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#312 - Jeff Guinn on WACO (part 1)
Books on Pod with Trey Elling
English - February 07, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts health fitness business lifestyle entrepreneur marketing entrepreneurship interview wellness nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Award-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author Jeff Guinn chats with Trey Elling about WACO: DAVID KORESH, THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS, AND A LEGACY OF RAGE. In the first- or a two-part conversation, Jeff and Trey discuss the evolution of the Branch Davidians and David Koresh's rise within the religious organization. Topics include:
The book's genesis (1:26)
20 ATF agents going on-record about Waco for the first time (2:51)
How the group originally settled in Waco, TX in the early 1930s (5:44)
Legally becoming the “Branch Davidians” (8:24)
Koresh’s early days with the Branch Davidians (12:00)
Koresh’s first taste of a gun fight (18:41)
How the Branch Davidians got into illegal firearms in the early 1990s (21:00)
Koresh’s sexual proclamations and the cost of losing Marc Breault as a follower (25:44)
Why some defend Koresh’s pedophilia (29:12)