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convicted Oklahoma City bomber, was executed by lethal injection in June for detonating a fertilizer bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in April 1995 and killed 149…
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FAULKNER Charles James , a Representative from Virginia and from West Virginia; born in
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Georgetown University, Washington, D.…
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