2005
- October 16, 2005 Excerpt about Koresh's skull, The Courier-Journal
Forensic anthropologist Emily Craig, on showing to the chief medical examiner the reassembled skull of Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh. He was among the 80 cult members who died during a siege by federal agents at Waco, Texas, April 19, 1993...
- April 19, 2005 Anniversary of Mt. Carmel Fire Passes Quietly, KWTX-TV News 10, Waco, Texas
The deadly fire broke out just after noon on April 19, 1993, after a morning-long tear gas assault by federal agents who were trying to end the 51-day impasse.
The standoff began after a shootout on Feb. 28, 1993 in which four federal agents and three Davidians died. More than 20 other federal agents were injured, some seriously.
Brisk winds fanned the flames, which spread quickly through the
wood-frame structure. Only a handful of Davidians escaped alive...
- On TV March 19, 2005 David Koresh, Biography on A&E Television
Airs on Saturday, March 19
Ever since the Branch Davidian compound burnt down while under siege by federal agents, Americans have wanted to know more about David Koresh...
- February 27, 2005 Monday Is 12th Anniversary Of Deadly Branch Davidian Raid And Shootout, KWTX-TV News 10, Waco, Texas (Twelve years ago Monday, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agents launched a massive raid on the Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco that left four agents and six Davidians dead...)
2004
- September 26, 2004 Puny market for Davidian muscle car,
David Koresh's pride and joy fails to excite many bidders, Lianne Hart, Los Angeles Times via San Francisco Chronicle (Photo of 1968 Chevrolet Camaro included.)
Fredericksburg, Texas -- The market for infamous cars took a hit Saturday when the souped-up 1968 Chevrolet Camaro owned by Branch Davidian leader David Koresh sold at auction here for $37,000, well below the $80,000 the seller hoped the car would bring...
- September 25, 2004 Car wash owner buys David Koresh's Camaro, Associated Press via CNN.com (FREDERICKSBURG, Texas -- A car wash owner placed a winning bid of $37,500 on Saturday on an automobile once owned by Branch Davidian leader David Koresh...)
- September 24, 2004 Branch Davidian leader's car for sale, Associated Press via NBC 6 KCEN-TV, Texas (FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) - A relic of the deadly 1993 Branch Davidian siege near Waco is for sale on Saturday in Fredericksburg. Auctioneer Daniel Kruse says the high-performance car belonged to Davidian leader David Koresh...)
- September 23, 2004 Branch Davidian leader's car for sale at auction, AP via CBS 11 KTVT, Fort Worth, Texas (A 1968 Chevrolet Camaro once owned by former Branch Davidian leader David Koresh is expected to fetch up to $60,000 at auction this weekend...)
- September 23, 2004 Branch Davidian leader's Camaro for sale, Reuters via CNN (Souped-up Chevrolet muscle car once owned by David Koresh will be auctioned in Texas.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - A souped up Chevy Camaro owned by David Koresh, the slain leader of the Branch Davidian religious sect, will be sold at a Texas auction this weekend, the auctioneer said on Wednesday.
The 500-horsepower Camaro was Koresh's everyday car and has dents from an FBI tank that struck it during the April 19, 1993 raid in which he and 80 Davidians died and their Waco, Texas...)
- On TV July 16, 2004 Biography on A&E - David Koresh Friday, July 16 at 8pm ET/7 CT
(He was born Vernon Wayne Howell in Houston, Texas on August 17, 1959. BIOGRAPHY: David Koresh recounts how the young boy was abused by his stepfather and had developed a learning disability by the time he entered school. He found comfort in the...)
- March 22, 2004 Supreme Court won't hear appeal over judge in Branch Davidian case, ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer, Associated Press via sfgate.com (The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal questioning the conduct of a federal judge involved in lawsuits over the FBI siege of the Branch Davidian complex near Waco, Texas.
The high court did not comment in rejecting a pair of appeals from survivors and from families of children who died in the fire that swept the complex in April 1993...)
- February 28, 2004 Anniversary of Branch Davidian Siege KWTX-TV News 10, Texas (Feburary 28th marks the date when federal agents attempting to serve warrants on the Branch Davidian religious cult just outside Waco were met with a hail of gunfire...)
- Today in History - February 28, 2004 Associated Press via KTRE-TV, Texas (...In 1993, a gun battle erupted at a compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began...)
- Today in History - February 26, 2004 Associated Press via Miami Herald (...Ten years ago: A jury in San Antonio acquitted 11 followers of David Koresh of murder, rejecting claims they'd ambushed federal agents; five were convicted of manslaughter...)
2003
- October 28, 2003 Return to Waco, Guardian Unlimited, United Kingdom (UK) (In 1993, 80 members of the Branch Davidian sect died when US agents stormed their compound in Waco. Ten years on, the Davidians have regrouped, rebuilt their church and, as Alex Hannaford reports, are still in the thrall of their dead leader...)
- July 15, 2003 Appeals court rejects Branch Davidian claim for damages from government in 1993 confrontation, Associated Press via SFGate.com (A federal appeals court rejected an attempt by survivors to collect damages from the government for the deadly 1993 confrontation outside Waco, Texas, between federal agents and members of the Branch Davidian cult.
Without dissent, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Monday turned aside contentions that a lower court judge who ruled against the survivors was biased.
Scores of Branch Davidian members, including leader David Koresh, were killed in 1993 when government agents stormed their compound after a weekslong standoff. Survivors had been pursuing a $675 million wrongful death claim for years...)
- April 18, 2003 Survivors still coping 10 years after raid on Branch Davidian compound in Texas, by Angela K. Brown, Associated Press via courttv.com
WACO, Texas (AP) - ...The religious group's leader, David Koresh...
- April 19, 2003 Davidian survivors mark 10-year anniversary of standoff's end, by Angela K. Brown, Associated Press via SFGate.com
(WACO, Texas (AP) -- Kevin Jones sat with his head in his hands Saturday near pieces of charred, twisted metal in a field where a religious group's compound burned to the ground a decade ago.
His father, several aunts and young cousins were among nearly 80 Branch Davidians killed on April 19, 1993, when their compound near Waco exploded in flames after military vehicles sprayed tear gas inside...
- April 19, 2003 Surviving Davidians mark tragedy's 10th anniversary, by Jim Henderson, Houston Chronicle (WACO -- David Iben was 23 when the fire devoured Mount Carmel, killing 74 people, including nearly two dozen children. He was stunned as he watched it on television from his home in Illinois...
...Until the 51-day siege of Mount Carmel began with a bungled attempt by federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to arrest the leader of the sect known as the Branch Davidians, Iben had never heard of the religion or David Koresh...)
- April 19, 2003 Ten Years Later, Waco Feels the Weight of a Deadly Siege, by Lee Hockstader and Karin Brulliard, Washington Post Staff Writers (WACO, Tex. -- ...But Waco is indelibly marked by an event that Dan Hetherington, for one, would rather forget: the assault by federal agents and fire at the Branch Davidian compound after a 51-day siege in 1993...)
- April 19, 2003 Tenth anniversary of Waco standoff's fiery end, Associated Press via ABC 7 KLTV, Tyler, Texas
- April 18, 2003 Koresh's legacy lingers, by Marianne Love, Staff writer, Long Beach Press Telegram (LA VERNE David Koresh, the cult leader of the Branch Davidians, is something of a faded memory for some of those who live near a two-story house he resided in for a short period of time.
And though today marks the 10th anniversary of the fiery ending of a 51-day standoff between Koresh and the federal government in Waco, Texas, that killed 80 people including two dozen children some people say they wish they could forget the catastrophe...)
- On TV April 17, 2003 The Children of Waco, Primetime Thursday, ABC News via the Wayback Machine
1993 Siege Survivors Grapple With Parents' Deaths
The children in David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult grew up believing they would die young - and on April 19, 1993, 25 of them did, perishing with their parents when the cult's complex outside Waco, Texas went up in flames...
- April 17, 2003 Escaping Waco, Primetime Thursday, ABCNEWS via the Wayback Machine
Cult Survivors Tell Horrific Tales of Life With David Koresh
April 15 - Nearly 10 years to the day that the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, went up in flames - killing 75 people, including 25 children - ABCNEWS' Charles Gibson interviews seven children who escaped the horror in an hourlong report on this week's Primetime Thursday...
- April 6, 2003 Youthful nightmares, by J.B. Smith, Tribune-Herald staff writer Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas (Photos included.)
...Kevin Jones, 21, and his brother, Mark, 22, have mixed memories of life at the Branch Davidian compound under Davidian prophet David Koresh, but they also express deep reservations about the way federal agents conducted their Feb. 28, 1993, raid at Mount Carmel. Before the deadly 51-day siege was done, they lost their father, grandfather and many friends...
... One of 21 children released during the standoff, Kevin Jones has had 10 years to ponder why it all happened...
... Davidian apologists have tried to dismiss reports by ex-cultists that Koresh had sex with underage girls, but the evidence is clear. In a video Koresh released to the FBI during the siege, he showed off numerous children he claimed to have sired by various "wives." One woman - his legal wife's sister - bore his child when she was 14. Another gave birth at 16.
DNA testing of the women and children in the video who died in the April 19 fire confirmed that the children were his...
- March 21, 2003 Pop culture, by CARL HOOVER, Waco Tribune-Herald
Branch Davidian impact on pop culture ranges between whacky, insightful
(WACO -
...Then came the events of 1993. The failed, deadly U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid on Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and his followers at their Mount Carmel compound; federal authorities' 51-day siege; and the much-questioned inferno in which 76 people died, 21 of them children.
All of it seared "Waco" into global awareness...)
- February 28, 2003 Survivors, relatives mark anniversary of raid on Waco sect - by ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle (WACO, Texas (AP) --
Two dozen friends and relatives gathered Friday in a chapel built on remnants of the burned Branch Davidian compound to remember the six sect members who died 10 years ago on the first day of a two-months siege...)
- February 27, 2003 10-year anniversary of raid on Branch Davidians, Associated Press via News 8 Austin, Austin, Texas (WACO -- Friday marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the deadly Branch Davidian siege near Waco...)
- February 23, 2003 Ten years after Mount Carmel, The Waco Tribune-Herald, Waco, Texas (Few events in Central Texas have prompted as much grief, anguish and unrelenting controversy as the Branch Davidian story.
Under the glare of the national spotlight, the 1993 siege at Mount Carmel climaxed in conflagration, confusion and death...) (Photos included.)
2002
- Photo of David Koresh, (Source: May 26, 2002 Margaret Singer has made history delving into the psychology of brainwashing, San Francisco Chronicle)
- Photo of the Burning of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco (Source: May 26, 2002 Margaret Singer has made history delving into the psychology of brainwashing, San Francisco Chronicle)
- April 19, 2002 Today in History, The Associated Press (In 1993, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including David Koresh, were killed.)
- April 18, 2002 Davidians Appeal Wrongful-death Case, Associated Press via Guardian Unlimited (Branch Davidians and their families have appealed the dismissal of their $675 million wrongful death lawsuit over the 1993 federal assault on the sect's Waco compound...)
2001
- August 31, 2001 Ghosts of '93 still found at Waco, USA TODAY (For 51 days in 1993, this was the center of the media universe. A standoff between the federal government and the Branch Davidians, a religious sect accused of stockpiling illegal arms, began with the deaths of four federal agents...)
- June 12, 2001Davidian prosecutor faces State Bar discipline, Waco-Tribune Herald
- June 11, 2001 Davidians react to McVeigh execution, Associated Press via MSNBC
- June 10, 2001 Davidians don't like connection to McVeigh, Waco-Tribune Herald
- June 7, 2001 Ex-prosecutor gets probation in Waco siege case, CNN.com
- June 7, 2001 Davidian Prosecutor Gets Probation, Associated Press via Yahoo! News
- June 1, 2001 FBI resisted Waco investigation, says special counsel, San Francisco Chronicle (News on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.)
- May 11, 2001 Profile: Timothy McVeigh BBC (Photos included.)
- April 19, 2001 Survivor remembers Waco standoff, United Press International via Industry Watch (Branch Davidian standoff near Waco in the news.)
- February 14, 2001 Today in legal history: February 28 CourtTV via Yahoo! News (Includes news on the Branch Davidians.)
2000
- November 9, 2000 Waco Wrongful Death Trial, Yahoo! News Full Coverage
- March 31, 2000 Recent Cult Massacres, Associated Press via CBS News
1999
1997
1993
- 1993 Guns and Violence: Waco TIME Magazine (News on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians.) (Photo included.)
- December 06, 1993 Nation shocked by tragedy in Waco, Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- May 17, 1993 Children of a Lesser God, TIME.com (The surviving kids of Ranch Apocalypse offer shocking details of life with David Koresh.)
- May 3, 1993 "Oh, My God, They're Killing Themselves!" TIME.com (Waco comes to an end.)
- May 3, 1993 TIME Magazine Cover: David Koresh
- April 19, 1993 Waco compound burns, CNN (A compound occupied by a religious cult burns to the ground in what is described as a mass suicide. The heavily armed Branch Davidians have been in a standoff with law enforcement officials near Waco, Texas, for 51 days...) (QuickTime included.)
- April 19, 1993 1993: Waco cult siege ends with inferno, BBC On This Day
- March 23, 1993 Apocalypse, With And Without God TIME.com
- March 15, 1993 Cult of Death, TIME.com (News on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians.)
- March 15, 1993 TIME Magazine Cover: David Koresh & Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman
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