What Happened at the Waco Siege? | History
Learn about the Waco Siege and how cult leader David Koresh lived as a polygamist among his Branch Davidian followers at the Mount Carmel Center. Discover the 51-day siege, which ended in a deadly FBI raid on April 19, 1993. #HistoryChannel
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Documentary: Waco
The Waco siege was a siege of a compound belonging to the religious group Branch Davidians by American federal and Texas state law enforcement and US military between February 28 and April 19, 1993.[4] The Branch Davidians, a sect that separated in 1955 from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was led by David Koresh and lived at Mount Carmel Center ranch in the community of Elk, Texas,[5][6][7] nine miles (14 kilometers) east-northeast of Waco. The group was suspected of weapons violations, causing a search and arrest warrant to be obtained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
The incident began when the ATF attempted to raid the ranch. An intense gun battle erupted, resulting in the deaths of four government agents and six Branch Davidians. Upon the ATF's failure to raid the compound, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the standoff lasting 51 days. Eventually, the FBI launched an assault and initiated a tear gas attack in an attempt to force the Branch Davidians out of the ranch. During the attack, a fire engulfed Mount Carmel Center. 76 people died,[8][9] including David Koresh.
Much dispute remains as to the actual events of the siege. A particular controversy ensued over the origin of the fire; a government investigation concluded in 2000 that sect members themselves had started the fire. The events near Waco, and the siege at Ruby Ridge less than 12 months earlier were both cited as the primary motivations behind the Oklahoma City bombing that took place exactly two years later.
Inside the 1993 shootout between federal agents, Branch Davidians: Part 4
Former follower Clive Doyle said that on Feb. 28, 1993, The minute David [Koresh] got shot, that is when people started retaliating.
Who were David Koresh and the Branch Davidians?: Part 1
Former followers describe their first impressions of Koresh and what restrictions he put on their lives once he took over the apocalyptic religious sect.
Remains of Davidian Compound from Siege of Waco (Mavic Pro 4K)
Flying over the Branch Davidian Compound near Waco, Texas.
One thing that I found interesting (and slightly concerning) was that the remaining Branch Davidian members that still live on the compound blame the government, not their former leader, David Koresh, for the bloodshed.
Historical facts:
The Waco siege was the siege of a compound belonging to the Branch Davidians, carried out by American federal and Texas state law enforcement, as well as the U.S. military, between February 28 and April 19, 1993. The Branch Davidians were led by David Koresh and were headquartered at Mount Carmel Center ranch in the community of Axtell, Texas, 13 miles (21 kilometers) east-northeast of Waco. Suspecting the group of stockpiling illegal weapons, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) obtained a search warrant for the compound and arrest warrants for Koresh and a select few of the group's members.
The incident began when the ATF attempted to raid the ranch. An intense gun battle erupted, resulting in the deaths of four government agents and six Branch Davidians. Upon the ATF's failure to raid the compound, a siege lasting 51 days was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Eventually, the FBI launched an assault and initiated a tear gas attack in an attempt to force the Branch Davidians out of the ranch. During the attack, a fire engulfed Mount Carmel Center. In total, 76 people died, including David Koresh (Source: Wikipedia).
WACO - Mount Carmel 20 yrs later Branch Davidian massacre site
Passing through Waco, Tx. we decided to check out the Branch Davidian grounds, where the Waco siege took place. It is a very peaceful, and beautiful piece of property. It's well worth the stop if your in the area.
Witness To Waco - MSNBC Documentary 2009 Cult David Koresh Branch Davidians (Rick Ross)
Rick Ross via CultEducation.com is a leading Cult Expert. Witness to Waco provides an in-depth look into the Branch Davidians, a religious cult led by David Koresh in the late 1980s and early 1990s that ultimately met with a tragic, fiery end.
Check out an in-depth look into the Branch Davidians, the religious cult, which came to a tragic and fiery end in Waco, TX.
Duration: 1:38
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 18 October 2009
Production Co: MSNBC Network, Sirens Media
Rick Alan Ross is a private consultant, lecturer, and cult intervention specialist. He began his work as an anti-cult activist and community organizer in 1982.
Ross first became concerned about controversial groups and movements in response to a radical religious group that had covertly targeted his grandmother’s nursing home. Since that time he has raised awareness about cults and facilitated more than five hundred interventions to rescue people from cultic situations.
Ross is one of the leading experts on cults in the world today.
He has consulted with the FBI, the BATF, and various other law enforcement agencies, as well as the governments of Israel and China, on the subject of cults. Ross has been qualified, accepted and testified as an expert court witness in eleven different states within the United States including US federal court. He has worked as an expert analyst for CBS News, CBC of Canada, and Nippon and Asahi in Japan.
Ross has lectured at more than 30 universities and colleges including the University of Chicago, Dickinson College, Carnegie Mellon, Baylor, Wuhan University of China, Assumption University of Thailand and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He has also been published within peer-reviewed academic journals on the topic of cults.
Regarding his cult intervention work Ross states that historically about 75 percent of the people that he conducts an intervention with decide to leave the group by the end of such an effort. He has done interventions across the United States and around the world. Ross did two successful interventions with the notorious Branch Davidians led by self-styled messiah David Koresh.
Ross has appeared in fourteen documentaries and has been interviewed and quoted in media all over the world.
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Crimes of the Century - Waco - S01E07 | Full Documentary | True Crime
The Waco siege was the siege of a compound belonging to the Branch Davidians, carried out by American federal and Texas state law enforcement, as well as the U.S. military, between February 28 and April 19, 1993. This documentary looks into the event.
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Waco Siege Rare Footage
Smuggled BATF Tape
Footage of federal agents boarding helicopters; agents flying and driving to Mt. Carmel; tanks and armored personnel carriers around the perimeter; Mt. Carmel burning.
At 35:38, the Branch Davidian Compound can be seen burning.
WACO siege - WikiVidi Documentary
The Waco siege was the siege of a compound belonging to the Branch Davidians, carried out by American federal and Texas state law enforcement, as well as the U.S. military, between February 28 and April 19, 1993. The Branch Davidians were led by David Koresh and were headquartered at Mount Carmel Center ranch in the community of Axtell, Texas, 13 miles east-northeast of Waco. Suspecting the group of stockpiling illegal weapons, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms obtained a search warrant for the compound and arrest warrants for Koresh and a select few of the group's members. The incident began when the ATF attempted to raid the ranch. An intense gun battle erupted, resulting in the deaths of four government agents and six Branch Davidians. Upon the ATF's failure to raid the compound, a siege lasting 51 days was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation . Eventually, the FBI launched an assault and initiated a tear gas attack in an attempt to force the Branch Davidia...
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Waco Tragedy: 16 Years Later
A visit to the Mount Carmel, Waco Texas property on May 26, 2008: Also: February 28: a day of infamy in the Ruby Ridge and Waco massacres
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Mt Carmel Memorial 1994 April 17 - Students Of The Seven Seals aka Branch Davidians who studied the Bible under David Koresh were murdered on April 19 1993 a bit northeast of Waco Texas. This is the first memorial to mourn those who left this earth between feb 28th 1993 and April 19 1993. Speakers - Ron Engleman - Ron Cole - Ken Fawcett - David Thibodeau
Some who survived the fiery end to the 51-day standoff at the Branch Davidians' Central Texas compou
(19 Apr 2013) HEADLINE: Davidian survivors mark 20th anniversary of raid
CAPTION: Some who survived the fiery end to the 51-day standoff at the Branch Davidians' Central Texas compound are to gather for a memorial service on the 20th anniversary of the fire. (April 19)
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Location - Date: WACO, Texas - April 2013
1. Various of gate to rebuild Branch Davidian compound
2. SOUNDBITE [ENGLISH] SUPER: CLIVE DOYLE, BRANCH DAVIDIAN MEMBER
We as branch davidians considered mount carmel like a halfway house on the way god's kingdom, a preparation place. that was all. it not was somewhere where we planned to lived forever. we were there just to learn.
3. Clive Doyle pointing to scale model of Branch Davidian compound
4. SOUNDBITE [ENGLISH] SUPER: CLIVE DOYLE, BRANCH DAVIDIAN MEMBER
What david would do is he go around different colleges and seminaries and he'd ask students well how much have you spent on your education. and he say give me two weeks and i'll teach more about the bible in those two weeks then you've learned in your whole life.
5. Scale model of Branch Davidian compound
6. UPSOUND SOUNDBITE [ENGLISH] SUPER: CLIVE DOYLE, BRANCH DAVIDIAN MEMBER
The only other survivor came out of the chapel but he came out and crawled over to this building at the foot of the water tower.
7. Med of rubble at former site of raid
8. SOUNDBITE [ENGLISH] SUPER: CLIVE DOYLE, BRANCH DAVIDIAN MEMBER
We didn't see ourselves as this crazy cult or a lot of things that were being said we didn't accept as true.
9. Wide of rubble at former site of raid
10. SOUNDBITE [ENGLISH] SUPER: CLIVE DOYLE, BRANCH DAVIDIAN MEMBER
Once the raid took place when they decided to come out there shooting and everything. when you see your leader shot at the front door, you see his father in law shot. you hear of people upstairs that are dead. there were people who reacted and shot back. we don't deny that. but there was no big ambush set when we heard somebody might be coming out.
11. Various of rubble at former site of raid
12. SOUNDBITE [ENGLISH] SUPER: CLIVE DOYLE, BRANCH DAVIDIAN MEMBER
I prayed God if you're gonna do a miracle you better do it quick because it's getting hot. at some point while i am doing that i can hear the people behind me and further into the building starting to scream. i recognize some of the voices who they were. And I guess that galvanized me to where i jumped up, stumble toward a hole in the wall. i guess i jumped out.
13. Various of memorial to those who died during the raid
14. SOUNDBITE [ENGLISH] SUPER: CLIVE DOYLE, BRANCH DAVIDIAN MEMBER
as I got out in the daylight I could feel my skin rolling off my hand. My jackets were melting and smoking all around me. as I hit the ground i looked behind me, saw the hole, it was a mass of flame. You couldn't see inside. It was just a mass of flame.
15. Various of memorial to those who died during the raid
STORYLINE:
Some who survived the fiery end to the 51-day standoff at the Branch Davidians' Central Texas compound are to gather for a memorial service on the 20th anniversary of the fire.
Survivors and others who see the events as an unwarranted government intrusion into personal and religious freedoms are to attend the service Friday at a Waco museum.
During the standoff, several women and children left the compound. But on April 19, nearly 80 sect members died when the compound burned after tear gas was fired into the building.
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Mark Herr & Jeanette Finicum takes us to the Branch Davidian compound today, near WACO, TX 4/14/19
GOVERNED V GOVERNING ALERT ~ Our search for answers to social stability and advancing our understanding of the historic struggle between the GVG, takes us to the Branch Davidian compound today, near WACO, TX.
It is the site of the 51-day seige and raid, on April 19, 1993, resulting in 4 Federal agents and 85 men, women, and children's deaths; and some speculate was the impetus for Timothy McVeigh's domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City, OK in April 1995 and the 1996 Anti-Terrorism Act.
We came here to learn for ourselves and hopefully hear from those who were there those fateful days and weeks. We met Heather Jones, now 35, who was just 9 years old at the time.
She was there...
This is her story...
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Day 51 - The True Story of Waco
On April 19, 1993 the government of United States murdered over 80 people at Mount Carmel Center in Waco TX, includng many women and children. The complex was set on fire by the ATF to destroy the evidence of their hideous crimes.
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The Waco siege was the siege of a compound belonging to the religious sect Branch Davidians, carried out by American federal and Texas state law enforcement, as well as the U.S. military, between February 28 and April 19, 1993. The Branch Davidians were led by David Koresh and were headquartered at Mount Carmel Center ranch in the community of Axtell, Texas, 13 miles east-northeast of Waco. Suspecting the group of stockpiling illegal weapons, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) obtained a search warrant for the compound and arrest warrants for Koresh and a select few of the group's members.
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WACO | ATF Version
An account of the WACO, Texas, Branch Davidian / David Koresh siege - as told by ATF Agents that were on site as events took place.
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a law enforcement agency within the United States’ Department of Justice.
The ATF mission is to protect American communities from violent criminals, the illegal use & trafficking of firearms, the illegal use & storage of explosives, acts of arson & bombings, & the illegal diversion of alcohol & tobacco products.
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A Waco Survivor Describes What Really Happened (1999)
The Waco siege was a siege of a compound belonging to the religious group Branch Davidians by American federal and Texas state law enforcement and US military between February 28 and April 19, 1993. About the book:
The Branch Davidians, a sect that separated in 1955 from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was led by David Koresh and lived at Mount Carmel Center ranch in the community of Elk, Texas,[5][6][7] nine miles (14 kilometers) east-northeast of Waco. The group was suspected of weapons violations, causing a search and arrest warrant to be obtained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
The incident began when the ATF attempted to raid the ranch. An intense gun battle erupted, resulting in the deaths of four government agents and six Branch Davidians. Upon the ATF's failure to raid the compound, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the standoff lasting 51 days. Eventually, the FBI launched an assault and initiated a tear gas attack in an attempt to force the Branch Davidians out of the ranch. During the attack, a fire engulfed Mount Carmel Center. 76 people died,[8][9] including David Koresh.
Much dispute remains as to the actual events of the siege. A particular controversy ensued over the origin of the fire; a government investigation concluded in 2000 that sect members themselves had started the fire. The events near Waco, and the siege at Ruby Ridge less than 12 months earlier were both cited as the primary motivations behind the Oklahoma City bombing that took place exactly two years later.
Remembering the Raid on Waco, 20 Years Later
20 years later, three ATF agents reflect upon the day that changed law enforcement; the tragic raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. Four agents died along with 6 Davidians and a deadly 51-day standoff ensued. (Feb. 28)