The leader of the Branch Davidians was David Koresh. A stand-off with his religious cult lasted for 51 days, ending on April 19, 1993, when the FBI launched an assault that left 80 cult members dead.
Nine months after the conflagration in Waco, Tex., that ended a 51-day standoff with members of the Branch Davidian sect, 11 surviving Davidians will go on trial in San Antonio this morning on charges that they conspired to murder the federal agents who stormed their compound.