Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up and Took His Family Down

Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up and Took His Family Down

Ambush at Ruby Ridge chronicles the U.S. Marshal's Service 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 resulting 11-day standoff at Weaver's small family cabin and the paramilitary attack that ensued ended with the deaths of Weaver's 14 year old son and her wife, as well as a marshal.