{"id":85937,"date":"2025-08-21T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85937\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:47:07","slug":"today-in-history-august-22-when-bank-robbery-failed-he-got-the-money-he-needed-from-a-hollywood-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85937\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History &#8211; August 22: When bank robbery failed, he got the money he needed from a Hollywood studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weaver, his daughters and a friend holed up in the family&#8217;s cabin for 11 days before surrendering on August 31, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Later he was acquitted of the most serious charges against him. He and his three daughters filed a wrongful death lawsuit, and the government paid them $US3.1 million in 1995.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Just months later federal agents laid siege to the Waco, Texas, compound of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect. <\/p>\n<p>An assault was launched, and a fire destroyed the compound and killed more than 70 people.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weaver, his daughters and a friend holed up in the family&#8217;s cabin for 11 days before surrendering on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-85937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}