Timothy McVeigh

One of America's Own

Security Guard of USA (formerly)

Disguising bombs

Expressing the main objection to United States Foreign Policy Laws.

Prove his political beliefs against the United States (failed).

Be able to escape from law/authorities for his domiciliary incendiary conduct (failed).

### Crimes

Mass murder (inc. child murder)

Domestic terrorism

Destruction

Robbery (possibly)

## Biography

### In The Making of The Bombing

McVeigh and another person Terry Lynn Nichols; Timothy's accomplice who was convicted of being the conspirator in the Oklahoma City bombing. McVeigh and Nichols set up the bombing by obtaining fertilizer and other explosive material for the bombing that Timothy primarily planned. Timothy has threatened Terry along with his family's life into getting Nichols into his extremist acts.

### The Oklahoma Bombing

Timothy McVeigh drove a Ryder's Truck contained with incendiary matter designed to cause fires and start the Oklahoma Bombing.

### Death

Timothy McVeigh was eventually traced and captured by Police Authorities being arrested for Domestic Terrorism eventually being sentenced to death (in exchange to the 168 deaths) by lethal injection.

## Victims

At least 168 people were reported dead along with 680 people injured and seriously hurt.

McVeigh met Terry Nichols in April 1993. The two became friends due to their similar ideals and Nichols helped teach McVeigh on how to construct improvised explosive devices. His anti-government beliefs became even more radical and he began making plans to blow up a federal building. According to McVeigh's authorized biography, he ultimately decided that he would make the loudest statement against the government by bombing a federal building.

McVeigh and Nichols constructed an ANNM explosive device mounted in the back of a rented Ryder truck. The bomb consisted of about 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane. He drove the truck to the front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building just as its offices opened for the day. Before arriving, he stopped to light a two-minute fuse. At 9:02am on April 19, 1995 the bomb detonated, destroying the building, killing 168, and wounding hundreds more.

Arrested shortly after the bombing after being pulled over for driving an unregistered vehicle, McVeigh was as first charged with unlawfully carrying a concealed firearm. After figuring out his identity, he was later charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, use of said weapon of mass destruction, destruction by explosives, and eight counts of first-degree murder. McVeigh was found guilty of all 11 counts and sentenced to death.  Upon being connected to the Oklahoma City bombing, told police he did not want what happened to Oswald to happen to him.

At first McVeigh was imprisoned at the ADX Florence Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. McVeigh was later moved to the prison at Terre Haute, Indiana due to it being the location of the Federal male death row and the site of the Federal execution chamber.

After appeals were dropped by McVeigh an execution date of May 16. However just before the execution the FBI revealed a lot of paperwork it had withheld from McVeigh's lawyers before. The government stayed the execution for just under one month as a result to give all parties time to review the paperwork.

On June 11, 2001, McVeigh was strapped into the gurney in the Terre Haute execution chamber. McVeigh stated that his only regret was that the Murrah Building wasn't completely leveled by his bomb, and also quoted the final stanzas of the poem "Invictus": "I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul."

At 7:14am central time McVeigh was pronounced dead, becoming the first man put to death by the Federal Government since the execution of Victor Feguer in 1963.

Due to a law signed by President Clinton in 1997 to keep people convicted of certain crimes from being buried in military cemeteries McVeigh was ineligible for burial in a military cemetery despite having been honorably discharged. He was cremated and the ashes given to his lawyer who scattered them in an undisclosed location.

Many within the modern-day Alt-Right movement have praised McVeigh and defended his actions. He also partially inspired Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to carry out the Columbine High School massacre.