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The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord

Timothy McVeigh

Sites

Crimes

After the Bombing

Before the Bombing

http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=covenant__sword__and_arm_of_the_lord_1

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The bombing of Murrah

  • Robbed pawn shop, Jim Ellison and Richard Wayne Snell headed up the plan. During this attack Ellison said that he saw a "sin of God." Because of this they did not attack Oklahoma City Federal Bldg.
  • February 13, 1983 Gordon Kahl and three others, kill two US Marshals in North Dakota.
  • March 13- June 3rd, 1983 Snell kills Sheriff in Arkansas.

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/adl/paranoia-as-patriotism/covenant.html

Entrance to the compound

  • Timothy McVeigh, the eventual bomber of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, joined the CSA in his early teens. On the day of the bombing in 1995 his mentor Richard Snell was executed. Snell had simlar plans in 1983 to bomb the same building after becoming upset with the Internal Revenue Service.

Weapons

CSA Compound

Phase 3

CSA Bunker

More Crimes

Jim Ellison

The end of CSA

Groups members and Founder

  • April 21, 1985 after many complaints surrounded CSA compound. After three day stand off Law enforcenment

Where it all began

  • Richard Snell was stopped by Louis Bryant, during a traffic stop. Snell fatally shot Bryant and was charged for capital murder and sent to prison.
  • Snell also was supected of killing a Jewish panwshop owner.
  • CSA firebombed of a Indiana synagogue, the arson of a Missouri church.
  • In April 1985, 200 FBI agents raided the CSA compound and seized hundreds of weapons, bombs, anti-tank rocket.
  • Founder- Jim Ellison
  • About 90- 120 members from the age of 13-mid- 20s, in 1982 by 1984 went down by 70
  • High Preist- Kerry Nobles
  • Spiritual advisor- Richard Wayne Snell
  • Mentor- Arthur Russell

Fall out of CSA

  • The CSA started the 1970s around of area Northern Arkansas, Southern Missouri and Western Oklahoma
  • They were a white supremacist group. They believed Jews, or non- whites are children of Satan
  • The CSA was founded by Texas minister James Ellison, who purchased a 220-acre farm for CSA

9:00 pm. April 19 1995 Richard Wayne Snell,

  • was executed the day of the 1995 bombing of Murrah.
  • James Ellison was arrested in 1985, was sentence 20 years in jail.
  • Kerry Nobles was excuted for killing a Black man and Jewish business man.
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