("Quid coniuratio est?")
[Excerpts from Radio Free America (shortwave, 5.065 MHz, 9 pm cst, mon-fri), 07/25/95]
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TOM VALENTINE:
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I had a conversation with David Hall today. He's workin' on his videotape, "The Bomb", about the Oklahoma bombing. And the latest wrinkle in this is really kind of weird.
The governor of Oklahoma is Mr. [Keating], is a former FBI guy. So he gets a lot of stuff brought to him, inside information.
Remember how we were all told that the surveillance camera had a picture of the Ryder truck and everything, on the street, at the time of the bombing? Well there's a great, big photograph, a great big snapshot, from the surveillance camera. And the time of the camera (that is marked when they take the picture) is 9:02 a.m., the morning of the bombing. And the bomb went off at 9:02.04 -- 4 seconds later.
In the spot where the Ryder rental truck was supposed to be, there is no Ryder rental truck! It's a UPS truck. And they're trying to figure this out! {1}.
Who's kidding whom!? What kind of an investigation has been going on!? What kind of information have the public been handed!? What kind of information have they been handed?
If this is all true... Now, maybe the clock is off. But this is fascinating.
Nobody really knows much about this bombing. That's why the prosecution has asked for more time. And they're asking for the death penalty, and they haven't even indicted these guys!
What a country. I love it.
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...[Governor Keating's] office would have the photo that was pilfered, of the streets next to the federal building in Oklahoma City at the time of the bombing -- without a Ryder truck in it! And these guys are tryin' to figure out... They showed this on channel 4 in Oklahoma City, I believe, tonight. Someone might call in and tell what their reaction was.
--------------------------<< Notes >>---------------------------- {1} From my June 26, 1995 interview with Debra von Trapp:
DEBRA VON TRAPP: What I expect is, people come to understand that the FBI will not be successful with their cover story: there will be no evidence to connect McVeigh; that, forensically, it will be concluded that there was no "Ryder truck" or "fertilizer bomb" in front of the building. And, in fact, forensically, it will be proven that there were multiple devices inside the building.
I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy Nation."
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