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OKC Bombing Witnesses Gather
On Anniversary to Probe New Theories
Of Who Blew Up Murrah Building
By Pat Shannan
In mid-April, a news conference addressing “unanswered
questions” related to the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal
Building was held in the public forum atrium of the Oklahoma State
Capitol. This writer was honored to be the marquee speaker
“because of . . . unyielding and relentless pursuit of the truth
in this case for the past 15 years.”
Above, the Murrah
building following the bombing.
Other speakers were bombing victim V.Z. Lawton,
grandmother and guardian of two children lost in the explosion Jannie
Coverdale, and former federal grand jury member Hoppy Heidelberg, who
was kicked off the grand jury for attempting to do his job. All have
been keenly aware of the official cover-up since the beginning and have
known that others were involved in the crime, including agents of the
federal government.
Lawton was working for Housing and Urban
Development on the eighth floor when the building began to shake.
Believing, as many did, that they were experiencing an earthquake, he
had several seconds to dive under his desk for protection. The second
blast knocked him out for an undetermined time. When he awoke, he was
shocked to see the front of the building missing along with the desks
where his former colleagues had been seated. He knew the official story
of a single blast of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, called
“ANFO,” was a lie as soon as he heard it.
“We want to know who blew up the
building,” Mrs. Coverdale said. “I was told to attend
the trials in Denver and my questions would be answered. They were
not.” Beyond a form letter from Gov. Brad Henry, which Mrs.
Coverdale promptly tore into small pieces, state and federal
politicians have ignored her calls for a true investigation into the
bombing and the numerous anomalies surrounding it.
“My grandchildren died in ’95. We lost
a lot of babies that day. Not a day goes by that I don’t think
about those babies and wonder who killed them,” Mrs.
Coverdale said.
Heidelberg told once again of the grand jury
folly, which was a mere charade, how he learned more from the
newspapers and TV about the case than from his grand jury experiences,
and his muzzling by Federal Judge David Russell.
Wendy Painting, a graduate student and researcher
from upstate NewYork, told the group that she has been thoroughly
investigating various aspects of the bombing. Noting the 1996
“suicide” of Oklahoma City Police Department Officer Terry
Yeakey and the unsolved issues surrounding that case, Ms. Painting
noted, “Questions can be mortally dangerous.” Oklahoma City
private investigator and researcher Joe Cooley also spoke and said that
after hearing about the Yeakey case he was “horrified.” But
he began digging and was soon subject to “surveillance” by
people who did not want him to seek the truth.
Cooley said a source told him that
Yeakey—who was found brutally murdered in a remote area in
Canadian County—had been killed by “federal agents”
but that the source could not say much more than that. Chris
Emery, who has been working for several years on a documentary about
the mysteries still hanging over the Oklahoma City Bombing, reminded
the press that those seeking the truth “have no political
agenda” that this is simply “about right and wrong.”
Harmon Taylor, the Dallas, Texas-based attorney who was granted a
30-day stay of execution for McVeigh in May 2001 by Attorney General
John Ashcroft, spoke of the legal transgressions and what the system
did not do including the fact that the case should never have been
transferred to Denver, where the trial was ultimately held. Article
III, Section 2 clearly states that any crime must be tried in the state
in which it was committed.
When this was ignored, Taylor began to realize
that the Constitution was no longer in force and began to question,
“When did it go away?”
The local electronic media covered the meeting
briefly on the nightly news but carefully avoided presenting the many
conspiracy facts with a thinly veiled portrayal that such a public
presentation was merely more “conspiracy theory.”
Pat Shannan is the
assistant editor of American Free Press. He is also the author of
several videos and books including One
in a Million: An IRS Travesty and I
Rode With Tupper, detailing Shannan’s experiences with
Tupper Saussy when the American dissident was on the run in the 1980s.
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(Issue
# 17, April 26, 2010)
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