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McVeigh's Blast Pattern and Freedom of Information Battles
from Kump Joins Team 10 · #78
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minTim continues detailing the documentary's case that the bomb's damage pattern doesn't match its claimed size, plus stories of elevator freefall survivors and FOIA fights over Elohim City documents.
- 54:15FBI infiltrated Elohim City compound but denies McVeigh was part of it to avoid admitting they knew about the connection.
- 54:41Leaked transcriptive documents made McVeigh appear almost like an FBI informant before a judge forced the documents to be handed over.
- 55:10Tim compares the documentary to a TWA 800 film—no smoking gun but enough circumstantial evidence that something definitely happened.
- 55:36Local TV station and 2020 both did retrospectives on prior FBI knowledge of Oklahoma City; federal government shut them down.
- 56:03The blast pattern is compelling—the building's front was torn apart in a way that seems inconsistent with a truck bomb.
- 56:23Fertilizer bombs tend to be air explosions that don't tear apart cement and rebar the way the building was damaged.
- 56:39Documentary recreates other explosions and bombs that were more powerful but caused far less damage than the Oklahoma City blast.
- 57:08FBI or ATF agents claimed they were in free fall for five or six floors in an elevator, but elevator mechanics said the top was sealed and never opened.
- 57:48Tim wonders why McVeigh would go along with being a patsy if he was set up.
- 58:04A lawyer on McVeigh's defense team also worked on Jack Ruby's case and helped trick a woman into being involved in other major incidents—pattern is very odd and creepy.
Timothy McVeighElohim CityOklahoma City bombingTWA 800Jack Ruby