Timothy Mcveigh's Motives For Bombing In Oklahoma City

The Oklahoma Bombing affected many lives in American history. Timothy McVeigh killed 167 men, women, and children. The morning of April 9, 1995, McVeigh walked into the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and committed a mass murder. Before McVeigh bombed the federal building, he rented a Ryder Truck from Junction, Kansas. To this day people visit the memorial in Oklahoma City, and pay their respects to the families who lost loved ones in the bombing. Timothy McVeigh’s motives to attack the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma were his fascination with white supremacy, the tragedies at Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, and McVeigh thinking that his action was “patriotic”. One of McVeigh’s motives for bombing the Alfred P. Murrah building was his encounter in the military and his anger with government decisions. When McVeigh was a young boy, he was fascinated with weaponry and eventually went into the military as a U.S gunner. McVeigh later left the military and moved back to New

He thought that his action was an act of patriotism. McVeigh tried to convince his lawyer, Stephen Jones, to present his case as “necessity defense”. It would allow him to present his evidence as public opinion. Instead of announcing the case as necessity defense, Jones’s strategy was trying to “poke holes” in the prosecution’s case; creating a question of reasonable doubt. Jones thought that McVeigh was taking too much responsibility for the bombing than one would like. A popular reference to the trial was when McVeigh mentioned that all of the people were like storm troopers from the movie Star Wars. McVeigh said, “The people may be individually innocent; but because that are part of the—evil empire— they were guilty by association” (Linder). This relates to necessity defense because McVeigh is saying that he was protecting himself and others from the evil in this