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The Branch Davidians partly supported themselves by trading at gun shows and took care to have the relevant paperwork to ensure their transactions were legal. [58] Branch Davidian Paul Fatta was a federal firearms licensed dealer, and the group operated a retail gun business called
George Buchanan Roden (January 17, 1938 – December 8, 1998) was an American leader of the Branch Davidian sect, a Seventh-day Adventist splinter group. In 1987, he was evicted from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco, Texas, by his rival David Koresh. [2] He was later confined in a Texas mental hospital for a 1989 murder until his own death in ...
In the course of the advance, the Mount Carmel Center caught fire. Barricaded inside the building, 79 Branch Davidians perished in the ensuing blaze; 21 of these victims were children under the age of 16. [55] Coroner reports showed many Davidians died from single gunshot wounds to the head – Koresh, then 33, was one of them. [56]
A chronological history of the Waco, Texas compound that burned to the ground with 76 Branch Davidian cult members still inside on April 19, 1993.
Netflix's new docuseries 'Waco: American Apocalypse' tells the true story of David Koresh and the Branch Davidans. Here's what to know about the Waco siege.
Clive Joseph Doyle (24 February 1941 – 8 June 2022) [1] was an Australian leader in the Branch Davidian movement after the Waco siege in 1993. He was a Branch Davidian and a Davidian Seventh-day Adventist before the Waco siege.
The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) are a Christian cult founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden. They regard themselves as a continuation of the General Association of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists, established by Victor Houteff in 1935. They have often been described as a doomsday cult.
Pete Bigelow, AOL On one side of a dust-scarred patch of country road, a modest ranch home sits barricaded behind a barbed-wire gate on which hang "Keep Out" and "Beware of Dog" signs. On the ...