TERROR IN OKLAHOMA CITY : Voices from Home

“As I said on Wednesday, justice for these killers will be certain, swift and severe. We will find them, we will convict them, and we will seek the death penalty against them.”

PRESIDENT CLINTON

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“They were just regular guys.”

SYLVIA NIEMCZYK, Manager of a Texaco Food Mart in Junction City, Kan., who reported seeing two men who fit descriptions of the suspects.

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“At this point, every evidence indicates that it is domestic in nature.”

JANET RENO, United States Attorney General

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‘Our sensors are detecting absolutely no sounds of survivors. Our cameras show only death.”

DAN SCHROEDER, Of California’s Urban Search and Rescue, which is assisting Oklahoma City officials as they search the wreckage.

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“I don’t want them to be forgotten, no matter what condition they’re found in. I want them to know they are loved and will not be forgotten.”

KEITH COVERDALE, Father of two children missing in the blast

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“Let’s get all of these fears and concerns that children have out in the open. Friends of mine have told me that their children are asking if these children in Oklahoma died because they were bad children or because their parents were bad parents.”

HILLARY CLINTON

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“Americans are dying, and it’s time to seriously investigate these movements.”

RICK EATON, Researcher at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, talking about hate groups and paramilitary organizations

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“We don’t believe in violent means or violent acts.”

SAMUEL SHERWOOD, Director of the U.S. Militia Assn., based in Blackfoot, Idaho

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“Our stand in the militia is defensive. This obviously had nothing to do with defense.”

RAY SOUTHWELL, Michigan Militia Chief of Staff