This is the story of Bo Gritz, the controversial and bloodthirsty real-life soldier who inspired Sylvester Stallone's Rambo.

In August 1992, federal agents called retired Green Beret Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz from a deadly siege at a small cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. They needed his help. The agents had already shot ...

A documentary about James 'Bo' Gritz, who claimed to be the real Rambo, makes you wish it were a real movie. But it captures how Gritz anticipated the insanity of today. The closing credits of a ...

On Sept. 11, Claudia Jean Gritz, 40, filed for divorce from her husband of 24 years, James “Bo” Gritz, 59, an ex-Special Forces commander who, with 62 citations for valor, was our most ...

Bo Gritz is long gone from Idaho. But he isn’t forgotten. The conspiracy theorist, who fancies himself as the inspiration for “Rambo,” deserves credit for talking Randy Weaver from his Ruby ...

Ex-Green Beret/radio talk show host James Bo Gritz sitting on site of future refuge for covenant communities of Christian patriots nr. Kamiah, ID. (Photo by John Storey/Getty Images) A highly ...

OROFINO, Idaho James “Bo” Gritz, a former Green Beret colonel and right-wing leader of the so-called Patriot Movement, is in an Idaho hospital with “an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound ...

James “Bo” Gritz, a former Green Beret colonel and right-wing leader of the so-called Patriot Movement, was hospitalized in Idaho with a gunshot wound. No one but Gritz was believed to be ...

Jurors in the trial of James G. “Bo” Gritz and Sheldon Robinson were suddenly escorted out of the courtroom Thursday as a deputy sheriff served a subpoena to Gritz’s wife, Judy. The subpoena ...

The government called in former Special Forces officer Col. Bo Gritz to negotiate Weaver's surrender to authorities. Gritz entered the Weaver compound at around 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28 ...

A paperwork mistake caused court officials Thursday to believe that James R. Gritz, who with his father James G. “Bo” Gritz was arrested in 1996 and charged with conspiring to kidnap two ...