Oklahoma City Bombing

According to the official story on Wednesday April 19 1995 a far-right lone wolf terrorist named Timothy McVey drove a rider truck Laden with explosives into Oklahoma City by himself and parked it outside of the Alura Federal Building where it would explode at 9:02 a.m. taking out most of the building killing 167, including children, and injuring 680.

But the following information was kept out of McVeigh's trial, dismissed as irrelevant by the judge, and has been ignored in the official history of the attack.

Foreknowlege

An SPLC spy at Elohim City, the right wing compound where McVeigh spent time, had informed the FBI of the planned attack two weeks before it was carried out. This was unearthed in the reinvestigation into the death of Kenny Trentadue, a prisoner who was tortured to death by gaurds who beleived him to be John Doe Doe #2, even after the existance of an accomplice had been retracted by the FBI.

ATF tip off

Multiple survivors who'd been in the Murrah Building that morning told local TV stations that they'd spoken to ATF agents at the scene who admitted that no ATF employees had died in the blast because they'd been warned not to come into work that day. 

Witness #1 - ''What he told him is that he thought that they had received a tip that morning of the bomb.'' 

Witness #2 - ''I asked him if his office was in the building, and he said yes. And I asked if there were any ATF agents that were still in the building, and he said no, we weren't here.'' 

Witness #3 - ''I spotted a ATF officer in a jacket that signified that it was ATF personnel. And he just came out and told me that the ATF wasn't in the building that day. They'd been tipped by their pagers not to come to work. Which I was flabbergasted. I didn't ask this guy this question. This is just what came out of his mouth.'' 

Other ATF agents realized the gravity of these admissions and quickly began concocting stories to tell the media about the supposed heroism of ATF agents that day. One agent claimed that he'd been in an elevator when the bomb went off and the elevator had suddenly dropped down several floors, after which he made a quick escape and began helping the injured, but the general manager of the company that built the Murrah Buildings elevators was interviewed about the ATF agent's story, and he said that the design of the Murrah Buildings elevators made a freefall drop impossible, so the agent's version of events couldn't possibly be true.

Accomplice

Witness #1 (The FBI) - Within days of the bombing, with Timothy McVeigh already in custody, the FBI announced to the media that they were seeking two men in connection with the bombing, John Doe #1 and John Doe #2. According to the Bureau, they had traced the VIN number on the axle of the exploded Ryder truck to a rental place in Kansas, and an employee there remembered seeing two men renting the truck in question. One was skinny and tall with a buzz cut. (McVeigh) The second suspect was described as being about five foot nine, muscular with tan or olive complected skin and a tattoo of a dragon on his left forearm wearing a black baseball cap. The sketch produced from this description became John Doe #2.

Just hours after the bombing, before McVeigh had been publicly identified as a suspect, local media found an employee at a tire store just blocks from the Murrah building who said that minutes before the blast, a Ryder truck had pulled into his store's parking lot and the two men inside the truck asked for directions to the Murrah building. The employees' descriptions of the men matched Timothy McVeigh and John Doe #2 exactly. 

Witness #2 (Mike Moroz) - Witness, Mike Moroz: ''The morning of April 19th, I was working at Johnny's Tire Store. At about approximately 8:25 a Ryder truck pulled up into my bit place of business at that time a gentleman asked me for directions to 5th and Harvey I proceeded to explain the Location of where he was asking me he seemed to be a little concerned of where I was telling him about At that time the gentleman, Timothy McVeigh, stepped out of the truck. I walked him over to Let's say 10 11 feet away from the truck itself. I pointed a direction downtown, which is to my right he seemed to acknowledge where I was talking about. At that time, the gentleman walked back to the truck. I talked to him. I also noticed there was a passenger in the truck at that time. From that point in time, the writer's truck seemed to stay there about another five minutes and headed the direction I explained where it was at. Four days after the bombing, or three days after the bombing, the government took me downtown to identify the gentleman. And what I could understand, I did identify the gentleman as being Timothy McVeigh.''

Press: ''Did they have the passenger which was with McVeigh? Was he in a line of boss?'' 

Witness, Mike Moroz: ''No, he was not. At that time, I've never even actually seen. At that time, before the John Dewey, actually, two-number come out, I'd never even seen a photo, a sketch, nothing like that. And also, when I did identify Timothy McVeigh, I had not even seen him. The only way I'd ever seen him was through a sketch on a paper at Daly, Oklahoma.''

Witness #3 - Press: ''Do you have any doubt in your mind that there was a passenger in the Ryder truck?''

Witness: ''That's even more. I have no doubt there was definitely a second person no matter what. There was two people in this vehicle.''

Witness #4 (security gaurd) - A local TV station also spoke to a whistleblower who had been working security for a business right next to the bomb site. The morning of the explosion, that security guard had been watching a surveillance camera that covered the front of the Murrah building. The guard said that their camera had captured the Ryder truck pulling up and parking outside of the building. 

''I was standing in the building and I looked out the window and I seen the letters truck and I seen the man get out of the ryder truck.''

One man, who the witness identified as McVeigh, exited the truck, followed by a second man moments later, after which the two men made their escape minutes before the explosion. The security guard's employer recognized the importance of the footage immediately and contacted the FBI. After viewing the surveillance tape, the FBI agents confiscated the only copy of the footage. In the weeks after the bombing, the FBI would leak to the media that they were in possession of surveillance video showing the Ryder truck being parked outside of the Murrah building. 

Witness #5 (Wolden Kennedy) - Wolden Kennedy, FBI: ''John Doe #2 has not been identified and remains at large. He should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.''

Witness #6 (Stripper) - On April 8th, 1995, less than two weeks before the bombing, Timothy McVeigh went to a strip club in Tulsa, Oklahoma called Lady Godiva's. He was accompanied by a second man who the girls described as having black hair and a thick German sounding accent. This would be unremarkable except for one detail. The strip club had installed cameras in the dressing rooms with sound and on the night of McVeigh's visit, the cameras caught one of the girls discussing her interactions with McVeigh's table. She said that when she approached the two men, One of them, later identified as McVeigh, started bragging to her about how he was about to become famous.

''He goes, I'm a very smart man. I said, you are. And you're going to remember me. On April 1995, you're going to remember me for the rest of your life.''

Witnesses #7 - The official story is that on April 18th, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols drove the Ryder truck that McVeigh had rented the day before to the shore of a lake in a state park in Kansas, where they assembled the bomb in the back of the truck. But four separate witnesses in that Kansas State Park would tell the FBI that they had seen the same model of Ryder truck parked in the exact same location on the lake the day before April 18th, when McVeigh wasn't even in the state. 

Witnesses #8 - At the motel where McVeigh stayed in the days before the bombing, witnesses saw McVeigh with two other men, neither of whom were Terry Nichols or Michael Fortier, the only two people who were ever convicted of crimes related to the bombing besides McVeigh. Parked outside of the room was a Ryder truck, days before McVeigh had rented one. 

Witnesses #9 (delivery driver) - Another witness, a delivery man for a local Chinese restaurant who had delivered food to McVeigh's room, said that the man who answered the door and paid for the food wasn't McVeigh, Nichols, or Fortier.

FBI reteraction & denail of footage

But the Bureau refused to let anyone else see the video. Once McVeigh was charged and defense lawyers began asking to see the tape, the FBI changed their story. Now they claim that the tape never existed. The Bureau stuck to the story for over a decade, until finally in 2009, a judge overseeing a lawsuit against them forced the FBI to release 26 of the 244 surveillance tapes they had taken from cameras surrounding the Murrow building. Incredibly, of the only four videos that actually showed the area where the bomb was planted, every single one of them was missing the minutes before the explosion that would have shown the men parking the Ryder truck and abandoning it. But we do have some hints about what was in the missing sections. A Secret Service document describes security videotapes in the agency's possession which depict, "the truck detonation three minutes and six seconds after the suspects, plural, exited the truck." 

Every once in a while, an agent who worked on the case will mess up and admit that they too have seen this non-existent surveillance video. Danny Coulson: ''We had him on videotape at the McDonald's at the FBI building, right across from the FBI building in Oklahoma. We had a videotape of the truck being pulled up at a couple minutes towards 9. It was things like that.''

Kenny Trentadue killing

Kenny Trentadue killingOn August 21, 1995, Wilma Trentadue received a call from the warden of the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center, a federal prison located in Oklahoma City, informing her that her son, Kenny Trentadue, had committed suicide in his prison cell the night before. Bizarrely, the warden offered to cremate Kenny's body at the government's expense, an unprecedented offer coming from a federal prison. But Wilma declined, and five days later, when Kenny's body arrived at the mortuary the family had chosen, she discovered the real reason for the prison's generous offer. Kenny's body was covered in bruises, from his head literally to the soles of his feet, with ruptures on his scalp and both ligature and slash marks on his throat. The prison had hastily concealed most of Kenny's injuries with makeup, the first step in a cover-up that would last for years. 

State medical examiner - The prison put out a press release claiming Kenny had died from suicide by asphyxiation, but the state medical examiner strongly disagreed, classifying Kenny's death as a likely murder. 

Despite the repainting, blood from an unidentified second person was found inside the cell, along with Kenny's blood, and the noose which prison guards had supposedly cut Kenny down from didn't have any cut marks on it. 

The state medical examiner refused to bow to FBI pressure to classify Kenny's death as a suicide, telling a local TV station, ''I think it's very likely Kenny was murdered. I'm not able to prove it. You see a body covered with blood, removed from the room as Mr. Trinidou was, soaked in blood, covered with bruises, and you try to gain access to the scene, and the government of the United States says no you can't. At that point, we have no crime scene, so there are still questions about the death of Kenneth Trinidou that will never be answered because of the actions of the US government. Whether those actions were intentional, whether they were incompetence, I don't know. It was botched, or worse, it was planned.'' 

Anonymous tip - Soon after, Kenny's brother, Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trinidou, received an anonymous call in which the caller detailed the FBI's role in his brother's death. 

''The caller said that my brother had been killed by the FBI, that it was an interrogation that had gone terribly wrong, that he had, it was a case of mistaken identity, he had fit the profile of a group of individuals who were robbing banks and armored cars and using the money to attack the federal government.''

Through lawsuits and FOIA requests, Jesse would conduct his own investigation, discovering that Kenny's clothes, bedsheets, and boxers had disappeared from his cell, and the cell itself was scrubbed clean and repainted, literally within hours of the discovery of Kenny's body, sabotaging any chance at a real investigation of the crime scene.

McVeigh tip - Years later, shortly before he was scheduled to be executed, Jesse Trentadue received a message from Timothy McVeigh: ''He said that when I saw your brother's picture and heard what happened to him, I knew they had, they being the FBI, had killed him because they thought it was Richard Lee Guthrie.'' 

Guthrie, a bank robber for the white separatist Aryan Republican Army, or a striking resemblance to Kenny Trentadue. Guthrie was 5'8", Kenny was 5'8". Both were muscular, with the same color hair, and both had a dragon tattoo on their left forearm. Kenny had been arrested in the same model car Richard Lee Guthrie was known to drive on a probation violation for a bank robbery, the exact same crime that Guthrie was wanted for. The two men's descriptions matched each other's exactly, but more importantly, they matched the FBI's working description of John Doe #2. 

Over the next decade plus of court hearings, government leaks, and FOIA disclosures, Jesse Trentadue would slowly piece together the facts of his brother's death. The FBI thought that Kenny Trentadue was an alias of Richard Lee Guthrie, and they believed Richard Lee Guthrie was John Doe #2, McVeigh's accomplice in the bombing. FBI agents had interrogated Trentadue in his cell, torturing him so severely that he was bruised from his face to the bottoms of his feet, and when a confession wasn't forthcoming, they went overboard, killing Kenny in the process.

Reinvestigation - Jesse Trentadue's investigation uncovered so much evidence of murder that Utah Senator Orrin Hatch initiated the process of opening a Senate investigation into Kenny's death. But the FBI lied to his office about the evidence they had in their possession, and the Senate investigation never materialized. 

Jesse Trentadue would sue the federal government and be awarded over a million dollars for crimes related to his brother's death, but the FBI's cover-up of Kenny's murder persists to this day. 

It's notable that the torture of Kenny Trentadue occurred in mid-August of 1995, even though the FBI had already announced their identification of John Doe #2 as an innocent bystander on June 14th, some two months earlier.

Richard Gurthrie death - The real Richard Lee Guthrie would be arrested on bank robbery charges in January 1996, and just days after announcing his intent to give an interview to the LA Times that would, ''blow the lid off of the Oklahoma City bombing'', Guthrie was found hanging in his federal prison cell. Richard Lee Guthrie is one candidate for the true identity of John Doe #2, but perhaps the strongest candidate for the true identity of John Doe #2 is Andreas Strassmeir.

Andreas Strassmeir (the accomplice)

Strassmeir was born into privilege in his native Germany, the son of Günter Straßmeir, the Chief of Staff to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. In the 1980s, Strassmeir would move to the United States, hoping to work, by his own admission, for, ''the operations section of the DEA.''

''time to start bombing federal buildings'' - When leveraging his father's political connections to find such work proved insufficient, Strassmeir would overstay his visa and throw himself into far-right underground politics, going to the same Midwestern gun shows and fraternizing with many of the same white separatist groups that Timothy McVeigh would later come to be involved in. Some have speculated that Strassmeir had actually been successful in finding federal employment, and that some agency of the federal government, like the FBI, DEA, or ATF, was sending Strassmeir to these gun shows and extremist meetings as a paid federal informant. Either way, it's now beyond dispute that the white separatist compound where Strassmeir lived and where McVeigh would spend much of his time in the months before the bombing, Elohim City, was crawling with federal informants. An SPLC spy had informed the FBI of the planned attack weeks before it was carried out. Plus, an ATF informant named Carol Howe had spent countless hours at Elohim City in the months before the bombing, and she told the ATF that she'd heard Strassmeir say, "It's time to start bombing federal buildings." She told her ATF handlers that she'd gone on multiple runs to Oklahoma City in the months before the attack with Strassmeir and another white supremacist named Dennis Mahon, in which they scoped out the Murrah Building as a potential target for a bombing. 

The federal government was so scared of the information in Carol Howe's brain that during Timothy McVeigh's trial, they indicted Howe on charges related to a bomb threat, for which she would later be acquitted, charges which her own lawyer decried as a blatant attempt to keep Howe silent while McVeigh's trial was ongoing. 

Witness to admission - Besides his strong resemblance to the John Doe #2 sketch and talk of blowing up federal buildings, Strassmeir was also identified as the man with the German accent who had accompanied McVeigh to the strip club days before the bombing, where he had bragged about how he was going to become famous on April 19, 1995. 

German government plane - According to Strassmeir's lawyer, Kirk Lyons, in January of 1996, Strassmeir was evacuated from the United States on a plane furnished by the German government's elite anti-terrorism special operations group, GS9, the equivalent of America's Delta Force. His lawyer claimed this was the German government's idea, necessary for safety reasons, but it is highly suspicious that the anti-terror arm of the German government would go so far out of their way to evacuate a gun-obsessed, white supremacist illegal immigrant in the United States.

PATCON

Some ex-informants have alleged that the attack was a botched federal operation under the program named "PATCON" or Patriot Conspiracy, an FBI operation targeting the radical right in the United States, where the feds had used informants to entrap McVeigh in a bombing plot, but at the last minute, they failed to make the arrest in time. either intentionally or unintentionally.

McVeigh Admission - McVeigh himself claimed at various times to have been recruited into a top-secret special forces program and domestic intelligence operations on American soil.

Some have speculated that beyond being an informant, Strassmeir may have been an operative for a law enforcement cooperation agreement between the American and German governments. Throughout the 1980s, far-right groups in the U.S. had been attempting to expand into Germany. and opening up branches of American extremist groups on German soil. To thwart this process, American federal agencies agreed to cooperate with their German counterparts to suppress right-wing activity in the United States to contain those groups most likely to spread into Germany.

Effect - The bombing was promoted by the U.S. government and the corporate media as yet another sign that “domestic extremism” and “domestic terrorism” were on the rise in the United States, a rallying cry which continues in the political climate of the 2020’s. It’s also important to understand that the bombing of OKC led to the passage of “The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996”, which was introduced by then Senator Joe Biden. The bill was criticized for taking steps to remove habeas corpus protections. Biden, has often claimed his bill was the precursor of the Patriot Act, which was also criticized for attacking civil liberties in the post-9/11 era.

Terrence Yeakey death

One of the most troubling aspects of the OKC bombing investigation involved officer Terrence Yeakey, who began privately investigating the bombings after growing suspicious of the official investigation. Terrence Yeakey, better known as Terry, rescued victims after the explosions and was awarded the medal of valor for his work. However, Terry did not want the medal because he grew to suspect he was being lied to about the true causes of the explosion.

Yeakey was collecting evidence when he turned up dead from an apparent suicide which immediately drew suspicion from family and fellow officers. His body was found parked in his car off a country road with his wrists slit, his neck slit, and a gunshot wound to the head. 

The story of Yeakey has even grown to the point that mainstream outlets like CNN were forced to report on his story in March 2023, asking “Why did this cop turn up dead?”. Yeakey’s sister Lashon Hargrove told CNN he had questions about how the explosion took place and the blast pattern. She said he asked, “you know how they said the truck bomb blew in? He saw evidence of blowing out“. If true, this would be evidence of bombs within the building blowing outwards. Yeakey’s ex-wife Tonia has also stated that she drove him back to the federal building at night because he wanted to see the site when there would be less people around. She told CNN they headed to the building around 9:30 or 10 and Terry wanted to get a picture underneath where the daycare had been. She says the two were stopped by some government officials, either ATF or FBI, who refused to let him through.

Tonia has also claimed that Terry wrote a detailed police report for the OKC Police Department. One day Yeakey showed up at their house upset because his police report had disappeared. He claimed his bosses were telling him to write a new 1 page report. She also said she remembered getting an angry call from one of Yeakey’s supervisors asking him where he was and demanding that he turn in his report or be reprimanded. The OKCPD has declined to answer questions relating to Terry Yeakey’s report or its alleged disappearance.

Yeakey’s family testify in the Documentay, A Noble Lie, that no autopsy was done after his death.

Precedent of Criticism

Charles Key - Charles Key, a former Republican member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1986 to 1999, and again from 2006 to 2012, worked with Glenn Wilburn, whose grandsons, Chase Smith, 3, and Colton Smith, 2, were killed in the blast, to convene a grand jury in June 1997 to investigate claims of foreknowledge by the U.S. government and potential additional suspects. After 18 months and talking to more than 170 witnesses, the grand jury concluded: ”We cannot affirmatively state that absolutely no one else was involved in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building”.

Key was also involved in the formation of the OKC Bombing Investigation Committee which brought the remaining questions to the attention of the local media and Oklahomans. The Committee eventually released a final report in 2001 which made the case for McVeigh not having worked alone and for the FBI being aware of the attack prior to it happening. The 500 page report has testimony from individuals who argue that not only was Timothy McVeigh not acting alone, but the fertilizer bomb in the Ryder truck could NOT have caused the destruction on its own.

In fact, retired Air Force Brigadier General Benton Partin reviewed the case and said McVeigh’s bomb alone could not have caused that much damage. “There is strong evidence that demolition charges were in the building,” Partin wrote in a letter to a prosecutor in 1997.

Hoppy Heidelberg - Hoppy Heidelberg was a member of the grand jury who says the jury was stifled in a number of ways and not given full access to information they needed.

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By: Psych History Show, Derrick Broze

Raped by: Otto Heckel