McVeigh Shows No Remorse

March 26 -- Timothy McVeigh, scheduled to be executed on May 16 for the worst mass murder in American history, shows no remorse for the Oklahoma City bombing in a series of prison letters to be published in the May issue of Esquire magazine.

"I have nothing against the citizens of Oklahoma … except the continuing woe-is-me crowd," he wrote. Through letters mostly written from the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colo., McVeigh corresponded with former Oklahoma City weekly newspaper reporter Phil Bacharach from 1996 to 1999.

During that time, McVeigh was sentenced to death for his role in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City that left 168 dead. Bacharach is now a deputy press secretary for Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating.

McVeigh's letters, none of which directly addressed the Oklahoma City bombing, reveal an obsession with what he calls a coverup of the 1993 government raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.

While making no mention of the 19 children he killed in the Oklahoma blast, McVeigh accuses "liars" in the FBI and Justice Department of hiding "pictures of the charred remains of children's bodies" after the Waco compound burned.

"The public never saw the Davidians' home video of their cutebabies, adorable children, loving mothers, or protective fathers,"McVeigh wrote in one letter. " … Therefore, they didn't care whenthese families died a slow, torturous death at the hands of theFBI."

Survivors React

Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and 73 followers died in the Waco assault.

Prosecutors believe that anger toward the federal government led McVeigh, a decorated Gulf War veteran, to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City on the two-year anniversary of the fiery Waco raid.

Jannie Coverdale of Oklahoma City, who lost grandsons Aaron and Elijah in the blast, said she can't understand McVeigh's mindset.

"People criticize us because we want Tim executed but this is the only answer," she said. "If Tim ever gets a chance he'd do the same thing again because as far as he's concerned he hasn't done anything wrong."