The media made immediate and ongoing comparisons between McVeigh and Lee Harvey Oswald. After being appointed to act as McVeigh’s lead defense attorney in early May 1995, Stephen Jones also publicly compared McVeigh’s “Perry Perp Walk” to that of Oswald’s. Jones commented that the repeated airing of these images had created a sense of national “déjà vous” and said “those old enough to remember ‘saw’ in [McVeigh] the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald.”9 Jones later pointed out that it would have been much easier (and safer) to whisk McVeigh quickly and quietly out of the back of the Perry courthouse
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