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The Siege at Ruby Ridge is a 1996 drama television film directed by Roger Young and written by Lionel Chetwynd about the confrontation between the family of Randy Weaver and the US federal government at Ruby Ridge in 1992. It was based on the book Every Knee Shall Bow by reporter Jess Walter. [1]
The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992.On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant for his failure to appear on federal firearms charges after he was given the wrong court date. [1]
Randall Claude Weaver (January 3, 1948 – May 11, 2022) was an American survivalist and self-proclaimed white separatist. [1] [2] He was a central actor in the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff with federal agents at his cabin near Naples, Idaho, during which his wife and son were killed.
Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi (born June 9, 1954) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) sniper and former United States Army officer who was involved in the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff and 1993 Waco siege.
Randy Weaver dies at 74. He became a hero to antigovernment extremists after the Ruby Ridge standoff.
Gritz was portrayed by Bob Gunton in the 1996 CBS television film The Siege at Ruby Ridge, and by Vic Browder in the first episode of the 2018 television miniseries WACO. In 1983, actor William Shatner purchased the entertainment rights to Gritz's life story. [51]
The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin by the United States Marshals Service in 1992. Ruby Ridge may also refer to: Ruby Ridge (southern Boundary County, Idaho), where the siege took place; Ruby Ridge (northeastern Boundary County, Idaho)
Retaliation for the Ruby Ridge, Waco siege, other government raids, U.S. foreign policy and civilian casualties from U.S. military attacks in foreign countries [1] Conviction(s) First degree murder of a federal employee (18 U.S.C. §§ 1111 and 1114) (8 counts) Use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death (18 U.S.C. § 2332a)