Welcome to the three part Waco series! In part one Madison introduces you to Vernon Wayne Howell who would later become David Koresh and the leader of the branch Davidians at Mt. Carmel Center. Then we highlight what life was like at mt. Carmel center right up to the infamous standoff.

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Content:

00:00 - Intro

05:29 - Start of Case (jk)

10:32 - Actual Start of Case

12:14 - David Koresh Background

15:27 - Joining the Seventh Day Adventist Church

17:11 - Expelled from the church

18:37 - Joining the Branch Davidian

22:34 - George Roden Kicks David Out

25:37 - David and the Davidians exiled

33:37 - Taking back Mt. Carmel Center

38:57 - David Takes Over the Branch Davidian’s

48:41 - Start of The ATF Investigation

58:14 - Wrap Up

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Intro by the amazing Rux Ton

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Logo by Sloane of The Sophisticated Crayon

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SOURCES:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Branch-Davidian 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church  

 

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/waco-on-netflix-was-david-thibodeaus-wife-michelle-a-real-person.html/ 

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/david-koresh-followers-describe-life-inside-apocalyptic-religious/story?id=52033937 

 

https://wacotrib.com/news/branch_davidians/crying-in-the-wilderness-a-religious-commune-sets-up-a-dwelling-place-in-the-woods/article_43b35c71-6563-5c45-baea-cfaa2d2e5cd6.html 

 

https://wacotrib.com/news/branch_davidians/sinful-messiah/the-sinful-messiah-part-one/article_eb1b96e9-413c-5bab-ba9f-425b373c5667.html 

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20191002051320/https://www.constitution.org/waco/affidavt.htm 

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20170211103634/http://www.gao.gov/archive/1999/n699133.pdf 

 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-03-mn-251-story.html 

 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/timeline2.html  

 

https://www.biography.com/crime/david-koresh  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh 

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-koresh 

 

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-fire-that-time/  

 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-10-mn-10428-story.html 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/06/18/8-branch-davidians-get-sentences-of-5-to-40-years-in-prison/5bee7b28-c02d-458f-b277-4973cc6993fe/ 

 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-27-mn-27935-story.html 

 

https://www.lawdragon.com/lawyer-limelights/2023-04-17-representing-a-cult-leader-dan-cogdell-on-the-waco-trial 

 

https://theconversation.com/the-deaths-of-76-branch-davidians-in-april-1993-could-have-been-avoided-so-why-didnt-anyone-care-90816 

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20130721043810/http://www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/albertbates/akbwaco.html  

 

https://www.newsweek.com/fire-wont-die-166178 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege  

 

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-ghosts-of-mount-carmel/  

 

https://www.biography.com/crime/a43329362/the-siege-at-waco-firsthand-accounts 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/06/10/koresh-called-911-when-raid-began/cfa51956-91a8-499b-8b27-bf06228a1eb3/  

 

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/19/17246732/waco-tragedy-explained-david-koresh-mount-carmel-branch-davidian-cult-30-year-anniversary  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege 

 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/what-really-happened-at-waco 

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/david-koresh-followers-describe-life-inside-apocalyptic-religious/story?id=52033937  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/waco-texas-siege-i-have-been-blamed-for-what-happened-out-there-says-retired-ups-deliveryman/ 

 

https://archive.org/details/whywacocultsbatt00tabo/page/n5/mode/2up 

 

https://archive.org/details/reportofdepartme00unit/page/2/mode/2up