Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols: Crimes, Incarceration, and the Supermax Prison System
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Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols: Crimes, Incarceration, and the
Supermax Prison System
Compare and contrast the characteristics of the previously listed individuals.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, the
attack killed 168 people and injured over 600. It was the deadliest act of terrorism within the
United States prior to the September 11 attacks.
In the spring of 1992, Nichols extremist political views led him to renounce his U. S. citizenship.
In a letter sent to a state agency, Nichols wrote: "I am no longer a citizen of the corrupt political
corporate state of Michigan and the United States of America." Later that year, in court over
credit card debt, Nichols unsuccessfully tried to argue that the court lacked jurisdiction over him
because of his lack of citizenship.
Following his discharge from the Army, Nichols spent considerable time with Timothy
McVeigh. The two reinforced each other's anti-government hatred and traveled together to gun
shows. At the Nichols farm on April 19, 1993, the two men watched television together--in
shared outrage--as the Branch Davidian compound near Waco went up in flames, killing nearly
80 people.
Beginning in 1994, Nichols and McVeigh began implementing plans to blow up the Murrah
Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Together, they purchased or stole key ingredients for the
bomb.
Nichols continued to assist in the bombing plans right up to the day before the explosion. (He
told McVeigh that he didn't want to be involved on the day of the bombing.) Nichols drove to
Oklahoma City with McVeigh on April 16 to station a getaway car. Two days later, he helped
McVeigh load explosives from a Kansas storage unit into the Ryder truck, and then met
McVeigh near Geary Lake, Kansas, to assist in mixing the ingredients.
Retrieved from: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcveigh/conspirators.html
Supermax Prison System
Compare and contrast the characteristics of the previously listed individuals.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, the
attack killed 168 people and injured over 600. It was the deadliest act of terrorism within the
United States prior to the September 11 attacks.
In the spring of 1992, Nichols extremist political views led him to renounce his U. S. citizenship.
In a letter sent to a state agency, Nichols wrote: "I am no longer a citizen of the corrupt political
corporate state of Michigan and the United States of America." Later that year, in court over
credit card debt, Nichols unsuccessfully tried to argue that the court lacked jurisdiction over him
because of his lack of citizenship.
Following his discharge from the Army, Nichols spent considerable time with Timothy
McVeigh. The two reinforced each other's anti-government hatred and traveled together to gun
shows. At the Nichols farm on April 19, 1993, the two men watched television together--in
shared outrage--as the Branch Davidian compound near Waco went up in flames, killing nearly
80 people.
Beginning in 1994, Nichols and McVeigh began implementing plans to blow up the Murrah
Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Together, they purchased or stole key ingredients for the
bomb.
Nichols continued to assist in the bombing plans right up to the day before the explosion. (He
told McVeigh that he didn't want to be involved on the day of the bombing.) Nichols drove to
Oklahoma City with McVeigh on April 16 to station a getaway car. Two days later, he helped
McVeigh load explosives from a Kansas storage unit into the Ryder truck, and then met
McVeigh near Geary Lake, Kansas, to assist in mixing the ingredients.
Retrieved from: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcveigh/conspirators.html
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