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A. Call two employees of a Junction City, Kansas, Ryder rental agency who will identify McVeigh as the renter of the truck used in the bombing; will try to link the renter's handwriting to samples given by McVeigh.

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A. Cast doubt on the rental agents' memories by noting that another man they said accompanied McVeigh was later identified as a customer who had come to the rental agency the day before.

B. Introduce a security camera videotape showing McVeigh buying a hamburger at a McDonald's near the rental agency shortly before the truck was rented, in another effort to place him in the spot where the Ryder truck was rented.

B. Point out that the videotape reveals a discrepancy: it shows McVeigh wearing different clothes from those described by the rental agents, indicating it was someone else who looked like McVeigh who rented the truck.

C. Present testimony from a motel owner that McVeigh checked in under his own name and was driving a Ryder truck. And call to the stand a man who will say he saw McVeigh drive a yellow Ryder truck into a gas station near Blackwell, Oklahoma on the day of the bombing.

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C. Argue that there were as many as three Ryder trucks in the Oklahoma City area on the day of the bombing, and that just because McVeigh was driving a similar truck does not prove he bombed the federal building.

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Ryder trucks awaiting rental at Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City, Kansas.

CRAIG HACKER-WICHITA EAGLE/SIPA


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