"Clues from the Red Planet"  PBS newshour transcript August 7, 1996
"biggest discovery in the history of science" CNN story, August 7 1996
see the alien rock  Astronomy Picture of the Day August 8, 1996

second thoughts (after the mid-March 1997 conference)

The Case for Relic Life on Mars from Scientific American Dec '97 (requires Duke IP address)

latest thoughts

Birthplace of famous Mars meteorite pinpointed  New Scientist September 5, 2005

new doubt cast on Martian meteorite life  American Mineralogist, May-June 2004

ALH 84001:  Recent Scientific Papers Explained
The 61st Meeting of the Meteoritical Society  with two sessions on Mars meteorites (July 1998)
On the Question of the Mars Meteorite archive of papers on ALH84001

NASA's Martian Meteorite page