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Terry Nichols

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Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is an American convicted of being an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing. Prior to his incarceration, he held a variety of short-term jobs, working as a farmer, grain elevator manager, real estate salesman and ranch hand. He met his future conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, during a brief stint in the U.S. Army


Anti-government views


McVeigh and Nichols grew closer after McVeigh's discharge from the Army. In December 1991, Nichols invited McVeigh to join him in Michigan and help him out selling military surplus at gun shows. For the next three years, McVeigh stayed with Nichols off and on. On April 19, 1993, Nichols was watching TV with McVeigh at the Nichols' farmhouse in Michigan when the ATF, Army and FBI attacked the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. When the compound went up in flames, McVeigh and Nichols were enraged and began to plot revenge on the federal government. In the fall of 1993, Nichols and McVeigh, who were living at the farm, became business partners, selling weapons and military surplus at gun shows. For a while, they lived an itinerant life, following the gun shows from town to town.

Nichols then went to Las Vegas to try working in construction but failed. Next, he went to central Kansas and was hired in March 1994 as a ranch hand in Marion, Kansas. In March 1994 he sent a letter to the clerk of Marion County, Kansas, saying he was not subject to the laws of the U.S. government and asked his employer not to withhold any federal taxes from his check. His employer said Nichols was hard-working but had unusual political views. In the fall of 1994 Nichols quit his job, telling his employer he was going into business with McVeigh.

The bombing

Main article: Oklahoma City bombing

On September 22, 1994, Terry Nichols and McVeigh rented a storage shed and began gathering supplies for the truck bomb. In late September or early October, Nichols and McVeigh stole dynamite and blasting caps from a nearby quarry. Nichols began purchasing large quantities of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and storing it in three rental storage units. McVeigh and Nichols also robbed an Arkansas gun dealer who had befriended them at various gun shows.

In February 1995 Nichols bought a small house in Herington, Kansas










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http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/11/us/terror-in-oklahoma-the-nichols-brothers-seeking-clues-along-a-highway.html?pagewanted=all

The New York Times


TERROR IN OKLAHOMA: THE NICHOLS BROTHERS

TERROR IN OKLAHOMA: THE NICHOLS BROTHERS; Seeking Clues Along a Highway

By PETER T. KILBORN

Published: May 11, 1995


Mr. Nichols was back in the area by January, staying in Room 32 for $65 a week at the Sunset Motel in Junction City, and house hunting. On Feb. 20 he bought the house at 109 South Second.












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Herington, Kansas










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TERROR IN OKLAHOMA: THE NICHOLS BROTHERS

TERROR IN OKLAHOMA: THE NICHOLS BROTHERS; Seeking Clues Along a Highway

By PETER T. KILBORN

Published: May 11, 1995

HERINGTON, Kan., May 9— As Federal agents cobble together their case against Timothy J. McVeigh and Terry L. Nichols, a large part of their investigation has revolved around a 50-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 77, an otherwise tranquil two-lane road that slices through the greening prairies of central Kansas on its way toward Oklahoma City.

The trail begins outside Fort Riley in Junction City, where the two men served in the Army in 1988, and where Mr. McVeigh rented the Ryder truck that exploded on April 19 in Oklahoma City, shattering the Federal Building and killing 164 people.

Heading south, the road passes the Geary State Fishing Lake, the recreation area where teams of Federal agents and divers searched for clues last week, in the suspicion that the fertilizer and fuel oil bomb was assembled along the shore, before it was hidden inside the rented truck.

But it is here, amid the rolling ranchland that surrounds this farm community of 2,800, that agents have spent much of their time and effort, in an attempt to reconstruct when and how the lives of Mr. McVeigh and Mr. Nichols came together, in this remote swatch of Middle America, in the years and months before the bombing.

Both men have lived in the town, at different intervals, and were seen here together the weekend before the bombing. Herington has been home to Mr. Nichols since last year, and in February, he moved into a small house. That house is where he was living when he heard his name mentioned in television news broadcasts on April 21, two days after the bombing, and turned himself in for questioning. He has remained in custody ever since.

Here, too, on the eastern edge of town, the two men shared a storage locker where agents believe some bomb-making materials might have been kept. And in recent days, Federal agents have been investigating another coincidence: Mr. Nichols and Mr. McVeigh were seen here last September, in the same period, the local police say, that 299 sticks of dynamite and 544 blasting caps were stolen from the Martin Marietta rock quarry in nearby Marion.

In Wichita today, Federal officials formally charged Mr. Nichols with the bombing of the Federal Building, and now, along with Mr. McVeigh, he faces the death penalty if convicted. Until today, Mr. Nichols had been held only as a material witness, although he and his brother James are also facing separate charges relating to detonating bombs on the Nichols family farm in Decker, Mich.

Since the bombing, officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Army's Criminal Investigation Division have traveled up and down U.S. 77, from a command post at Fort Riley.

They have questioned neighbors and employers and shopkeepers who knew the men, or saw them together, and have even set up roadblocks along the highway -- and behind Mr. Nichols's house -- in the hope that a passing motorist might recall seeing something. Perhaps the yellow Ryder truck or anything else that would help draw the circle more closely around the pair or lead to the identity of John Doe No. 2, the elusive suspect who is believed to have rented the truck with Mr. McVeigh.

Even before Mr. Nichols was formally charged, people in Herington have been thinking about him and asking questions of their own.

Why, after Mr. Nichols moved to 109 South Second Street in February, did he always back his pickup -- its contents invisible under the topper -- into the driveway? Everyone else on the street drives in frontward.

"When he first moved in," said Geraldine Hodson, who lives across the street at No. 110, "my husband offered him some help to unload. He said no. I guess there was a reason."

The neighbors said it was not surprising to see Mr. Nichols's 12-year old son, Josh, who lives in Las Vegas, Nev., visiting his father over the Easter school break. But why was Mr. McVeigh also there?

What did Mr. Nichols have in mind for, among other things investigators found at his house, 33 firearms and an anti-tank gun? Why did he have a receipt with Mr. McVeigh's fingerprints for the purchase of a ton of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, one of the components of the bomb?

And what about storage locker No. 2, one of 26 in two single-story structures, now coated with fingerprint-lifting dust, on the eastern edge of Herington? The owner, Ray Mueller, who with his father, Verlon, also owns the city's hardware store, said that a man with an alias had rented it. Mr. Mueller has since learned from the F.B.I. that the man was either Mr. Nichols or Mr. McVeigh.

In affidavits presented in Federal District Court in Wichita on April 26, during a hearing on whether Mr. Nichols could be held as a material witness, neighbors in Herington also said Mr. McVeigh and another man stayed at Mr. Nichols's house a week before the bombing. The neighbors also said that they saw Mr. McVeigh in Herington on the day before the bombing and that he visited the storage locker outside town.

In the affidavit, Mr. Nichols also was reported to have told investigators that on Easter -- the same day others said they saw the two men together in Herington -- he drove to Oklahoma City to pick up Mr. McVeigh, and take him to Junction City. It was during that drive, according to Federal documents, that Mr. McVeigh told Mr. Nichols that "something big is going to happen."

Mr. Nichols first turned up in Herington last year, taking a job as a ranch hand with Tim and Dudley Donahue. The Donahue brothers, along with their father, Jim, run a ranch just off the road between Herington and Marion, the county seat. Mr. Nichols worked there seven months, and when he left last year, the Donahues said, he told them he was moving to Arizona to get into the gun-trading business.

Mr. Nichols was back in the area by January, staying in Room 32 for $65 a week at the Sunset Motel in Junction City, and house hunting. On Feb. 20 he bought the house at 109 South Second.

Mr. McVeigh, in his last six or seven months in the Army at Fort Riley, had lived in Herington through the end of 1991. He rented rooms with other soldiers in two houses here, at 502 South Broadway and at 404 North Eighth Street.

But over the last year, Mr. McVeigh has visited Herington several times, residents said. In addition to the Easter trip that Mr. Nichols's neighbors remembered, the Donahues recalled that Mr. McVeigh visited their ranch last September, and at least one other time.

People recall Mr. Nichols as clean-cut and polite, but bizarre and enigmatic. He paid cash for everything. He wrote to the county clerk, seeking to revoke his United States citizenship. And, they recalled, he said he had neither a Social Security number nor a driver's license, even though he had been issued a four-year Kansas license, No. K90030985, on March 4, 1994.

After buying his house, he went to City Hall to apply for water and electrical service. On his application, he left the line for his Social Security number blank and listed his former wife, Lana Padilla of Las Vegas, as his nearest relative.

The week of the bombing, Mr. Nichols was busy with the routines of a Herington homeowner, especially on Wednesday. Etta Mae Hartke, who lives next door at 107 South Second, said he had borrowed her ladder to do some roof repairs.

"He called us Wednesday, the day this all happened," said Harry Herbel, owner of Surplus Outlet. "He wanted to trade 40 shovels and picks for seven squares of shingle. I said I would have to see what he had. He said, 'Well, we'll have to get together tomorrow.' We never did."

Donna Linder, a neighbor at No. 114, and Mrs. Hodson said they both saw him doing yard work on Friday morning. "He was spreading fertilizer by hand," Mrs. Hodson said. "I thought, 'Oh boy, he's going to have a good lawn.' "

But by early afternoon, Mr. Nichols had heard some troubling news reports, and at 3:05 P.M., he showed up at the police station. "He walked in the door with his wife and little girl," Assistant Chief Barry Thacker said. "He said: 'My name is Terry L. Nichols. I just seen my name on television. I want to talk to somebody.' "

"I said: 'Come on in. I think I can find somebody for you to talk to.' " Just after midnight he was taken to the county jail in Abilene and the next day to the jail in Wichita.

Ms. Linder said she was not yet convinced that Mr. Nichols had made a bomb. "But what's so scary," she said, "is that I could have misjudged him so much. Out there fertilizing the lawn after he blew something up, bomb a building and kill a bunch of kids. A real soft-spoken man."

She, like most people along U.S. 77, are pretty much convinced that something wrong happened nearby. "Things were probably put together around here," said J. R. Sparke, a reporter-photographer for The Herington Times, a weekly newspaper. "People realize that."

Chart: "Crossing of Two Paths" Some findings investigators have made in their efforts to figure out when and how Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols might have collaborated in the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 1. SEPTEMBER 1994: The two men are reportedly seen in Herington together around the time someone steals 299 sticks of dynamite and 544 blasting caps from a rock quarry in nearby Marion. 2. APRIL 16, 1995: According to Nichols, he drives McVeigh from Oklahoma City to Junction City, and McVeigh says "something big" is about to happen. 3. APRIL 17: McVeigh and another man rent a Ryder truck from Elliot's body shop. 4. APRIL 18: Witnesses reportedly see a Ryder truck at a park. 5. APRIL 19: Ryder truck explodes in front of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 166 people. 6. APRIL 21: Nichols surrenders.










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George W. Bush

XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009

Remarks at the Republican Governors Association Gala

February 25, 2008


And here's the crux of the problem: Companies that were believed to have helped us protect America from attack are now being sued for billions of dollars. That's wrong, it's a mistake, and the United States Congress needs to give those companies liability protection. And let me tell you why.

First, it is not fair to treat these companies this way. Our Government told them that their participation was necessary in order to protect us from further attack. And we asked them—and when we asked them to make those protections, we told them it was legal to do so. And I firmly believe it is legal for them to help us protect the American people. And now they're getting sued. What's more important? Lawyers or protecting the United States of America from further attack?

Secondly, these lawsuits would require disclosure of information which would make it harder to protect the country. If these trials—if these cases go to trial, these companies will have to defend themselves. And they'll be asked all kinds of questions about the tactics they have used to help protect our country. It makes no sense to reveal our secrets to the enemy.

Thirdly, and finally, these—without law, without liability protection for a job that we asked them to do in service to the United States of America, it will make it harder to convince companies to participate in the future. If you've done something that you think is perfectly legal and all of a sudden you're facing billions of dollars of lawsuits










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threat

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Prairie Chapel Ranch

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Prairie Chapel Ranch is a 1,583 acre (6.4 km²) ranch in unincorporated McLennan County, Texas, located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Crawford (about 25 miles (40 km) from Waco). The property was acquired by George W. Bush in 1999 and was known as the Western White House during his presidency










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