FRONTLINE investigates the April 1993 FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas. With access to secret government documents, audio and videotapes, correspondent Peter Boyer of The ...
Thirty years ago on Wednesday, a 51-day standoff between law enforcement and the Branch Davidians ended in a raging inferno. More than 80 people, including four ATF agents, were killed in a clash that ...
The Department of Justice, while acknowledging “the FBI used incendiary tear gas canisters”, concluded that the Branch Davidians members had started the fire themselves, something surviving ...
During the stand-off between federal agents and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas in 1993, people gathered on a hill roughly three miles away to see what was happening at the compound.
In 1993, 82 members of a religious sect, the Branch Davidians, died due to a fire and an infamous 51-day siege by the FBI. Of these, many were British. These are their stories.