 McKinney implicated the president of District Union No.1, the president of the Altman local, and a WFM activist in an alleged conspiracy to wreck the train.But then McKinney repudiated his confession by writing a second confession, stating that he had been promised a pardon, immunity, a thousand dollars, and a ticket to wherever he and his wife wanted to go, to "any part of the world," if he would lie about the spikes.