Investigation into Waco raid highly critical

Title

Investigation into Waco raid highly critical

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

1 Oct 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:38

Description

A highly critical report has just been released in America into the initial government raid on the Branch Davidian compound of the religious cult led by David Koresh in Waco, Texas. It concluded the blame for failures lies with local commanders of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) which carried out the raid for going ahead anyway after Koresh was tipped off and lying afterwards. Comment by US Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen; Assistant Treasury Secretary Robert Noble, who produced the report, says ATF Director Stephen Higgins was not to blame. Paul Woodley reports.

Contributors

Paul Woodley; Lloyd Bentsen; Robert Noble

Keywords

USA; Reports; Cults; Waco; Branch Davidian Sect; David Koresh; ATF; Stephen Higgins

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