CBS Evening News - 1997-09-29
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[0:02] Attorneys for the people say he helped
[0:04] build the Oklahoma City truck bomb. Jury
[0:07] selection begins in the trial of Terry
[0:09] Nichols, alleged accomplice in the
[0:11] deadliest act of terror ever on US soil.
[0:14] An exclusive Eye on America interview
[0:16] with Nichols wife, revealing insight
[0:19] about Nicholls and his relationship with
[0:22] convicted bomber Tim McVey.
[0:24] >> I'm jealous of Tim McVey most of the
[0:26] time. And in Paris tonight, Princess
[0:28] Diana's death car is hauled back to the
[0:31] scene of the crash as investigators try
[0:33] to reconstruct the accident.
[0:37] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:41] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:44] headquarters in New York.
[0:46] >> Good evening. Four months after Timothy
[0:48] McVey was convicted of the Oklahoma City
[0:50] bombing murders, his alleged accomplice
[0:53] went on trial today. Attorneys began
[0:55] questioning potential jurors for the
[0:57] trial of Terry Nichols, asking them if
[0:59] they were capable of imposing the death
[1:02] penalty. The judge, who also presided
[1:04] over the McVey trial, said this one
[1:06] begins with a quote clear page. CBS's
[1:10] Frank Courier is covering the trial in
[1:11] Denver.
[1:13] >> Terry Nichols defense team marched into
[1:15] federal court today for the sequel to
[1:17] the Oklahoma City bombing trial.
[1:19] >> We're ready to go. Government
[1:21] prosecutors also stepped up, ready, they
[1:23] say, to prove their allegations that
[1:25] 42-year-old Terry Lynn Nichols conspired
[1:27] with his former army buddy Timothy
[1:29] McVey, to blow up the federal building
[1:31] in Oklahoma City. Nichols faces the same
[1:34] murder and conspiracy charges as McVey
[1:37] for his alleged role as