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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 11
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              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5  Num. 11
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")


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OKC BOMBING: UPDATE
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David Hall, general manager and owner of KPOC-TV, Ponca City, 
Oklahoma, was the guest on *Radio Free America* (5.065 MHz, 9 pm 
cst, mon-fri) this evening, June 6, 1995. Ponca City is about 90 
miles from Oklahoma City and KPOC was able to have a television 
crew at the Murrah Building, site of the tragic April 19th 
bombing, by about 10:45 a.m. that same day.

According to Hall, the authorities at first stated that they had 
a video showing what turned out to be Timothy McVeigh and 1 other 
getting into a brown Ford pick-up truck the day of the blast. 
Hall says KPOC has a taped interview of authorities stating this. 

Also, according to Hall, an All Points Bulletin (APB) went out 
that morning for a late model, brown Ford pick-up. Hall stated 
that he has an audio tape of the APB but that when he asked 
authorities about it, the authorities denied that there was any 
such APB. Hall adds that he then played his audio tape of the 
APB, and that the authorities then switched their subsequent 
statements on the matter to "No comment".

The OKC bombing took place on Wednesday, April 19th, yet there is 
discrepancy and disagreement as to when McVeigh was finally 
arrested. Officially, McVeigh was arrested at about 10:20 a.m. on 
April 19th, about 80 or so minutes after "the" bomb went off. 
Officially, McVeigh was speeding on Interstate 35, travelling at 
85 m.p.h. in a Mercury(?) (*not* a Ford pick-up) with no license 
plates. He reportedly was carrying a loaded gun in a shoulder 
holster. Supposedly, when McVeigh was pulled over, he immediately 
gave himself up, saying that he had a loaded handgun under his 
jacket -- this last based in part on arresting officer Charlie 
Hangar(?) who arrested McVeigh at that time but who since has 
clammed up and is not talking. *BUT*, Hall states that McVeigh's 
arrest actually appears to have occurred on Friday, April 21, at 
about 1:30 pm.

There is doubt as to how McVeigh could have made it to where he 
was *officially* arrested in so little time; i.e. how could he 
have travelled so far to where he supposedly was arrested, just 
80 minutes or so after the OKC bomb blast.

Hall raised the question of finances: how could McVeigh, whose 
work records show him as having worked just 25 hours at minimum 
wage during the previous month, have come up with what Hall 
calculates as at least $10,000 needed to carry off the supposed 
"fertilizer bombing" of the Murrah Building? Where did McVeigh 
get the money? Hall says he thinks he knows the source of 
McVeigh's alleged funding, but he doesn't wish to go public with 
that information at this time.

Were ATF personnel present in the Murrah Building at the time of 
the blast? It appears not. ATF says 5 agents were killed, *but* 
one ATF agent has informed Hall that no ATF were present. One 
secretary was there, but she, reportedly, was not hurt. The 5 
agents who are supposed to have been killed were, Hall says, up 
all night on surveillance and went home that morning at about 6 
a.m.

Seismograms indicate 2 explosions. It appears increasingly 
doubtful that the second seismographic "event" was concrete 
falling, a "sonic boom", et cetera. At the time of the final 
demolition of the building toward the end of May, the much 
greater amount of falling concrete did not affect the 
seismograph.

Because KPOC was on the scene early, they have video of an OKC 
Fire Dept. spokesman reporting 2 undetonated bombs and a rocket 
launcher as having been found. But since those initial reports, 
"mum's the word".

Hall has problems with the stories being put out by the FBI. For 
one, he has doubts that either of the Nichols brothers were 
involved. He thinks, unless new evidence appears and/or is 
fabricated, that neither Nichols brother will be indicted. 
Neither Nichols is, at this time, seriously linked to the 
bombing. Hall believes that McVeigh *was* involved, but that he 
is basically a "patsy". I would add that they may try to put 
McVeigh on ice by somehow getting him to be found "crazy"; that 
way, no trial, no fair and open public inquiry, and they can say 
that the case has been more or less "solved".

Hall and *Radio Free America* host Tom Valentine pooh-pooh the 
Debra von Trapp thesis of the bombing having been committed by 
Japan in retaliation for the March 20th gas attack in a Japanese 
subway. Valentine speculates that von Trapp may have been 
deliberately handed disinformation so as to confuse the case. I 
don't buy that: why are *The Spotlight* and *Radio Free America*, 
normally so courageous, shying away from the possible Japanese 
connection?

Look for a video entitled (tentatively) "The Bombing", available 
by calling 1-800-474-2861, to be released in about 6 weeks.

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