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| S P E C I A L | The Terry Nichols Trial |
Agent describes Waco video found in Nichols' home
November 17, 1997
Web posted at: 6:20 p.m. EST (2320 GMT)DENVER (CNN) -- A videocassette with anti-government propaganda was found at Terry Nichols' home three days after the Oklahoma City bombing, an FBI agent testified Monday.
The videocassette, labeled "Waco: The Big Lie," was found in a storage bin, according to agent Gary Tucker.
The video is a widely distributed account of the bloody 1993 confrontation between government agents and the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas. Eight people died in that confrontation, and the video alleges that the U.S. government was covering up the facts about what really happened when agents raided the cult compound.
A key government witness, Michael Fortier, has testified that Nichols and Timothy McVeigh, his Army pal and convicted Oklahoma City bomber, began plotting the bombing in response to the government's deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound.
The video was among a number of items taken from Nichols' home after he went to police on April 21, 1995, to ask why his name was mentioned on news broadcasts about the bombing.
Also seized were at least 29 guns, including a replica of an Uzi submachine gun, and plastic barrels that authorities say are similar to those used to build the fertilizer and fuel oil bomb that killed 168 people on April 19, 1995.
Nichols, 42, could be sentenced to die if convicted of murder and conspiracy in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. McVeigh, his alleged co-conspirator, was convicted of identical counts in June and sentenced to die; his appeal is pending.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
T H E B O M B I N G / C N N S T O R I E S / L I N K S
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