Roger G. Charles is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the U.S. Marine Corps and award-winning investigative journalist who has worked with a wide variety of media outlets, including Newsweek, Vanity Fair, ABC (Nightline, Prime Time Live and 20/20), CBS’s Sixty Minutes II, and the BBC. In addition to his research into the Oklahoma City bombing, he has worked on such topics as detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (as part of a Peabody-winning team at CBS) and the failure of the U.S. military to provide troops in Iraq with adequate body armor. In 1996 and 1997 he was a consultant on the Oklahoma City bombing for ABC’s 20/20, helping to produce pieces that questioned the official version of what happened. He also worked as an investigator for Stephen Jones and the legal team defending Timothy McVeigh in his federal trial. Charles was born in Texas, raised in West Virginia, graduated from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1967.
