FTR#608—In Search of John
Doe #2—Update on the Oklahoma City Bombing--(One 30-minute segment.) (Sources are noted in
parentheses.) (Recorded on 9/2/2007.)
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Summary of FTR#608—(Note: The massive
volume of ‘For The Record’ programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized
and analyzed in the periodically-updated description for FTR#391. FTR#’s
454, 455, 456 are compilations of much of the key documentation
culled from Mr. Emory’s investigation into 9/11. Along with FTR#391, they should give
listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It is
recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) Among the many 20th
century crimes that have never been fully explored or adjudicated is the
Oklahoma City bombing. The available evidence suggests that Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols were part of a larger plot that was covered up by the federal
authorities. Of particular significance are the evidentiary tributaries linking
the Oklahoma City bombing with the first World Trade Center attack, the 9/11
attacks and the AMIA bombing in Argentina—tributaries that have been ignored by
the federal authorities. (For more about this, see—among other programs—FTR#456.) This broadcast
explores the mysterious [and sinister] death of Kenney Trentadue, believed by
investigators to have been murdered in prison. Ruled a suicide, Trentadue’s
death may well have resulted from his resemblance to the mysterious John Doe
#2, seen in the company of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Although Trentadue’s injuries suggest he was murdered, prison authorities and
other forensic investigators have gone to great lengths to dissemble about the
cause of death, a pretense made more effective by the prison “suicides” of
several people connected to the case.
Program Highlights Include: The prison “suicide” of Alden Gillis Baker
(who testified that Trentadue was murdered); the prison suicide of Peter Langan
of the Aryan Republican Army (whose association with Timothy McVeigh is one of
the investigative pathways leading to the death of Kenney Trentadue); a grisly
accounting of the nature of Kenney Trentadue’s injuries.
1.
Among the most striking aspects of Kenney Trentadue’s case are the
forensic evidence and the behavior of the authorities with regard to that
evidence. Note how Kenney Trentadue died—keeping in mind that this was supposedly
suicide! “ . . . Kenney called again that
night, sounding chipper, and the brothers strategized about the parole hearing;
Kenney promised to call again the next day. But no call came until early the
morning of August 21, when the phone rang at Kenney and Jesse's mother's house.
It was the prison warden. Kenney, she said, had committed suicide that night.
She offered to have the body cremated at government expense—a move without
precedent in federal prison policies—but Wilma Trentadue turned her down. Five
days later, Kenney's body arrived at a mortuary in California. There were
bruises all over it, clumsily disguised with heavy makeup; slashes on his
throat; ligature marks; and ruptures on his scalp. Photos of the injuries were
included in a letter that Jesse drew up on August 30 and hand-delivered to the
Bureau of Prisons (bop), which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice (doj).
. . .” (“In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told
About the Oklahoma City Bombing” by James Ridgeway; MOTHER JONES;
7/3/2007; available in its entirety at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2007/07/in-search-of-john-doe-no-2-story-feds.html.)
2.
More about this supposed “suicide”: “ . . .
‘I have enclosed as Exhibit 'A' a photograph of Kenneth's body at the funeral,’
it read. ‘This is how you returned my brother to us.... My brother had been so
badly beaten that I personally saw several mourners leave the viewing to vomit
in the parking lot! Anyone seeing my brother's battered body with his bruised
and lacerated forehead, throat cut, and blue-black knuckles would not have
concluded that his death was either easy or a 'suicide'! ‘ After describing
Kenney's injuries in detail, and speculating how they might have come about
(bruises to his arms from being gripped, others to his legs from being knocked
to the ground with batons, slashes to his throat from someone ‘possibly
left-handed,’ which Kenney was not), Jesse concluded: ‘Had my brother been less
of a man, you[r] guards would have been able to kill him without inflicting so
much injury to his body. Had that occurred, Kenney's family would forever have
been guilt-ridden... with the pain of thinking that Kenneth took his own life
and that we had somehow failed him. By making the fight he did for his life,
Ken has saved us that pain and God bless him for having done so!’ . . .” (Idem.)
3.
A number of Kenney Trentadue’s fellow inmates provided testimony
indicating that he was murdered. One of them—Alden Gillis Baker—was
subsequently found hanged in his cell. “ . . .
Other key evidence was simply omitted from or buried in the official reports:
FBI and state Bureau of Investigations officials later testified, in a lawsuit
brought by the Trentadue family, that a second person's blood had been found in
Kenney's cell, and that there were no cut marks on the noose from which he was,
according to prison officials, ‘cut down.’ According to an internal FBI memo, a
prison guard told his neighbor that Kenney had been killed, and then hung in
his cell as a cover-up; an inmate who reported hearing similar statements from
a second guard said he was warned to keep silent and then sent to isolation.
Another inmate, Alden Gillis Baker, would later give Jesse's lawyer a note
describing an incident during which, he said, Kenney got into an altercation
with a guard. Eventually, he wrote, additional officers entered the cell, there
was ‘a lot of physical violence going on,’ he heard ‘faint moaning,’ and later
the sound of bedsheets being torn. (He would repeat this account in a
deposition in connection with a lawsuit brought by Jesse, but a judge ruled
that Baker, a convicted robber and sex offender, was not a reliable witness. In
2000, Baker was found hanging in his cell in a California federal prison.) . .
.” (Idem.)
4.
One of the hypotheses entertained by the Trentadue family and
associated investigators involves possible confusion between Kenney Trentadue
and members of the Aryan Republican Army, a white-supremacist group that moved
in the same circles as Timothy McVeigh and company. [Note the death via “prison
suicide” of Peter Langan, a key member of the ARA. Seems to be a lot of this
sort of thing going on in connection with this case.] Reports indicate that
members of the ARA may be the mysterious John Doe #2, seen by witnesses
with Timothy McVeigh. Other analysts feel that John Doe #2 was Andreas
Strassmeier, the son of Helmut Kohl’s chief of staff Gunther Strassmeier (the
architect of German reunification). (For more about Andreas Strassmeier, use
the search
function on this website. For more about the Oklahoma City bombing, check
the search
function for the many broadcasts Mr. Emory has done on the subject.) “ . . . Guthrie's name meant nothing to Jesse Trentadue,
but in the far-right radical scene, he had some notoriety. In 1994 and 1995,
Guthrie and his gang, the Aryan Republican Army, carried out an impressive
series of 22 bank robberies across the Midwest, netting some $250,000 that they
used to support the white-supremacist movement. The ARA had a flair for the
dramatic. They rented getaway cars in the names of major FBI officials. At some
robberies they wore Clinton and Nixon masks; at others, they tried to look like
Arabs. At a December 1994 robbery they wore Santa and elf suits; the following
April, they left behind an Easter basket holding a bronzed pipe bomb. In a home
movie, Guthrie's partner Peter Langan donned a black balaclava and talked about
the coming white revolution. The ARA's philosophy was old-fashioned nativism,
but their style was a takeoff on the IRA, with Latin American revolution and
rock and roll thrown in. (Members of the Philadelphia skinhead music scene were
part of the group.) Langan liked to call himself ‘Commander Pedro’; outside the
gang, he cross-dressed and later, when sentenced to prison for the robberies,
requested that a judge authorize a sex-change operation. Cash told Jesse that
some people—including some in federal law enforcement—thought the ARA might
have been involved in the Oklahoma City bombing, and that Guthrie could have
been John Doe No. 2. (Guthrie, along with other key ARA members, was finally
arrested in January 1996 and was reported to be cooperating with federal prosecutors
tracking the far right. That July, shortly before he was due to testify in
court against Langan, Guthrie was found hanging in his cell.) . . .” (Idem.)
5.
Two video productions are being generated by a couple of
documentary filmmakers. One is a DVD of a three-lecture series called “The
First Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Relationship Between Fascism and Religion.” To
learn more about this, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YPCdFu7OE.
In addition, there will soon be a documentary about Mr. Emory, titled “The
Anti-Fascist.” For more about this project, visit: http://www.theantifascist.com/