TERROR IN OKLAHOMA CITY : White Supremacist Incidents

June, 1984: Denver talk show hose Alan Berg is killed by machine gun by persons linked to neo-Nazi Robert Mathews.

December, 1984: Robert Mathews dies in a fire started by FBI flares after a 35-hour standoff at a house on Whidbey Island near Seattle. He was accused of shooting an FBI agent.

April, 1985: Federal authorities, after a standoff, seize more than 100 weapons and arrest James Ellison and several members of the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord at a compound near the Arkansas-Missouri state line.

September, 1986: A group affiliated with Silent Brotherhood sets off a series of bombs in northern Idaho.

November, 1990: Skinheads allegedly incited by Tom Metzger”s White Aryan Resistance kill an Ethiopian immigrant in Portland, Ore. Two youths plead guilty, and Metzger is ordered to pay $12.5 million in damages.

June, 1991. Teenage members of teh Confederate Hammer Skins shot and kill a black man in Arlington, Tex. One defendant is placed on probation. The case leads to a state law strengthening penalties for hate crimes.

August, 1992: Randy Weaver holes up for 11 days with his three daughters and a friend in an Idaho cabin after his son, a federal agent and his wife are killed in gun battles. A devotee of the Christian Identity Movement, he is acquitted of murder but convicted of lesser charges.

May, 1993: Two men are arrested in an alleged plot by members of the White Aryan Religion to bomb a black housing project in Toledo, Ohio.

June, 1993: Christopher David Fisher and Carl Daniel Boese, members of the Fourth Reich Skinheads, are taped by federal investigators plotting to bomb the First AME Church in Los Angeles. The group of violent youths hoped to ignite a race war by targeting African Americans. The two were later convicted of conspiring to make and use bombs.

March 7, 1995: Three members of a white supremacist gang, who had allegedly fired shots at a car filled with four African Americans, are arrested in Lancaster, Calif. Community leaders called the incident the most serious of a rising number of hate crimes in the Antelope Valley.