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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
Brad Eugene Branch (born c. 1960 [1]) is an American former Branch Davidian who was charged and convicted of aiding and abetting voluntary manslaughter of federal agents during the 1993 Waco siege and weapons charges.
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 ...
In 1987, Ross deprogrammed two former members of the Branch Davidians in upstate New York, and in 1988 began receiving calls about the Davidian group led by David Koresh in Waco, Texas. [10] [28] Ross was the only deprogrammer to work with Branch Davidian members prior to the 1993 siege at Waco. [29]
Waco: American Apocalypse is an American documentary television miniseries about the Waco siege in 1993 between the US federal government and the Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh. It was released on Netflix on March 22, 2023, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the siege.
Guinn covers the history of U.S. governmental surveillance of the Branch Davidians, primarily from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). He details the ATF raid on the Mount Carmel Center on 28 February 1993, and the ensuing siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate is a book about millennialist violence by Catherine Wessinger, published in 2000 by Seven Bridges Press.. The book covers various millennialist new religious movements (NRMs) and their relation to violence, including the Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, the Order of the Solar Temple, and Heaven's Gate, and ...