69 Facts About Timothy McVeigh

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Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children, injured 680, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building.

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Timothy McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolution against the federal government, and defended the bombing as a legitimate tactic against what he saw as a tyrannical government.

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Timothy McVeigh was arrested shortly after the bombing and indicted on 160 state offenses and 11 federal offenses, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction.

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Timothy McVeigh was found guilty on all counts in 1997 and sentenced to death.

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Timothy McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11,2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Timothy McVeigh was born on April 23,1968, in Lockport, New York, the only son and the second of three children of his Irish American parents, Noreen Mildred "Mickey" Hill and William Timothy McVeigh.

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Timothy McVeigh claimed to have been a target of bullying at school, and he took refuge in a fantasy world where he imagined retaliating against the bullies.

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Timothy McVeigh is said to have had only one girlfriend as an adolescent; he later told journalists that he did not have any idea how to impress girls.

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Timothy McVeigh told people of his wish to become a gun shop owner, and sometimes took firearms to school to impress his classmates.

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Timothy McVeigh became intensely interested in gun rights as well as the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution after he graduated from high school, and read magazines such as Soldier of Fortune.

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One co-worker recalled an instance when Timothy McVeigh came to work "looking like Pancho Villa" as he was wearing bandoliers.

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In May 1988, at the age of 20, Timothy McVeigh enlisted in the United States Army and attended Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at the US Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

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Timothy McVeigh was reprimanded by the military for purchasing a "White Power" T-shirt at a Ku Klux Klan rally where they were objecting to black servicemen who wore "Black Power" T-shirts around a military installation.

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Timothy McVeigh was a top-scoring gunner with the 25mm cannon of the Bradley Fighting Vehicles used by the 1st Infantry Division and was promoted to sergeant.

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Timothy McVeigh was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, before being deployed on Operation Desert Storm.

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Timothy McVeigh decapitated an Iraqi soldier with cannon fire from 1,100 yards away.

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Timothy McVeigh said he was later shocked to see carnage on the road while leaving Kuwait City after US troops routed the Iraqi Army.

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Timothy McVeigh received several service awards, including the Bronze Star Medal National Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, and the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal.

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Timothy McVeigh aspired to join the United States Army Special Forces.

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However, in a letter to his superiors, Timothy McVeigh wrote that he was not "physically ready".

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Timothy McVeigh decided to leave the Army and was honorably discharged in 1991.

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Timothy McVeigh later moved with Nichols to Nichols' brother James' farm around Decker, Michigan.

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Timothy McVeigh worked long hours in a dead-end job and felt that he did not have a home.

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Timothy McVeigh sought romance, but his advances were rejected by a co-worker and he felt nervous around women.

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Timothy McVeigh believed that he brought too much pain to his loved ones.

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26.

Timothy McVeigh grew angry and frustrated at his difficulties in finding a girlfriend.

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Timothy McVeigh began looking for a state with low taxes so that he could live without heavy government regulation or high taxes.

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Timothy McVeigh became enraged when the government told him that he had been overpaid $1,058 while in the Army and he had to pay back the money.

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Timothy McVeigh wrote an angry letter to the government, saying:.

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Timothy McVeigh introduced his sister to anti-government literature, but his father had little interest in these views.

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Timothy McVeigh moved out of his father's house and into an apartment that had no telephone.

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Timothy McVeigh quit the National Rifle Association, believing that it was too weak on gun rights.

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In 1993, Timothy McVeigh drove to Waco, Texas, during the Waco siege to show his support.

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Timothy McVeigh wrote hate mail to Horiuchi, suggesting that "what goes around, comes around".

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Timothy McVeigh later considered putting aside his plan to target the Murrah Building to target Horiuchi or a member of his family instead.

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Timothy McVeigh became a fixture on the gun show circuit, traveling to forty states and visiting about eighty gun shows.

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Timothy McVeigh experimented with cannabis and methamphetamine after first researching their effects in an encyclopedia.

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Timothy McVeigh was never as interested in drugs as Fortier was, and one of the reasons they parted ways was that McVeigh grew tired of Fortier's drug habits.

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The destruction of the Waco compound enraged Timothy McVeigh and convinced him that it was time to take action.

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Timothy McVeigh was particularly angered by the government's use of CS gas on women and children; he had been exposed to the gas as part of his military training and was familiar with its effects.

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Timothy McVeigh began to sell Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives hats riddled with bullet holes, and a flare gun that he said could shoot down an "ATF helicopter".

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The government imposed new firearms restrictions in 1994 which Timothy McVeigh believed threatened his livelihood.

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Timothy McVeigh dissociated himself from his boyhood friend Steve Hodge by sending him a 23-page farewell letter.

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Timothy McVeigh proclaimed his devotion to the United States Declaration of Independence, explaining in detail what each sentence meant to him.

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Timothy McVeigh felt the need to personally reconnoiter sites of rumored conspiracies.

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Timothy McVeigh visited Area 51 in order to defy government restrictions on photography and went to Gulfport, Mississippi, to determine the veracity of rumors about United Nations operations.

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Timothy McVeigh told Fortier of his plans to blow up a federal building, but Fortier declined to participate.

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Timothy McVeigh wrote a letter to recruit a customer named Steve Colbern:.

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Timothy McVeigh began announcing that he had progressed from the "propaganda" phase to the "action" phase.

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Timothy McVeigh said that he had not known that there was a daycare center on the second floor, and that he might have chosen a different target if he had known about it.

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Nichols said that he and Timothy McVeigh did know about the daycare center in the building, and that they did not care.

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Timothy McVeigh was wearing a shirt at that time with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the motto, the supposed words shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he shot Lincoln.

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Timothy McVeigh instructed his lawyers to use a necessity defense, but they ended up not doing so.

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Timothy McVeigh wrote, 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher.

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Timothy McVeigh dropped his remaining appeals, saying that he would rather die than spend the rest of his life in prison.

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Timothy McVeigh said that his only regret was not completely destroying the federal building.

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Timothy McVeigh invited conductor David Woodard to perform Requiem Mass music on the eve of his execution.

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Timothy McVeigh chose William Ernest Henley's 1875 poem "Invictus" as his final statement.

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Timothy McVeigh had a look of defiance and that if he could, he'd do it all over again.

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Timothy McVeigh's body was cremated at Mattox Ryan Funeral Home in Terre Haute.

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Timothy McVeigh was confirmed at the Good Shepherd Church in Pendleton, New York, in 1985.

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In June 2001, a day before the execution, Timothy McVeigh wrote a letter to the Buffalo News identifying himself as agnostic.

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Timothy McVeigh claimed that the bombing was revenge against the government for the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge.

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Timothy McVeigh frequently quoted and alluded to the white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries; he claimed to appreciate its interest in firearms.

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Timothy McVeigh read the novel Unintended Consequences, and said that if it had come out a few years earlier, he would have given serious consideration to using sniper attacks in a war of attrition against the government instead of bombing a federal building.

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66.

The operator of the Dreamland Motel testified that two Ryder trucks had been parked outside her Grandview Plaza motel where Timothy McVeigh stayed in Room 26 the weekend before the bombing.

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Timothy McVeigh was sentenced on May 27,1998, to twelve years in prison and fined $75,000 for failing to warn authorities about the bombing.

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Timothy McVeigh was issued a speeding ticket there at the same time.

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Timothy McVeigh's execution is aired live on national television and is shown on pay-per-view where it gets many viewers.