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OKC Bombing Witnesses Gather
On Anniversary to Probe New Theories
Of Who Blew Up Murrah Building
By Pat Shannan
In mid-April, a news conference addressing “unanswered
questions”
related to the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building was held in
the public forum atrium of the Oklahoma State Capitol. This writer was
honored to be the marquee speaker “because of . . . unyielding
and
relentless pursuit of the truth in this case for the past 15
years.”
Above, the Murrah
building following the bombing.
Other speakers were bombing victim V.Z. Lawton,
grandmother and
guardian of two children lost in the explosion Jannie Coverdale, and
former federal grand jury member Hoppy Heidelberg, who was kicked off
the grand jury for attempting to do his job. All have been keenly aware
of the official cover-up since the beginning and have known that others
were involved in the crime, including agents of the federal
government.
Lawton was working for Housing and Urban
Development on the eighth
floor when the building began to shake. Believing, as many did, that
they were experiencing an earthquake, he had several seconds to dive
under his desk for protection. The second blast knocked him out for an
undetermined time. When he awoke, he was shocked to see the front of
the building missing along with the desks where his former colleagues
had been seated. He knew the official story of a single blast of
ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, called “ANFO,” was a lie as
soon as he
heard it.
“We want to know who blew up the
building,” Mrs. Coverdale said. “I
was told to attend the trials in Denver and my questions would be
answered. They were not.” Beyond a form letter from Gov. Brad
Henry,
which Mrs. Coverdale promptly tore into small pieces, state and federal
politicians have ignored her calls for a true investigation into the
bombing and the numerous anomalies surrounding it.
“My grandchildren died in ’95. We lost
a lot of babies that day. Not
a day goes by that I don’t think about those babies and wonder
who
killed them,” Mrs. Coverdale said.
Heidelberg told once again of the grand jury
folly, which was a mere
charade, how he learned more from the newspapers and TV about the case
than from his grand jury experiences, and his muzzling by Federal Judge
David Russell.
Wendy Painting, a graduate student and researcher
from upstate
NewYork, told the group that she has been thoroughly investigating
various aspects of the bombing. Noting the 1996 “suicide”
of Oklahoma
City Police Department Officer Terry Yeakey and the unsolved issues
surrounding that case, Ms. Painting noted, “Questions can be
mortally
dangerous.” Oklahoma City private investigator and researcher Joe
Cooley also spoke and said that after hearing about the Yeakey case he
was “horrified.” But he began digging and was soon subject
to
“surveillance” by people who did not want him to seek the
truth.
Cooley said a source told him that
Yeakey—who was found brutally
murdered in a remote area in Canadian County—had been killed by
“federal agents” but that the source could not say much
more than
that. Chris Emery, who has been working for several years on a
documentary about the mysteries still hanging over the Oklahoma City
Bombing, reminded the press that those seeking the truth “have no
political agenda” that this is simply “about right and
wrong.” Harmon
Taylor, the Dallas, Texas-based attorney who was granted a 30-day stay
of execution for McVeigh in May 2001 by Attorney General John Ashcroft,
spoke of the legal transgressions and what the system did not do
including the fact that the case should never have been transferred to
Denver, where the trial was ultimately held. Article III, Section 2
clearly states that any crime must be tried in the state in which it
was committed.
When this was ignored, Taylor began to realize
that the Constitution
was no longer in force and began to question, “When did it go
away?”
The local electronic media covered the meeting
briefly on the
nightly news but carefully avoided presenting the many conspiracy facts
with a thinly veiled portrayal that such a public presentation was
merely more “conspiracy theory.”
Pat Shannan is the assistant editor of
American Free Press. He is also the author of several videos and books
including One
in a Million: An IRS Travesty and I
Rode With Tupper,
detailing Shannan’s experiences with Tupper Saussy when the
American dissident was on the run in the 1980s. Both are available from
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(Issue
# 17, April 26, 2010)
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