Highway to ‘Almost Heaven’
1992: Bo Gritz negotiates with separatist Randy Weaver on Ruby Ridge, Idaho, talking Weaver into surrendering to federal law officers. He receives more than 10,000 votes for president from Idaho in the November elections.
* 1994: Gritz and associates purchase land near Kamiah, Idaho, to establish a “Constitutional Covenant Community.”
* August 1994: He tells 700 residents at a meeting that he is not establishing an armed camp.
* September 1997: Some 100 people, including Gritz, are said to be living in the development.
* Sept. 20, 1998: Despondent over the end of his marriage, Gritz shoots himself in the chest near Orofino, Idaho. Released from hospital two days later.
* October 1998: Gritz moves back to Sandy Valley, Nev.
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