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From Ruby Ridge to Oklahoma City: The Radicalization of Timothy McVeigh
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The 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff didn't end on that Idaho mountain — it lit a fuse that reached Oklahoma City three years later. This episode traces the documented line from the Weaver siege, through the militia movement it ignited, to Timothy McVeigh's stated justification for mass murder.
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A hundred and sixty-eight people died in Oklahoma City on April nineteenth, nineteen ninety-five. Nineteen of them were children.
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