personality are we dealing with? here we are at the day of the lord. god will be in the position for blood. koresh and the davidians were well supplied for a long siege. in addition to their arsenal, they had stockpiled military mres. what we ultimately had come to realize is that we had well over 100 individuals inside of the heavily fortified compound that were there voluntarily because they had backed what they felt was their messiah. what do you think about all this? you don t know? getting the children out is the top priority. koresh uses them as pawns to get what he wants. air time on the radio. i gave them a message for the radio so that the public can listen to where i m coming from. i explained that every time they
casualties inside the compound, including david koresh. 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
as the shootout rages, atf agent jim cavanaugh is already on the phone with the davidians trying to gain a cease-fire. we were taking an awful beating. so many men were hurt and wounded and laying down there. when i called the compound, it was steven snyder. steven snyder was koresh s top lieutenant. he started screaming through the phone that we had no right to be there, to get off the property immediately. i tried to stay calm. i said, steve, we have to talk. we have to work this out. you and i have to work this out. people are dying. people are hurt. we need to stop the shooting. soon cavanaugh is talking directly with david koresh. everything s okay. just you and me are talking. that s the main thing. you care for people. i had a radio mic in one ear with an agent pleading for his life and i had this guy on the phone who thought he was god.
four atf agents are dead. 16 wounded. with an unknown number of casualties inside the compound, including david koresh. 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