03863cam a2200313 i 4500 978114513 TxAuBib 20230913120000.0 220622s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022029634 9781648430985 cloth 1648430988 cloth TxAuBib rda Texas secessionists standoff : the 1997 Republic of Texas "War" / Donna Marie Miller ; foreword by Gary Noesner. First edition. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2023] ©2023. xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and index. Before the ROT War -- Jo Ann Canady Turner's Arrest, April 22, 1997 -- Jo Ann Canady's Childhood -- Bill Turner -- Foreclosure -- Richard Lance McLaren -- The Birth of the ROT Militia -- Jo Ann Canady Turner's Incarceration -- The ROT War -- The ROT Takes Hostages -- Day One: Standoff at the ROT Embassy -- Day Two: The Media Creates "Satellite City" -- Day Three: Texas Rangers Move Closer -- Day Four: Supporters Attempt to Join the Rebellion -- Day Five: The Texas Rangers Show Restraint -- Day Six: Robert Scheidt Surrenders -- Day Seven: The McLarens Surrender as Two ROT Members Escape -- Day Eight: Deactivating Explosives in the DMR -- Day Nine: Mike Matson Dies -- Day Ten: The Search for Richard Keyes Ends in the Mountains -- After the ROT War -- State Trial for the ROT, and the Worst of Times for the Turners -- The Turners Leave the Country at the End of the ROT's First Federal Trial -- The Turners Return as ROT Members Await Another Federal Trial -- The Turners Become Home Stagers and ROT Members Imprisoned -- Ninety-Nine Years Imprisonment for Richard Lance McLaren -- Kelly Turner's Murder -- The ROT Today. "On April 27, 1997, Richard Lance McLaren and his followers in the so-called "Republic of Texas (ROT)" militia held Joe and Margaret Ann Rowe hostage inside their own home at the Davis Mountain Resort, near Fort Davis, Texas, and demanded the release of two jailed ROT members Jo Ann Turner and Robert Jonathan Scheidt. McLaren's demand initiated a seven-day standoff with local law enforcement and the Texas Rangers that came to be called the "Republic of Texas War." Opening with a foreword by the FBI negotiator who served as an on-site consultant throughout the crisis, author Donna Marie Miller presents the first full-length book treatment of the events leading up to McLaren's "declaration of war" and its aftermath. The result is an absorbing account of manipulation by a leader as charismatic as he was deluded; of misinformed individuals motivated by desperation who aligned themselves with an extremist; and of law enforcement officials caught in the tension between their duty to protect the public and their desire to avoid a repeat standoff like those at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas. Central to the story is Jo Ann Turner, a frantic woman drowning in debt who was drawn into the false ideology espoused by McLaren, which eventually led to her personal undoing. Based on archival research and interviews with persons involved-including McLaren, who has been incarcerated since 1998-this riveting account provides a multifaceted perspective of the historical incident and a detailed chronicle of a modern American anti-government militia, its victims, and the events that led to its eventual downfall"-- Provided by publisher. 20230913. Secession Texas. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. TXLVP