A 51-day standoff between David Koresh and the US government at the siege of Waco ended 30 years ago today. We look back at how the siege unfolded 👇
After years of preaching about the end of the world, David Koresh, the strange and terrifying leader of the ‘Branch Davidian’ religious movement, saw his sect’s headquarters, inFor the Branch Davidians, the end of the world had finally arrived.
The man behind it all ‘really wanted to be a rock star’, says Kevin Cook, author of Waco Rising, a chronicle of the siege. The Branch Davidian members were ‘a shockingly diverse group of people’, adds Russell. ‘Some of them were local people who had never been out of rural areas their entire lives, others came from around the world. Some had higher education degrees, and some just wanted to play in a rock and roll band. But the thing that united them was a desire to connect with God.’
‘Every single one of us was married to David, because David was our Christ, giving us the truths from God,’ insists ex-Branch Davidian Kathy Schroeder, in the Netflix documentary. The ATF were pushed back into a stalemate. Koresh, speaking with negotiators after this first assault, boasted that the government had gotten their ‘big butts whooped’ – but the authorities had far from given up, and as federal law enforcers had been killed during the initial raid, the FBI now took control of the situation.
‘Waco is an example of a profound failure to communicate,’ says Russell. ‘No one could hear anyone else talking’.
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