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lost gambling on the 1993 Super Bowl, per recent Politico.com article
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'''Timothy McVeigh''' (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was the main perpetrator in the [[Oklahoma City Bombing]] on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people in the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. He was pulled over that afternoon by Lieutenant Charles Hanger for driving without a license plate, and arrested after Lt. Hanger found an unregistered firearm in his car.<ref>http://www.nleomf.com/TheFund/programs/OOM/hanger_oct01.htm</ref>  
 
'''Timothy McVeigh''' (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was the main perpetrator in the [[Oklahoma City Bombing]] on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people in the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. He was pulled over that afternoon by Lieutenant Charles Hanger for driving without a license plate, and arrested after Lt. Hanger found an unregistered firearm in his car.<ref>http://www.nleomf.com/TheFund/programs/OOM/hanger_oct01.htm</ref>  
 
McVeigh was a veteran of [[Operation Desert Storm]]. Contrary to the popular and oft-repeated belief among [[liberal]]s and [[Atheism|atheists]], McVeigh was not a right-wing evangelical Christian. In fact, McVeigh was raised Roman Catholic, but professed [[agnosticism]].<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jun/11/mcveigh.usa4</ref> His political beliefs were [[libertarian]].
 
McVeigh was a veteran of [[Operation Desert Storm]]. Contrary to the popular and oft-repeated belief among [[liberal]]s and [[Atheism|atheists]], McVeigh was not a right-wing evangelical Christian. In fact, McVeigh was raised Roman Catholic, but professed [[agnosticism]].<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jun/11/mcveigh.usa4</ref> His political beliefs were [[libertarian]].
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McVeigh [[gambling|gambled]] a chunk of his savings on the [[Super Bowl]] in 1993.  He lost, and in his despair became obsessed with the highly publicized standoff between the government and the [[Branch Davidians]] less than a month later, as explained by ''Politico.com''.<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/02/how-football-fed-timothy-mcveighs-despair-219625</ref>
    
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