Sources: 
    McVeigh
    Other people
      Kaczynski
    Trial
    Execution

The Writing Process

The Final Product

Promotional Efforts

Reviews

Links

Parenthetical letters--(A)--included with descriptions of the collection indicate the folders where items are filed.

Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication

About the American Terrorist Collection

American Terrorist describes the role of Timothy McVeigh  in the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City.  168 people were killed, and more than 500 were injured, in the explosion.  The book recounts the path McVeigh followed which finally brought him to the Murrah building on that day, and the trial and execution which followed.

Authors Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck , both Buffalo News reporters, were able to interview McVeigh for over 75 hours in preparing this book.  They also had the cooperation of his parents and sister, giving them access to previously unavailable family materials.  

American Terrorist was published by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2001.

Dan Herbeck is a graduate of the journalism program at St. Bonaventure.  The authors donated this material to the school to aide journalism students and other researchers.  The collection provides an inside view of how such a journalistic coup comes about and the effort it takes to turn out the final product.  It includes original source materials, such as letters from Timothy McVeigh, as well as drafts leading up to the published version of the book.

Please Note:  No electronic reproduction of any of the material in this collection may be made without the written permission of the authors.