Fbi hidden listening devices in waco3/8/2024 ![]() We would call the rental company and request ones that work. They will burn diesel for a night or two then the plug fouls. After several nights they would run out of fuel so we started siphoning diesel from the sat trucks. We finally rented those jet engine shaped shop heaters to keep warm as we sat by our cameras under tents bundled up. Despite it being a tragic story there were times of, in what we called Satellite City, moments of levity. CBS and the CBS affiliated stations had our sat trucks and rented RV’s encamped in the same area and we worked closely together to cover all locations, including a crew on site, one for the daily briefings at the convention center (KHOU’s Jim Moore covered most of those, as I recall), one for any court appearances by adult Branch Davidians who had come out of the compound. I was on site for everything but the first week of Waco. My response was, “I’m more afraid of being run over by a satellite truck on its way out of town to the staging area.” I recall being asked by the anchor at KING TV in Seattle, “Are you afraid of being shot?’ I think folks must have believed Waco itself was surrounded by FBI agents, guns drawn. And for me, that was primarily describing just how remote Mt. In that first week after the raid, I lost count of the phone reports I did for broadcast outlets both in the U.S. I was working as a radio news anchor at WACO AM/WACO 100 FM and also as a Central Texas “stringer” for AP Radio News. It was the classic "hurry up and wait" story.Īnn Harder - WACO 100 news anchor (current KXXV 25 Waco - Temple - Killeen anchor) I remember there were lines of press vans and vehicles up and down a two-lane part dirt, part caliche road, the only one leading to the Mount Carmel compound that sat in an open field. All media were held back about two hundred yards from the Mount Carmel compound by law enforcement. Wayne Dolcefino and photographer Tony Chapa were already there having arrived the night before. ![]() Talk about having to layer up! I was wearing two pairs of jeans to sleep in heater-less RV the station sent us. It was late winter, February, so a norther blew in overnight over Central Texas and the cold winds went right through my coat and jeans. I was sent and arrived the next day in my own car, after making a pit stop for warm clothes at a Wal-Mart. I was on the anchor desk that Sunday night with Bob Boudreaux when the ATF raid went down. We find out what the locals thought of the media intrusion and just who shot the now famous and chilling footage of the compound on fire.Ĭovering the first seven days of the 1993 WACO SEIGE was both COLD AND FRUSTRATING. Over the last few months, I have been corresponding with the journalists who were temporarily living there and the ones who called Waco home, all trying to cover and make sense of this sudden international story. The standoff lasted from February 28 to April 19, 1993. Carmel, where the cult lived back then and some still to this day. © 2024 NYP Holdings, Inc.On this 25th anniversary ATF raid, I will be bringing you the stories from Satellite City, the media enclave residing near Mt. So the Feds pressured then-new Attorney General Janet Reno to allow them to use tear gas - “a tear gas that wasn’t allowed in warfare and she did.” It made the Clinton administration look terrible, it made the FBI look silly,” Kevin Cook, author of “ Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias,” out Tuesday, told The Post. “When this event started to dominate the news … the pressure escalated on the FBI to end this thing. So the FBI - who already looked bad after two followers of Koresh snuck through police lines to join the Davidians - began lobbying for approval to use more forceful tactics to take control of the situation. The Feds had attempted to get Koresh’s followers to surrender in the days and weeks prior with little success. It was a drastic measure to force Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and his people to surrender and face justice after a 51-day standoff that had begun with an illegal weapons investigation and the shooting deaths of six Davidians and four agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. More than 800 Sudanese reportedly killed in Darfur attack, UN saysĬlinton administration’s deadly mistake in Waco gave rise to Oklahoma City, ColumbineĮarly in the morning on April 19, 1993, the FBI sent in tanks to doze the walls of the massive Mount Carmel compound in Waco, Tex. ![]() Iranian proxies attack more US troops in Syria - as Blinken launches new crucial Mideast tour
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