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Trial Monday on Production of Missing Video From OKC Bombing

Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue has been fighting for years to obtain videos referenced in Secret Service and FBI timelines of the Oklahoma City Bombing investigation. Trial in his FOIA lawsuit (see IntelFiles case page for background) begins tomorrow in federal court in Utah. Trentadue's brother Kenneth died in an Oklahoma detention facility in 1995. The government claimed his death was a suicide. Jesse says the condition of his brother's body shows it was murder.

On Monday, a three-day trial is scheduled to begin in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City on a lawsuit by lawyer Jesse Trentadue. He filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking documents and videotapes from the bombing investigation — including one tape he believes shows two suspects exiting a Ryder truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the detonation of explosives in the vehicle.

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The suit claims the FBI failed to conduct a search reasonably calculated to locate all records in the agency’s possession. He is asking for an order allowing him to search for videotapes and documents at FBI locations, including field offices in Oklahoma City and Los Angeles, and requiring the agency to produce the records he requested.

Jesse theorizes Kenneth might have been mistaken for Richard Guthrie, who he believes is the real John Doe #2, that Kenneth was killed during an interrogation at the federal prison facility and officials then tried to cover it up making it look like a suicide. (Guthrie committed suicide in his jail cell after pleading guilty to a string of bank robberies and agreeing to testify against another robber. He left 2 suicide notes.) Trentadue's family has already been awarded $900,000 after a federal judge in Oklahoma found the government intentionally inflicted emotional distress on them by withholding information about Kenneth Trentadue's death.

The Government has always maintained there is no John Doe #2 and witnesses, both at the body shop where the truck was rented and at the Murrah building were mistaken. The