timothy mcveigh considered the bombing of the oklahoma city federal building 20 years ago a failure because the structure was still standing after the blast that killed 168 people .
mcveigh also viewed himself as a ` paul revere-type messenger ' and even suggested his defense team should receive $ 800,000 from the government .
the estimated one million pages of paper documents from stephen jones now fill 550 file cabinet-sized boxes at the briscoe center for american history .