Bowling for Columbine
prev.
play.
mark.
next.

:11:00
If you're not going to protect
your family, who is?

:11:04
- We're not racist,
we're not extremist,

:11:07
we're not fundamentalist, we're
not terrorists or militants

:11:10
or other such nonsense.
- We're citizens.

:11:13
- We're just concerned citizens.
We have a desire

:11:16
to fulfil our responsibilities
and duties as Americans,

:11:18
and armed citizenry
is part of that.

:11:26
- What do you grow here?
- Right now, there's tofu beans,

:11:32
soy beans. Tofu-soy beans.
:11:34
- You're a tofu farmer.
- Yeah. Yeah, food farmer.

:11:38
I'm a food farmer.
- Food.

:11:39
- I grow food for people to eat.
:11:42
No herbicides, no pesticides
on that stuff.

:11:45
- Right. All natural.
- Right.

:11:47
- Yeah. Better.
- Certified organic.

:11:50
- Uh-huh. Healthier.
- Yeah.

:11:51
Basically, yeah.
:11:53
This is James Nichols,
the brother of Terry Nichols.

:11:57
James graduated from high
school the same year I did,

:12:00
in the district next to mine.
:12:01
On this farm
in Decker, Michigan,

:12:04
McVeigh and the Nichols
brothers made practice bombs

:12:06
before Oklahoma City.
:12:09
Terry and James were both
arrested in connection

:12:12
to the bombing.
[ TV news ]: U.S. attorneys

:12:14
formally linked the Nichols
brothers of Michigan

:12:17
with Oklahoma bomb suspect
Timothy McVeigh.

:12:19
Officials charged James,
who was at the hearing,

:12:21
and Terry, who was not,
with conspiring

:12:23
to make and possess
small bombs.

:12:26
- Terry Nichols was convicted
and received a life sentence.

:12:29
Timothy McVeigh was executed.
But the feds

:12:33
didn't have the goods on James,
:12:35
so the charges were dropped.
- I'm just glad

:12:38
to be out and free,
so I can get on with my life.

:12:41
- Did Timothy McVeigh
ever stay here?

:12:43
- Yes. Yes. He stayed here
several times.

:12:46
For the longest period, about
three months or so, I dunno.

:12:49
But, uh, he was a nice guy.
:12:50
- Decent guy?
- Oh, yeah.

:12:52
- They didn't find anything
on this farm.

:12:54
- As to what,
:12:55
bomb-making material?
- Any kind of explosives.

:12:57
- Uh, yeah, I had blasting caps,
dynamite blasting caps,


prev.
next.