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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1997
Page
1
Jurors in the Oklahoma City bombing trial again fail to reach a verdict after 15 1/2 hours of deliberation. McVeigh’s lead attorney Patrick Jones says the length is a victory for the system while victims’ relatives wait anxiously for justice.
Newsweek poll shows 66 percent believe Timothy McVeigh is guilty and 71 percent favor the death penalty if convicted. Sixty percent doubt the attack was isolated, with 29 percent unsure. McVeigh, 29, faces federal charges after the April 19, 1995 bombing that killed 168 and wounded over 500. Denver jurors began deliberations the same day.
Sunday in the news lists high school events on June 8 at four locations. Montcalm High School hosts events at 2 p.m. PikeView High at 2 p.m. Princeton Senior High at 3 p.m. Bluefield High at 7 p.m. at Bluefield State College Campus.
Calendar note lists a 2 p.m. casting call for the Summit Players Summer production at Young People’s Theatre open to all students through ninth grade. Contact Sue Jackson at 325-6358 or Lou Stoker at 248-7402 for details. A Oakvale Town Meeting is set for Monday at 6 p.m. and weather calls for showers and thunderstorms with highs in the 70s and a 70 percent rain chance.
Keisha Riley, Mount View senior, attends a Clinton town meeting at Robert C Byrd High School in Clarksburg after a long journey with her family. She asks how disadvantaged students like those in McDowell County can afford college, and Clinton aides say he will answer.
HARDY Virginia local history notes mark the Booker T. Washington National Monument area on the Burroughs farm in Franklin County. It recalls Washington born circa 1856 to 1859, his enslaved lineage, and the farm’s Civil War era ties. Park Ranger Timbo Sims discusses plantation life and emancipation nearby.
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