SECRET RULERS OF THE WORLD - THE LEGEND OF RUBY RIDGE [FULL DOCUMENTARY] (PART 1 OF 5)

Jon Ronson meets with Randy Weaver and daughter Rachel, two of the surviving members of the Weaver family. The episode describes the life of a family who claim to have moved to a cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, to live peacefully, and escape what they saw as the tyrannical elite of international bankers bent on enslaving the world. Ronson explains how the Weaver family’s conspiracy theories became a shocking tragedy when United States federal agents shot and killed 14 year-old Sammy Weaver, Vicki Weaver, their dog, and shot and wounded Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris, whom the Weaver family considered their son. Vicki Weaver was holding her 10-month-old baby Elisheba at the time she was shot and killed. Ronson explores the unsympathetic media response to the killings and how this incident might have influenced the siege at Waco the following year, the Oklahoma City bombing two years after that, and the simultaneous growth of right-wing militia movements.