This week Amanda and Lauren discuss Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Sources:

• FBI History: “Oklahoma City Bombing”
• British Medical Journal: “The Execution of Timothy McVeigh: Must See TV?” by Stuart WG Derbyshire
• CNN: “Terror on Trial: Who was Timothy McVeigh?” by Court TV
• PBS: “Factual Chronology” by Amber McLaughlin, Bob Wyatt, and Stephen Jones
• The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum: “Trials of the Perpetrators”
• The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum: “Legislation”
• Famous Trials: “The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Trial of Timothy McVeigh: A Chronology”
• CNN: “What does the term ‘incel’ mean?” by AJ Willingham
• Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin
• PBS: American Experience: Oklahoma City
• Two Minutes Past Nine podcast
• Wikipedia

This week Amanda and Lauren discuss David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the road to the Waco siege.

Sources:

• The New Yorker: “The Children of Waco” by Peter J. Boyer
• NPR: “30 Years after the siege, ‘Waco’ examines what led to the catastrophe” by Dave Davies
• Vox: “The Waco tragedy, explained” by Tara Isabella Burton
• Texas Monthly: “The Enemy Within” by Gary Cartwright
• People: “What Was the Waco Siege? Revisiting the 51-Day Standoff and Fire that Killed Nearly 80 Cult Members” by Emily Blackwood
• ATF website: “Remembering Waco”
• Department of Justice: “Report to the Deputy Attorney General on the Events at Waco, Texas
• Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias by Kevin Cook
• Netflix documentary series: Waco: American Apocalypse
• Wikipedia

This week Amanda and Lauren discuss Ruby Ridge. The 11 day siege between Randy Weaver, his family, and federal agents in the Idaho mountains.

Sources:

• Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family by Jess Walter
• American Experience on PBS: “Ruby Ridge”
• Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge? By Slate Podcasts
• Wikipedia