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>> daylight comes and we were getting ready to make the bust. all of a sudden i hear this commotion. >> as it happened, mathews walked out just before the raid was to take place. >> i don't know what he saw, but something spooked him. >> and he jumped and ran. >> mathews ran down the stairway and takes off and runs across the parking lot. didn't have a chance to get to his car. he was on foot and he was boogying. -- booking. in the meantime, i could hear noise coming from the back. i ran to the back window and i look out, there's yarborough hanging from a wind sill. as soon as he hits the grou...

Matthews run down the street. so we start chasing after him. two other agents were in front of us chasing after mathews. and mathews turned inside this house and waiting at the corner. waiting for the first guy to come across. as soon as that first agent came around the corner, he spotted matthews and he went into a slide like they do in baseball. when he did, matthews opens up on him with a .45. the bullet went through his foot. >> the next pursuing agent with a shotgun fired back at matthews and only hit his hand. matthews' hand looked like a cartoon thing where you hold your hand up and you...

Directions. they scattered like cockroaches and we had hundreds of agents working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. >> they couldn't even plan to do a criminal act. they were just planning out how to stay out of our grasp. we were right behind them. >> when mathews burned up, they were looking for a leader. bob was dead and he was the absolute iron fisted leader. he made the decisions. he was gone. >> they not only lost their motivational leader but their operational leader. they became a group of fugitives scattered across the country and had to fend for themselves until we ran them down. >>...

Puget sound in washington. when i got to the whitby island, it was december 7, 1984. and i didn't know this, but on november the 25th, bob matthews had pulled all of his people together into their hideouts at whitby island and he drafted a letter to the united states congress, and it was a declaration of war. so bob mathews was committed to fight to the end. but so were we. >> they were staying in two different houses. the houses were approached. people in one house all surrendered. when they approached mathews' house, matthews was given an opportunity to surrender. refused to do so. >> come o...

And i'm playing catchup. i'm sitting here trying to put all this together and robert matthews decides it's time to strike out against the jews. they came together and said who are our greatest jewish influenced enemies. and the names came up like norman leer, a prominent producer of some comedy shows. and morris deese, the head of the southern poverty law center. and then they looked at a man named alan berg. alan berg was a very prominent personality in denver, colorado and becoming a very prominent personality kind of throughout the country because he had his own radio show that was widely b...