DeKalb : Switchgrass Books/Northern Illinois University Press, c2010.
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232 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded just outside of Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Within a matter of hours, the FBI launched the largest manhunt in U.S. history, identifying the suspects as Timothy James McVeigh and John Doe No. 2, a stocky twentysomething with a distinctive tattoo on his left arm. Eventually the FBI retracted the elusive mystery man as a bombing suspect altogether, proclaiming that McVeigh had acted alone and that John Doe No. 2 was the by-product of unreliable eyewitness testimony in the wake of the attack. Womack recreates the events that led up to this fateful day from the perspective of John Doe No. 2 -- or JD, as he is referred to in the book. With his ironic and curiously detached persona, JD narrates -- from a second-person point of view -- his secret life with McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and others in America's underground militia culture as McVeigh and JD crisscross the Midwest in McVeigh's beloved Chevy Geo Spectrum."--Page 2 of cover.