David Paul Hammer Final Escape. He wrote two books on the Oklahoma City bombing based on knowledge gleaned first-hand from Timothy McVeigh before McVeigh's execution: Secrets Worth Dying For: Timothy James McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing (2004), co-authored with Jeffery William Paul. Later in 2010, Hammer published Deadly Secrets: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing. In May 2010, shortly following Deadly Secrets’ publication, Hammer gave appeared on Alex Jones’ talk show for an extended interview, detailing his relationship with McVeigh and McVeigh's account of the US government's alleged involvement in the bombing. On February 11, 2004, Hammer's third execution date was
Timothy McVeigh he did not believe in a hell and that science is his religion. In June 2001, a day before the execution, McVeigh wrote a letter to the "Buffalo News" identifying himself as agnostic. However, he took the Last Rites, administered by a priest, just before his execution. Father Charles Smith ministered to McVeigh in his last moments in death row. McVeigh claimed that the bombing was revenge against the government for the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge. McVeigh visited Waco during the standoff. While there, he was interviewed by student reporter Michelle Rauch, a senior journalism major at Southern