Bruce Willingham

Thursday's instructions from the bench were the second in as many days in unusual court proceedings, according to information received by Bruce Willingham, publisher of the McCurtain Gazette.

BRUCE WILLINGHAM, Publisher

Bruce Willingham, publisher of the McCurtain Daily Gazette in Idabel, said the NRA speakers were interrupted several times by applause."The people there were impressed," he said of the crowd he estimated to be 500 to 600 people.

Wylie also credited Bruce Willingham, publisher of the McCurtain County Gazette, with helping him obtain the court documents on Thweatt.

According to John D. Cash, a reporter for the McCurtain Gazette, in Oklahoma, he and Gazette publisher Bruce Willingham met at the newspaper's offices on April 14, 1997 with Special Agent Ojeda and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Chris Dill to present evidence the Gazette had developed pointing to involvement in the bombing by members of the Aryan Republican Army (ARA) and residents of an Aryan-linked rural community known as Elohim City.

(This statement by McCurtain Daily Gazette Editor Bruce Willingham was

Investigative journalist J. D. Cash and his employer, Bruce Willingham, editor of the McCurtain Daily Gazette newspaper, told WND they provided their information to former FBI Special Agent Ricardo "Rick" J. W. Ojeda in 1997 - including details that allegedly link McVeigh and members of the Aryan Republican Army to Elohim City, a white supremacist haunt in northeastern Oklahoma.
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In an April 14, 1997, meeting at the newspaper's offices with Ojeda and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Chris Dill, some of the evidence laid out by Cash and Willingham was not yet known to FBI investigators, both men told WND.
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According to Cash and Willingham, the original surveillance tape came from a Tulsa night spot called "Lady Godiva's."
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Willingham, who confirmed Cash's statements to WND, also noted that during the course of interviewing witnesses at the club, the "head of security" - or bouncer - reported noticing an older Ryder rental truck parked in the club's lot.

According to evidence presented by the defense during Nichols' 1997 trial in Denver, Colo., "it was two days later when the sightings of another Ryder truck began [to circulate] in Kansas," Cash said, adding that the Ryder truck actually used to bomb the Murrah building was "much newer."

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"Detail after detail of evidence implicated Elohim City, Strassmeir, Mahon, the ARA and McVeigh to the bombing," Cash said, discussing the contents of his and Willingham's 1997 meeting with Ojeda.
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"Ojeda probably does have some bad feelings" with the FBI because of his firing, Willingham told WND."But the other side of that is that at the time the [night club surveillance] tape was revealed to him … he said he was surprised that [the FBI] wasn't taking more interest in it."

"That stuck in my mind, because you normally don't hear a federal agent say something like that," Willingham added."After we gave him the tape, I was kind of curious what the FBI's reaction to it was."

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Willingham said the FBI contacted him and "asked for a meeting" with reporter Cash once they discovered he may have evidence they didn't have.

McVeigh's attorneys indicated yesterday that they could be in possession of some of this evidence.

Investigative journalist J. D. Cash and his employer, Bruce Willingham, editor of the McCurtain Daily Gazette newspaper, told WND they provided their information to former FBI Special Agent Ricardo "Rick" J. W. Ojeda in 1997 – including details that allegedly link McVeigh and members of the Aryan Republican Army to Elohim City, a white supremacist haunt in northeastern Oklahoma.
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In an April 14, 1997, meeting at the newspaper's offices with Ojeda and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Chris Dill, some of the evidence laid out by Cash and Willingham was not yet known to FBI investigators, both men told WND.
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According to Cash and Willingham, the original surveillance tape came from a Tulsa night spot called "Lady Godiva's."
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Willingham, who confirmed Cash's statements to WND, also noted that during the course of interviewing witnesses at the club, the "head of security" – or bouncer – reported noticing an older Ryder rental truck parked in the club's lot.

According to evidence presented by the defense during Nichols' 1997 trial in Denver, Colo., "it was two days later when the sightings of another Ryder truck began [to circulate] in Kansas," Cash said, adding that the Ryder truck actually used to bomb the Murrah building was "much newer."

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"Detail after detail of evidence implicated Elohim City, Strassmeir, Mahon, the ARA and McVeigh to the bombing," Cash said, discussing the contents of his and Willingham's 1997 meeting with Ojeda.
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"Ojeda probably does have some bad feelings" with the FBI because of his firing, Willingham told WND."But the other side of that is that at the time the [night club surveillance] tape was revealed to him … he said he was surprised that [the FBI] wasn't taking more interest in it."

"That stuck in my mind, because you normally don't hear a federal agent say something like that," Willingham added."After we gave him the tape, I was kind of curious what the FBI's reaction to it was."

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Willingham said the FBI contacted him and "asked for a meeting" with reporter Cash once they discovered he may have evidence they didn't have.

McVeigh's attorneys indicated yesterday that they could be in possession of some of this evidence.

"He was one-of-a-kind, and our entire county has lost a dear friend," said McCurtain Gazette publisher Bruce Willingham.
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"Cash got the groundbreaking interviews no one else could get," said Willingham.
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"I know some of the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing are aware of this, but many aren't: It was his love for them and his concern that the government wasn't being honest with them that fired his passion to get at the truth," said Willingham.
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"One of the real ironies," said Willingham, "is that some people in the Associated Press and the FBI, who at one time showed at least complete disregard if not outright contempt for him, ended up admiring him for his work.