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Ashes of Waco: An Investigation Paperback / softback - 1998
by Dick J. Reavis
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- Title Ashes of Waco: An Investigation
- Author Dick J. Reavis
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-04-01
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780815605027
- ISBN 9780815605027 / 0815605021
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.04 x 0.68 in (23.01 x 15.34 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1990's
- Theometrics: Academic
- Library of Congress subjects Branch Davidians, Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97046646
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.428
From the rear cover
This is the story the daily press didn't give us, the definitive book about what happened at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, examined from both sides - the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI on one hand, and David Koresh and his followers on the other. Dick J. Reavis points out that the government had little reason to investigate Koresh and even less to raid the compound at Mt. Carmel. The government lied to the public about most of what happened - about who fired the first shots, about drug allegations, about child abuse. The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Carmel - and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people. Drawing on interviews with survivors of Koresh's movement (which dates back to 1935, long before Koresh was born), on published accounts, on trial transcripts, on esoteric religious tracts and audiotapes that tell us who Koresh was and why people followed him, and most of all on secret documents that the government has not released to the public yet, Reavis has uncovered the real story from beginning to end, including the trial that followed.