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| Witnesses at Nichols Trial Say They Saw McVeigh With Unknown Associates |
| 2004-05-08 |
| .... [Scott] Gregory testified he saw McVeigh being arrested along Interstate 35 north of Oklahoma City about an hour after the April 19, 1995, bombing. At the same time, a truck driven by a man wearing a red and white baseball cap backed up near McVeigh’s 1977 Mercury Marquis, Gregory said. "I thought that was so odd," Gregory said. "I thought, ’What an idiot. Why are you stopping to talk to that police officer when he’s obviously in a high-stress situation?"’ .... Joan Rairden, then an assistant manager at a McDonald’s restaurant in Junction City, Kansas, said McVeigh came into the restaurant on April 13 or 14 with a group of people, including a dark-skinned man with slicked-back black hair. Rairden said the group piled out of a Ryder truck that was pulling a car shortly before midnight. Three people came into the restaurant, including McVeigh and the dark-skinned man, who she said had large lips and a wide nose. McVeigh went into the restroom, Rairden said, and the other man placed an order. McVeigh came into the restaurant with the same group during the lunch hour a few days later, she said. Rairden said she could not identify the dark-skinned man from a sketch of John Doe No. 2 that was shown to her by FBI agents after the bombing. "He was darker. It didn’t look like exactly him," she said. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |