Terry Lynn Nichols is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted of being an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing. He was sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, and is incarcerated at ADX Florence, a super maximum security prison near Florence, Colorado. His brother James, who self-published a 400-page book about the bombing, has stated that Terry was good at artwork and book smart.
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Terry Lynn Nichols is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted of being an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing. He was sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, and is incarcerated at ADX Florence, a super maximum security prison near Florence, Colorado. Prior to his incarceration, he held a variety of short-term jobs, working as a farmer, grain elevator manager, real estate salesman and ranch hand. He met his future co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, during a brief stint in the U.S. Army, which ended in 1989 when he requested a hardship discharge after less than one year of service. In 1994 and 1995, he conspired with Mc Veigh in the planning and preparation of the truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995. The bombing claimed the lives of 168 people. In 2004, he was convicted in Oklahoma on state charges of murder in connection with the bombing. As in the federal trial, the state jury deadlocked on imposing the death penalty. He shares a cell block that is commonly referred to as \”Bombers Row\” with Ramzi Yousef, Eric Rudolph, and Ted Kaczynski. His brother James, who self-published a 400-page book about the bombing, has stated that Terry was good at artwork and book smart. He graduated from high school in 1973 with a 3. 6 grade point average, with ambitions of becoming a physician. He enrolled at Central Michigan University, but had difficulty adjusting to college life, and dropped out after one term.
In 1980, Nichols met real estate agent Lana Walsh, a twice-divorced mother of two who was five years his senior. They married and had a son, Joshua, in 1982. During the marriage, Nichols engaged in a succession of part-time jobs: carpentry work, managing a grain elevator, and selling life insurance and real estate. In 1988, at the age of 33, he tried to escape it by enlisting in the United States Army. The two were stationed together at Fort Riley City, Kansas, where they met and became friends with their future accomplice, Michael Fortier. As he departed, he told a fellow soldier that he would be starting a new life with his own son, who was seven years old at the time. He had difficulty with the physical aspect of the training, and was sometimes called “grandpa” by the other men. They had a common background: both men grew up in white rural areas and disliked working with people who were divorced and had shared political interests in gun and survivalist movement. They were soon made the platoon guide because of his age: both had tried for a college for a while. In 1974, after his brother Leslie was badly burned in a fuel tank explosion on the farm, he offered to give him skin for grafts. He moved to Colorado and obtained a license to sell real estate in 1976. Soon after he closed on his first big sale, his mother told him she needed his help on theFarm, so he returned to Michigan.
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