Chris Jennings explores an often overlooked element of Randy and Vicki Weaver’s extremist beliefs.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Randy Weaver, patriarch of a family that was involved in an 11-day Idaho standoff with federal agents 30 ...

In 1992, hundreds of armed federal agents surrounded a family of white separatists in a ramshackle mountaintop cabin. Eleven days later, three people were dead—and the story of Ruby Ridge was just ...

In this archive photo, federal agents and members of the media tour the outside of Randy Weaver’s home on Sept. 1, 1992. Confiscated guns and ammunition are displayed on the ground following the end ...

SPOKANE — Randy Weaver, patriarch of a family that was involved in an 11-day Idaho standoff with federal agents 30 years ago that left three people dead and helped spark the growth of anti-government ...

The Weaver family, who were at the center of the FBI standoff in 1992, moved into the home in Ruby Ridge, ID, in the 1980s and largely kept to themselves. Former US Army engineer Randy, his wife, ...

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) – When Sara Weaver saw her father Randy struck in the shoulder by a government sniper’s bullet in the Idaho wilderness in August 1992, she began to sprint back to the family’s ...

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A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the ...

A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white separatist. The ten-day siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the ...

Randy Weaver, patriarch of a family that was involved in an 11-day Idaho standoff with federal agents 30 years ago that left three people dead and helped spark the growth of anti-government extremists ...