Video: 'Discovery Times: Ruby Ridge 2/5' (Aug. 21, 1992 at 1:56)

(Friday, August 21, 1992) — An 11-day siege began today at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns. In the resulting shootout, Weaver’s teenage son, Samuel, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed.