![]() ![]() It wasn't going as well as it should have been. ![]() I had finished music school and was playing with a band. Reason: How did you get involved with David Koresh and the Mount Carmel community?ĭavid Thibodeau: I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. He recently talked via telephone with Reason's Washington Editor, Michael Lynch. The 30-year-old Thibodeau, one of four Waco survivors not charged with any crimes, is the author, with Leon Whiteson, of A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story (New York: Public Affairs). Thibodeau is one of nine Branch Davidians to survive what is widely recognized as the single biggest disaster in federal law enforcement history: As a result of the two raids, 80 Branch Davidians were killed, including 21 children four federal agents also died there as well. Carmel "compound," located just outside Waco, Texas, when the place was raided in 1993 first by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and, later, by the FBI. The speakers said, 'This is not an assault.' I thought, 'If this isn't an assault, I'd hate to see what is.'"ĭavid Thibodeau was a resident of the Branch Davidians' Mt. ![]() ![]() They started to break the walls, break the windows down, spread the CS gas out. I started to hear popping sounds around the building. "People started waking up, running around. ![]()
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