#312 - Jeff Guinn on WACO (part 1) - a podcast by Books on Pod

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)

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