September 15, 2026
Margaret Roberts came to Caravan to Midnight before the release of Blowback with questions that had survived more than thirty years.
Who was the second man witnesses reported seeing with Timothy McVeigh? What happened to surveillance footage collected after the bombing? And how much did federal authorities know about the people moving around the plot before April 19, 1995?
Now the book is out—and the story has moved.
The OKCBOMB Files has begun bringing the investigation to a much larger audience. A new court fight is seeking the records of Carol Howe, the government informant operating inside the extremist world surrounding Elohim City before the bombing. And documents that could help establish exactly what authorities knew—and when they knew it—remain at the center of the fight.
Coming just days after America marked twenty-five years since 9/11, the questions reach well beyond Oklahoma City.
What happens when authorities have people inside dangerous organizations before catastrophe strikes? Where is the line between surveillance, infiltration and involvement? And when questions remain decades later, why should the public have to fight to see the evidence?
Tonight, John B. Wells brings Margaret Roberts back to continue the investigation—not where we started last time, but where the evidence has taken us since.
The book is called Blowback.
What comes next is the blowback after Blowback.