Randy Weaver on fire. This visit was documented by British journalist Jon Ronson in an episode of his five-part documentary, "Secret Rulers of the World" titled "The Legend of Ruby Ridge" and his book "". Timothy McVeigh, who was convicted of killing 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, cited the Ruby Ridge incident as a contributing factor in his decision to attack the United States federal government. Randy Weaver and the Siege at Ruby Ridge have been the focus of several documentaries. On June 18, 2007 Weaver participated in a press conference with tax protesters Edward and Elaine Brown
Timothy McVeigh Methodist University who was writing for the school paper. McVeigh expressed his objections over what was happening there. McVeigh frequently quoted and alluded to the white supremacist novel "The Turner Diaries"; he claimed to appreciate its interest in firearms. Photocopies of pages sixty-one and sixty-two of "The Turner Diaries" were found in an envelope inside McVeigh's car. These pages depicted a fictitious mortar attack upon the U.S. Capitol in Washington. In a 1,200-word essay dated March 1998, from the federal maximum-security prison at Florence, Colorado, McVeigh claimed that the terrorist bombing was "morally equivalent" to U.S. military actions against Iraq