21. Branch Davidians OR (waco AND Koresh) - Books, Journals, Articles @ The Questia branch davidians Lose Appeal to Escape Prison for (waco) Role federal officersand branch davidians, a Christian religious cult headed by David Koresh, http://www.questia.com/search/branch davidians OR (waco AND koresh)

Questia The World's Largest Online Library Primary Navigation Skip Home Page Search Page Read Page ... Subscribe Page Secondary Navigation Skip About Questia Subscribe Requirements ... Login Search the Library: Advanced Search Put exact phrases in quotes Search within Results by media type: Books Journals Magazines Newspapers Encyclopedia Research Topics We searched for: (branch AND davidians OR (waco AND koresh)) we found: results by media type: books: journal articles: magazine articles: newspaper articles: encyclopedia articles: Research Topics on: branch davidians OR (waco AND koresh) List All Research Topics Waco Standoff books on: branch davidians OR (waco AND koresh) - 242 results More book Results: A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story Book by David Thibodeau Leon Whiteson ; PublicAffairs, 1999 Subjects: Branch DavidiansBiography Koresh, David1959-1993 Thibodeau, David Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993 ...Leon Whiteson p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-89 1620-42-8 hc . 1. Thibodeau, David. 2. Branch Davidians Biography. 3. Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993. 4.

22. Branch Davidians - Books, Journals, Articles @ The Questia Online Library Ruby Ridge, Idaho in 1992, the branch davidians in (waco), Texas in 1993, and branch davidians, a Christian religious cult headed by David Koresh, http://www.questia.com/search/branch-davidians

Questia The World's Largest Online Library Primary Navigation Skip Home Page Search Page Read Page ... Subscribe Page Secondary Navigation Skip About Questia Subscribe Requirements ... Login Search the Library: Advanced Search Put exact phrases in quotes Search within Results by media type: Books Journals Magazines Newspapers Encyclopedia Research Topics We searched for: branch AND davidians we found: results by media type: books: journal articles: magazine articles: newspaper articles: encyclopedia articles: Research Topics on: branch davidians List All Research Topics Waco Standoff books on: branch davidians - 177 results More book Results: A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story Book by David Thibodeau Leon Whiteson ; PublicAffairs, 1999 Subjects: Branch DavidiansBiography Koresh, David1959-1993 Thibodeau, David Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993 ...Thibodeau, David. 2. Branch Davidians Biography. 3. Waco...students of the Bible. " Branch Davidians ," the name by which...and dancing. But the Davidians paid their bills on...the Living Waters Branch , based on a revelation...

23. Why "WACO"...Who Feared "the Davidian SDA Cult"? use the words “religion” than “cult,” and “church center” than “compound.”Yes, the branch davidians had some strange beliefs, but no weirder than those http://csda.us/whywaco.html

"Keeping the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus" "YAH is Our Righteousness" Why "WACO"... Who Feared "the Davidian cult"? Information from "Pilgrim's Rest" Vance Ferrell Reporting "The February 28, 1993 Waco shoot-out followed an eight-month investigation by the ATF and the Waco Tribune-Herald . We now know that Shirley Burton of the General Conference was instrumental in getting the investigation started. The following is taken from a book being prepared here:" The Davidians of Waco , by Vance Ferrell] WARNINGS FROM THE GENERAL CONFERENCE Shirley Burton, Director of Communications for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, says that, the early spring of 1992, she warned government authorities that something terrible was going to happen at the Waco compound. She told them to go there and do something. Here are two reports, both of which originated in her office: "February, March, and April, 1982: Wild rumors began to circulate in the media in California and Australia. I began soliciting and accumulating information on the group after a panic call very early the Saturday morning before Easter Sunday. Australian media had reported that Howell/Koresh/Jezreel had called for a suicide/martyrdom on Easter morning as a supreme sacrifice to God. Media exposure and law enforcement awareness seemed to have thwarted the plans. There was no apparent news of them thereafter." Shirley Burton

24. An Apology -- Chapter 10d near (waco) between federal officers and a religious cult headed by David Yes, the branch davidians had some strange beliefs, but no weirder than http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Publications/UC-Apology/UC-Apology-1

Mind Control Junk Science There is a Cain and Abel division over the topic of "mind control" or "brainwashing" in regard to new religious movements. Hassan, Singer and Lifton are the Cain side speaking for Satan. Bierman does a very good job critiquing them by quoting distinguished scholars who refute the paranoid, hysterical and irresponsible junk from "anti-cultists." In fact, the garbage Hassan and company write is called "Junk Science." The result of the Singer and Ross's denunciation of non-conformist small religious organizations is to spread needless fear to the average person. They are evil leaders who cause more harm than good. We are supposed to live by the rule of law. We need good laws and good justice. If any person or group violates a good law, then they should be taken to court, expose their illegal activities and jailed. Criminals and evil organizations like the Mafia should be punished for forcing people to pay them for "protection." If Hassan and crowd can find something illegal about any person or organization, then they should take that person or organization to court. In the case of Sun Myung Moon, they riled up the government to take him to court and they influenced the media to bias people to hate him so the jury and judge sent an innocent man to jail. Carlton Sherwood's book clearly shows the travesty of the legal persecution in that case. Will Hassan acknowledge this? No. They are so filled with hate and prejudice they cannot see the obvious truth that Moon and his church are law-abiding, patriotic and moral people. Hassan and company have go on national tv and whip up people to become emotional over non-conformists. They can't find anything illegal, so they cross a line and harass people who should have the freedom to worship anything from trees or some guy who says he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Hassan and crowd are evil busybodies who hurt people. Maybe there wouldn't have been a Jonestown if people like Congressman Ryan had left them alone. People get scared when the government shows up at their door. It is intellectually sloppy and morally wrong to then condemn practically every small religion there is because one nut case like Jim Jones and his stupid followers flip out.

25. Why Waco? Why (waco)?, written by two professors of religious studies, addresses the Perhaps we should ask who were the true cult followers the branch davidians, http://www.mcgath.com/whywaco.html

James D. Tabor and Eugene V. Gallagher Why Waco? University of California Press, 1995 ISBN 0-520-20186-8 252 pages Reviewed by Gary McGath On April 19, 1993, I picked up a newspaper on my way to a dentist's appointment. On the front page was a picture of the burning Branch Davidian compound, the climax of the FBI's two-month siege. When I expressed my horror to my dentist, he said dismissively, "It was a cult." This reaction, I would soon learn, was widespread. Why Waco? , written by two professors of religious studies, addresses the way people reacted to the Branch Davidians, both before and after the fatal confrontation. While it condemns the government's actions as "inexcusable," it is not primarily an analysis of those acts, but rather a study in the age-old phenomenon of hostility to people who think differently from the mainstream. The book covers the history and ideas of the Mount Carmel community in considerable detail. This portion is thorough to the point of boredom; after all, the particulars of their religion have no bearing on whether the government acted rightly or wrongly. But the authors' purpose is to break down the "cult" stereotype. In the view of some, Koresh had charismatic powers which allowed him to lead his followers blindly in spite of anything they had believed before. The authors show that Koresh's claims, bizarre as they were, were part of the development of a religious community, a faction of the Seventh-Day Adventists, that long predated his rise to prominence in it. Some of the people living in the Waco property had been there since the 1950's.

26. Branch Davidian - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (Redirected from (waco) massacre). The branch davidians are a religious group His sect was said by some to be a cult for its authoritarian structure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_massacre

Branch Davidian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Waco massacre The neutrality of this article is disputed Please see discussion on the talk page The Branch Davidians are a religious group originating from the Seventh-day Adventist church. They are best known because of the siege of the Branch Davidian building near Waco, Texas , by federal agents , which ended in the deaths of eighty of the church's members, including head figure David Koresh and two full-term infants spontaneously delivered as their mothers perished in the flames. Church members did not describe themselves as Branch Davidians. Contents History BATF raid and siege Prelude The raid ... edit History In Victor Houteff , a Bulgarian immigrant, claimed that he had a new message for the SDA church . It was submitted in the form of a book entitled "The Shepherd's Rod". His claims were not accepted and were considered schismatic by the leadership because he pointed out what he saw as their departures from basic church teachings and standards. Therefore, he was disfellowshipped from the church. Because of this, he said he formed the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists out of necessity. The term "Davidian" refers to the restoration of the Davidic kingdom, while "Branch" refers to the new name of Christ. In

27. STATEMENT DD025 THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS On February 28, 1993 At The branch Davidian cult proved to be an extremely destructive group when (waco) TribuneHerald, 1/17/88 p. 8A / Confirmed by ex-branch Davidian member http://www.equip.org/free/DD025.htm

STATEMENT THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS How It All Began The way David Koresh’s cult came into existence is a long and sometimes complicated story. It began with a man named Victor Houteff, who in 1929/30 was disfellowshipped from a Los Angeles Seventh-day Adventist church for sharing “divergent views” with other church members. Houteff, a self-proclaimed messenger of God, responded to the expulsion by crystallizing his “divergent views” and presenting them to the public in The Shepherd’s Rod Vol. 1 (published in 1930) and The Shepherd’s Rod Vol. 2 (published in 1932). The purpose of Houteff’s first book was “to reveal the truth of the 144,000 mentioned in Revelation 7” and “bring about a reformation among God’s people.” He described his second volume as “a complete symbolic revelation of the entire world’s history, both civil and religious.” These two works served as the basis of Houteff’s theology, hence, the original name of his group — the Shepherd’s Rod Seventh-day Adventists. In 1935 Houteff led 12 of his followers to Mt. Carmel, Texas in order to set up what was suppose to be only a temporary gathering place for the 144,000, their ultimate destination being Palestine, where they believed they would not only direct the final work of the gospel prior to the second coming of Christ, but also assist in establishing the new Davidic kingdom. Although the Shepherd’s Rod tried for many years to remain affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventists, Houteff in 1942 decided to make a clean break from the mainline denomination by officially forming the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists Association “complete with membership certificates and ministerial credits.”

28. Waco 1993: David Koresh And The Branch Davidians: A Research Bibliography, By Lo Why (waco) ? cults and the battle for religious freedom in America . Eventssurrounding the branch Davidian cult standoff in (waco), Texas hearing before http://www.ambs.edu/LJohns/waco.htm

Purchase Book Waco 1993: David Koresh and the Branch Davidians A Research Bibliography by Loren L. Johns Return to Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary home page Return to Loren L. Johns home page Return to Apocalypse of John home page Videorecordings ... 17 Web Sites Web Sites The Koresh Package , by James D. Tabor , by Carol A. Valentine Messiah , by Cyrus Productions The Seven Seals of Revelation , Book 1, by Hidden Manna The Branch Davidians , by Kimberley Post The Seven Seals of Revelation , Book 2, by Hidden Manna The Branch Davidians , by Religious Tolerance Waco Update , by David Thibodeau Introduction to the Branch Davidians , by John Mann Issop’s David Koresh Memorial “Final Report to the Deputy Attorney General Concerning the 1993 Confrontation at the Mt. Carmel Complex, Waco, Texas,” by John C. Danforth The Dallas News Archives http://www.cesnur.org Public Action Carol Moore ... The Public Eye Videorecordings [50-min videorecording Attack at Waco [50-min. videorecording ]. Segment of “American Justice Series.” New York [50-min.

29. Waco: A New Revelation, Reviewed By Gavin Phillips [Free Republic] The official version was that an insane religious cult, led by a sexual During that initial shootout, four ATF agents and six branch davidians were http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a388175d5194e.htm

FreeRepublic .com "A Conservative News Forum" Last ... News/Current Events Opinion Keywords: WACO,MCNULTY, DOCUMENTARY Source: Waco: A New Revelation Published: Author: Gavin Phillips Posted on 01/15/2000 23:40:05 PST by "Waco: A New Revelation" Reviewed by Gavin Phillips Please Distribute Waco: A New Revelation (110 minutes) is Michael McNulty's follow-up documentary to his previous academy award nominated documentary, Waco: The Rules of Engagement . I was fortunate enough to catch Waco: The Rules of Engagement in it's very limited movie theater distribution. Although overlong by at least half an hour in my opinion, the documentary was a devastating indictment of the ATF/FBI handling of the 51 day siege at Mount Carmel, the home of the Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas. Most Americans, myself included, paid little attention to the seemingly never ending standoff between the Branch Davidians and federal agents. When the place burned to the ground on April 19, 1993, I still wasn't paying attention. The official version was that an insane religious cult, led by a sexual deviant and stone cold killer, David Koresh, had "ambushed" ATF agents whilst they attempted to serve a search warrant. During that initial shootout, four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians were killed. Koresh and his crazy followers brought it upon themselves, right? I couldn't be more wrong. The official version of events was rammed down our throats day in and day out by the mainstream media. Buzzwords were repeated ad-nauseum, Cult, Pedophile, Compound, Religions that Kill, Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Sociopath. We were being conditioned by the government via the jingoistic mainstream media into a Pavlovian response to any mention of "The Wacko in Waco," that was of course that he was the heir apparent to Charlie Manson. It is a lie, as is 99% of everything else the government has told us about the events at Waco. It is a prerequisite to justifying genocide to demonize the group targeted for extinction. The Nazi's did it to the Jews. Our government did it to the Branch Davidians in 1993.

30. Topic: Waco more inclined to use the words religion than cult, and church center than compound. Where Does (waco) and the branch davidians Fit Into the http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/t1000228.htm

Topic: Waco Summary of Waco events various sources in 1993 mid/late 1993 pjd This is a summary of events surrounding the Waco tragedy, exerpted from a thread on Compuserve back in 1993. I've included it here because because it was produced when the events were still relatively fresh, and it appears that we have forgotten a lot. Web Posted: 04/21/99 06:13:12 PDT Posted by: pjd Remember Mt. Carmel Self April 1997 in 'Media By Pass' David Morningstar and Ada Coddington Unlike Anne Frank, These kids did not keep diaries Web Posted: 04/18/99 18:09:40 PDT Posted by: Ada Coddington Putting a Human Face on the FBI CNN April 16, 1999 unknown Agent who led arrest of McVeigh tries to put human face on FBI Web Posted: 04/18/99 04:14:53 PDT Posted by: Ada Coddington Relating to a Mother's Feelings, by Tim Kern Web Posted: 04/11/99 12:45:07 PDT Posted by: spiker Waco on HBo batched raid 'The Rules of Engagement' Konformist April 5,1999 a must see for every American please pass along. Web Posted: 04/05/99 10:44:10 PDT Posted by: lvmyfrdm Killing the Messenger The Konformist [konformist.com]

31. Six-year Cover-up Cracks FBI Admits Use Of Incendiary Grenades At Waco members of the religious cult dead and many other davidians wounded, includingKoresh. In Texas the cause of the branch davidians has been taken up, http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/aug1999/wac1-a27.shtml

Enter email address to receive news about the WSWS Add Remove SEARCH WSWS English German ON THE WSWS Donate to the WSWS! Contact the WSWS ... Books Online OTHER LANGUAGES German French Italian Russian ... Indonesian LEAFLETS Download in PDF format WSWS North America Six-year cover-up cracks FBI admits use of incendiary grenades at Waco By Martin McLaughlin 27 August 1999 Use this version to print Officials of the FBI and Justice Department admitted Wednesday that tear gas grenades with potentially incendiary effect were used in the final assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas six years ago. The fire that erupted in the compound killed 80 members of the religious sect. The admission marked an abrupt reversal after more than six years of adamant claims by officials from Attorney General Janet Reno on down that nothing done by the FBI and other federal agencies involved in the Waco siege could have caused the fire. With six years of systematic lying by federal agents now exposed, there is no reason to believe the new claims by Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh that the tear gas grenades which FBI agents used on the morning of April 19, 1993 could not have caused the fire. They said that the grenades were fired only against a concrete bunker some distance from the main buildings in the compound, some six hours before the fatal blaze erupted. But as late as Monday, the FBI was denying that any grenades were fired at all. Another and potentially even more damaging revelation about Waco appeared in the

32. Cults Pathfinder The almost 80 branch davidians who died in (waco) in 1992 and the more than 900individuals from Does the anticult movement threaten religious freedom? http://faculty.valenciacc.edu/ckatz/pathfinders/Cults.htm

Cults Pathfinder August 2004 Valencia West Campus Library Tutorial Series Subject Pathfinders West Campus Library Home Page Tutorial Series SCOPE: I n late March of 1997, 39 cult members of the Heavens Gate cult committed suicide in a supposed attempt to link up with a UFO they believed to be following the comet Hale-Bopp. The almost 80 Branch Davidians who died in Waco in 1992 and the more than 900 individuals from the Peoples Temple who died in Guyana in 1978 are just some of the examples of cult members following their leaders to their death. While the tragedy of these cults suggests to some that society has an obligation to respond to cults, others believe cult members have the right to do whatever they freely choose. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The following sources will allow you to become more familiar with your topic, will give you ideas for narrowing your topic, and will serve as a starting point for your further research. SPEECH TABLE ITEMS CQ Researcher Issues Cults in America 1993 p. 385+

33. Branch Davidians :: On This Day 1993: Waco Cult Siege Ends With Inferno Religion news about branch davidians, religious cults, sects and world religions,for cult experts and other researchers. http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6847

@import "/quicksub.css"; ReligionNewsBlog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Home News Tracker Archives About RNB ... Contact RNB Our sites: Apologetics Index Religion News Blog Cult FAQ ApoloTalk Grace and Mercy HouseChurch.nl ... Advanced Search [Branch Davidians] On This Day 1993: Waco cult siege ends with inferno BBC, UK Apr. 19, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk Branch Davidians ReligionNewsBlog.com At least 70 people are feared to have died in a fire at the besieged headquarters of the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Texas. The fate of the cult 's leader, David Koresh, is still unknown. The White House said the blaze had been started deliberately by those inside after the FBI began a dawn assault. In Context Approximately 77 cult members, including David Koresh, died in the fire. Some cult members, including David Koresh, were found to have died of gunshot wounds. In January 1994 11 surviving Branch Davidians were put on trial. They were all cleared of the most serious charges relating to the deaths of the four government agents. Five were convicted on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.

34. FINAL WORD ON WACO A heavily armed religious cult, the branch Dividians, was surrounded by start the fire that consumed the (waco) compound or shoot at the branch davidians; http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2000/07/000724-waco1.htm

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35. Waco Branch Davidians: Is Your Church BATF Approved? The branch davidians are most often characterized as a dangerous cult group, The (waco) debacle in 1993, involving David Koresh, the branch davidians, http://hushmoney.org/Waco_Branch_Davidians.htm

Is Your Church BATF Approved? A Review of the Government Assault on the Waco Branch Davidians Introduction: must David Koresh received the brunt of the blame for the incident, while BATF and FBI culpability has largely been ignored, if not deliberately avoided. Controversial "cult" figures are attractive targets for public ridicule, and dead cult leaders make for especially convenient subjects of scorn. No one is eager to defend an heretic, least of all me. Nevertheless, as the Ninth Commandment stipulates: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." (Exodus 20:16) Implicit in not being a false witness is the obligation to be a true witness. This is why before a witness takes the stand in court he must swear an oath to "tell the truth, the whole truth , and nothing but the truth." This is also why our criminal justice system requires that any exculpatory evidence that is known to law enforcement, or the prosecution, be disclosed, even where such disclosure would serve to exonerate the accused. Yet, I have often seen how the law enforcement system has deprived the accused of justice, not only through covering up exculpatory evidence, but even by outright fabrication of evidence and false testimony. Those who are tasked with enforcing the law have, all too commonly, exempted themselves from obeying the law. The Waco incident is a case study in false witness testimony. Few events in the history of U.S. federal law enforcement can match Waco for cover-ups, falsification, deception, fabrication, manipulation, subterfuge and obfuscation. The government, having so much to lose in terms of reputation, was chiefly responsible for instigating the

36. Dallas Morning News Waco Archive March 13, 1993 2 branch davidians leave compound, are detained; Action marksbreak in March 14, 1993 davidians in Missouri disavow (waco)area cult; http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/library/dallasmn.html

Dallas Morning News Waco Archives What it contains and what it leaves out In March, 1997, the Museum learned of a web page posted by the Dallas Morning News containing many of the stories they published during the 1993 Waco Holocaust. The archive is entitled The Siege in Waco The introduction to this archive reads as follows: This archive of stories includes nearly everything that was published on the standoff and related events between March 1 and April 20, 1993, when fire consumed the Davidian compound. Additional stories and photos will be added in the near future. As noted, the archive is not complete. At this writing (March 9, 1997), a number of articles and all of the photographs are missing. Unfortunately, some of the more notable exceptions, listed below, are essential to the Museum's story. April 21, 1993 : Dr. Rodney Crow's plan for recovering the Mt. Carmel remains April 21, 1993 : FBI partial list of Mt. Carmel residents April 22, 1993 : Cultist's lawyer criticizes Tarrant medical examiner April 22, 1993

37. Branch Davidians Tabor, James D. Why (waco)? cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom. in America . branch Davidian cult standoff in (waco), Texas. Washington GPO, 1995. http://science.gcc.edu/reli/kemeny/BranchDavidians.htm

Branch Davidians By Robert Love BOOKS Sources Pertaining to the Events in Waco Popular Primary Sources: Koresh, David. The Decoded Message of the Seven Seals of the Book of Revelation Green Forest, Arkansas: Stewart Waterhouse, 1993. Thibodeau, David. A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story . New York: PublicAffairs, Scholarly Secondary Sources: Cole, Michael D. The Siege at Waco: Deadly Inferno . Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, 1999. Davis, Derek H., and Barry Haskins. New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America . Waco, TX: J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and Baylor University Press, 2002. Docherty, Jayne Seminare. Learning Lessons From Waco: When the Parties Bring Their Gods to the Negotiation . Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2001. Faubion, James D. The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Haus, Cari Hoyt. In the Wake of Waco: Why Were Adventists Among the Victims Hagerstown, MD : Review and Herald Pub. Association, 1993. Kellaher, Karen Burns.

38. THE WACO MASSACRE THE (waco) MASSACRE. A religious group known as the branch davidians lived in theircompound they The man got the warning from parents of a cult member. http://www.pacinst.com/terrorists/chapter9/waco.html

CHAPTER 9 THE WACO MASSACRE An extremely important point to understand is that virtually everything the government and the news media said about these people were lies. Many so-called experts delivered testimony that caused the majority of people to believe the exact opposite of the truth. Because of these extensive lies, very few people know what the Branch Davidians were really like, and very few people know exactly what took place during the siege at Waco. The lies were told in order to try to justify in some impossible way what the government did there. The First Amendment to the Constitution says that the government shall make NO law pertaining to religion. The constitutional rights of the Branch Davidians were totally ignored. The murderers were guilty of the most heinous crimes, and they totally got away with it. The morning before Easter last year, Shirley Burton, spokeswoman for the Seventh-day Adventist church, said she got a terrifying phone call. On the line was a church official in Australia, relaying a warning that the next day, an explosion of violence would occur in a Waco, Texas, cult that included dozens of former Adventists. The man got the warning from parents of a cult member. There are many questions in the Waco tragedy that have never been answered. Why did Bill Clinton go to such extremes at Waco? There were problems at the Mount Carmel compound in 1987. There was a shoot out over the leadership of the Branch Davidians between David Koresh and his followers and George Roden and his followers. Seven Davidians, at that time, along with David Koresh, were arrested, indicted, and tried for attempted murder. According to the prosecutor in the case, McClennan County District Attorney Vic Feazell:

39. BBC News | Americas | Koresh And The Waco Siege David Koresh, the leader of the branch davidians in (waco), Texas, thought he was an The showdown between the government and the cult began on Sunday, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/431311.stm

Front Page World UK UK Politics ... Help Friday, August 27, 1999 Published at 05:52 GMT 06:52 UK World: Americas Koresh and the Waco siege The Waco compound: Home of the Branch Davidians By BBC News Online's Kevin Anderson in Washington David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, thought he was an angel and an agent of God. The government thought he was a gun-hoarding criminal who physically and sexually abused the several children he fathered with his followers. And although he died with almost 80 of his followers in a fire during an FBI assault on their compound six years ago, ongoing questions about the raid have given the charismatic religious leader immortality in the press. The prophet king Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell in Houston Texas in 1959. David Koresh: Charismatic leadership ended in disaster His childhood was difficult. He never knew his father and was raised by his grandparents. He suffered from dyslexia and the taunts of his schoolmates, and by the ninth grade, he dropped out of school. Despite being a poor student, he was keenly interested in the Bible, and by the age of 12 had memorised large parts of it.

40. NewsHole Stan s Mom was married to the leader of the branch davidians prior to a religious cult leader, and they lived on a commune the east of (waco), Texas. http://www.holecity.com/asp/tvhole.asp?issue=129&sec=7&hole=1

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