14-11-2019, 01:12 AM
One thing I'd like to add in this thread. I was going to cover this in my article about the surveillance footage but didn't get to it.
Basically, an FBI agent based out of Los Angeles attempted to sell surveillance camera footage of the bombing to Dateline NBC, in the fall of 1995.
The agent had a lawyer and a private investigator (Robert Jerlow) representing him at meetings with NBC concerning sale of the footage. The LA agent wanted one million dollars for the footage. NBC offered $800,000 reportedly.
Well, the day that this guy's representatives (Jerlow and the attorney) made contact with NBC this was reported back to FBI HQ almost immediately--FBI had an informant of sorts, someone friendly to the FBI, working on staff and over a period of a couple weeks he reported to the FBI everything concerning the attempted sale.
As it turns out, the footage was one VHS tape featuring 18 minutes of footage taken from several sources. The footage shows the Ryder truck pulling up to the Murrah building, and two men getting out of the truck. The footage then cuts to another camera which recorded the detonation of the bomb. I believe that footage depicting the delivery of the bomb truck existed from surveillance cameras mounted on the 2nd floor of the Regency Towers apartments as well as footage from the Journal Record Building. (covered in my article in this thread). Other potential sources include the YMCA on 5th street. One OKC police detective told Media Bypass (alternative news media magazine in the 90s) that there were "at least five cameras stationed along 5[SUP]th[/SUP] street" that were "focused in the general area around the federal building."
According to a 1995 article in Media Bypass magazine, the FBI's office of professional responsibility conducted an investigation and through that investigation found that the LA-based agent got his copy of the tape from an FBI agent in Oklahoma who was assigned to the OKBOMB case. The investigation also uncovered that one Oklahoma based agent had made at least a dozen copies of the tape for friends.
The Media Bypass piece quotes a Texas-based agent saying that at FBI people were expecting this footage to eventually show up on A Current Affair or Hard Copy--there were so many copies of it floating around that there was the potential for hundreds of dubs of the tape to exist. It was only a matter of time before someone shared it with newsmedia. In that respect it's practically a miracle that we haven't seen this footage anywhere given how many people potentially have copies.
Attached are some FBI documents detailing the attempted sale and the 1995 Media Bypass article on the attempted sale.
The agent who tried to sell the tape is not identified by name but I'm sure the FBI determined who it was, they had a great deal if information about the purported source: (1) was based out of the Los Angeles Field Office (2) was a GS-13 (3) a 16 year FBI veteran (4) age 38-42, (5) was a former sniper instructor at Carlos Hatchcock Sniper School (6) served in US Marine Corps in Beirut alongside Robert Jerlow (OKC private investigator) between 1986-1988.
This attempted sale of the tape is yet another thing that supports the notion that surveillance footage depicting the bombing, and the bombers, exists. I have no doubt that the footage exists today, via the bootleg copies. The FBI might have destroyed their copy, but surely out of the dozen or so copies one agent made, at least one copy still exists. I think one day we may see this footage--either the agent(s) who have copies will send it to the media or it will be uploaded online or shared with newsmedia after the death of the agent(s) who currently possess a copy.
Basically, an FBI agent based out of Los Angeles attempted to sell surveillance camera footage of the bombing to Dateline NBC, in the fall of 1995.
The agent had a lawyer and a private investigator (Robert Jerlow) representing him at meetings with NBC concerning sale of the footage. The LA agent wanted one million dollars for the footage. NBC offered $800,000 reportedly.
Well, the day that this guy's representatives (Jerlow and the attorney) made contact with NBC this was reported back to FBI HQ almost immediately--FBI had an informant of sorts, someone friendly to the FBI, working on staff and over a period of a couple weeks he reported to the FBI everything concerning the attempted sale.
As it turns out, the footage was one VHS tape featuring 18 minutes of footage taken from several sources. The footage shows the Ryder truck pulling up to the Murrah building, and two men getting out of the truck. The footage then cuts to another camera which recorded the detonation of the bomb. I believe that footage depicting the delivery of the bomb truck existed from surveillance cameras mounted on the 2nd floor of the Regency Towers apartments as well as footage from the Journal Record Building. (covered in my article in this thread). Other potential sources include the YMCA on 5th street. One OKC police detective told Media Bypass (alternative news media magazine in the 90s) that there were "at least five cameras stationed along 5[SUP]th[/SUP] street" that were "focused in the general area around the federal building."
According to a 1995 article in Media Bypass magazine, the FBI's office of professional responsibility conducted an investigation and through that investigation found that the LA-based agent got his copy of the tape from an FBI agent in Oklahoma who was assigned to the OKBOMB case. The investigation also uncovered that one Oklahoma based agent had made at least a dozen copies of the tape for friends.
The Media Bypass piece quotes a Texas-based agent saying that at FBI people were expecting this footage to eventually show up on A Current Affair or Hard Copy--there were so many copies of it floating around that there was the potential for hundreds of dubs of the tape to exist. It was only a matter of time before someone shared it with newsmedia. In that respect it's practically a miracle that we haven't seen this footage anywhere given how many people potentially have copies.
Attached are some FBI documents detailing the attempted sale and the 1995 Media Bypass article on the attempted sale.
The agent who tried to sell the tape is not identified by name but I'm sure the FBI determined who it was, they had a great deal if information about the purported source: (1) was based out of the Los Angeles Field Office (2) was a GS-13 (3) a 16 year FBI veteran (4) age 38-42, (5) was a former sniper instructor at Carlos Hatchcock Sniper School (6) served in US Marine Corps in Beirut alongside Robert Jerlow (OKC private investigator) between 1986-1988.
This attempted sale of the tape is yet another thing that supports the notion that surveillance footage depicting the bombing, and the bombers, exists. I have no doubt that the footage exists today, via the bootleg copies. The FBI might have destroyed their copy, but surely out of the dozen or so copies one agent made, at least one copy still exists. I think one day we may see this footage--either the agent(s) who have copies will send it to the media or it will be uploaded online or shared with newsmedia after the death of the agent(s) who currently possess a copy.
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My OKC video clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ5LDp...hvlmET4OxQ
My OKC documents: https://libertarianinstitute.org/okc/
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
--Winston Churchill