington FBI Building.
Two scenarios - all too familiar.
It was April 19, 1995 - a perfect, sun-drenched Oklahoma morning in springtime. Against a perfect blue-sky background, a yellow Ryder Rental truck carefully made its way through the streets of downtown Oklahoma City.
Just after 9 am, the vehicle pulled into a parking area outside the Alfred P. Murrah Building and the driver stepped down from the truck\'s cab and casually walked away. A few minutes later, at 9:02, all hell broke loose as the truck\'s deadly 4000-pound cargo blasted the government building with enough force to shatter one third of the seven-story structure to bits.
Glass, concrete, and steel rained down. Indiscriminately mixed in the smoldering rubble were adults and children alive and dead.
The perpetrator, twenty-seven-year-old Timothy James McVeigh, by now safely away from the devastation was convinced he acted to defend the Constitution, for he saw himself as crusader, warrior avenger and hero.
But in reality, he was little more than a misguided coward. He never even heard clearly the sound of the initial sirens of emergency vehicles rushing to the scene. Because, blocks away, he was wearing earplugs to...
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