Timothy McVeigh born & raised in NY...Terry Nichols born & in Michigan

[RedEarth]

Noticed several people had their facts confused regarding McVeigh and Nichols....

Timothy McVeigh was born April 23, 1968 in Pendleton, New York, and grew up in that rural commuity near Buffalo, Niagara and Canada. He was the middle of three children, and the only boy.

His father worked at a nearby General Motors manufacturing plant; his mother worked for a travel agency. His parents separated for a third and final time in 1984.

High school classmates remember him as small, thin and quiet. He became involved in school functions -- football, track, extra-curricular activities -- but after joining them, soon dropped out. He was shy, did not have a girlfriend and did not date. He did not belong to any clique, but seemed to exist on the margins.

McVeigh graduated from high school in June, 1986 and in the fall, entered a two-year business college. He attended only a short time. During that time McVeigh lived at home with his father, worked at a Burger King and drove dilapidated, old cars.

In 1987 he got a pistol permit from Niagara County and a job in Buffalo as a guard on an armored car. A co-worker recalls that McVeigh owned numerous firearms and had a survivalist philosophy -- a tendency to stockpile weapons and food in preparation for what he believed to be the imminent breakdown of society. In 1988 McVeigh and a friend bought 10 acres of rural land and used it as a shooting range


http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/03/29/profile.mcveigh/

Two images of Terry Nichols emerged at his trial.

The image presented by the prosecution was that of a quiet former soldier unable to hold a steady job while growing unhappy and disillusioned with his life.

The second image was that painted by his lawyers and relatives of Nichols as a devoted family man with an adventurous streak who tackled various jobs.

Prosecutors declared him an active participant in the Oklahoma City bombing. Family members said he was being framed because of his anti-government views.

Nichols' background - unlike the enigma portrayed in court - was fairly straightforward. It turned complicated as he became an adult.

He was born April 1, 1955, and spent his childhood on a prosperous corn farm near the small town of Lapeer, Mich. He was the third of four children in the Nichols family.

High school friends told The Post that Terry Nichols was shy as a teenager. Still, he was active in school, participating in a variety of sports. He earned mostly Bs and Cs. He graduated with a 2.6 grade-point average.

When he was 19, Terry Nichols' parents divorced. His mother, Joyce, purchased the farm.

Nichols briefly attended college at Central Michigan University, receiving Cs in biology, chemistry and trigonometry, a B in literature and an A in archery.

He then went through a series of jobs.

He got a real-estate license in Boulder in 1976 and moved to Denver. But just as he closed his first big transaction, his mother needed him to help with the then-struggling farm. Terry Nichols returned to Michigan.

http://63.147.65.175/bomb/bombnv8.htm