When asked to elaborate on the exact nature of his political stresses, he responded, “It’s tough to offer examples of political stress at this point because it would take ten pages to explain, but they came from my heightened sense of awareness of what the news was really saying. The news would come on, and I would watch it. I was reading the papers more in depth than I used to, even.” Bill McVeigh corroborated this when he recalled the alarm he felt upon seeing his son’s recurring “outbursts,” yelling and throwing things at the television.
