who was timothy mcveigh accomplice?
Terry Nichols
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 It was not enough to keep him from being charged by the authorities with conspiracy , along with Richard Parsons and his wife , Mary Frazer , and Richard James , a tradesman . 

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 McVeigh was represented by a defense counsel team of six principal attorneys led by Stephen Jones . According to law professor Douglas O. Linder , McVeigh wanted Jones to present a " necessity defense " — which would argue that he was in " imminent danger " from the government ( that his bombing was intended to prevent future crimes by the government , such as the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents ) . McVeigh argued that " imminent " does not mean " immediate " : " If a comet is hurtling toward the earth , and it 's out past the orbit of Pluto , it 's not an immediate threat to Earth , but it is an imminent threat . " Despite McVeigh 's wishes , Jones attempted to discredit the prosecution 's case in an attempt to instill reasonable doubt . Jones also believed that McVeigh was part of a larger conspiracy , and sought to present him as " the designated patsy " , but McVeigh disagreed with Jones arguing that rationale for his defense . After a hearing , Judge Matsch independently ruled the evidence concerning a larger conspiracy to be too insubstantial to be admissible . In addition to arguing that the bombing could not have been carried out by two men alone , Jones also attempted to create reasonable doubt by arguing that no one had seen McVeigh near the scene of the crime , and that the investigation into the bombing had lasted only two weeks . Jones presented 25 witnesses over a one @-@ week period , including Dr. Frederic Whitehurst . Although Whitehurst described the FBI 's sloppy investigation of the bombing site and its handling of other key evidence , he was unable to point to any direct evidence that he knew to be contaminated . 

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 The chief conspirators , Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols , met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U.S. Army . Michael Fortier , McVeigh 's accomplice , was his Army roommate . The three shared interests in survivalism . They expressed anger at the federal government 's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco siege — a 1993 51 @-@ day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight ( it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot ) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others . In March 1993 , McVeigh visited the Waco site during the standoff , and then again after its conclusion . McVeigh later decided to bomb a federal building as a response to the raids . 

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 Appearing as Russell 's accomplices are : 

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 Jean Hersholt as Marcus Schouler , McTeague 's friend 
