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OKC bombing, Gender Affirming Care, and previously classified files about the Sacklers

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Gerald Posner
Apr 19, 2023
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The Third Man: Was there another bomber in Oklahoma City? by [Gerald Posner]

On this day in 1995, Tim McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building. I subsequently investigated whether the FBI missed another suspect. My reporting is presented in “The Third Man,” a 42-page, 99-cent Kindle. It includes material from then never-disclosed FBI 302 files and interviews with dozens of witnesses leading up to the bombing.

This is the Author’s Note on the publication of the Kindle edition in 2013.

After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, The New Yorker assigned me to investigate whether there was any substance to the many eyewitness sightings of John Doe 2, a suspect who might have eluded the FBI’s massive manhunt.

My hurdle was to first sift through a maze of conflicting and often-changing witness accounts to determine which ones were credible and which were not believable.  Then — armed with reliable information — I could test the FBI’s conclusion that it had found all the conspirators. My reporting took me to Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado.  I interviewed sco…

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