Episode 2: The Bomb

Bundyville: The Remnant

Oregon Public Broadcasting

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4.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Dig into Cliven Bundy’s past and find out where his determination to dismantle the federal government began. It’s a story that takes us back to the government’s nuclear test program in the 1950s — imagine bombs in the Nevada desert — and culminates with Timothy McVeigh blowing up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Along the way, the family patriarch becomes more emboldened to fight back against a government he believes is out to get him.

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0:00.0	Clive and Buny is a folk hero.
0:03.7	He's the Nevada rancher who sparked a tense standoff
0:06.7	against federal agents over grazing rights.
0:09.5	These guys are not terrorists, OK?
0:12.0	They have agreements.
0:13.1	I just spent 700 days in their jam jail.
0:21.0	If you paid attention to the bunkerville standoff in 2014,
0:24.6	and then followed that story through the Oregon occupation
0:27.4	two years later, you probably
0:29.4	think you pretty much know the Bundy story.
0:33.8	I know I came into it thinking that this
0:35.6	was either a case of rural ignorance or libertarian
0:39.1	macho bullshit.
0:41.5	But it seemed odd that Clive and Bundy would just all of a sudden
0:44.7	decide that the federal government can't own land,
0:48.1	and that he was going to stop paying his grazing fees
0:50.4	in protest.
0:51.9	Where'd that idea even come from?
0:55.2	Clive and Bundy is the central figure in this whole saga.
0:58.9	Without him, there wouldn't have been a bunkerville standoff.
1:02.4	If he hadn't convinced so many people to follow him,
1:05.3	there wouldn't have been an Oregon occupation.
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