This monument on the grounds of the old Mt. Carmel Center was erected by the Northeast Texas Regional Militia of Texarkana, Texas.  It reads, "Mount Carmel Center: On February 28, 1993, a church and its members known as the Branch Davidians came under attack by ATF and FBI agents.  For 51 days the Davidians and their leader, David Koresh, stood proudly.  On April 19, 1993, the Davidians and their church were burned to the ground.  82 people perished during the siege.  18 were children 10 years old or younger."  And there follows a list of 82 known dead Davidians.

Introduction

There have been many attempts to deny or sanitize the Waco Holocaust—a long stream of official and unofficial reports justifying, sanitizing, modifying, and nullifying the crimes our government committed.

Normally, conclusions about the manner, cause, and time of death of the deceased are drawn from autopsies.  As you read these whitewashes of the Waco Holocaust, note that the reviewers give scant attention to the Davidian autopsy reports.  The Davidian autopsy reports give the most damning and irrefutable evidence against those who committed the crimes.  The Death Gallery contains the details.

John Danforth's Report

Senator John Danforth's Final Report to the Deputy Attorney General Concerning the 1993 Confrontation at the Mt. Carmel Complex was published on November 8, 2000 (cached).  According to the Report, "the investigation lasted 14 months, employed 74 personnel, and cost approximately $17 million." (Pg. 4)

Opinion leaders on the left and on the right criticized the Danforth Report, calling it a whitewash.

As might be expected, Danforth found the government did nothing wrong at Mt. Carmel.  Of all the nothing wrongs, Danforth's Report found nothing wrong with these facts:

  1. The ATF "served" a search and/or arrest warrant with armed helicopters and 80 paramilitary agents.
  2. The agents put hundreds of bullets into a building that housed dozens of children and their mothers.
  3. Four agents were killed with assassin-style wounds in a battle with Bible students.
  4. The agents staged a prolonged and torturous siege, imprisoning the families without adequate food, water, communications, and other basic liberties—without due process of law
  5. The agents used military tanks to attack a building full of children
  6. The agents used tear gas on the children in a prolonged assault
  7. The government claimed "the bunker collapsed" despite dozens of photographs showing the concrete room was still standing
  8. The government accepted the autopsy reports, though every one omitted a determination of the time of death
  9. The observations contained in many of the autopsies are at variance with the narrative of events accepted by Danforth.

See also What the Evidence Shows.

Danforth arrived at his conclusions by presuming everything told him by the FBI —and other potentially culpable organizations and individuals—was true … It was hardly an investigation.

The 1994 San Antonio Trial of the Branch Davidians

Twelve of the surviving Branch Davidians were prosecuted for murder and other charges arising from the death of the four ATF agents on February 28, 1993.  None were tried for the original charges listed on the warrant that was never served. 

… five were convicted of voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges and three were convicted on weapons charges. A 12th Davidian pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and testified against the others; she was sentenced to three years and was released in 1996. (Fox News, April 19, 2006, cached)

Though the government alleged the Davidians started the fire and killed each other, none were charged with arson or murdering each other or the children.  For example:

A surviving Davidian, Clive Doyle, had accelerants on his coat sleeves as well as burn wounds on his hands that the forensic pathologist retained by the Office of Special Counsel believes to be consistent with wounds that could have occurred when his accelerant-soaked hands came in contact with a flame. (Final Report to the Deputy Attorney General Concerning the 1993 Confrontation at the Mt. Carmel Complex, pg. 15 (cached)

According to that Fox News article, all but one of the Davidian prisoners were due for release in 2006, and the last prisoner would be released in 2007.  They were to spend the next five years on supervised release, forbidden to communicate with each other. (Fox News, April 19, 2006, cached)

The Documentary, "Waco: The Rules of Engagement," Is a Hoax!

The Museum presents an in-depth analysis of the techniques used in this video, and makes available to the Museum public a full transcription of the production.  Please disregard any typos you find in the transcript.  A short summary of the review is available here.

This documentary is a monument to the modern techniques of disinformation and psychological warfare.

Waco Survivor Story(s) — True or False?

The cover-up of the Waco Holocaust could not have been sustained without the improbable stories told by some of the survivors.

Waco Suits for Waco Suckers

Suppose you were a surviving Branch Davidian or family member and you had voluminous and incontestable evidence your family and friends were murdered with malice aforethought and their bodies desecrated in an attempt to cover up the crime.

Would you file a lawsuit claiming your womenfolk and children (a) died by accident, (b) committed suicide, (c) were murdered by other Davidians?  Would you claim your dead friends and relatives set the Mt. Carmel Center on fire?  Would you demand that the US taxpayers, who took no part in the planning and execution of the murders, pay you money while the real murderers continued to walk free?

That's what some Branch Davidian survivors have done.

U.S. Senate vs. Melissa Morrison

The U.S. Senate pretends to investigate the FBI, but focuses on trifles.  This August 13, 2001 letter from the Curator of the Museum, sent to each of the 100 senators, dares them to investigate a real outrage:  The FBI's mutilation/murder of eight-year-old Melissa Morrison during the Waco Holocaust.  The Curator urges the senators to call Dr. Douglas Ubelaker and Dr. Douglas Owsley, anthropology and forensic experts from the Smithsonian Institution, to testify under oath.  Ubelaker and Owsley examined Melissa's body during her autopsy, but failed to address this key question:  Did Melissa die as a result of being mutilated, or did her killers mutilate her body after her death?  It's their job to address questions like this.

The FBI's Catholic Church

Read about the March 12, 2001, visit of Museum supporters to the St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Great Falls, Virginia, where FBI Director Louis Freeh, along with accused FBI spy Robert P. Hanssen, are parishioners.  Freeh, of course, has been shielding the murderers of the Branch Davidians since his appointment in 1993.  Do Christ's words or Freeh's set the standards for St. Catherine's?  Read about what happened and judge for yourself.

Lightning Strikes New FBI Director

This information — documenting the FBI mutilation/murder of eight-year-old Melissa Morrison — was hand-delivered to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III as he was boarding the elevator in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, upon the occasion of his Senate confirmation hearing on July 30, 2001.  He can't say he does not know.
 


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