Did the U.S. Government Lie About Oklahoma City Bombing?
A rumor that floated around the net around the time of the bombing was that local television stations in Oklahoma City had evidence contradicting the official government version of the Alfred R. Murrah Federal Building bombing.
There was one television station, KPOC-TV, located about 100 miles north of Oklahoma City, that for a time sold videos on the Oklahoma City bombing, the Waco incident, and the Ruby Ridge incident, all critical of the government.
The Video
This post was from Ian Goddard to the Libernet mailing list, referring to an unspecified video, perhaps the KPOC-TV one:
The video shows about a dozen media broadcasts aired within an hour after the blast, in which it is unequivocally stated that the Army is now defusing three unexploded mercury bombs found inside the building. It was during this period that all rescue work was delayed for full two hours immediately after the first two blasts.
It is clearly shown that the truck crater out in front of the building is not aligned with the area of most severe damage, deep within the building itself. This evidence clearly proves the truck was not to only source of the damage. The official gov't lie is that there was one bomb.
Two blasts were recorded by two siesmographs in the area, one at the University of Oklahoma. The two waves, 10 seconds apart, could not have been any other phenomena but two bombs the siesmologists insist.
A woman who survived the blast said live on CNN that the gov't told her to shut her mouth and stop asking questions about why the ATF offices were empty prior to the bomb. She was very angry. She said essentially "Did the ATF people have early warning? Why didn't my children have this warning?"
Identifying John Doe #2
A Libernet poster mentioned that Oklahoma City television station KFOR (channel 4) reported that they had identified John Doe #2. The station reported that John Doe #2 is an Iraqi national who served in the Gulf War for Iraq, and owned a brown pickup truck similar to the vehicle seen speeding from the scene of the bombing.
Sources: June 18, 1995, posting to Libernet by Ian Goddard; June 21 and July 17, 1995, postings to Libernet.