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Phone records will show that McVeigh, Nichols and Fortier made hundreds of calls around the country to various establishments that sold fertilizer, chemicals, explosives, remote-control switches, racing fuel and 55-gal. plastic drums. Many of these calls were charged to a prepaid phone card issued in the name of Daryl Bridges by the Spotlight, a far-right publication. The FBI maintains this card was actually used by McVeigh and Nichols. McVeigh allegedly used the card to call Nichols to pick him up in Oklahoma City. Agents have documented McVeigh's and Nichols' travels, and many of the calls charged...
...story about Swimmers or Conroy's story about the curse of a mad father, but they were bare bones, hints. How could they be otherwise? If reporters had the license of artists, one would have been able to read the California cultists' last-minute thoughts as they slipped the plastic bags over their heads, and to understand their terrible bliss. One might have known if James Earl Ray (or Dexter King) was lying...
CONCORD, New Hampshire: Michael Dorris, the author who helped spread awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome with his award winning book "The Broken Cord," has died from an apparent suicide at age 52. According to Concord police, Dorris was found in motel room and apparently suffocated himself with a plastic bag. Part American Indian, much of Dorris' writing focused on the history and plight of Native Americans. "Native Americans: 500 Years After," and "A Guide to Research in Native American Studies," are among his better known works. But his book "The Broken Cord," earned him the most notoriety with a National...
...Diego medical examiner reported, the cultists died in three groups: a first round of 15, then the next 15, then seven, all apparently by ingesting phenobarbital mixed with a bit of applesauce or pudding, kicked by a shot of vodka, then helped along by the asphyxiating effect of a plastic bag over the head. The final two men--the ultimate angels of death--had only bags, no shrouds. Alone in the master bedroom, his order in the march of death still unknown, was the master himself: 65-year-old Marshall Herff Applewhite...
...those who live there, Bridgeport is a close-knit working-class neighborhood redolent of the 1950s. Plaster madonnas adorn people's front lawns, plastic Easter bunnies perch in picture windows at this time of year, and on Sundays families attend Mass at the Irish, Italian and Croatian churches where their grandparents were married. Bridgeport is a place where one can still see precinct captains and aldermen of the 11th Ward drinking at Schaller's Pump, and where sauerkraut soup is still served at a diner not far from the home of Chicago's legendary Boss, Richard J. Daley...