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No shouting questions!
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When it comes to question-and-answer time,
raise your hand until you're recognized.
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[crew] C controller coming out.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Jamar] My name is Jeff Jamar,
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and I'm the Special Agent in Charge
of FBI operations here in Waco.
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We're here because David Koresh
and his followers killed four ATF agents.
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[dramatic music continues]
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Following this tragic incident,
the ATF requested FBI support.
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The area is a crime scene.
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The goal is to resolve this situation
with no further bloodshed.
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A total of 18 children and two women
have been released through negotiations.
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Koresh indicated that 20 children,
47 women, and 43 men inside.
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We're ready to answer questions.
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[reporters clamoring]
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Can you give me more details?
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After 1:30, you're waiting for him,
finally make contact, what does he say?
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He says God told him to wait.
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[Bob] We now know
that this is not going to turn out well.
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This man has total control
over everybody in there.
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The only will that exists
is... is that of one person.
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God speaks to me.
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I have a message to present.
You may not believe that.
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If you don't believe that,
then believe this:
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Two thousand years ago, hey,
who believed in Christ's doctrine?
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The man had to die.
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No one would believe what he had to say.
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[dramatic music peaks, then fades]
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[unsettling music playing]
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[Chris] Once the command element realizes
that David Koresh is not gonna walk out...
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we knew we were gonna have
to contain the crime scene,
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and make sure that we could protect
from people coming out.
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So how do you do that?
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The ATF had launched
their early investigation
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from a ranch-style farmhouse that was
directly across from Mount Carmel.
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We called it Sierra One,
but that's just the front of the building.
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You still have the entire perimeter
of the building
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and no idea what's going on out there.
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So we found, through surveillance,
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there was a garage
at the back of the building.
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And we put together a plan
to assault and secure that garage.
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The problem is,
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you've got to go by the building that
just shot the living shit out of the ATF.
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How you gonna do that?
We brought in Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
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But we knew they had .50-caliber weapons
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that could penetrate
the Bradley Fighting Vehicles,
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and a hot .50-cal round going through
the skin is gonna flatten that thing out,
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and it's gonna be a milkshake.
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So, we steamed down the road,
turned right, drove down the driveway,
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went around to the back of the building...
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- [Koresh] We've got night vision.
- [Gary] Yeah, I understand.
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[Koresh] And the thing of it is
that there's guys coming from the barn,
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climbing up from the back of the property,
getting closer and closer.
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[Gary] Now,
we're keeping those guys away. And...
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[Koresh] No, you're not.
You are not keeping them away.
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We're not stupid.
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This is really early hours.
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I don't even have
any FBI negotiators with me yet,
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and I'm hearing that
there's tactical movement out there,
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and I don't know if it's ATF, the FBI.
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I've got no channel
coming in to the negotiations.
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There's frustration in my voice
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because I'm really inhibited
from knowing what's going on.
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[Koresh] So why are they still coming?
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[Gary] I... I'm sending
another message to them.
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- They're telling me they're not there.
- [Koresh] No.
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They are here. They're lying to you.
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I was really worried about them
coming in with guns and killing people.
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I really thought that
that was going to happen.
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If they had entered the building,
we would all commit suicide.
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There was an actual grenade handed to me,
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because I was the one woman
that could have pulled that pin...
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and killed the four or five women
in the room that I was in.
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It wasn't a matter of...
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how is this affecting me
as a person? Because...
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I'm not a person. I'm God's tool.
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[Koresh] You need to get with those guys
and tell them to pull back.
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[Gary] Okay. We'll... And the word's
going out right as we speak to do that.
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Uh, somebody's going to send a message in.
I'm writing it down.
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The hatch opens, I get out,
I run, spin around carrying an AR-15.
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And I look over, and I see a guy in black
come over a mound of dirt.
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He had a gun.
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I just remember thinking,
"That guy's gonna come and kill me."
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My team hits the cars,
and we're moving car to car,
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clearing car to car,
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expecting, you know,
this big gun fight to break out.
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And it didn't.
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So, within a very short period of time,
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we, the Hostage Rescue Team,
now had a perimeter.
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Sierra One at the front...
Sierra Two at the back.
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We have moved in.
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We've taken that turf,
and we're not leaving.
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[somber string music playing]
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Hostage Rescue Team had no desire
to make anybody in there happy.
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They don't have a lot of patience.
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They're action-oriented.
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Their desire was to get this resolved
and get it resolved now.
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From the very beginning,
after Hostage Rescue Team came in,
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they and the negotiators, you know,
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had very different views
of what was going on here.
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The negotiators wanted to, you know,
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cool down the temperatures,
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to back off,
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to develop relationships
with people inside the compound,
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to establish trust.
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And to the Hostage Rescue Team,
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David Koresh and his followers
were a bunch of criminals and murderers
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who had just killed four federal agents,
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and we need to haul their asses
out of there and bring them to justice.
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I would tell the on-scene commander,
Jeff Jamar,
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"This is what we wanna do
as a negotiation team."
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Then separate from me,
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he would hear of
a more aggressive approach,
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a simultaneous approach,
from the Hostage Rescue Team,
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and he would say, "Yeah, go ahead."
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Never, I don't think,
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fully appreciating the inconsistencies
and the mixed signals that sent.
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The FBI agents working as negotiators
and members of the Hostage Rescue Team,
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we had the exact same mission.
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But if your business is to go into
a building at four o'clock in the morning
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and kill the bad guys,
and save the good guys,
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and risk your life in doing it,
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that's a different mindset
than somebody who's gonna sit in a room
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and try to talk a bad guy out.
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[unsettling music playing]
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[Gary] Our goal was always
saving as many lives as you can,
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whenever you can.
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In this stage of the incident,
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we had to separate ourselves
from the tactical people.
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- We gotta separate us from them.
- From them.
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Make "good guy, bad guy."
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Don't let what's happening out there
come in between what we're doing here.
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Somehow, you have to walk
that high wire of saying, you know,
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"They have a different approach,
but you can talk to us."
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"We're making good progress."
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- [Gary] Thanks so much, John.
- [Dolan] Take care.
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[Gary] I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Good night. Bye.
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Good job, John.
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[Dolan] He's ill.
I really believe he's ill.
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[Gary] David... David's down.
He's down. That's a good sign.
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[Dolan] A good, good sign.
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[Gary] Early in the first several days
of the situation,
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David Koresh had been wounded,
and you could hear it in his voice.
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And he sent us a video
where he showed us the bullet hole.
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[Steve] This is David Koresh.
Steve Schneider filming.
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David, anything you'd like to say?
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[child whimpering]
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First of all, I'd like to, uh,
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thank the, uh, negotiators that
we've been discussing with on the phone.
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Wanna see one of the holes here?
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Here's one of them.
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That look nice?
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This one went out right here.
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- [woman] Oh, it's leaking.
- [Koresh] Is that leaking?
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[woman] It's bleeding.
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- [Koresh] Is this bleeding again?
- [woman] Yeah.
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So, we're gonna send this tape out now.
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And I'm leaking in the back here.
I gotta get this taken care of.
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Anyway, God bless,
and we'll sign off, Steve.
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David knew... he was dying.
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He was shot in the hand and in the side,
and he was 33 years old.
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So, there were a lot of similarities
between him and Christ.
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We were silently rooting for him
to die from his... his wound.
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Because, number one, if he died,
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or, number two, he came out
to get medical assistance, game over.
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Got a little bit more information on this.
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Um, this doctor feels,
after viewing videotape...
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He advised that
he has a deep-seated infection.
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We tried to implant in his mind that,
you know,
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"You're gonna get blood poisoning and die.
You need to come out for medical help."
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Once the infection
gets into the bloodstream,
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it will go into every major vital organ,
including the brain.
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If Koresh had died,
this whole standoff would be over,
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'cause there's only one single man
who controlled this whole situation,
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that was David Koresh.
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Was Mr. Koresh wounded?
If so, how seriously?
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The media had the same problems
that the cops did.
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Nothing like this
had ever happened before.
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And this was also...
For the media, this was a big damn story.
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[Bob] By the time we arrived,
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we probably have
a thousand members of the media.
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Within two or three days,
we now have 2,000.
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My job was... was not to determine
what tactics were going to be used,
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but try to explain to the public
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what we were doing
and why we were doing it,
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because we knew
everything that we're going to be doing
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is going to be scrutinized
under a magnifying glass.
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Yes, back here.
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Who is negotiating on the other side?
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Are you also talking with other followers?
And if so, who?
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Do you believe that Mr. Koresh
is capable of rational decisions?
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Or are you just going
to wait and wait and wait?
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We are in charge,
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and we can turn up
the screws again if we want to.
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[reporter] Hundreds of reporters
and photographers
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from all over the country,
and all over the world,
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have gathered around the Mount Carmel
compound of the Branch Davidians.
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Cult members involved in Sunday's
bloody shootout with federal agents
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are still holed up inside their compound.
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[Balenda] I sit down to television,
and it's real clear.
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The name David Koresh is mentioned.
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Oh dear. This is where my son is living.
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[man] Clear.
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[Balenda] He knows I'm here.
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- [reporter 2] How does he know?
- [Balenda] He knows me.
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Dave Thibodeau knows his mom's here
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because that's the kind of friend
he's got in his mother.
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[reporter 3] David's mother came from
Bangor, Maine to find her 24-year-old son...
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I remember thinking,
"My mom's gonna be down here."
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I remember thinking, "I wish she wouldn't.
I don't... wanna be the face of this thing."
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[Balenda] I called the FBI, and I said,
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"My son's in there,
and I need to know if he's okay."
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"And I need to know if I can talk to him."
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That agent said to me,
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"We don't have any protocol
for family involvement
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in a situation like this."
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"Maybe in the future."
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I said, "My son may not have a future."
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My instinct told me right off
that I needed to work the press
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because the feds
aren't gonna let me talk to my kid.
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[crew member] These people speaking today,
Bob A. Ricks, R-I-C-K-S with FBI.
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And then here I am at a press conference.
My hand went up, and he chose me.
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Have you considered at all
offering David Koresh the option of saying
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whether or not he would like to speak
to other familiar voices from the outside?
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We explored many alternatives,
and, uh, the answer is no.
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We have no outside individuals involved
in the negotiation process at this time.
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The first thing you're gonna do
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is make sure that you cut off
their contact with the outside world.
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It's very important for us
to control the communications.
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When they picked up the phone,
they could only get us.
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We're the source
of resolving the conflict for them.
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And we also don't want them to be able
to call out to, say, a loved one
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and give them their verbal
last will and testament.
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We felt very cut off from the world,
because the FBI controlled everything.
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[reporter 4] They say
they've talked to members.
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They want to stay on their own free will,
willing to die for David Koresh.
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Does that sound like the son you know?
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[inhales sharply]
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[Balenda] That last summer,
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before he left Los Angeles
to go out to Waco, Texas,
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we took a long walk, and he was
trying to tell me about David Koresh.
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"But, Mom, they're into the Bible."
And that kind of halted me.
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- I said, "David, that's not who we are."
- [producer] Do you meet Koresh?
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I never meet David Koresh.
We talk on the phone a number of times.
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I said, "David, do you feel that
you've been sent here by God?"
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And he said, "Yes."
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And I said, "Are you a prophet?
Do you feel that you're a prophet?"
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And he said, "Yes, I'm a prophet."
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And then I asked the pinnacle question:
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"Are you the Messiah?"
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And he said, "Yes, I am."
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When I hang up the phone, I'm on alert.
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Dave's in trouble.
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This guy thinks he's the Second Coming.
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[unsettling music playing]
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[Gary] We're trying to learn
everything we can about,
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not only David Koresh,
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but his followers.
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We had people
calling former family members,
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following up on leads,
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former Davidians
who no longer were part of the cult.
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John has something to add to the briefing.
Would you go ahead, corporal?
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First girlfriend of David,
Linda Marie Campion, who's on the line,
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said before 1979, he was a long-haired,
fun-loving, guitar-playing guy.
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He smoked pot once in a while.
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Didn't seek any confrontations
with law enforcement.
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In 1979, he had a nervous breakdown.
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Tremors, convulsions of extremities,
under a lot of stress spiritually,
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and he started having
visual and audio hallucinations,
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primarily at night.
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And these hallucinations
were thinking he was talking to God.
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[Lee] David Koresh
was the child of a teen mom.
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His stepfather was a convict, a thief.
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The story was that he was subject
to sexual abuse by older boys.
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And so,
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after he dropped out in middle school,
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a lady who had befriended him
was talking to him one day,
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and he was asking where he could find
people who could help open the Bible up.
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And the lady said, "Well, you know,
there's this group of people over in Waco,
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where they had been since the '30s,
called the Branch Davidian."
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And when he came,
people who were there at Mount Carmel
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said, you know, he was this sort of
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goofy guy.
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He was a carpenter.
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He wasn't very bright.
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He wasn't very attractive.
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And this is the way we eat over here,
with our fingers.
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And you need to come over and join us.
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We have literal food and spiritual food.
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[Lee] But he got very close
to a woman named Lois Roden.
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She was the leader of the group.
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Lois was 67,
and Koresh was a young man.
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[Bob] He seduced Lois Roden,
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even though there was probably
50 years' difference in their age.
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She eventually passed away,
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and then there became a battle between
her son and David Koresh for leadership.
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Koresh gathered up
some of his male followers,
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all in camo, with guns.
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They got into a gunfight with George Roden
inside the compound.
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And it went... I went,
"Bang, bang, bang, bang."
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Not pointed at George.
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You see? "Bang, bang, bang, bang."
That didn't scare him neither.
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George, he got wounded slightly,
and the sheriff's department was called
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and arrested Koresh and his followers.
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Charged them with attempted murder.
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A jury actually, um,
hung on whether to convict,
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and so there was no retrial.
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And then David took over.
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[news theme music playing]
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They've come from all over the world,
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ordered to the headquarters
of a bizarre religious cult in Texas.
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Among them, Australian followers
of a man who claims to be the son of God.
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[Gary] We were able to secure
and look at this piece of video footage,
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filmed by A Current Affair,
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which was an Australian news show
that sent this TV crew to film Koresh.
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[A Current Affair reporter] Vernon,
or David Koresh, as he prefers,
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claims to have one wife, Rachel,
who was 14 when he married her.
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[Koresh] One wife.
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In the late '80s,
Koresh's teaching evolved.
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He introduced
what he called the New Light.
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He had married a teenage daughter
of a longtime member,
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and his revelation was that
he was supposed to have other wives.
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And, at first, took single girls.
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And then the revelation evolved,
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and he was supposed to dissolve
all the marriages of all of his followers
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and take their wives.
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[A Current Affair reporter]
You separated couples?
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I have separated couples.
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- You have?
- You better believe I have.
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When David annulled the marriages
where people had been married a long time,
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my dad went along with it.
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I want to know what truth is.
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And I'm searching for it.
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And if he happens to be the vehicle
that shows me, I thank God for him.
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And my mom just didn't agree with it,
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so she packed up her stuff
in the middle of the night and left.
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After she left...
I wasn't allowed to be around my dad.
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I... couldn't eat with him.
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I couldn't go outside and...
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play like a normal kid, with your father.
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Basically, after my mom left...
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David Koresh was like my mom and my dad.
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Who would allow their wives
to have sex with David Koresh,
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and be prohibited from having sex
with their own wives?
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That... that's insanity.
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[Kathy] Every single one of us
was married to David,
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because David was our Christ,
giving us the truths from God.
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[Bob] They believed that David Koresh
was the key to their eternal salvation.
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[Kathy] I remember...
the Bible studies went all night long,
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and women would stay up
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in the hopes of being the one
that he would take to bed with him.
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Okay, I have to admit
that I would stay up late,
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go to these Bible studies,
and hope that he would pick me,
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because I wanted
my own personal experience.
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And, finally,
David decided to take me to his room.
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The room was special.
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The bed took up four-fifths of the room.
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That's all it was.
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And...
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Oh my gosh...
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I'm going to be, for the first time...
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with God alone...
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through David.
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I remember him picking me up,
scooping me up...
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with his hand behind my back,
and moving me around on the bed.
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The whole time we were having sex,
it was a Bible study.
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He did it for me.
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Not for himself.
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[Kathy, voice breaks]
He did it to give me...
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that one little bit of tenderness...
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with my God.
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[A Current Affair reporter]
Perhaps the most shocking allegation
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is that he had sex with underage girls.
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There's no doubt that David Koresh
had sex with young kids,
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some as young as 10.
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- [Koresh] And how old are you, Lisa?
- Thirteen.
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[Koresh] Thirteen. And who is next to you?
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I'm Abby.
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- [Koresh] And how old are you, Abby?
- I'm 11.
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[Koresh] You're 11.
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I remember, like,
talking to the other girls
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that were 10 to maybe 13?
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They would giggle and laugh about,
you know, being one of his wives one day,
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and having his kids...
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How much it was an honor.
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But not me.
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He was hard on me about everything,
down to the spankings.
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With... a really big paddle.
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He would take me in his room.
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He would make me lay over his lap.
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If I tensed up,
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he would put the paddle to my butt,
and he'd be like, "Okay."
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And then he'd pull it back again.
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And he wouldn't hit me,
until I was not ready for it.
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And that was almost every day.
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[unsettling music playing]
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A lot of people have told me
that he was trying to groom me.
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[Kathy] People think that a man having sex
with a bunch of under aged girls...
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is a crime.
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And in conventional wisdom,
that could probably be very well true.
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However,
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these weren't under aged girls,
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because you come of age at 12.
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So, all of these girls
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were adults in our... belief system.
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[tense music playing]
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We knew there was
an awful lot of kids in there.
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Our goal was always
to get the kids out of harm's way.
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I think David felt that
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letting some kids walk out
would go a long way in building trust.
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[Gary] Is Heather coming out?
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- [Koresh] Yeah, we'll send her out.
- [Gary] Okay. What is she wearing?
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[Koresh] Uh, what's she wearing?
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- Oh, it's a red coat.
- [Gary] It's a red coat?
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[Koresh] And a red hood.
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- [Gary] And she's got blond hair.
- [Koresh] Right.
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[Gary] Okay.
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[Heather] They got me that morning
and took me down the stairs.
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You could see holes everywhere
through the walls.
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And my dad was sitting
right beside the stairs,
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in a chair, and he had been shot.
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And my dad told me,
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"If you get scared or upset,
just think... about me."
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[sniffles]
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[Heather] I heard David say,
"Well, it's almost time."
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[David] You have
your coat on and everything?
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Well, you don't look very happy.
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What's wrong? You wanna put a smile on?
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Okay. You want a hug?
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Hug?
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Okay. Well, she wants a hug.
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Let me... Let me, um...
Okay, we're gonna send her out.
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Let me go ahead
and let you off the line real quick.
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[Gary] Okay.
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[voice breaks]
And he cracked the door open,
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and he pushed me out the door
and shut the door behind me.
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I tripped... in a pothole,
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because I looked behind me,
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and I fell, face down.
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And then, all of a sudden, there's...
guys surrounding me with all this
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body armor.
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Just... I just remember
seeing all this black.
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One grabbed this arm,
one grabbed this arm.
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And then before I knew it,
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I was sitting
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in this
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Army tank...
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with a group of men
surrounding me in there. [sniffles]
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At 8:45 a.m. today,
Heather, nine years old, was released.
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This brings the total of persons
released through negotiations
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to 21 children and two women.
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[Gary] Because I wanted the kids
to be treated with tenderness,
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we'd sit down
with the tactical people, say,
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"Treat these kids like they're your own,
turn them over to the negotiators,
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and negotiators
will bring them back here."
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[Heather] Some men take me up the stairs
and take me into this room,
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and they have my bag
of everything I took out with me.
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And all these men... laughing,
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and tearing apart my stuff.
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[crying] Ripping it open with knives.
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And I hear them saying
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the adults probably sent us out with
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bombs or grenades.
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[Gary] So now, every time a kid came out,
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we'd have them call back in
and talk to their parents.
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But this now gave us an opportunity,
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with regards to those children's parents
who we were able to speak with,
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to leave an impression with them about,
"We're good people."
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[producer] Do you wanna hear
that last call with your dad?
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Yeah.
471
00:26:22,163 --> 00:26:24,791
- [young Heather, on recording] Hi, Daddy.
- [Jones] Hi, Heather.
472
00:26:26,042 --> 00:26:27,085
What you doing?
473
00:26:28,628 --> 00:26:30,228
[young Heather] Just sitting in a chair.
474
00:26:30,255 --> 00:26:32,815
- [Jones] You're just sitting in a chair?
- [young Heather] Yeah.
475
00:26:34,426 --> 00:26:36,469
[Jones] How'd you like your little ride?
476
00:26:37,470 --> 00:26:40,223
- [young Heather] It was fun. It was bumpy.
- [Jones] It was fun.
477
00:26:41,016 --> 00:26:43,101
God has many promises, Heather.
478
00:26:44,686 --> 00:26:47,063
And always... Always remember that.
479
00:26:50,692 --> 00:26:52,193
You be a good girl, and...
480
00:26:53,486 --> 00:26:56,865
And, uh... ask for all the good things.
481
00:26:58,116 --> 00:26:59,909
Don't forget what you know.
482
00:27:01,286 --> 00:27:02,954
I'll see you. Okay?
483
00:27:03,705 --> 00:27:06,207
- [young Heather] Bye-bye.
- [Jones] Bye. I love you.
484
00:27:07,083 --> 00:27:09,085
[sobbing]
485
00:27:18,011 --> 00:27:19,596
[crying] Oh my God.
486
00:27:21,806 --> 00:27:22,806
[inhales sharply]
487
00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:27,062
[sobbing] That was the last time
I heard his voice.
488
00:27:31,024 --> 00:27:33,902
[somber music playing]
489
00:27:36,154 --> 00:27:39,034
[Koresh] You wanna say hello to anybody
out there, of the kids that left?
490
00:27:39,115 --> 00:27:40,200
Yeah.
491
00:27:40,283 --> 00:27:41,743
Say hello. Wave to them.
492
00:27:42,994 --> 00:27:44,120
Hi.
493
00:27:44,204 --> 00:27:47,207
Tell them make sure that
they're taking good care of them.
494
00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:49,417
This is little Crystal.
495
00:27:50,585 --> 00:27:53,380
She's my little taco girl. Love Daddy?
496
00:27:54,005 --> 00:27:55,131
Huh?
497
00:27:55,965 --> 00:27:59,010
We live for one thing, and that's
the betterment of tomorrow's world,
498
00:27:59,094 --> 00:28:00,970
and that's where our children come in at.
499
00:28:01,513 --> 00:28:05,600
You people go and think what you want to,
but, uh, the proof is in the pudding.
500
00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:07,852
You know,
our children know how to respect,
501
00:28:07,936 --> 00:28:09,354
they know how to be mindful,
502
00:28:09,437 --> 00:28:11,731
they know how to do right,
'cause they see it here.
503
00:28:11,815 --> 00:28:13,733
I think the negotiation team,
504
00:28:13,817 --> 00:28:17,570
uh, essentially, we looked at Koresh as
505
00:28:18,446 --> 00:28:21,324
being a bit of a con man,
a manipulator, a narcissist.
506
00:28:21,908 --> 00:28:23,576
But we think religion
507
00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:27,706
just happened to be the vehicle
that he used to control people.
508
00:28:27,789 --> 00:28:33,211
[Bob] I think Gary Noesner believes that
he was nothing but a con man. I don't.
509
00:28:33,294 --> 00:28:38,717
I believe not only was David lifted up
and told he was this person.
510
00:28:39,926 --> 00:28:42,137
He may have had doubts, he was human.
511
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:47,517
But because of the nature
of the time that he had spent,
512
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,478
and what he had overcome
to rise to this level,
513
00:28:50,562 --> 00:28:52,147
to be head of this group,
514
00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:57,569
I believe he truly... he truly believed
that he was the Second Coming.
515
00:29:00,071 --> 00:29:03,116
[Koresh] John, I know you take us
for a bunch of idiots.
516
00:29:03,199 --> 00:29:05,493
No, I'm taking this real seriously.
517
00:29:05,994 --> 00:29:08,496
- [Koresh] I don't think serious enough.
- [Cox] Why?
518
00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:11,875
[Koresh] Because your actions
are just definitely provocative.
519
00:29:12,959 --> 00:29:14,919
See, what you fail to understand, John...
520
00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:16,045
[Cox] Yeah?
521
00:29:16,129 --> 00:29:19,299
[Koresh] ...is that I'm not afraid to die.
Not at all.
522
00:29:19,382 --> 00:29:20,759
[Cox] Well, that's commendable.
523
00:29:22,886 --> 00:29:25,138
You wanna pray to some people
this morning, David?
524
00:29:26,473 --> 00:29:29,033
[Koresh] I think you guys
are the ones that better start praying.
525
00:29:29,934 --> 00:29:30,934
I think so.
526
00:29:31,728 --> 00:29:33,730
[somber string music playing]
527
00:29:39,277 --> 00:29:41,362
[Chris] And we knew
that David Koresh had said,
528
00:29:41,446 --> 00:29:43,156
"I've got .50-caliber weapons."
529
00:29:43,239 --> 00:29:46,868
We knew that they could punch through
the cinder block and the sandbags
530
00:29:46,951 --> 00:29:50,371
and the plates of steel
that we sat behind every day.
531
00:29:50,455 --> 00:29:54,959
They were a significant risk
to our lives in Sierra Two.
532
00:29:55,502 --> 00:29:59,005
And then, one day,
sitting there watching through my scope,
533
00:29:59,088 --> 00:30:02,550
I look up
at a firing port on the building,
534
00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:05,720
and the door to that firing port
535
00:30:06,387 --> 00:30:07,222
falls down.
536
00:30:07,305 --> 00:30:11,351
All of a sudden,
I see a Barrett .50-caliber rifle
537
00:30:12,185 --> 00:30:13,353
pointed straight at me.
538
00:30:14,771 --> 00:30:18,983
So, I got on the radio and I explained
what had happened to the command post.
539
00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:22,862
The command post decided to give
that information to the negotiators.
540
00:30:22,946 --> 00:30:26,407
I got a frantic phone call
in the negotiation room
541
00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:28,576
from Dick Rogers, the head of HRT.
542
00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:33,623
The Davidians were aiming
a .50-caliber sniper rifle at our people.
543
00:30:34,207 --> 00:30:38,461
He said, "You tell them to get that
out of the window and not aimed at us,
544
00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:40,380
or we're gonna take action."
545
00:30:41,339 --> 00:30:45,510
[Dick] We just got a report,
uh, from one of those guys around outside
546
00:30:45,593 --> 00:30:48,513
that they, um, saw a weapon.
547
00:30:48,596 --> 00:30:50,348
Believe me, they're seeing things.
548
00:30:50,431 --> 00:30:53,434
I checked it out.
There was absolutely nothing.
549
00:30:54,310 --> 00:30:57,689
- [Dick] There's no .50-caliber?
- [Steve] No such thing as a .50-caliber
550
00:30:57,772 --> 00:31:01,526
or even a broomstick
sticking out anything out of that wall.
551
00:31:01,609 --> 00:31:03,069
What do you think of that, John?
552
00:31:05,738 --> 00:31:08,324
[Chris] I watch the muzzle
come out of the building.
553
00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:11,119
I watch the port close back up.
554
00:31:11,828 --> 00:31:12,912
And from that point on,
555
00:31:12,996 --> 00:31:15,248
we never knew
where the .50-caliber was again.
556
00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:18,126
That was not good for us.
557
00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:22,547
[Gary] So, the tactical team
was really angry at the negotiators.
558
00:31:22,630 --> 00:31:23,630
They blamed us.
559
00:31:23,673 --> 00:31:25,633
We only did that
on the orders of your boss.
560
00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:30,305
[Chris] Did the negotiators do that
intentionally to hurt us? No.
561
00:31:30,388 --> 00:31:34,475
Did it clearly demonstrate the danger
562
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,228
in a breakdown of communication
between those two elements?
563
00:31:37,812 --> 00:31:38,897
Fuck yes.
564
00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:41,149
What we had here
was a failure to communicate
565
00:31:41,232 --> 00:31:44,569
between the negotiators and the HRT team,
566
00:31:44,652 --> 00:31:50,533
and that plagued this operation
from start to finish.
567
00:31:50,617 --> 00:31:53,244
[intense music playing]
568
00:31:55,204 --> 00:31:59,459
Last night, David Koresh has made
such statements as,
569
00:31:59,542 --> 00:32:01,169
"We are ready for war."
570
00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:03,379
"Let's get it on."
571
00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:06,591
"I'm going to give you
an opportunity to save yourself,
572
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:09,469
before you get blown away."
573
00:32:09,969 --> 00:32:11,429
[Lee] The next morning,
574
00:32:11,512 --> 00:32:15,308
they get into a back-and-forth
where Koresh is threatening them
575
00:32:15,391 --> 00:32:19,520
and saying, "I've got something that can
blow your Bradleys 50 feet in the air."
576
00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:25,944
So, the FBI Hostage Rescue Team
responds by bringing in Abrams tanks
577
00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:27,904
from down at Fort Hood.
578
00:32:27,987 --> 00:32:31,491
You know, the biggest armored vehicle
that the United States military has.
579
00:32:31,574 --> 00:32:33,701
We see all the tanks in a row.
580
00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:34,869
They came down the hill
581
00:32:34,953 --> 00:32:38,164
and started to set up
one by one in front of the building.
582
00:32:38,665 --> 00:32:39,865
I couldn't fucking believe it.
583
00:32:39,916 --> 00:32:40,917
There was a threat.
584
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,629
When you got over 200 weapons
that are pointed at you
585
00:32:44,712 --> 00:32:48,508
and millions of rounds of ammunition
that they have at their disposal,
586
00:32:48,591 --> 00:32:50,218
they are always posing a threat.
587
00:32:50,301 --> 00:32:52,845
And they've already demonstrated
that they are a threat
588
00:32:52,929 --> 00:32:54,764
by killing four ATF agents.
589
00:32:56,516 --> 00:32:58,226
[Gary] One day, Mr. Jamar came in,
590
00:32:58,309 --> 00:33:00,353
he had just come from the front lines,
591
00:33:00,436 --> 00:33:03,564
where he had seen
the new military Abrams tank
592
00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:05,441
that we had borrowed from the military,
593
00:33:05,525 --> 00:33:09,862
and, uh, he was really excited
about the capabilities of this tank.
594
00:33:09,946 --> 00:33:13,491
He says, "That thing can start
at this end of the compound
595
00:33:13,574 --> 00:33:16,494
and drive full speed..."
And he moves his hand along.
596
00:33:16,577 --> 00:33:18,454
"...all the way to the other end,
597
00:33:19,372 --> 00:33:20,456
without stopping."
598
00:33:22,291 --> 00:33:26,504
And one of my negotiation team leaders
unfortunately said,
599
00:33:27,088 --> 00:33:29,173
"Why the hell would they do that?"
600
00:33:30,174 --> 00:33:31,968
He was sent home the next day.
601
00:33:32,051 --> 00:33:35,847
Every step we take, we're taking,
is trying to be a logical step.
602
00:33:36,431 --> 00:33:39,267
If you got somebody
who's threatening you with a .50-caliber,
603
00:33:39,350 --> 00:33:40,550
you're gonna protect yourself.
604
00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:43,604
Bringing these tanks
and stuff around here,
605
00:33:43,688 --> 00:33:45,690
I tell you what,
being an American first...
606
00:33:46,482 --> 00:33:49,777
I'm the kind of guy
that I'll stand in front of a tank.
607
00:33:49,861 --> 00:33:53,740
You can run over me,
but I'll be biting one of the tracks.
608
00:33:53,823 --> 00:33:58,077
No one's gonna hurt me or my family.
'Cause that's American policy here.
609
00:33:59,078 --> 00:34:01,706
- You hear the tanks outside?
- Yeah.
610
00:34:02,331 --> 00:34:04,625
- [Koresh] Are you scared?
- No.
611
00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:07,086
[Koresh] What's God gonna do
to our enemies?
612
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,088
Destroy them.
613
00:34:13,176 --> 00:34:14,343
[echoing] Destroy them.
614
00:34:15,470 --> 00:34:17,555
[unsettling music playing]
615
00:34:19,515 --> 00:34:20,808
[children playing]
616
00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:27,356
[Heather] They take me
617
00:34:28,775 --> 00:34:30,777
to the Children's Home in Waco,
618
00:34:30,860 --> 00:34:32,278
which is a Methodist home.
619
00:34:33,362 --> 00:34:37,492
I felt safe because I was
with all the other children.
620
00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:41,162
But they would record us all the time.
621
00:34:41,245 --> 00:34:43,081
One of the young negotiators on our team
622
00:34:43,164 --> 00:34:47,126
came up with the brilliant idea
to send in a video of the kids,
623
00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:51,506
to reinforce to the moms particularly,
"Your kids aren't going anywhere."
624
00:34:51,589 --> 00:34:53,633
"We're keeping your kids here for you,
Mom and Dad."
625
00:34:53,716 --> 00:34:55,218
"They're here. They're your kids."
626
00:34:55,301 --> 00:34:59,305
"Come out. Become a parent. They need you.
They love you. They want you out."
627
00:34:59,889 --> 00:35:01,224
And we sent the tape in.
628
00:35:03,017 --> 00:35:05,478
There was a woman inside
named Kathy Schroeder.
629
00:35:06,813 --> 00:35:08,397
When we send the tape in,
630
00:35:08,481 --> 00:35:12,860
Kathy sees her young son looking forlorn,
631
00:35:12,944 --> 00:35:14,946
you know, out of place, unhappy.
632
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,533
I have no idea
what's gonna happen to Bryan.
633
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:21,327
He's by himself, and that upset me.
634
00:35:21,410 --> 00:35:25,123
Because the father of her older kids
showed up in Waco and said,
635
00:35:25,206 --> 00:35:28,251
"I've got joint custody.
These are my kids. I want them."
636
00:35:28,334 --> 00:35:29,168
And he got them.
637
00:35:29,252 --> 00:35:30,169
I feel very relieved.
638
00:35:30,253 --> 00:35:33,089
Um, I'm very happy for the children,
and for my family.
639
00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:37,218
[Gary] But her son, Bryan,
was still being held
640
00:35:37,301 --> 00:35:39,303
at the Child Protective Services.
641
00:35:39,887 --> 00:35:41,031
- [Dolan] Kathy?
- [Kathy] Yes.
642
00:35:41,055 --> 00:35:42,348
[Dolan] John. How are you?
643
00:35:42,431 --> 00:35:44,409
[Kathy]
You've probably seen the kids yourselves...
644
00:35:44,433 --> 00:35:46,353
[Dolan] I did.
I was over when the tape was made.
645
00:35:46,394 --> 00:35:48,896
[Kathy] You know Bryan was laying
on the floor the whole time.
646
00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:51,232
- [Dolan] Um...
- [Kathy] Bryan's not feeling too good.
647
00:35:51,315 --> 00:35:53,460
- [Dolan] Right.
- [Kathy] He misses his mother deeply,
648
00:35:53,484 --> 00:35:55,736
and it's really affecting him a lot,
you know?
649
00:35:55,820 --> 00:35:58,865
He's just gonna really be...
hurting from it.
650
00:35:58,948 --> 00:36:00,616
And she was worried about him.
651
00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:03,661
But I thought we needed to twist that
652
00:36:04,412 --> 00:36:07,790
to not just being worried about him,
but being responsible for him.
653
00:36:07,874 --> 00:36:09,667
"And here's what Bryan needs."
654
00:36:10,251 --> 00:36:12,795
"We're not talking about you, Kathy,
and what you need."
655
00:36:13,629 --> 00:36:17,216
"This is what the little guy needs.
You're the only thing in his world."
656
00:36:19,302 --> 00:36:20,720
I was in turmoil.
657
00:36:22,388 --> 00:36:24,432
That made me rethink my entire...
658
00:36:25,683 --> 00:36:27,226
salvation plan.
659
00:36:28,978 --> 00:36:31,981
It made it much more difficult for me to...
660
00:36:33,524 --> 00:36:34,524
do God's will.
661
00:36:34,984 --> 00:36:38,321
It was important for us to get Kathy out.
662
00:36:38,404 --> 00:36:42,742
Kathy Schroeder
is a very interesting character in this.
663
00:36:42,825 --> 00:36:45,411
Koresh had a group of guys
called The Mighty Men,
664
00:36:45,494 --> 00:36:49,415
who, I guess, were sort of his little army
within the larger compound.
665
00:36:49,999 --> 00:36:52,501
And she was considered
one of the Mighty Men.
666
00:36:53,252 --> 00:36:55,254
We took nothing for granted
667
00:36:55,338 --> 00:36:59,634
and tried to orchestrate this
down to its fine points.
668
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:03,721
- Hi, Kathy. How are you?
- [Kathy] Okay.
669
00:37:03,804 --> 00:37:05,782
- I spoke to you the other afternoon.
- [Kathy] Yes.
670
00:37:05,806 --> 00:37:07,683
Yeah. How you doing?
671
00:37:07,767 --> 00:37:10,978
[Kathy] My... three-year-old son
672
00:37:12,230 --> 00:37:13,689
is now alone.
673
00:37:13,773 --> 00:37:14,607
I know.
674
00:37:14,690 --> 00:37:17,235
[Kathy] He's not even
with his brothers and sister.
675
00:37:18,402 --> 00:37:19,320
[Dolan] I know.
676
00:37:19,403 --> 00:37:22,573
[Kathy] Although... I'd rather be here,
677
00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:27,870
in order to be with Bryan,
I guess I've got to come out.
678
00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:33,027
- [Dolan] Kathy, I know how difficult...
- [Kathy] And you realize I don't want to.
679
00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:34,669
[Dolan] I know that very much.
680
00:37:34,752 --> 00:37:37,713
The sooner we'd like
to get you out, the better.
681
00:37:37,797 --> 00:37:40,299
[Kathy] Okay, yes. Don't... don't rush me.
682
00:37:40,383 --> 00:37:41,926
No, no. I didn't mean to rush you.
683
00:37:42,009 --> 00:37:43,070
[Kathy] This is a really...
684
00:37:43,094 --> 00:37:45,054
- Tough decision.
- A tough thing for me to do.
685
00:37:45,137 --> 00:37:50,434
So, if it's tomorrow,
don't... don't think that I'm backing out.
686
00:37:50,977 --> 00:37:52,103
No, I'm not.
687
00:37:52,186 --> 00:37:54,939
[Gary] I have this idea, I write it
on a note, and I hand it to John.
688
00:37:57,066 --> 00:37:59,777
John looks up at me and kind of smiles,
and he reads it to her.
689
00:37:59,860 --> 00:38:03,906
He said, "Kathy, what Bryan needs now
is a hug from his mommy."
690
00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:07,076
...and I know that Bryan
will wanna hug his mommy.
691
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:10,246
I know that's for sure,
that's a big guarantee.
692
00:38:10,329 --> 00:38:12,290
It was like an arrow
going through the phone line
693
00:38:12,373 --> 00:38:13,708
had struck her in the heart.
694
00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:16,877
For you, it's a tough thing,
but for Bryan, it's the right thing.
695
00:38:18,004 --> 00:38:19,338
I'll see you in a little bit.
696
00:38:19,422 --> 00:38:21,632
- [Kathy] Thank you, John.
- Thank you very much.
697
00:38:22,216 --> 00:38:23,801
- Thanks, Kathy.
- [Kathy] Mm-hmm.
698
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,345
[Gary] Beautiful job, John. Beautiful.
699
00:38:26,429 --> 00:38:27,763
- [man] Yes!
- [woman] Good job.
700
00:38:27,847 --> 00:38:28,681
[man 2] Good, John.
701
00:38:28,764 --> 00:38:31,100
- How do you feel?
- That is tough. Really feels good.
702
00:38:31,183 --> 00:38:32,183
Way to go.
703
00:38:32,768 --> 00:38:36,063
- I hope so. We can get her out.
- That was very nice. Very nice.
704
00:38:36,147 --> 00:38:37,565
[woman] That's a huge nut.
705
00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:38,648
We can get her out.
706
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:40,919
[Gary] Don't think
there's any question she's coming out.
707
00:38:40,943 --> 00:38:41,777
[woman] She's coming.
708
00:38:41,861 --> 00:38:43,863
[somber music playing]
709
00:38:52,621 --> 00:38:53,622
[crew] Is everyone ready?
710
00:38:53,706 --> 00:38:55,958
[indistinct murmuring]
711
00:38:56,042 --> 00:39:01,380
An unidentified adult female
has just come out of the compound.
712
00:39:01,464 --> 00:39:03,716
[Gary] This was a huge success for us.
713
00:39:03,799 --> 00:39:05,718
And we learned so much from Kathy,
714
00:39:05,801 --> 00:39:09,555
uh, you know, about the conditions inside,
what people were thinking,
715
00:39:09,638 --> 00:39:11,474
how much food they had, how much water.
716
00:39:11,557 --> 00:39:13,184
These were things that we
717
00:39:13,267 --> 00:39:15,307
had a desperate need
to want to know and understand,
718
00:39:15,353 --> 00:39:17,313
and she was able
to fill a lot of the gaps we had.
719
00:39:17,355 --> 00:39:19,357
[indistinct conversations]
720
00:39:23,444 --> 00:39:25,863
There's my boy!
721
00:39:25,946 --> 00:39:27,281
[man] Here you go, Kathy.
722
00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:28,365
Hi!
723
00:39:30,326 --> 00:39:31,326
Who's this?
724
00:39:31,660 --> 00:39:34,121
Look. Look. Look in there.
725
00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:36,582
[on video] Can you make your war face?
726
00:39:37,166 --> 00:39:38,166
Make your war face!
727
00:39:39,043 --> 00:39:40,961
Good boy!
728
00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:42,129
Bryan, look at me.
729
00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:44,089
Who am I?
730
00:39:45,549 --> 00:39:47,760
- Mommy.
- Mommy! Right!
731
00:39:48,302 --> 00:39:49,512
Hug. Hug.
732
00:39:51,263 --> 00:39:52,263
There.
733
00:39:54,183 --> 00:39:57,103
[agent] You spend some time with him.
You haven't seen him in a while.
734
00:39:57,186 --> 00:39:59,271
[dramatic music building]
735
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:08,572
[music stops suddenly]
736
00:40:09,573 --> 00:40:12,243
And then they said
that he needed to go eat,
737
00:40:12,326 --> 00:40:13,702
and they took him away.
738
00:40:15,121 --> 00:40:16,622
And then I didn't see him again.
739
00:40:17,206 --> 00:40:20,668
They put me in an orange jumpsuit
and shipped me off to jail.
740
00:40:23,963 --> 00:40:25,683
[reporter]
Kathy, did you do anything wrong?
741
00:40:26,382 --> 00:40:29,635
Katherine Schroeder did knowingly,
willfully, and unlawfully,
742
00:40:29,718 --> 00:40:32,304
conspire and agree
with persons known and unknown
743
00:40:32,388 --> 00:40:35,099
to attempt to kill,
with malice aforethought,
744
00:40:35,182 --> 00:40:37,726
several Special Agents
of the Bureau of ATF.
745
00:40:37,810 --> 00:40:41,272
[reporter 2] The ATF said that
anyone coming out will be charged
746
00:40:41,355 --> 00:40:43,190
if the facts are substantiated.
747
00:40:45,693 --> 00:40:47,862
[Gary] I was quite upset, because...
748
00:40:47,945 --> 00:40:49,321
We protested as negotiators.
749
00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:53,075
I said, "The people inside are watching
what happens to people that come out."
750
00:40:53,159 --> 00:40:56,620
So, if they thought they were
gonna face serious charges,
751
00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:59,623
that was not going
to encourage other people to come out.
752
00:40:59,707 --> 00:41:00,958
I was angry.
753
00:41:01,041 --> 00:41:02,710
I was very angry.
754
00:41:02,793 --> 00:41:04,503
You know what? It pisses me off.
755
00:41:05,087 --> 00:41:08,007
Anyone knows that
the government's not gonna lose, right?
756
00:41:08,549 --> 00:41:10,843
They're gonna get whatever they want,
one way or another.
757
00:41:10,926 --> 00:41:12,595
We didn't believe anything they said.
758
00:41:12,678 --> 00:41:14,680
[FBI negotiator]
Would you like to come out?
759
00:41:14,763 --> 00:41:19,685
[woman 1] Yeah, what for? So they can
put us all in jail and throw away the key?
760
00:41:19,768 --> 00:41:21,729
[woman 2] We walk out there,
you'll handcuff us.
761
00:41:21,812 --> 00:41:24,166
- Put us in solitary confinement.
- [negotiator 2] Not gonna...
762
00:41:24,190 --> 00:41:26,750
- [woman 2] Nobody will talk to us.
- [FBI agent 2] Why say that?
763
00:41:26,775 --> 00:41:30,070
[man] Everyone will be arrested,
everybody will be jailed.
764
00:41:30,821 --> 00:41:33,282
- [Gary] David...
- [Koresh] You're... No, you listen to me.
765
00:41:33,365 --> 00:41:35,451
- You are a damn liar!
- [Gary] Not...
766
00:41:36,202 --> 00:41:38,829
- Well, you're wrong, David.
- [Koresh] You are a liar!
767
00:41:38,913 --> 00:41:42,833
[ominous music playing]
768
00:41:47,296 --> 00:41:52,134
One night, I was on shift,
and it's two o'clock in the morning.
769
00:41:52,676 --> 00:41:54,094
I'm sitting behind my rifle.
770
00:41:54,803 --> 00:41:58,933
I'm doing my survey of the building,
and I'm looking at that window.
771
00:41:59,975 --> 00:42:01,936
And I look off at something else.
772
00:42:03,812 --> 00:42:06,815
And I look back, and it was David Koresh.
773
00:42:08,526 --> 00:42:10,861
The David Koresh.
774
00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:16,575
He's looking out the window,
and he's looking at me.
775
00:42:18,369 --> 00:42:19,620
He doesn't know who I am.
776
00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:21,622
He knows where I am.
777
00:42:21,705 --> 00:42:22,831
He knows what I am.
778
00:42:23,749 --> 00:42:25,584
And he knows I'm looking at him too.
779
00:42:28,003 --> 00:42:31,423
And I'm leaning over my rifle,
and I'm looking through the scope.
780
00:42:32,383 --> 00:42:37,179
It's 297 yards from the tip of my barrel
to the point of his nose.
781
00:42:37,888 --> 00:42:42,768
And I knew that I could shoot
a dime at 300 yards.
782
00:42:47,231 --> 00:42:52,903
The wind is still, elevation's flat,
the humidity is low. It's a simple shot.
783
00:42:54,947 --> 00:42:56,699
If I pull the trigger,
784
00:42:57,825 --> 00:42:58,993
the leader's dead.
785
00:42:59,076 --> 00:43:00,286
The kids are safe.
786
00:43:00,995 --> 00:43:02,705
They all come out. It's over.
787
00:43:02,788 --> 00:43:05,124
[dramatic music playing]
788
00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:39,992
[music fades to silence]
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