OKLAHOMA CITY: AFTER THE BOMB : Voices from Home

“Thank You, Dogs!”

Message on heart-shaped card for a special group of searchers near and dear to children’s hearts, from Jennifer Ouelett

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“The FBI may in fact need new and stronger investigative tools. But we should tread very carefully when considering proposals to expand the FBI’s authority to investigate domestic organizations.”

BOB DOLE. Senate majority leader

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“We have no proverbial tea to dump; should we instead sink a ship full of Japanese imports? Is a civil war imminent? Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn’t come to that! But it might.”

TIMOTHY J. MCVEIGH. In a letter first published in the Lockport (N.Y.) Union-Sun & Journal newspaper in February 1992 and reprinted on Wednesday.

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“To those who planned, assisted and committed this outrageously brutal crime, or those who would aid and abet it, we will search and find you. There is no place on earth where you will be safe from the most powerful forces of justice. You are what the law condemns as ... enemies of all mankind.”

LOUIS J. FREEH, FBI Director

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“Thank you for trying to find the cowards who did this! Keep it up!”

NATHAN LICHT. A third-grader at Grover Cleveland Elementary in Oklahoma City, in a letter to “The FBI and CIA.”

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“He was the kind of man every parent wants his child to be.”

PRESIDENT CLINTON. In his eulogy for 40-year-old Secret Service agent Alan G. Whicher, a former presidential bodyguard who had been transferred to Oklahoma City and died in the blast.

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“He’s very stoic and has classified himself as a prisoner of war.”

Federal law enforcement official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, describing McVeigh’s refusal to talk.