Books, including the best selling mans manson and also the road to jonestown. It was 30 years ago that the Branch Davidian compound near waco went up in flames after a 51 day armed standoff with atf, the fbi and texas state law enforcement. All of that with the world watching the fires spread through the building after the fbi launched six tear gas canisters into the compound. The blaze caused the death of 76 civilians, including 25 children, two pregnant women, and david koresh, who was the controversial leader of the group. The dramatic and tragic events from start to finish played out on americas tv sets, and in many ways that fire has never gone out. Today it continues to burn, inspiring antigovernment, activist and militias. And so we need to not have a clear understanding about what happened during that raid. Who were Branch Davidians . Who sees them as innocent victims that need to be avenged . And also remember this event as proof. They see this as proof that the federal govern
The book were talking is waco. David koresh, the Branch Davidians and the legacy of rage with author jeff quinn. Jeff quinn is the author of 25 books, including the best selling mans manson and also the road to jonestown. It was 30 years ago that the Branch Davidian compound near waco went up in flames after a 51 day armed standoff with atf, the fbi and texas state law enforcement. All of that with the world watching the fires spread through the building after the fbi launched six tear gas canisters into the compound. The blaze caused the death of 76 civilians, including 25 children, two pregnant women, and david koresh, who was the controversial leader of the group. The dramatic and tragic events from start to finish played out on americas tv sets, and in many ways that fire has never gone out. Today it continues to burn, inspiring antigovernment, activist and militias. And so we need to not have a clear understanding about what happened during that raid. Who were Branch Davidians . W
Well, good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. Im cliff may, the founder and president and im pleased to welcome you today to our conversation, understanding al qaeda through the massive trove of Osama Bin Ladens files. I think you all know the background in may of 20 laechb 11. A naval navy s. E. A. L. Team got osaum ma bin laden. We should have learned a huge amount of information but we couldnt because it was under lock and key. The most resiferous pressures to release that information but most recently 470,000 documents have been released and we were given an advanced look bike mike pompeo who said this should be available to scholars and journalists and others. So with that im pleased to thand conversation over to our moderator, Kimberley Dozier who has had a distinguished career reporting on intelligence and National Security issues. She covered the war in iraq until she was wounded in the car bombing in 2006. I should note that todays event should
Well, good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. Im cliff may, the founder and president and im pleased to welcome you today to our conversation, understanding al qaeda through the massive trove of Osama Bin Ladens files. I think you all know the background in may of 20 laechb 11. A naval navy s. E. A. L. Team got osaum ma bin laden. We should have learned a huge amount of information but we couldnt because it was under lock and key. The most resiferous pressures to release that information but most recently 470,000 documents have been released and we were given an advanced look bike mike pompeo who said this should be available to scholars and journalists and others. So with that im pleased to thand conversation over to our moderator, Kimberley Dozier who has had a distinguished career reporting on intelligence and National Security issues. She covered the war in iraq until she was wounded in the car bombing in 2006. I should note that todays event should
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