Waco, Texas

In Texas 1993 there was a guy named Vernon Howell who was a part of a group named branch Dividians. Vernon Howell changed his name to David Koresh and created a cult. A cult means a religious group which promotes worship of a human leader and devotion of one's life to a specific purpose. David made a cult than stored a whole bunch of gun powder and guns and made an army which he said he wanted to make an army of God. This whole entire thing about how Waco was destroyed occurred very interesting to me, but after reading a lot about Waco I came to understand one main thing, it is that David Koresh was the stupidest guy I know but that’s after Putin off course. I mean he created a cult and poisoned the people’s minds that he heard from God that God wanted him to have any women from his cult, all the money, everything. David also made them believe that god wanted him to build an army of god.…

belief. Most cults do extreme things, such as suicide or killing, in the name of their religion. Groups such as, the Branch Davidian and the Peoples Temple used religion as their main point to carry on their plan. The Branch Davidian was one of several groups that carried on the work of Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian man who settled in the United States and called for reform of the SDA church (Branch Davidian). Even though the Adventist leaders rejected Victor’s reform suggestion, he and his…

Human beings have a natural proclivity to watch disastrous things. There is an allure to observing an event that never seems to succeed in anyone’s favor. In late February of 1993, the United States, and even the world, watched such an event. ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) arrived at Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas to serve a warrant in regards to purchasing illegal weapons. What they were met with was a militarized response; a response that no one was adequately prepared to handle. Blame has…

decided to withdraw for section and discouraged by the rejection, McVeigh chose to honorably discharge from the United States Army in 1991. McVeigh became increasingly distrusting of the Federal Government. McVeigh’s anti-government views grew stronger. He became infatuated with survival training, conspiracy theories, and books like the Turner Diaries which a fictional white supremacist plots to blow up a Federal Building to start a revolution against the Government. In 1993 McVeigh left New…

Even though these videos are older, they still give a very good image of the damaged building and injured people. Some news broadcasts made it to the scene within five minutes of the explosion as one helicopter was already in the air, the documentary showed a high angle of the ⅔ of the building left standing. There are also videos of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas and David Koresh’s cult there. These videos gave the audience a sense of how these people like Koresh and Mcveigh were, …

qualify for the Special Forces program; therefore, McVeigh accepted the Army’s early discharge and was released in the fall of 1991. After being discharged from the Army, McVeigh became anti-governmental against the United States. McVeigh and Nichols were deeply radicalized by the shoot-out in August 1992 between federal agents and survivalist Randy Weaver in Idaho where Weaver’s wife and son was killed and the April 19, 1993, inferno in Waco, Texas in which 75 members of the Branch Davidian…

April 19 has become an infamous day for our Nation. It marks the date in which the Branch Davidian in Waco, Texas was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigations in 1993. Where 80 Americans including 24 children were killed in a fire that was set to straw and gasoline while the FBI raided their compound (PBS). The leader there was David Koresh who led his people in a shootout following with a mass suicide against the government raid. This in turn would be the reason for what led to the…

On February 28, 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms launched a raid on the Davidian Compound just outside of Waco, Texas, not knowing that it would lead to a 51 day standoff, the compound burning to the ground, and the loss of many lives, including 4 ATF agents – but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Lets look a little closer and dig a little deeper into the events leading up to this terrible tragedy. The Branch Davidians were a cult led by David Koresh, a man claiming to be the…

graduation he started reading anti-government books. One book he read was the neo -Nazi tract written by William Pierce. The books tells about bombing the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a truck that held explosives. In 1988 he enlisted in the United States Army. In 1990 he received a Bronze Star represents the bravery he represented in the Persian Gulf War. Taking early discharge he left the Army in 1991. He was never married or had any children.…

behind the mass murder in hopes for “clarification”. He talks about how it was a“retaliatory strike” to the federal agents that abused their power and became “increasinglymilitaristic” over time (McVeigh). In the letter, it states, “For all intents and purposes, federalagents had become ‘soldiers’ (using military training, tactics, techniques, equipment, language,dress, organization, and mindset) and they were escalating their behavior. Therefore, thisbombing was also meant as a pre-emptive…