The OKC Bombing thread: Surveillance Camera Footage

[Richard Booth]

FYI, Clint Eastwood has a Richard Jewell movie coming out. Just don't expect revelations:

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/10/clint-...202180000/

Looking forward to that film--trailers look great. Eastwood has made films that are not great, but do stand out as good.

BTW, I sent an email to my friend Roger Charles to ask him if he knew anything about John O'Neill vis-a-vis Oklahoma City.

Roger is a former 60 Minutes associate producer and ABC News 20/20 associate producer. He wrote the book 'Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed and Why It Still Matters." He's a fountain of wisdom on this case, so I thought i'd ask him.

Rog said he had no information on John O'Neill, but did provide some details I wasn't aware of. For example, a book I didn't know existed called "On Scene Commander" by Weldon Kennedy.

This is a cool find for me--Weldon Kennedy was one of the 'good' agents. Respected by street agents because he was decisive and backed up his fellow agents and wasn't what Coulson derogatorily calls a 'driver' in his book. Coulson refers to 'bad' agents--the kind who kiss ass, cover ass, and throw you under the bus--as 'drivers' ... said that Weldon Kennedy was 'not a driver.' (He doesn't say the same about Bob Ricks...)

Kennedy was the first OKC inspector-in-charge... About a month into the case he was sent to Phoenix (where he was SAIC) and made 'Field Commander' on the case while Danny Defenbaugh took the mantle of Inspector-in-Charge (reporting directly to Larry Potts and Louis Freeh -- picked precisely because he WAS a 'driver').

Anyhow, Roger said that Bob Ricks ran the investigation 'inside' the FBI, dealing with FBI matters while Weldon Kennedy dealt with anything outside the FBI such as interfacing with other law enforcement or agencies or organizations.

I bought and am reading 'On Scene Commander' now. If he mentions John O'Neill I'll put that text here.

--Richard