On a drizzly February morning 25 years ago, a Waco Tribune-Herald reporter knocked on a door on Double EE Ranch Road, 12 miles east of town.
Clive Doyle, a Branch Davidian who escaped the flames at Mount Carmel, took great pains Thursday to attend a memorial service he has planned for 25 years.
For the first time since April 19, 1993, Waco firefighters speak about the company’s response to the rural compound 17 minutes away from Station 1.
David Pareya thumbs through hundreds of photos, but he pauses to reflect on one photo: It is simply a child’s shoe, surrounded by the blackened, charred remains of what had been the girl’s home.
For many locals, the fire that incinerated the Branch Davidian compound near Elk on April 19, 1993, is unforgettable, much like 9/11, Neil Armstrong walking on the moon or the JFK assassination.
Before too long, receiving 3 a.m. phone calls from Australian radio stations was typical for Bob Sheehy Jr.
On a drizzly February morning 25 years ago, a Waco Tribune-Herald reporter knocked on a door on Double EE Ranch Road, 12 miles east of town.
On a drizzly February morning 25 years ago, a Waco Tribune-Herald reporter knocked on a door on Double EE Ranch Road, 12 miles east of town.
John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, the brothers who created the six-part miniseries “Waco” that debuts Wednesday night on the Paramount Network, confess they were asked to name their series on the 1993 Branch Davidian raid, siege and fire anything but “Waco.”
The Waco Tribune-Herald’s coverage of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege is now available for free on the newspaper’s website, wacotrib.com.
Organizers were ready for about 200, but an estimated 100 people attended the annual reunion of the Branch Davidians at the Helen Marie Taylor Museum in Waco on Friday.
Their apocalypse came and went on a Monday afternoon, 20 years ago this week.
After a community is seared by unthinkable violence, the shock and grief usually give way to the impulse to carve the memory into stone.
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