Today, February 28th, is a day which holds seldom noted historical significance regarding both the Ruby Ridge and Waco Branch Davidian massacres perpetrated by the U.S. federal government.
The Ruby Ridge massacre occurred on August 21, 1992. What's not widely known about this date is that seven and a half years earlier, on February 28, 1985, "Randy and Vicki Weaver filed an affidavit with the county courthouse alleging that their personal enemies were plotting to provoke the FBI into attacking and killing the Weaver family." [Jess Walter, Ruby Ridge, ReganBooks, HarperCollins, 2002, pp.63-65.
While the Waco, Texas Branch Davidian tragedy is commonly referenced to have occurred on April 19, 1993, it actually began on February 28, 1993, when the ATF raided the Mount Carmel compound resulting in the deaths of 4 ATF agents and 6 Branch Davidians and wounding of 16 ATF agents. [See THE FBI A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE GUIDE
I visted the Mount Carmel property in 2008, 15 years later.
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