psychoceramics: Freemasonry/Oklahoma bombing (fwd)

["Andrew C. Bulhak" <acb @ zikzak.net>]

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  Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 10:58:16 +1000 (EST)
  To: e--@e--.very.net
  From: i--@m--.org.au (Ian McLean)
  Subject: Oklahoma bombing
  
  Just found an interesting message in my e-mail.
  
  
  Jesus
  
  
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  Date:         Thu, 8 May 1997 11:59:49 -0400
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  From: Dan <d--@S--OUTHEAST.NET>
  Subject:      [CTRL] Oklahoma City: Day One excerpt
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  Everyone should consider checking out this book.
  --
  
  From:  "Oklahoma City: Day One," by Michele Marie Moore, published by The
  Harvest Trust, 1996, excerpt from Chapter One, pp. 36-38:
  
          The Surrounding Properties
  [of the Alfred E. Murrah Federal Building.]
  
  The Journal Record Building had been constructed in 1923 by the Masonic
  Temple Building Association of Oklahoma Lodge Number Thirty-Six, and for
  fourteen years its auditorium played host to many illustrious entertainers.
  The Masons and the India Temple Shrine used the new Masonic Temple as
  their principal place of business for seven years until 1930, when both
  organizations moved to other locations.  After the explosions of April 19,
  1995, the ornate columns and symbolic temple architecture adorning the east
  side of the Journal Record Building was all that remained unscathed.  The
  rest of the building, inside and out, was a wreck.
  
  Many of the properties in the immediate vicinity of the Murrah Building had
  originally been owned by the Oklahoma Masonic Lodge Number Thirty-Six, the
  India Temple Shrine, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the
  Knights of Columbus.  For almost fifty years following the Oklahoma Land Run
  of 1889, these four organizations had leased, borrowed, bought, and traded
  the properties among themselves.
  
  Most of those fraternal organizations lost their downtown property holdings
  during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  These properties included land on
  which would eventually be built the Myriad Convention Center, the BancFirst
  Building, the Wright Building, the Kerr McGee Complex, the Colcord Building,
  the Internal Revenue Service Office Complex, the Federal Courthouse
  Building, the Oklahoma Natural Gas Building, the Oklahoma City Hall, the
  Maney Building, the YMCA Parking Annex, Liberty Bank Tower, Trigen of
  Oklahoma, the White Temple, the Journal Record Building, and the Murrah
  Building.
  
  In November 1995, as federal prosecutors were preparing the Oklahoma City
  bombing case, it was discovered that the Murrah Building had been built upon
  a piece of property known as Block 39.  Much mystery still surrounds the
  property, and as of this writing the issue has not yet been resolved.  It
  seems that the Murrah Building itself was owned by the federal government;
  however, there was no documentation in any of the real-estate records that
  indicated that the government had ever taken possession of the land upon
  which the building stood.  In the absence of that vital possession document,
  it was ruled that both the federal and local governments had concurrent
  jurisdiction in the case against the men accused of the bombing, and thus
  murder charges could be brought against the suspects at every court
  level.
  
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