- Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 - June 11, 2001), commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bomber, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, was the deadliest act of terrorism in American history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States.
- Terry Nichols
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is a U.S. Army veteran who was convicted of being an accomplice of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, April 19, 1995), which claimed 168 lives. Nichols was convicted of eight counts of manslaughter in a United States District Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment in ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
- Alfred P. Murrah
Alfred Paul Murrah (October 27, 1904 - October 30 1975) was an American attorney and judge. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which was named after him, was destroyed in the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing.
- Jayna Davis
Jayna Davis was a broadcast journalist for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City at the time of the Oklahoma City Bombing. Her TV stories about the mysteriously cancelled FBI alert for "Middle-Eastern-looking" suspects wanted in connection with the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing generated confidential phone tips about a group of local Iraqis, including one who seemed to match an FBI profile sketch of John Doe No. 2. Davis collected interviews, …
- Michael Fortier
Michael Fortier (born 1968) and Lori Fortier, his wife, were accomplices in the Oklahoma City bombing and key informants in the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Michael helped McVeigh and Nichols move and sell stolen guns and survey the building in anticipation of the attack. Lori forged a driver's license for McVeigh.
- Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones is an attorney and Republican activist from Enid, Oklahoma. He is best known for serving as Timothy McVeigh's lead defense lawyer during McVeigh's trial on 11 counts regarding his actions in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Jones is also serving as the attorney for Jordan Edmund, a former House page involved in the Mark Foley scandal. He has run unsuccessfully for public office three times, including a Senate race against David Boren in 1990.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is an investigative reporter for the London "Daily Telegraph". During his time as the "Telegraph's" Washington bureau chief, Evans-Pritchard became known for his stories about President Clinton, the 1993 death of Vincent Foster, and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He is the author of "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton" (1997). __TOC_
- Mark Koernke
Known as "Mark from Michigan," Mark Gregory Koernke (pronounced "Corn-key" //) (b. 1957) was, in the early 1990s, a prominent militia activist and shortwave radio broadcaster. As an early proponent of the black helicopters conspiracy theory, he was largely responsible for popularizing it in appearances on Tom Valentine's radio show and in public speeches which were widely circulated on videocassette. He was host of his own radio program, …
- W. Gene Corley
Dr. W. Gene Corley, P.E. is a structural engineer and "preeminent expert on building collapse investigations and building codes." Corley has been the Vice President of Construction Technology Laboratories, Inc. (CTI) since 1987, where he leads structural engineering projects, including numerous evaluations of buildings and structures damaged by earthquake, explosions, and from terrorist attacks.
- Dale Watson
Dale Watson ... Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, FBI, 2001-2002
- Jeralyn Merritt
Jeralyn Elise Merritt (b. New York City, September 28, 1949) is a criminal defense attorney who practices in Denver, Colorado. In 1996 and 1997, she served as one of six principal trial lawyers for Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing case, after the venue moved to Denver.
- Richard Snell
Richard Snell (1931 - April 19 1995) was an American criminal who planned to attack the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. He was executed by the state of Arkansas on April 19 1995 on unrelated murder charges, the same day as the Oklahoma City bombing.
- Rick Bragg
Rick Bragg (born July 26, 1959 in Piedmont, Alabama) won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996 for his work at "The New York Times". He credits his writing ability to the oral storytelling of family and friends in his childhood in the Appalachian foothills of Alabama. He has written two memoirs. Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the "New York Times" in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in Haiti as a metro reporter, …
- James Ellison
James Ellison was a white supremist and extremist leader from San Antonio, Texas who, in 1971, founded the radical organization The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord. Ellison purchased a 250 acre strip of land near Elijah, Arkansas to serve as his "compound". He was also a close associate of both Richard Wayne Snell and Timothy McVeigh.
- Bruce D. Perry
Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. is a clinician and researcher in children’s mental health and the neurosciences, and an internationally-recognized authority on children in crisis. From 1993-2001, he was the Thomas S. Trammell Research Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of Psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital. He is currently Senior Fellow at the ChildTrauma Academy, which is a leading center of research and education on child maltreatment.
- Midwest Bank Robbers
The Midwest Bank Robbers is the name given to a criminal group active in the United States in the early 1990s. The group is alleged to have associated with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in the months before the Oklahoma City bombing. In February, 2004, the FBI announced they would revisit the Oklahoma City bombing case after learning investigators, working to solve bank robberies attributed to the Midwest Bank Robbers, …
- Chevie Kehoe
Chevie O'Brien Kehoe (born January 19, 1973) is a white supremacist who is most notable for his attempts to build an all-white country by overthrowing the United States. He is currently serving time in jail for a charge of attempted murder. Kehoe was named for his father's favorite brand of automobile (Chevrolet). His father, Kirby Kehoe, was a veteran of the Vietnam War.
- Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley (b. July 28, 1957) is an American television journalist, currently working as a correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Pelley grew up in Lubbock. He got his first job in journalism at age 15, as a copyboy for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He stayed close to home, graduating from the journalism school at Texas Tech University and beginning his career as a reporter at Lubbock's KSEL-TV in 1975.
- Weldon L. Kennedy
Weldon Lynn Kennedy (born September 12, 1938) was a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and served for 33 years. He is known for his involvement in the Atlanta Prison Riots and the Oklahoma City Bombing. He retired as the FBI's No. 2 in command, Deputy Director in 1997.
- Jeanne Boylan
Jeanne Boylan is the investigative interviewer and criminal case artist best known for her drawing of the Unabomber, later identified as Theodore Kaczynski. She also sketched the Oklahoma City bombing suspect known as "John Doe 11" and the suspect in the Polly Klaas murder case.
- Gary E. Johnson
Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1 1953) was the Republican governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003. He is also a well-known and outspoken opponent of the War on Drugs. From a fairly humble, Lutheran background, Gary Earl Johnson attended the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, with an emphasis on business. It was there that he met his future wife, Dee (1952 - December 22 2006).
- Leon Harris
Leon Harris (born 1961 in Akron, Ohio), is an American newscaster. Harris was born to Leon Sr. and Lorrene Harris in Akron, Ohio. He has three brothers: Marcus, Jerry and J.J., who still reside in Akron, while his sister Kimberly lives in Houston. He graduated from Buchtel High School in 1979, and earned a National Merit Scholarship to Ohio University where he met his wife, Dawn Lomax, whose family is also from Akron.
- Steve Benson
Stephen R. Benson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning liberal U.S. editorial cartoonist for "The Arizona Republic". Benson is the grandson of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson. Benson's more controversial cartoons include one that depicts a firefighter carrying a child from the Oklahoma City bombing similar to a well-known photo of a firefighter's futile rescue of 1-year old Baylee Almon.
- Kathryn Casey
Kathryn Casey is a true crime writer, a novelist and award-winning journalist. Ann Rule has called Kathryn Casey "one of the best in the true crime genre," and Edgar Award Winner Carlton Stowers has said, "Casey is among the elite in true crime writers." She's appeared on Oprah, Montel, CourtTV and A&E. Specializing in books set in her home state of Texas, …
- Dave Marash
Dave Marash is an American television journalist. He is the Washington-based anchor of Al Jazeera English. He is a Jewish American. Marash came to ABC News from WCBS-TV in New York. Marash came to New York from New Brunswick, NJ station WCTC-AM (1450), where he hosted a nightly talk show, called "Dave Marash On Call." Prior to joining WCBS-TV, he was a reporter at WPIX. His last appearance prior to joining Al Jazeera was on ABC News' "Nightline" with Ted Koppel.
- Robert Altemeyer
Robert Altemeyer, also known as Bob Altemeyer, or Dr. Bob by his students, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba. He has written extensively on authoritarianism and refined the theory into the concept (and measure) of Right Wing Authoritarianism. Altemeyer's work is extensively referenced in John W. Dean's 2006 book, "Conservatives Without Conscience".
- Michael William Brescia
Michael William Brescia is a convicted bank robber who has also been alleged to have been involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing. Born to a firefighter father and accountant mother in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brescia became an Eagle Scout. He was a member of the Aryan Republican Army and was a part-time student at La Salle University at the time of his arrest.
- Amo Bishop Roden
Amo Paul Bishop Roden is the former wife of George Roden, a rival of David Koresh for leadership of the Branch Davidians. After the 1993 fire, she attracted notice by beginning a one-woman reoccupation of the sect's Mount Carmel property. At one point in her reoccupation, when another ex-husband, Tom Drake, rejoined her, she was also known as Amo Paul Bishop Roden Drake or Amo Roden Drake. Amo and George Roden married in October 1987, shortly after meeting.
- Dave Evans
Dave Evans is a reporter for WABC-TV In New York City. Evans joined the station in 1999 from a sister station in Texas. Prior to that, Evans was a reporter for WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, where he was a senior political reporter. There for a decade, Evans covered several high-profile political stories and elections. A few major political debacles that Evans became a part of were both presidential races of H. Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996.
- Jami Floyd
Jami Floyd is a former lawyer and current "Court TV" news anchor and legal analyst. Floyd joined "Court TV" in February 2005. She is currently the anchor of her own daily program, "Jami Floyd: Best Defense" from 11AM-1PM on weekdays. Prior to coming to "Court TV", Floyd worked as an anchor and correspondent at the network from 1996 to 1998, primarily covering major national news stories, …
- Bob McKeown
Robert "Bob" McKeown is an investigative reporter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has also worked with NBC and CBS. McKeown returned to the CBC in November, 2002, to host its investigative programme, "the fifth estate", a show which he had hosted from 1981 to 1990. Prior to his current position, McKeown spent eight years working for Dateline NBC as a correspondent and five years with CBS News.
- Morris Wilson
Morris Wilson is a former Kansas resident whose photograph was entered into evidence in the federal murder trial of convicted Oklahoma City Bombing accomplice Terry Nichols. A witness, Charles Farley, of Wakefield, Kansas, who worked at Fort Riley as a mechanic, testified that Wilson was among a group of men present at Geary State Lake around 6 p.m. on April 18, 1995, the day before the bombing.
- Jody Dean
Jody Dean is an American journalist and author, and news anchor for the CBS-owned affiliate KTVT-TV in Fort Worth, Texas. Also a new member to the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Dean attended Abilene Christian University, and chose broadcast radio as a major after listening to Ron Chapman on KVIL-FM. He soon afterwards found a job at the campus radio station, and later at another station across town.
- Shaun Robinson
Shaun Robinson (born 1962 in Detroit, Michigan) is a journalist, and co-anchor and correspondent for the show" Access Hollywood", the daily entertainment newsmagazine show. She is also the host of "TV One Access", a show on the TV One network produced by "Access" that brings viewers behind the velvet rope for an inside look at who's who in "Black Hollywood." Robinson is a graduate of Detroit's famous Cass Technical High School.
- Kris Osborn
Kris Osborn (born May 16 1969) was a news anchor on CNN Headline News from 2001-2004, specializing in military issues. Since then, he has worked as a reporter for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis and a correspondent for "Entertainment Tonight". He also has written articles for the Washington Times and reported for KO NewsMachine, an independent news-content company. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Osborn spent most of his childhood in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
- Denise O'Donnell
Denise O'Donnell is an attorney and Democratic politician from Buffalo, New York. She is presently New York State Director of Criminal Justice Services in the Cabinet of Gov. Eliot Spitzer. She was a candidate in the 2006 Democratic primary for New York State Attorney General. O'Donnell attended high school at Mt. St. Joseph Academy, and then studied at Canisius College--both schools are located in Buffalo. Hers was the first graduating class from Canisius to include women.
- Ashley Gateless
- Deborah Lash
- Diane Elliot
- Ken Pexton