The following podcast contains explicit language.

On August 23, 1992, the Weaver family cabin on a remote hilltop in Idaho was filled with grief, pain, and fear.

Over the previous two days, the Weaver's only son, 14-year-old Sammy, had been killed in an exchange of gunfire with a team of U.S. Marshals.

Sammy's mother, Vicky, had been shot dead by an FBI sniper.

Family friend Kevin Harris had been shot in the chest.

He was drifting in and out of consciousness.

And Randy Weaver, the fugitive the government

was after, had taken a bullet in the arm. Ten-month-old Aliciaba needed care. The two older

daughters needed comfort, and their mother's body was wrapped in a blanket by the kitchen table.

Meanwhile, just outside the Weaver property, a different kind of fervor was building at the

barriers police set up to block access to the Weaver House.

Protesters have gathered as a roadblock about three miles from the Weaver's cabin,

and whenever vehicles go by, the supporters let their outrage show.

You're a disgrace to the white race! Disgrace to the race!

In addition now to worrying about Randy Weaver's wife,

teenage children, and newborn baby in the cabin,

federal agents now must worry how these local residents will react if there is violence on the mountain.

The protesters who arrived at the police roadblock included friends and neighbors of the Weavers, including Tony and Jackie Brown, who we heard from in our last episode.

He wants to be left alone. He wants to be a separatist. They're creating the problem.

Any blood gets shed. It's on their hands, not his. Alongside Randy's friends were dozens of other

protesters, and that crowd grew by the day. They were a rag-tag group, and they weren't all there

for the same reasons. They included skinheads and neo-Nazis,

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