Politics Jun 11 McVeigh Executed Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh died by lethal injection this morning for the attack that killed 168 people.

Timothy James McVeigh grew up here in Western New York, in the peaceful, homogenized communities of Lockport and Pendleton. He grew up as a middle-class Catholic in a culture of patriotism.

Thomas said a routine pre-employment background check on Hill turned up “Jennifer McVeigh” as an alias, but school officials didn’t connect her name with Timothy McVeigh’s.

Allen called it a "siege." And government critics dubbed it "Roby Ridge" after the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff with the FBI that left three people dead in Idaho.