Status Updates From Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh ...

McVeigh was housed on "bombers row" the wing with the most notorious inmates. He was next door to Ted Kaczynski and near Ramzi Yousef.

Just 3 days after the bombing McVeigh and Nichols were in custody.

There were 600 people inside the Murrah building's 9 floors on April 19. 163 were killed including 15 of the 21 children in the daycare. All 3 teachers were killed as well as all the infants in cribs.

McVeigh's extremists views are now mainstream in the Republican party

McVeigh's rationalization for murdering the children in the Murrah building provided a useful reminder of his soulless fanaticism.

McVeigh was disdainfully casual about what he would do after he destroyed the Murrah building.

Nichols made two purchases of forty 50 pound bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer for a total of 4,000 pounds.

McVeigh was a true believer but at times Nichols seemed more interested in money plus his marriage was falling apart.

McVeigh came of age before the term "incel" - involuntary celibate- came into wide usage. McVeigh was unable to attract women and responded with rage towards women.

The bombing would take place on April 19, 1995. That would be exactly 2 years after the Waco conflagration as well as the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775.

Right wing extremists have long wrapped their views in twisted interpretations of the Constitution.

McVeigh told his lawyers he had slept with 8 women in total and 3 of them were the wives of his friends.

McVeigh thought that Waco was worse than a blunder; it was an intentional crime of mass murder.

Newer to McVeigh's political worldview was hostility to women's rights. At Fort Riley he came across women recruits for the first time and was appalled.

McVeigh started listening to Rush Limbaugh who was in his heyday. He also mailed away for membership in the Ku Klux Klan.

Tim was a registered Republican, which was a shift in family loyalty because his father was a lifelong union man and Democrat.

McVeigh would never take responsibility for his failures, always blaming someone or something for his disappointments.

The Federal building was named after Alfred P. Murrah (1904-1975) a federal trial and appeals court judge.

"Fear the government that fears your gun."
"A man without a gun is not a citizen."

In August 1990 Terry Nichols went to the Philippines to meet Marife. A month later they were married. Terry was 35, Marife was 16.

McVeigh came to the military with an inclination towards white supremacy, right wing fanaticism and vigilante violence. His extremism grew and festered as a soldier.