Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Geronimo: An American Legend
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF11
Missionary: Impossible
Original Airdate on FOX: 20-Feb-2000
% On screen, Eighties punk music plays as two brothers celebrate
% Christmas, hooligan-style.
Brother 1: Jolly sodding X-mas, major. [presents a bottle of beer] Choke on it! [whacks the other man over the head with it. Bart and Homer laugh]
Brother 2: Oh, crikey! You gave me a smash on the noggin last year.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/oh-brother-where-art-thou-1313/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 2 Episode 15
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 21, 1991 on FOX
Quotes
Woman: (Off camera and singing.) Whatever Homer wants…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056016/releaseinfo
IMDb
Geronimo (1962)
Release Info
USA 1 May 1962
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107004/releaseinfo
IMDb
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Release Info
USA 10 December 1993
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[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/07/oklahoma-renegades.html ]
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930627&slug=1708542
The Seattle Times
Sunday, June 27, 1993
U.S. Bombs Baghdad To Retaliate For Plot To Kill Bush
Times News Services
The United States launched a missile attack against Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad last night in retaliation for what President Clinton described as a "loathsome and cowardly" attempt to assassinate former President Bush during a visit to Kuwait in April.
Saying a "firm and commensurate response was essential to protect our sovereignty," Clinton condemned Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who he said "ruled by atrocity."
The cruise-missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters lit up the Baghdad night sky, but the city was quiet.
Iraqi U.N. Ambassador Nizar Hamdoun acknowledged the U.S. missiles had struck Iraqi government buildings, but would not say whether the intelligence service was hit. He said some missiles fell in residential neighborhoods.
"There were numerous civilian casualties," Hamdoun said, giving no number. "We're still counting the wounded and dead."
Hamdoun denied Iraq was involved in an assassination attempt.
"The attack was completely unwarranted and unjustified," he said.
In a short televised address to the nation last night, Clinton used blunt language and said the attack was needed to "affirm the expectation of civilized behavior among nations."
The target of the American raid, which was carried out by Tomahawk cruise missiles from a U.S. Navy destroyer and cruiser based in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, was the main headquarters of the Iraqi intelligence service in downtown Baghdad. The missiles struck about 3 p.m. PDT, or early Sunday morning in Iraq.
http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1d_RegulusMail.html
National Postal Museum
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Regulus Missile Mail
On June 8, 1959, the US Navy fired a Regulus I missile from the USS Barbero (SSG-317) and directed it to land at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Mayport, Florida, near Jacksonville. While the sub was docked at Norfolk, Virginia, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield helped place two blue and red metal containers, holding 3,000 letters, inside the sub’s missile prior to the flight.
The missile was fired from the submarine shortly before noon and arrived at Mayport twenty-two minutes later. The 3,000 letters inside the missile were identical letters from the Postmaster General that were addressed to President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, cabinet members and top federal officials, all members of congress, Supreme Court justices, U.S. governors, postmasters generals from around the world and the officers and crew of the Barbero. Summerfield’s letter was an enthusiastic announcement of the experiment, which had not been publicly announced beforehand. Summerfield’s office received several letters from stamp collectors who complained that they had not been given the opportunity to place items aboard the flight. In the four decades since the flight, some of the Regulus I letters have found their way into public hands. Some made their way to dealers that year and were sold at over $100. The letter addressed to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution remains in the National Postal Museum’s collections.
Ostensibly an experiment in communication transportation, the Regulus’ mail flight sent a subtle signal that in the midst of the Cold War, the US military was capable of such accuracy in missile flight that it could be considered for use by the post office. The missile employed a then state-of-the-art guidance system that could precisely deliver a thermonuclear weapon from a distance of 600 miles. The trip from the USS Barbero to Mayport was only 100 miles in distance, but it helped to illustrate another possible use for the weapons technology. The space used for the containers was space that was originally designed to hold the missile’s nuclear warhead.
Postmaster General Summerfield was ecstatic over the possibilities of postal uses for the technology, claiming that “This peacetime employment of a guided missile for the important and practical purpose of carrying mail, is the first known official use of missiles by any Post Office Department of any nation. Before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia by guided missiles.” Summerfield’s enthusiasm notwithstanding, the 1959 USS Barbero test firing was the only incidence of using a missile to carry mail in the US.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jun/13/mcveigh-jury-begins-life-or-death-deliberations/
The Spokesman-Review
June 13, 1997 in Nation/World
Mcveigh Jury Begins Life-Or-Death Deliberations
Dallas Morning News
Timothy McVeigh’s life rested in the hands of the jury Thursday after prosecutors urged he be executed as a traitor and defense attorneys made one last plea for mercy.
“He is not a demon, though surely his act was demonic,” said McVeigh’s lead defense counsel, Stephen Jones.
And co-counsel Richard Burr asserted the Oklahoma City bombing was not a crime of “evil motive,” but an understandable one given McVeigh’s loathing of the federal government.
He said the former Army sergeant’s outrage stemmed from the nation’s failure to hold federal agents accountable for the deaths of Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, and of Vicky Weaver and her son, Sam, at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
“Aren’t we all in some way implicated in this crime?” Burr asked. “We all bear some responsibility for Oklahoma City.”
Prosecutors denounced that suggestion, telling jurors they shouldn’t feel guilty for any of the events. And prosecutor Beth Wilkinson said nothing can justify the murder of 168 people - the worst act of terrorism in America.
“He is a traitor,” she said of McVeigh, “and he deserves to die.”
The seven-man, five-woman panel began to consider McVeigh’s fate just after noon, but reported to U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch that evening that it had not reached a verdict.
Jurors will resume deliberations today. They were not sequestered, as they were earlier when they took nearly four days to find McVeigh guilty of conspiracy and murder in the April 19, 1995, truck bombing of the Oklahoma federal building.
Matsch told jurors their deliberations should “not be a mechanical process,” but rather a “reasoned” one in which they act as the “conscience of the community.”
He gave them three options: Death by lethal injection, life in prison without any possibility of release, or some other “lesser sentence” to be decided by him.
Under federal sentencing guidelines, however, Matsch would have little latitude but to sentence the 29-year-old McVeigh to life in prison.
“Tim McVeigh is going to die in prison. There is no doubt about it,” said Jones. “The question is when will he die in prison: sooner, or later.
“The government asks you for him to die sooner. I ask for you to let him die later.”
McVeigh, as he has throughout his trial, sat expressionless in the courtroom, his elbows often resting on the defense table and his hands on his chin. His divorced parents, his godmother and his younger sister sat just a few feet from him.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-13/news/mn-3064_1_death-penalty
Los Angeles Times
McVeigh Case May Put Death Penalty on Trial
June 13, 1997 DAVID G. SAVAGE TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — Opponents of the death penalty, who have been swimming against the tide of public sentiment for more than 20 years, say they see some hope this week in the national debate over whether Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh deserves to die.
Based strictly on the facts of the case, McVeigh would seem to deserve the ultimate punishment. Deliberately and maliciously, he planned and carried out an attack that killed 168 innocent men, women and children simply to make a political statement.
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-06-14/news/9706140046_1_timothy-mcveigh-mildred-frazer-district-judge-richard-matsch
Chicago Tribune
Mcveigh Sentenced To Die
Judge Tells Jurors: You Do Not Have To Answer To Anyone
June 14, 1997 By Maurice Possley, Tribune Staff Writer. Tribune news services contributed to this report.
DENVER — Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death Friday for detonating a truck bomb on April 19, 1995, that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building and killed 168 people.
The verdict was a repudiation of defense arguments that McVeigh, a 29-year-old Army veteran, should receive a sentence of life in prison because he was justifiably angry over the deaths of 76 Branch Davidians exactly two years earlier, at the end of a 51-day standoff with federal agents near Waco, Texas.
As he had throughout the trial, McVeigh remained expressionless as U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch read the verdict, polled the jury and then ordered him removed from the courtroom.
McVeigh rose slowly and turned to face his parents and sister, who wept in the front row.
"It's OK," he mouthed. He also nodded to them and gave a wave with his right hand. He then nodded to the jury and the judge and walked out, flanked by four federal marshals.
In just over 11 hours, slightly less than half the time they took to convict McVeigh of the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history, jurors decided to impose a sentence of death on all 11 counts, eight of them murder charges arising from the deaths of eight federal law enforcement agents.
As the verdict was read, McVeigh stared at Matsch and kept his hands folded over his mouth, a posture he maintained day in and day out since jury selection began March 31.
As Matsch intoned, "The defendant, Timothy McVeigh, shall be sentenced to death," McVeigh's father, Bill, slumped in his seat. McVeigh's mother, Mildred Frazer, and his sister, Jennifer, began to weep.
In Oklahoma City, church bells tolled as the verdict came in, and cheers erupted along the fence where the bombed-out federal building once stood.
"I think Timothy McVeigh needs to prepare himself to meet God. That's his judge," said Lyle Cousins, whose wife, Kim, was killed in the blast.
Kathleen Treanor, who lost her 4-year-old daughter and her in-laws, said. "When Timothy McVeigh made the decision to murder, maim and destroy all these people, he gave up the right to be called a human being. Death is obviously what he should have."
"It is done," Matsch declared to the jury and a packed courtroom after the verdict had been read.
"You did the right thing," the judge told the seven men and five women on the jury. "Not because I believe it, but because you did it. You, as the jurors, are the final authority. You are not answerable to anyone."
Matsch will formally impose the death sentence later, probably in July. Because of appeals, McVeigh probably would not be put to death by lethal injection for at least four years, provided the verdict and sentence are upheld.
In addition, the Supreme Court has never ruled on the constitutionality of the 1994 death penalty statute under which McVeigh was tried. He also faces state murder charges in Oklahoma that carry the death penalty.
Acclaimed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, interviewed on CNN, said McVeigh's lawyers presented "an awful, awful defense."
The Harvard law professor suggested that McVeigh could claim an "ineffective defense of counsel."
The verdict was considered a foregone conclusion in most circles as the prosecution, in closing arguments Thursday, had made an eloquent plea to jurors to avenge the deaths of the 168 people and injuries to more than 500 others as a matter of "simple justice."
Lead prosecutor Joseph Hartzler and co-prosecutor Beth Wilkinson had branded McVeigh a coward and a traitor who killed more Americans in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building than were killed in the Persian Gulf war.
Post-verdict comments by Hartzler were typically low-key and brief.
"This is not a great day of joy for the prosecution team," he said. "We're pleased that the system worked, that justice prevailed. But the verdict doesn't diminish the great sadness that occurred in Oklahoma City two years ago.
"Our only hope is the verdict will go some way to preventing such a terrible, drastic crime from ever occurring again," he said.
Stephen Jones, lead attorney in a defense effort estimated to cost taxpayers more than $10 million, was similarly brief.
"The jury has spoken, and their verdict is entitled to respect," he said. "All Americans should accord it that respect until such time, if ever, it is overturned."
"We ask that the barriers and intolerance that have divided us may crumble, that suspicions disappear and that hatred cease," he continued, "and that our divisions and intolerance being healed, we may live in justice and peace. God save the United States of America. God save this honorable court."
In reaching the verdict, the jury rejected defense efforts to portray McVeigh as a patriotic citizen.
A nine-page verdict form listed 13 separate mitigating factors submitted by the defense that jurors could weigh in consideration of a lesser sentence.
Not a single juror checked off the first factor, that McVeigh "believed deeply in the ideals upon which the United States was founded."
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19970407&slug=2532705
The Seattle Times
Monday, April 7, 1997
Search For Jurors Gets Personal In Mcveigh Trial
By Paul Queary
AP
DENVER - As jury selection in the Oklahoma City bombing trial enters a second week, more candidates faced probing questions about their beliefs and personal lives - and about the fate of Timothy McVeigh.
Could you impose the death penalty? Ever had a disagreement with police? What bumpers stickers do you have on your car? What book are you reading?
Thirty-one candidates answered those and other questions from U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch and attorneys in the first week of McVeigh's trial. More questions are scheduled for today.
The candidates had already filled out two lengthy questionnaires detailing their knowledge of the case, potential hardships and views on the death penalty. The surveys pared the jury pool to 350 from nearly 1,000.
From that group, 12 jurors and six alternates must be found, people who can set aside biases, ignore peer pressure and vote their consciences after seeing the evidence against McVeigh.
The 28-year-old Persian Gulf War veteran faces murder and conspiracy charges for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which killed 168 people. No trial date has been set for co-defendant Terry Nichols.
The judge has sealed the questionnaires to keep the candidates' identities secret. Details emerged as the candidates read their answers in open court.
"There are no wrong answers," prosecutor Patrick Ryan told one prospective juror. "Actually, the only wrong answer is an answer that's untruthful."
"You can tell a lot what a person thinks by the bumper sticker on their car," said Andrew Cohen, a Denver lawyer who is following the case. "It's a very quick way to find out about a person's political and social beliefs."
Cohen said one man, an environmental researcher, disclosed a lot about himself when he said he had a bumper sticker that read, "Mean people suck."
"It's a social statement, not a political statement. It's the same as bumper stickers that read `Random acts of kindness,' " Cohen said.
But some soul-baring statements can be misinterpreted, which is why the judge and lawyers are quizzing the jurors about their answers.
Cohen said prosecutors might like the bumper sticker because it can be read as opposing criminals, while defense attorneys might interpret it as someone who favors the underdog.
Other questions delved into candidates' medications, their interactions with the justice system, military service and political affiliation.
One former security officer was asked about the movie "Dead Man Walking," which profiles a woman's fight to make a death-row inmate take responsibility for his actions. Asked what he thought about the execution in the movie, he replied: "It was justified."
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 55
“I am too old for adventure,” the Judge said, putting his clippers away, “but I hope I am not too old to do what I feel is right. There is an old woman out there someplace who has probably gone to a miserable death because she felt it was right. Prompted by religious mania, I have no doubt. But people who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. I’ll go. I’ll be cold. My bowels will not work properly. I’ll be lonely. I’ll miss my begonias. But…” He looked up at Larry, and his eyes gleamed in the dark. “I’ll also be clever.”
“I suppose you will,” Larry said, and felt the sting of tears at the corners of his eyes.
“How is Lucy?” the Judge asked, apparently closing the subject of his departure.
“Fine,” Larry said. “We’re both fine.”
“No problems?”
“No,” he said, and thought about Nadine. Something about her desperation the last time he had seen her still troubled him deeply. You’re my last chance, she had said. Strange talk, almost suicidal. And what help was there for her? Psychiatry? That was a laugh, when the best they could do for a GP was a horse doctor. Even Dial-A-Prayer was gone now.
“It’s good that you are with Lucy,” the Judge said, “but you’re worried about the other woman, I suspect.”
“Yes, I am.” What followed was extremely difficult to say, but having it out and confessed to another person made him feel much better. “I think she might be considering, well, suicide.” He rushed on: “It’s not just me, don’t get the idea I think any girl would kill herself just because she can’t have sexy old Larry Underwood. But the boy she was taking care of has come out of his shell, and I think she feels alone, with no one to depend on her.”
“If her depression deepens into a chronic, cyclic thing, she may indeed kill herself,” the Judge said with chilling indifference.
Larry looked at him, shocked.
“But you can only be one man,” the Judge said. “Isn’t that true?”
“Yes.”
“And your choice is made?”
“Yes.”
“For good?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Then live with it,” the Judge said with great relish. “For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the soul what a good sun-block is to the skin during the heat of the summer. You can only captain your own soul, and from time to time some smartass psychologist will question your ability to even do that. Grow up! Your Lucy is a fine woman. To take responsibility for more than her and your own soul is to ask for too much, and asking for too much is one of humanity’s more popular ways of courting disaster.”
“I like talking to you,” Larry said, and was both startled and amused by the open ingenuousness of the comment.
“Probably because I am telling you exactly what you want to hear,” the Judge said serenely. And then he added: “There are a great many ways to commit suicide, you know.”
And before too much time had passed, Larry had occasion to recall that remark in bitter circumstances.
At quarter past eight the next morning, Harold’s truck was leaving the Greyhound depot to go back to the Table Mesa area. Harold, Weizak, and two others were sitting in the back of the truck. Norman Kellogg and another man were in the cab. They were at the intersection of Arapahoe and Broadway when a brand-new Land-Rover drove slowly toward them.
Weizak waved and shouted, “Where ya headed, Judge?”
The Judge, looking rather comic in a woolen shirt and a vest, pulled over. “I believe I might go to Denver for the day,” he said
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-13/news/mn-3016_1_death-penalty
Los Angeles Times
McVeigh Case Lawyers Argue for Death, Life
June 13, 1997 RICHARD A. SERRANO TIMES STAFF WRITER
DENVER — Four lawyers faced a Denver jury Thursday morning and each of them urged the 12 Coloradans to decide whether Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh should be legally executed or die the death of an old man in prison.
Prosecutor Beth Wilkinson turned toward McVeigh and in a voice cracking but loud enough for the jury to hear said: "Look into the eyes of a coward and tell him you will have courage. . . . Tell him he is no patriot. He is a traitor and deserves to die."
Her boss, chief government attorney Joseph H. Hartzler, also argued for a death sentence, telling the jurors: "Many of you will feel remorse. That's OK to feel remorse. I'm sorry to have to ask you to do this. I'm sorry you have to do this. But you do."
The defense, asking that McVeigh's life be spared, was equally passionate.
Richard Burr, on whom it fell to mount a case for why the life of the man responsible for the worst act of domestic terrorism should be spared, said: "You know that Tim is not an evil man . . . but instead a man who embodies much of the best that we call human."
And lead defense attorney Stephen Jones, suggesting that McVeigh's death would leave unanswered who may have helped him bomb Oklahoma City to avenge earlier FBI raids at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and near Waco, Texas, warned: "Now it is time for this madness to end. It is time to reconcile. It is time to find out the full truth. . . . That is what this case is about. It's not about saving my client's life."
When the legal arguments ended, Judge Richard P. Matsch instructed the jury of seven men and five women on the law and then, 15 minutes after noon, sent them into their second round of deliberations.
On June 2, they convicted McVeigh in the April 1995 explosion of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Now comes this question: one man's life versus the 168 lives lost in the bombing. The jurors met for fewer than five hours Thursday and are to return this morning to continue their deliberations.
Prosecutors wrapped up their case with the same themes they had sounded at the beginning of the trial seven weeks ago. They talked about the tremendous loss of life from the Murrah building explosion--parents, children, siblings, grandchildren--victims all killed in one sudden blow from an ammonium nitrate and fuel oil truck bomb.
Defense lawyers took a risky tact. In all but admitting McVeigh's role in the bombing, they said that he was driven by his rage over federal law enforcement abuses near Waco and at Ruby Ridge, where raids left more than 80 people dead.
They suggested that McVeigh's rage against Washington mirrored the skepticism many Americans have come to feel about the federal government. They said that McVeigh resembles "everyman" in that he was the typical son of America--a carefree boy, a brave soldier, a young man in search of himself.
The defense lawyers then said that if McVeigh were executed, it may never be known if others were involved in the bombing. And if there were others who are not known, the defense hinted, then they are free to kill again.
Prosecutors Wilkinson and Hartzler scoffed at such suggestions. They said that the real issue is making McVeigh pay for driving a Ryder rental truck to the front of the Murrah building and detonating a bomb of as much as 6,000 pounds. If not in this case, they said, then when in the United States will the death penalty ever be justified?
Wilkinson went first, reminding jurors of the great human suffering that morning in downtown Oklahoma City and how the anguish continues.
"One need only consider the size of the bomb," she said, "to know that Timothy McVeigh intended to kill people. No one builds a bomb of that size and that force unless they want to kill as many people as possible."
She added: "Killing 168 people is enough. This is the crime that the death penalty was designed for."
She was followed by Burr, a Texas attorney who specializes in representing death row inmates on appeal. He spoke at length about McVeigh's normal childhood and reminded the jury how his client's mother and father had urged Wednesday that his life be spared.
Burr described McVeigh as "honest," a "hard worker," "dependable." He also recalled McVeigh's deep opposition to gun control, his "abiding interest in survivalism" and his growing hatred of the federal government.
He said that McVeigh's motive for the bombing "was based on qualities that in other contexts we applaud," such as resistance to tyranny and sacrificing life in pursuit of a greater good.
"Aren't we all in some way implicated in his crime . . . ?" Burr asked. "There is a reason for all of us to have concern. That we have not expressed that concern before this tragedy means that we all bear some responsibility for Oklahoma City."
Burr also urged the jurors not to seek revenge. "How do we teach love and compassion when what we are confronted with is hate?" he asked. "When hate leads to killing, do we abandon our commitment to love and compassion by killing the killer?"
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-13/news/mn-3016_1_death-penalty/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
McVeigh Case Lawyers Argue for Death, Life
June 13, 1997 RICHARD A. SERRANO TIMES STAFF WRITER
Next up was Jones. He advanced the theory that death for McVeigh could prompt other ultra-rightists to make him a martyr for their cause.
He left no doubt that McVeigh will be remembered. He recalled the number of victims killed by past mass murderers Charles Manson, Charles Whitman, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy and said: "If you were to add them all up, they wouldn't equal the 168 killed in Oklahoma City."
Even the number of American soldiers killed during the 1991 Persian Gulf War--in which McVeigh served and was decorated--is smaller than the death count at the Oklahoma City federal building.
Jones echoed Burr's theme that McVeigh acted on the impulses that many Americans feel.
"He is not alone," Jones said. "His fears are not alone. Neither are his beliefs. There are others who share those.
"He is not a demon, though surely his act was demonic.
"Mr. McVeigh could very easily be considered the boy next door. And that is what is serious about it because, you see, he is not an emotional or physical aberration. He is every man."
The final word was left to lead government prosecutor Hartzler, who also had the trial's first word.
His message was simple, focusing on the everyday pleasures in life that McVeigh enjoyed and that his victims and their families now never will appreciate.
For instance, he said, as a boy McVeigh loved collecting comic books, playing "king of the mountain" and eating strawberry Pop-Tarts--all simple pleasures that the 19 children killed in the bombing will never experience.
He then encouraged the jurors to work together in their deliberations, mindful that the government must have all 12 of them agree on a death sentence.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-12/news/mn-2745_1_mass-grave
Los Angeles Times
Another Mass Grave Found Near Sarajevo
June 12, 1997 From Times Wire Reports
Almost 20 bodies have been unearthed from a mass grave in a village near Sarajevo, Bosnian officials said. The grave was discovered at the cemetery in Vlakovo, 10 miles west of Sarajevo, after the village reverted to Muslim-Croat control in March 1996 under the terms of a peace accord. Amor Masovic, an official of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat Federation, said the bodies uncovered so far were men in civilian clothing who were probably killed at the onset of the country's bloody 3 1/2-year war in 1992. He gave no details of the identities of the men or their religion, but said he believes the mass grave contains more bodies.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-12/news/mn-2719_1_timothy-mcveigh/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
McVeigh's Parents Plead for His Life as Testimony Ends
Bombing: Mother reads note to jury, and father brings videotape showing scenes of family life. Defendant for first time shows real emotion.
June 12, 1997 RICHARD A. SERRANO TIMES STAFF WRITER
"This factor has nothing to do with the defendant's background or character and nothing to do with his crime," they said. "It should not be part of the jury's moral judgment as conscience of the community."
Judge Matsch will reveal his ruling on the matter today when he formally instructs the jury.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-14/news/mn-3161_1_tim-mcveigh/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 3)
THE MCVEIGH VERDICT
McVeigh Gets Death Convicted Bomber Sits Stoically as Jury Renders Its Decision
June 14, 1997 RICHARD A. SERRANO TIMES STAFF WRITER
The jury of seven men and five women--including a Navy veteran from the Vietnam War, a maintenance man, an elderly woman and a man with some hearing loss because he had attended more than 15 Grateful Dead concerts--began deliberating in the penalty phase of the trial shortly after noon Thursday.
When the jurors returned to Matsch's courtroom about 3:20 p.m. MDT Friday, the foreman handed the nine-page verdict form to the judge, who then slowly read it.
The jurors were required by law to pass judgment on a series of questions regarding aggravating and mitigating factors involving McVeigh and the bombing. On the first list of questions, they were asked for "yes" or "no" responses.
Among their answers, sweeping in their consensus against McVeigh:
The defendant intentionally killed the victims? "Yes."
The defendant intentionally inflicted serious bodily injury that resulted in the death of the victims? "Yes."
The defendant intentionally participated in an act, contemplating that the life of a person would be taken . . . and the victims died as a result of that act? "Yes."
Mitigating Factors Were Introduced
Next, the jury was asked to weigh statements about McVeigh posed by defense lawyers. These statements dealt with McVeigh's deep hatred for the government after law enforcement raids on private citizens, as well as his belief that the government was trying to set up a totalitarian regime in this country.
In each instance, the number of jurors who agreed with the statement had been written behind the question. Among the statements:
"McVeigh believed deeply in the ideals upon which the United States was founded." None.
"McVeigh believed that the [federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms] and FBI were responsible for the deaths of everyone who lost their lives at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, between Feb. 28 and April 19, 1993." 12.
"McVeigh believed that federal law enforcement agents murdered Sammy Weaver and Vicki Weaver near Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in August 1992." 12.
'McVeigh believed that the increasing use of military-style force and tactics by federal law enforcement agencies against American citizens threatened an approaching police state." 12.
McVeigh did not think federal agents were properly punished for their actions at Waco and Ruby Ridge, which "added to his growing concerns regarding the existence of a police state and a loss of constitutional liberties." 12.
"McVeigh served honorably and with great distinction in the United States Army." 10.
Clinton Expresses Nation's Gratitude
Finally, on the bottom-line decision on a sentence of death, life in prison with no parole or a lesser sentence to be decided by the court, the jury was asked how "the defendant, Timothy James McVeigh, shall be sentenced."
The foreman, in printed capital letters, wrote: "DEATH."
In Washington, President Clinton expressed the nation's gratitude for the jury's service and its "grave decision."
In Denver, the U.S. attorney from Oklahoma City, Pat Ryan--who had been appointed by Clinton--expressed his feelings about those who believe that the federal government has become too intrusive in the lives of ordinary citizens.
"I would like to tell the people in the Patriot community that I hope that what was said about them in this courtroom was wrong," he said. "I don't think there are people out there who believe the way this defendant believes.
"Hopefully, they understand that the way to change policy is to go to the voting booth, ask for congressional hearings and be dogged in their pursuit of what they believe to be justice.
"But the taking of innocent lives, such as what occurred in Oklahoma City, is never the right course of action."
Some of the defense attorneys said they see room for an appeal in the McVeigh case.
Chris Tritico said obvious points of contention are the fact that the judge did not allow into evidence an entire Justice Department inspector general's report, which sharply criticized the FBI crime laboratory in Washington and, specifically, how it had handled evidence taken in the Oklahoma City case.
Defense Lawyers Look at Appeal
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-14/news/mn-3161_1_tim-mcveigh/3
Los Angeles Times
(Page 3 of 3)
THE MCVEIGH VERDICT
McVeigh Gets Death Convicted Bomber Sits Stoically as Jury Renders Its Decision
June 14, 1997 RICHARD A. SERRANO TIMES STAFF WRITER
Rob Nigh, another defense attorney, pointed out that the judge did not allow the McVeigh team to explore conspiracy theories suggesting that people other than McVeigh were behind the blast.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17/newsid_2530000/2530375.stm
BBC
ON THIS DAY 17 January
1991: 'Mother of all Battles' begins
In Baghdad, Saddam Hussein remained defiant. He said the "Mother of all Battles had begun".
From 1/17/1951 ( premiere US film "Al Jennings of Oklahoma" ) To 10/3/1978 ( Stephen King "The Stand" ) is 10121 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/19/1993 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Bill Clinton announces firing the FBI director & Terre Haute Federal Prison announced as the site for death penalty executions ) is 10121 days
From 7/19/1993 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Bill Clinton announces firing the FBI director & Terre Haute Federal Prison announced as the site for death penalty executions ) To 4/19/1995 ( Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in a scheduled terrorist attack destroys the Oklahoma City Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building with many fatalities and massive destruction to the United States of America Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the local area ) is 639 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/3/1967 ( premiere US film "Beach Red" ) is 639 days
From 4/23/1968 ( Timothy James McVeigh ) To 7/19/1993 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Bill Clinton announces firing the FBI director & Terre Haute Federal Prison announced as the site for death penalty executions ) is 9218 days
9218 = 4609 + 4609
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/16/1978 ( premiere US film "Jaws 2" ) is 4609 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/04/terre-haute.html ]
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-07-20/news/9307200053_1_fbi-director-william-sessions-premier-investigative-agency-gen-janet-reno
Chicago Tribune
Clinton Fires Sessions
Fbi Shakeup Is Expected
July 20, 1993 By Mitchell Locin and Nicholas M. Horrock, Tribune Staff Writers.
WASHINGTON — After months of maneuvering and news leaks, President Clinton on Monday fired FBI Director William Sessions, saying he was "unable to effectively lead" the agency.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/06/08/terre-haute-prison-prepares-for-executions/
FoxNews.com
Terre Haute Prison Prepares for Executions
Published June 08, 2001
On July 19, 1993, USP Terre Haute was designated as the site by the Federal Bureau of Prisons where implementation of the federal death penalty would occur
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043272/releaseinfo
IMDb
Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)
Release Info
USA 17 January 1951
http://jericho.wikifoundry.com/page/Termination+for+Cause+Transcript
Jericho
Termination for Cause
Episode 5 Season 2
Hawkins: Excuse me. Do you have any idea why all this might be happening?
Mimi: Because Goetz is embezzling money from Jennings & Rall. And I have the proof. My ledger.
Jake: Killing civilians, they can excuse, but you put your hands in their pocket, and suddenly J&R is a lot less forgiving.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/oh-brother-where-art-thou-1313/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 2 Episode 15
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 21, 1991 on FOX
Quotes
Woman: (Off camera and singing.) … Homer gets.
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