AMBUSH AT RUBY RIDGE
How Government Agents Set
Randy Weaver Up
and Took His Family Down
by Alan W. Bock
Foreword by Dean Koontz
August 21, 1992: A six-man team from the Special Operations Group of the U.S. Marshals Service, dressed in full camouflage regalia and armed with silenced automatic weapons, moved onto Randy Weaver's 20-acre property known as Ruby Ridge. In less than 36 hours they had killed his son Sammy, and an FBI sniper had shot and killed his wife Vicky as she stood in the door of the cabin holding her 10-month-old baby. Almost immediately, the agents declared a hostage situation,
and a massive paramilitary buildup began, which eventually encompassed more than 400 heavily armed agents, including most of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team, as well as a large array of assault vehicles and weaponry.
Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up and Took His Family Down chronicles the U.S. Marshals Service's elaborate, multi-million-dollar 18-month surveillance of Weaver, an Idaho backwoods resident known as a white separatist, indicted on a minor firearms charge many claim was a government act of hatred and blackmail. The resultant 11-day standoff in Weaver's small family cabin and the paramilitary attack that ensued are described through graphic and closely documented accounts, from the details surrounding the initial siege to the shoot-to-kill orders issued by the FBI.
Through court transcripts, private testimonies, and interviews with insiders, local residents, and friends of the Weaver family, journalist Alan Bock debunks the myth that government agencies are beyond the realm of entrapment, cover-ups, and even the killing of innocent people. He overturns the hypocrisies and contradictions of the FBI, and takes you straight to the scene ¾ first, to the tragedy of Ruby Ridge, then to the colorful neo-Nazi- and protester-filled roadblock, and finally to the courtroom, where prosecutors and flamboyant defense attorney Gerry Spence go head to head!
But beyond being a shocking account of bizarre circumstances, Ambush at Ruby Ridge challenges the personal and political implications of one of the most notorious trials in Idaho's history. Maybe if the ambush on David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, hadn't happened as the Weaver trial was underway, the events at Ruby Ridge might be viewed as a regional tale of government bungling with tragic results. But Waco did happen, causing many Americans
to ask hard and fundamental questions about what the United States government has become. Unlike the aftermath of Waco, the government may actually be held accountable for what it did at Ruby Ridge.
Author Alan W. Bock is a syndicated columnist and the senior columnist for the editorial page of the Orange
County Register. A former radio talk-show host, Bock has contributed articles to Reason, National Review, and Harvard Business Review.
1995, 6 x 9, 336 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
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