i will never forget the exact thought that went through my head when i saw the flames. thank god those mothers will bring their children out now, and we waited and waited and waited, and they didn t bring their children out. the entire scene unfolds before a live tv audience. look at that. this is gorgeous. there is tear gas that started on fire or something. the exuberance of a control room producer is tempered by the reality of the situation. it was quick. the structure was like a wooden match. we never stopped our negotiation efforts. we continued right up until i
at this hour fbi agents are negotiating with the cult leader. he reportedly believes he is jesus christ. mr. koresh, how are you doing? fair to middling. i understand you ve been wounded. will you describe your position? weakening. are you shot, sir? yes, i am. well, communications opened up pretty quickly. he loved to talk. he loved to hear himself talk. how is god going to talk to me in the latter days? so there will be no excuse. so there was no lack of communication. there was a lack of productive communication. there s a lot of children here. i ve had a lot of babies the last few years. is it true, david that, one of the children, a 2-year-old, is dead. yeah, that s true. he was so calm to a point where you began immediately questioning what kind of a personality are we dealing with? here we are at the day of the lord.
parent if they found their children exposed to that kind of discomfort would move heaven and earth to get them to a position of safety. we were wrong. the beginning of the end comes just after 12:00 noon. a wisp of smoke floats from a compound window. my instructions over the loudspeakers went from instructions to, please, david, don t do this. david, don t do this. all of a sudden you see bursts of flames. i m, like, my god, i hope they allowed the children to leave. this is not the way to end this. leave your people out, david. be a messiah, not a destroyer.
we re anticipating. we had buses lined up to receive everybody. he stated he received a message from god instructing him to wait. any doubts about who is calling the shots is suddenly gone. now we knew when we had a person who said he was speaking directly to god and god had told him to wait that this was not going to be normal. that was one of the first and more significant glimpses of the disingenuous nature of how david was dealing with us as far as promises and truthfulness. are you a patient person? yeah, i m really patient. you re going to see patience because the only thing that we re going to do is sit and wait. i believe that was our last
would, you know, not have any more relations with their wives. it s true. i do have a lot of children. it s true, i do have a lot of wives. but koresh apparently did not stop there. when david first started teaching, he began to show that god asked prophets to do what we might consider strange things a lot of times. we had evidence that he had sexually abused girls as young as 12. is it my great wonderful looking, something that women just can t resist. we also discovered that that had been going on for a couple of years, and law enforcement had not done anything really to prevent it or stop it. but a field agent from the regional atf office was doing something. secretly. though his investigation had nothing to do with the abuse allegations. his name is davy aguilera. this is the first time he has talked publicly about the case.