feeling on whatever gurney? contentment and peace. peace is an important word to put in there, i didn t want to just leave it at contentment. i ll be content and peaceful. for the first time in 38 years, a federal prisoner will be executed in the united states. the execution day was unlike anything i had ever experienced. you have media from japan, from europe, from all over the united states. this is for oklahoma city right here. there was kind of a remarkable scene, there were lots and lots of people outside the prison, celebrating his death. it was almost like in the old days, they used to hang people in the public square, and thousands of people used to come to watch. to them, it was kind of a happening. inside the prison walls, the mood is much more somber.
bombing of the murrah building, and timothy mcveigh is sitting quietly in a perry, oklahoma, jail cell. he s not being held in connection with the vicious act that killed 168 people just the day before, but rather for misdemeanor charges. an international manhunt is issued for two suspects, john doe number 1, and john doe number 2. several witnesses claim to have seen a second man in the ryder truck prior to the bombing. as this is happening, mcveigh is biding his time, waiting to see how long it will take for authorities to figure out who he really is. while mcveigh s in prison in this little relative ocean of solitude, you know, just waiting for something to happen, the rest of the country is just uptight, in knots, wondering, is there going to be another attack? people are wondering, is this something from the middle east?
out the terrorist plot but he, too, starts to lose his will. in the last week as mcveigh is really going fully operational, terry nick alcohols is withdrawing more and more and more. so there s several occasions where nichols is supposed to to meet mcveigh and he just doesn t show up. you know, it ultimately comes to a head on the sunday before the wednesday bombing. i mean, he calls this guy up. the guy s barely sat down to dinner, get your butt down here, do it now. he put the screws to him quite a bit. and nichols was afraid of mcveigh and with good reason. he knew that mcveigh would stop at nothing at this point to get the crime done. they drive up to oklahoma city, they drop off the getaway
after waco, now is the time for action, right? now we re going operational. with oklahoma city being a counterattack, i was only fighting by the rules of engagement introduced by the aggressor. waco started this war. hopefully oklahoma would end it. . that way i could split my payments up into, like, little bite-size chunks. yeah, i mean you feel me right? i mean. yeah. uh, sir. ah. [ male announcer ] layaway s back for christmas in our electronics, toys, and jewelry departments. [ male announcer ] layaway s back for christmas [ dog ] i am my coat? solid gold. my insides? pure platinum. [ female announcer ] a healthy outside starts inside. new iams simple & natural has chicken as its number one ingredient and zero fillers. it works inside for health you can see on the outside. [ dog ] i can t be a rockstar on the outside if i m not one on the inside. [ female announcer ] new iams naturals. you ll like what s in them and love what s not. [ dog ] i am an iams dog. [ girls ] he s so cut
death, and he knew what he had done. how can you feel so much for the people of waco and you kacat have feelings about the people you killed? what the heck is the difference between the two of these? i ve never been able to wrap my brain around that. once he built the wall, that was it, the mission is done, get over it. it seemed like he hated us instead of us hating him. it seemed like he was angry with us, like we had done something to him. he hurt us. tim hurt us like nobody else has ever hurt us. it was like something evil possessed him. i think if he had just said, i m sorry, forgive me, i think i could have, but he didn t. more than two years after the oklahoma city bombing, a federal