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 goes around, comes around". McVeigh later considered putting aside his plan to target the Murrah Building to target Horiuchi or a member of his family instead. McVeigh became a fixture on the gun show circuit, traveling to forty states and visiting about eighty gun shows. McVeigh found that the further west he went, the more anti-government sentiment he encountered, at least until he got to what he called "The People's Socialist Republic of California." McVeigh sold survival items and copies of "The Turner Diaries". One author said: McVeigh had a road atlas with hand-drawn designations of the most likely places