April 21, 1985

After a three-day standoff, more than 300 law enforcement officers from federal, state, and local agencies surrounded Zarephath-Horeb, the compound of a military-style white supremacist organization known as the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) near Bull Shoals in Marion County, and seized weapons, ammunition, explosives, gold, and thirty gallons of potassium cyanide, which was intended to be used to poison the water supply of several large cities in order to expedite the coming of the second Messiah. The raid essentially ended the organization.