McVeigh Files Secretly Held At University Of Texas For 10 Years; Jones Donated Them In 1997
By Jerry Bohnen, NewsRadio 1000 KTOK ~ Ten years after defense attorney Stephen Jones (pictured) made his first contribution of Tim McVeigh defense files to the University of Texas, the donation has come to light.
Word of the existence of the files was revealed today in a story by the American-Statesman newspaper in Austin, Texas in which reporter Ralph Haurwritz wrote about a federal court ruling. A court ruled against Jones' attempts to take a charitable tax deduction for the gift of 700 feet of boxes valued by an appraiser at nearly $295,000. (See American-Statesman article at http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/11/21/1121mcveigh.html )
As the newspaper reported, Jones made his first contribution of McVeigh files in 1997 and another in 2002 because he is a graduate of UT. But the University of Texas History Center did not want to reveal their existence out of respect for the families who lost relatives in the 1995 bombing of the Murrah building.
"I think that's a shame," said Gloria Chipman, whose husband was killed in the blast. She also belongs to an organization called VOTIVES which stands for 'Victims of Terrorism Information and Vital Exchange Services'. "We're not that sensitive. We are strong and we're stronger since the bombing. We've had to rely on ourselves. Many of our husbands and wives were killed and our children."
Chipman said she is excited for all of the families and survivors who do not believe the official story that Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols acted alone.
"We hope that with this new information, this revelation, they will send investigators down to where this achive is and they will glean from them the information that was not permitted during the trial."
A Denver federal judge ruled against Jones in his effort to produce evidence of a wider conspiracy than just McVeigh and Nichols. Since the government prosecution was actually a narrow case against McVeigh, Jones was not allowed to introduce evidence and testimony about others who might have been involved in the bombing of the Murrah building. Similar rulings were made against defense attorneys who tried to raise the same evidence and arguments in the State murder trial of Terry Nichols two years ago.
One man who has been in a legal fight for nearly 12 years to get government investigative files on the bombing case is Jesse Trentadue, an attorney from Salt Lake City, Utah. His brother died in the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer center a few months after the bombing in what Trentadue contends was murder. He contends Kenneth Trentadue was beaten to death by guards and other federal authorities because he matched the identity of a possible "John Doe" suspect seen with McVeigh as he exited the Ryder truck the morning of the bombing. A Federal judge in Utah has sided with Trentadue in his attempt to get FBI files but the government has fought him for years.
Word of the existence of the files was revealed today in a story by the American-Statesman newspaper in Austin, Texas in which reporter Ralph Haurwritz wrote about a federal court ruling. A court ruled against Jones' attempts to take a charitable tax deduction for the gift of 700 feet of boxes valued by an appraiser at nearly $295,000. (See American-Statesman article at http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/11/21/1121mcveigh.html )
As the newspaper reported, Jones made his first contribution of McVeigh files in 1997 and another in 2002 because he is a graduate of UT. But the University of Texas History Center did not want to reveal their existence out of respect for the families who lost relatives in the 1995 bombing of the Murrah building.
"I think that's a shame," said Gloria Chipman, whose husband was killed in the blast. She also belongs to an organization called VOTIVES which stands for 'Victims of Terrorism Information and Vital Exchange Services'. "We're not that sensitive. We are strong and we're stronger since the bombing. We've had to rely on ourselves. Many of our husbands and wives were killed and our children."
Chipman said she is excited for all of the families and survivors who do not believe the official story that Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols acted alone.
"We hope that with this new information, this revelation, they will send investigators down to where this achive is and they will glean from them the information that was not permitted during the trial."
A Denver federal judge ruled against Jones in his effort to produce evidence of a wider conspiracy than just McVeigh and Nichols. Since the government prosecution was actually a narrow case against McVeigh, Jones was not allowed to introduce evidence and testimony about others who might have been involved in the bombing of the Murrah building. Similar rulings were made against defense attorneys who tried to raise the same evidence and arguments in the State murder trial of Terry Nichols two years ago.
One man who has been in a legal fight for nearly 12 years to get government investigative files on the bombing case is Jesse Trentadue, an attorney from Salt Lake City, Utah. His brother died in the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer center a few months after the bombing in what Trentadue contends was murder. He contends Kenneth Trentadue was beaten to death by guards and other federal authorities because he matched the identity of a possible "John Doe" suspect seen with McVeigh as he exited the Ryder truck the morning of the bombing. A Federal judge in Utah has sided with Trentadue in his attempt to get FBI files but the government has fought him for years.
Labels: Oklahoma City Bombing, Stephen Jones, Timothy McVeigh
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