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McVeigh Letters Show No Guilt Over Bombing
Oklahoma City Attacker Corresponded With Reporter
By JENNIFER L. BROWN
.c The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 26) - Timothy McVeigh complains about life in his cell, jokes about his favorite TV shows and laments the children burned to death in the cult disaster at Waco.
In two years of correspondence with a reporter, though, he never mentions the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, including 19 children.
In his letters, McVeigh tells Bacharach he spends as much time as possible relaxing in front of the television, catching ''The Simpsons'' and ''King of the Hill'' and his favorite movies ''The Unforgiven,'' ''Forrest Gump'' and ''The Rock.''
''Simpsons once in a while has a good comeback - but they're pretty much out of originality, too. (An exception would be the Simpsons where Homer became an astronaut. That was great!),'' he says in a 1998 letter.
''Lest you think I'm only a mindless cartoon addict, I will admit that I am a Star Trek junkie, too (whenever one of this unit's 'panic alarms' goes off, I start screaming: 'Red Alert! Shields up!') (Hey it gives me something to do! A man has to exercise his vocal cords on something!).''
Oklahoma City Attacker Corresponded With Reporter
By JENNIFER L. BROWN
.c The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 26) - Timothy McVeigh complains about life in his cell, jokes about his favorite TV shows and laments the children burned to death in the cult disaster at Waco.
In two years of correspondence with a reporter, though, he never mentions the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, including 19 children.
In his letters, McVeigh tells Bacharach he spends as much time as possible relaxing in front of the television, catching ''The Simpsons'' and ''King of the Hill'' and his favorite movies ''The Unforgiven,'' ''Forrest Gump'' and ''The Rock.''
''Simpsons once in a while has a good comeback - but they're pretty much out of originality, too. (An exception would be the Simpsons where Homer became an astronaut. That was great!),'' he says in a 1998 letter.
''Lest you think I'm only a mindless cartoon addict, I will admit that I am a Star Trek junkie, too (whenever one of this unit's 'panic alarms' goes off, I start screaming: 'Red Alert! Shields up!') (Hey it gives me something to do! A man has to exercise his vocal cords on something!).''
