Deadline just announced (and it was like the shot heard round the world how fast it traveled on the web, srsly) that Barry Levinson will direct the script O.K.C. (a Black List script from 2010), written by Clay Wold, whose brother was a clerk on the McVeigh case. As described on Deadline:
The clerk’s determination to expose the truth led to a bigger conspiracy and nearly destroyed the young man.
I don’t have a copy of the script, so I did a little digging. Turns out there are several conspiracies that surround the McVeigh case – none of them as easy to digest as what appears to be the plain truth, that McVeigh and Terry Nichols acted alone in retaliation for Waco and Ruby Ridge. I always figure that humans are hard-wired to believe conspiracies because no one wants to accept how little of life’s circumstances we can control. But this article, written back in 2001, that tries to tie the whole thing to a neo-Nazi ring.
Either way, we have it on the watch.
