Timothy McVeigh sent his sister a letter a few weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing saying "something big is going to happen," she testified Tuesday.
Jennifer McVeigh told jurors she followed her brother's instructions to burn the letter she received in early 1995. He also advised her to stay on her planned spring break vacation in Florida a little longer.Testifying under immunity, the 23-year-old college student from upstate New York said the letter promised "something big is going to happen in the month of the bull," an astrological reference to either April or May.
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the downtown Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people and injuring more than 500 in the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil.
Jennifer McVeigh testified Monday that her brother's anger against the government grew after the 1993 Waco siege. "He thought the government murdered the people there, basically gassed and burned them. He felt someone should be held accountable."