She looked in her astrology book and determined that meant either March or April. Her brother wrote that she should burn the letter and she did, she said. He also told her not to send him any more mail after April 1. In the same letter, she said, McVeigh advised her to extend a planned two-week vacation in Florida that was to begin April 8. Government prosecutors contend that McVeigh bombed the Murrah building in retaliation for the deaths of 75 members of the Branch Davidian group at the hands of ATF agents and others during a confrontation near Waco, Texas, on April 19, 1993.
Prosecutors say the novel was the blueprint for the Oklahoma bombing.
Jennifer McVeigh said she took the clippings on her vacation and burned them two days after the bombing, when she heard over a car radio that her brother had been arrested. To the surprise of many trial observers, Jennifer McVeigh was cross-examined by attorney Rob Nigh, rather than the leader of the defense team, Stephen Jones. But it was obvious that Nigh, who is younger than Jones, has a good rapport with her. Under Nigh's questioning, McVeigh recounted her interrogation by the FBI after the bombing. She said agents questioned her eight or nine hours a day for eight days straight and denied her request for a day off.