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Memorial Artifacts Included in Newseum Exhibit

January 21, 2010

Eleven FBI evidentiary artifacts and numerous photographs from the Memorial’s Archives are on loan to the Newseum, in Washington, D.C., for a special exhibit, G-Men and Journalists: Top News Stories of the FBI’s First Century. The Ryder truck crankshaft, a yellow truck fragment, a clock frozen at 9:02 from the Bank of Oklahoma Building, various receipts linking Timothy McVeigh to the building and detonation of the truck bomb are included, as well as McVeigh’s Michigan Driver’s License, his Noble County jail booking card and the leg irons he wore during his transport to the Federal Corrections Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma. Reporter Terri Watkins’ notebook from the subsequent federal trial is also featured. These items help tell the story of the FBI’s largest case up to that time, the OKBOMB investigation. The exhibit, which concludes with the federal convictions of McVeigh and Nichols, is on display through 2011.

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