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Thursday April 9, 2009
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A Henderson County grand jury has returned an indictment of murder against 54-year-old Beverly Clark of Chandler for the January death of her sister, Bonnie Clark Halderman, 60.Bonnie Halderman was the mother of Vernon Howell, who became known as David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians cult.
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Wednesday January 28, 2009
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Beverly Clark, 54, the aunt of late Branch Davidian leader David Koresh, remained in the Henderson County Jail Tuesday, charged in the stabbing death of Koresh’s mother, Bonnie Haldeman, 64.A family member told a local newspaper that the woman has a long history of mental illness.
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Saturday January 24, 2009
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The mother of infamous Branch Davidian leader David Koresh was stabbed to death and her sister was in custody Saturday charged with her slaying, authorities said.Authorities say they do not yet know what happened.
Halderman wrote an autobiography, published in 2007, called “Memories of the Branch Davidians: The Autobiography of David Koresh’s Mother,” that described how her son, Vernon Howell, became David Koresh. [video]
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Monday September 8, 2008
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The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos has received a $20,000 grant to create an online exhibit about the 1993 shootout and standoff at the Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco.
The exhibit will be created based on the primary source materials journalist Dick J. Reavis, collected while writing “The Ashes of Waco,” which was published in 1995.
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Friday February 29, 2008
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About a dozen federal agents visited the former Branch Davidian compound site Thursday, 15 years after a botched raid began an armed standoff with authorities and didn’t end until a deadly inferno 51 days later. [video]
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Saturday May 19, 2007
Branch Davidians • The Branch - The Lord Our Righteousness:
The Branch Davidians may be best known for its 51-day standoff that ended in the deaths of four federal agents, and a blaze that engulfed its church and killed 80 members. In the ashes of that debacle, the Branch Davidians have built a new church, adopted a new leader and found a new confrontation: a major Texas highway that threatens their land.
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The state of Texas is considering building a north-south superhighway through the Waco area. One county map, drawn up merely for guesstimating costs, the county insists, shows the highway going straight through the old Branch Davidian camp.
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Thursday April 19, 2007
Branch Davidians • Hate Groups • USA:
When it comes to national tragedies, what is it about mid-April?
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In the ashes of the Branch Davidian site where nearly 80 people died in a 1993 blaze after an armed standoff with federal agents, a new religious community is slowly taking shape.
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Sunday April 15, 2007
Branch Davidians • The Branch - The Lord Our Righteousness:
A new religious community is rising from the ashes of the Branch Davidian compound here, 14 years after nearly 80 people died in a fire that ended an armed standoff with the federal authorities.
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Wednesday April 11, 2007
Branch Davidians • The Branch - The Lord Our Righteousness:
The current residents would like to construct an Old Testament-style tabernacle, an amphitheater, a spiritual healing center, a museum showing the entire history of the land and a memorial wall containing a stone for each of the 86 people killed in 51-day standoff that ended in fire April 19, 1993.
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Thursday March 8, 2007
Branch Davidians • The Branch - The Lord Our Righteousness:
Fourteen years after a February shootout and April inferno killed almost 100 people, tourists still trek to Mount Carmel, drawn by the bloody tragedy of cult leader David Koresh and his Branch Davidian followers.
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Tuesday February 6, 2007
Branch Davidians • The Branch - The Lord Our Righteousness:
The group that assumed control almost a year ago of the new Mount Carmel, former home of the David Koresh faction of the Branch Davidian sect, announced this week plans to resume the communal lifestyle of its founders in the compound made infamous 14 years ago.
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Monday November 20, 2006
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It’s hard to see what happened to Australian Graeme Craddock as less than injustice. He got caught up in the aggressive US government raids against the Branch Davidians.
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Friday September 8, 2006
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Discovery Channel goes in-depth with the ATF undercover agent who infiltrated the Branch Davidians, the FBI Lead Negotiator at Mount Carmel, federal officials and surviving Davidians for ASSAULT ON WACO, a brand-new documentary premiering Sunday, September 17 at 9 PM ET/PT on the Discovery Channel, revealing exactly how David Koresh was tipped off to an impending raid on his compound. Exclusive footage of Koresh with his children and dramatizations based on extensive interviews and research bring viewers inside the Waco compound to experience life with the influential leader and recreate the FBIs psychological intimidation techniques and aggressive efforts before and during the 51-day siege.
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Friday July 21, 2006
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The UK's Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel US have commissioned IMG Media-owned prodco Darlow Smithson Productions to make a docu-drama based on the 1993 Waco siege in Texas.
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Thursday April 20, 2006
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For 12 years, Clive Doyle spent every April 19th at the site of the Branch Davidian compound, remembering the day he narrowly escaped a blaze that killed his daughter and dozens of fellow cult members.
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A handful of surviving Branch Davidians gathered Wednesday at a local restaurant to mark the 13th anniversary of the deadly fire that ended the 51-day standoff with federal agents at Mt. Carmel, outside of Waco.
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WACO, Texas - Thirteen years after the Branch Davidians' armed standoff with federal agents ended in an inferno that killed nearly 80 people, six of the remaining sect members are about to get out of prison.
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Wednesday April 19, 2006
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(April 19, 2006)--An informal memorial service may be held Wednesday at the site of the Branch Davidian compound to mark the 13th anniversary of the fire that killed almost 80 Davidians and ended the 51-day standoff with federal agents, but survivors dont plan to attend this year, according to the Mt. Carmel Survivors Newsletter.
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Tuesday February 28, 2006
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(Feb. 28, 2006)--The 13th anniversary of the deadly federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco went almost unnoticed Tuesday.
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Sunday October 16, 2005
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Crime Scene Analyst
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Friday September 30, 2005
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DURHAM -- Janet Reno once overruled staffers in the U.S. Justice Department to face reporters eager to grill someone over the department's handling of the standoff in Waco, Texas.
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Thursday July 21, 2005
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Robert Rodriguez's memories of that fateful Sunday morning at the Branch Davidian compound in February 1993 are seared in his psyche.
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Friday June 10, 2005
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A man who helped prosecute the Branch Davidian criminal case switched roles Wednesday and defended two of the sect members in a dispute over the group's land.
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