Waco has undergone a significant transformation—shrugging off its stigma as being the site of a tragic standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh in 1993. Of course ...
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The cult of Manson. We know how that ended. Remember David Koresh, the wacko from Waco, and how he got his cultlike followers to stay until the end? We all saw how that ended. Remember Jim Jones? and ...
Closer to GISB’s framework are the Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh in the early 1990s. Koresh convinced his followers that he was a prophet, using this belief to engage in abuse and violence.