UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 19, 1997
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Eyewitness called in McVeigh trial
Mechanic gives mixed testimony
The Associated Press
DENVER — A mechanic testified yesterday that he might have been mistaken about some details in a description he had given of a man who rented the truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Tom Kessinger, a mechanic at Elliott Body Shop in Junction City, Kan., said that the man he identified as John Doe No. 1 might not have worn camouflage clothing as he told FBI agents shortly after the bombing.
"I just believe I was (mistaken) because I couldn't see that much of
"Ninety percent of the people that come in that place wear 'camos,'" he said at a hearing.
his body from where I was sitting," Kessinger said, adding that he also was not certain how much the man weighed.
Kessinger is one of several potential eyewitnesses the prosecution plans to call for the trial of Timothy McVeigh, whom Kessinger has identified as the man who rented the truck used in the bombing.
During the hearing that began yesterday, defense attorneys asked a federal judge to suppress testimony by eyewitnesses because of publicity surrounding McVeigh's arrest.
Prosecutors have not said which eyewitnesses they plan to call, but they recently dropped two people
That witness, William H. Dunlap III, of Oklahoma City, has said that he saw someone resembling McVeigh get out of a Ryder truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building about 40 minutes before the bombing but that he could not be certain it was McVeigh.
from the potential list, including the only person who said he might have seen McVeigh in Oldahoma City the day of the bombing.
Justice Department spokeswoman Leesa Brown declined to comment Monday about dropping the two witnesses, citing a judge's order restricting participants in the case from speaking about the case outside of the courtroom.
MeVeigh and Terry Nichols are charged with murder, conspiracy and
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weapons-related counts for the April 19, 1955, bombing of the federal building. The blast killed 168 people and injured more than 500.
McVeigh's trial is scheduled to begin March 31. Nichols will be tried later.
FDA hopes to find party drug's origin
Government warns Americans about dangers of GHB
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Americans should avoid a popular party drug called GHB because the concoction, often promoted to teenagers, can be deadly, the government warned yesterday.
Criminal investigators from the Food and Drug Administration are tracking down laboratories that illegally produce the chemical, which was banned in 1991.
GHB is blemished for dozens of hospitalizations and at least three deaths. A Texas high school student died in August after someone slipped the chemical into her soft drink at a dance club.
A Winchester, Va., woman in her
20s was thought to have been in a drunken-driving crash until an autopsy showed she had taken GHB instead of alcohol.
The drug, known by the street names "cherry meth," "liquid X" and "liquid ecstasy," is believed to have sickened dozens of youths at a New year's Eve concert in Los Angeles.
"The individual consumer should not even be thinking about taking this drug," said Jim Dahl, assistant director of the FDA's criminal invest-
tigations office. "It is very bad for you, and it can certainly cause death."
GHB, or gamma hydroxybutyrate, is an odorless, nearly tasteless drug that produces a high.
But it also can cause vomiting, tremors and seizures.
The drug commonly is distributed as a white powder or clear liquid that can be mixed into a drink.
It sells for about $10 a vial.
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