Oklahoma City (2017)
Bob Ricks: Self - FBI Special Agent in Charge
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Himself - FBI Special Agent in Charge : That morning, I was not in my office. I was at a fundraiser about thirty miles away. We had a 9:00 start, when all of a sudden, my phone went off, and I was told that there'd been some type of an explosion at the Murrah Building. The greatest fear I have is that we-we have casualties in the thousands. Uh, at any one time, there could be a couple of thousand people in that building.
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Himself - Biographer : [recounting McVeigh's arrest] The t-shirt he is wearing says "sic semper tyrannis": thus always to tyrants. It was what John Wilkes Booth shouted when he shot Lincoln.
Himself - Writer : For two days, McVeigh languished in the jail and nobody really knew who he was. Other than the fact that he was illegally carrying a weapon, the police had no suspicions about him.
Himself - FBI Special Agent in Charge : We called up the courthouse there and learned that Timothy McVeigh was just getting ready to appear before the judge was about ready to be released. So we said, you know, "Put a hold on him. We're on our way."
Himself - Biographer : Two federal agents interview him in the Noble County sheriff's office. And the agents start by saying "Do you know why we're here?". And McVeigh says "Does it have something to do with the bombing?"
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Himself - FBI Special Agent in Charge : A mistake was made. The artist conception has him with a Carolina Panthers cap on. It turns out that a guy had happened to be the Ryder truck rental shop the day before Timothy McVeigh was. His description is almost to a "T".
Timothy McVeigh : [archive audio] Is there a John Doe number two? Either way I can answer it should be scary because, number one, if there are other people, that means they're still out there. On the other hand, if it was just me, in... that in itself, isn't that pretty scary that one man could do that? That's why "You can't handle the truth" is the perfect line, because the truth is it was just me.
