RUBY RIDGE & WACO SIEGES
RUBY RIDGE: Ruby Ridge, Idaho was the site of a violent confrontation and siege in 1992, involving Randy Weaver, his family, Weaver's friend Kevin Harris and federal agents from the United States Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Randy Weaver's wife and son were shot and killed in the incident, which was ultimately cited as a motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing.
WACO: The Waco Siege took place on February 28, 1993 when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel, a property located nine miles (14 km) east-northeast of Waco, Texas. An exchange of gunfire resulted in the deaths of four agents and six Davidians.
A subsequent 51-day siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended on April 19 when fire destroyed the compound. Seventy-six people (24 of them British nationals) died in the fire, including 21 children and two pregnant women, along with Davidian leader Vernon Wayne Howell, better known as David Koresh.
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