Four FBI workers who evaluated evidence are transferred out of crime lab in wake of federal report critical of lab procedures. Matsch denies defense requests to eliminate testimony of six prosecution eyewitnesses who changed portions of their accounts. The Dallas Morning News reports that McVeigh confessed. Two other reports on purported confession follow. Clinton signs bill allowing victims who are possible witnesses to attend trial.
Opening statements begin.
Panel to return to decide if he should get death penalty. McVeigh s death sentence is formally imposed and the details of a letter he wrote asking that his attorney be replaced are revealed. Stephen Jones asks to be removed as McVeigh s attorney. Jury selection begins in Terry Nichols trial. Opening statements begin.