Waco: American Apocalypse

WBZ's Jordan Rich takes a look at this documentary highlighting the events of a 51-day standoff between the U.S. government and the Branch Davidian religious sect.

Episode Transcript

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This is now streaming with Jordan.They believed that the in the world is
coming soon and that they were goingto be in a battle with the federal
government. They were amassing enough armamentsto outfit a small army. A clip
from Waco American Apocalypse, a threepart documentary series on Netflix about the fifty
one day standoff in Texas between theATF and the FBI and cult leader David

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Koresh, now thirty years later.Director Tiller Russell puts together a dramatic story,
a strict timeline of the events,with interviews from those involved on all
sides. Many in law enforcements speakopenly about the mistakes made, costly ones
that led to the death of Koreshand sadly, several of US followers,
many of them children. The initialfirefight between the heavily armed Davidians and the

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ATF is spelled out in detail,stark, brutal and deadly, and so
much of it is chilling, includinga look at Timothy McVeagh, an observer
during the standoff, who, justtwo years later, on the anniversary of
Waco, would blow up a federalbuilding. Waco American Apocalypse, and that's
now streaming with Jordan WB's Boston's newsradio