Terry Nichols
Terry Nichols helped Timothy McVeigh prepare the 19 April 1995 Oklahoma City truck bombing that killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured hundreds. Most child victims were in the federal building's daycare; the FBI identifies the youngest victim as four months old.
At a glance
- What happened
- Nichols helped buy and steal materials for the bomb and mix its ingredients. McVeigh detonated the truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Nichols was convicted as a conspirator, rather than as the person who parked the truck.
- When
- Bombing: 19 April 1995. Federal conviction: 1997; federal life sentence: 1998. State murder convictions and 161 consecutive life sentences: 2004.
- Where
- Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
- Why / motive
- The FBI and Clinton Presidential Library identify anti-government beliefs as part of Nichols's radicalization and the bombing conspiracy.
- Outcome
- Received life without parole in federal court and, in 2004, 161 consecutive state life sentences without parole. The state murder counts included one count involving an unborn child.
Who is involved
- Terry Nichols — subject
Sources
- Terry Nichols“Paraphrase: 19 April 1995 bombing killed 168, including 19 children; youngest four months. Nichols helped obtain materials and mix bomb ingredients; federal jury convicted him of conspiracy and eight manslaughter counts in 1997.”
- Terry Nichols“Paraphrase: McVeigh and Nichols radicalized by anti-government ideology.”
- Terry Nichols“Paraphrase: 161 consecutive life-without-parole terms imposed in 2004; already federally sentenced to life without parole in 1998; one state count involved a fetus.”
- Terry Nichols“Paraphrase: Federal life sentence 1998 and state sentence 2004.”
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