If Koresh ever needed proof of his preachings, here it was: American tanks crashing through walls, rolling toward American women and children. There was gunfire and wailing as tanks equipped with battering rams punched through walls. Helicopters circled in the dawn’s early light. The apocalypse was deafening, the FBI’s loudspeakers booming at full volume. And now this – after two months of stalemate, a surprise attack…Koresh rallied the others. As soon as he finished, he said, he would lead his people out. He had spent the night writing out his interpretation of the Seven Seals in the Bible’s book of Revelation. ‘You are under arrest.’ David Koresh was shocked. “‘Come out of the compound with your hands up,’ the loudspeakers blared. Here is the spark that ignited today’s antigovernment militias. Unmissable reading for anyone interested in the truth of what happened in Texas three decades ago, Waco Rising is chillingly relevant today. Waco drew the battle lines for American extremists-in Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh’s words, “Waco started this war.” With help from sources as diverse as Branch Davidian survivors and the FBI’s lead negotiator during the siege, Cook draws a straight line from Waco’s ashes to the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol and insurrections yet to come. He sheds new light on the Clinton administration’s approval of a lethal governmental assault in a new, definitive account of the firefight that ended so many lives and triggered the rise of today’s militia movement. He gives readers a taste of Koresh’s deadly charisma and takes us behind the scenes at the Branch Davidians’ compound, where “the new Christ” turned his followers into servants and sired seventeen children by a dozen “wives.” In vivid accounts packed with human drama, Cook harnesses never-reported material to reconstruct the FBI’s fifty-one-day siege of the Waco compound in minute-to-minute detail.
Kevin Cook, who revealed the truth behind a mythic, misunderstood murder in his 2014 Kitty Genovese, finally provides the full story of what happened at Waco. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven’t heard the full story. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A news-making account of the war between David Koresh’s Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today’s militias
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