Linda Thompson - Waco: The Big Lie / Big Lie Continues (DVD)

Linda Thompson - Waco: The Big Lie (DVD)

Linda Thompson - Waco: The Big Lie Continues (DVD)

On February 28, 1993, the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel, a property located nine miles (14 km) east-northeast of Waco, Texas. An exchange of gunfire resulted in the deaths of four agents and six Davidians. A subsequent 51-day siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended on April 19 when either the government forces or the Davidians set the complex ablaze. 79 people, including 21 children and Davidian leader David Koresh, died in the incident. This has come to be known as the Waco Siege.

Using outakes of satellite footage shot by a local news station, director Linda Thompson paints a chilling portrait of the ATF and FBI's military assault on the Branch Davidian's compound in Waco.

Thompson argues convincingly that the ATF's initial assault on Mt. Carmel was legally grounded on nothing more than a $200 weapons surchage that Koresh had failed to pay. With proof of that in their back pocket, the ATF called out U.S. Army gunships, and attacked the compound with dozens of stoked, reckless agents employing massive gunpower. The footage on this video demonstrates that the Branch Davidians did not meet the ATF with "a hail of gunfire." You'll see unthreatened ATF agents riddling the front of the compound with gunfire, fully aware that inside were dozens of women and children.

The ATF had plenty of time to shoot not only the house; they fired on themselves, other agents, children playing outside, long before a Branch Davidian fired a single shot in self defense. The video also details the FBI's effective bamboozlement of a compliant press, but the most controversial part of the tape comes at the end, when Thompson provides footage allegedly showing government tanks with flamethrowers that she contends set the fire that killed all 89 people inside.

Number of discs: 1
Number of files: 12
Size: 3.96 GB
Run time: Waco 1: 30 minutes, Waco 2: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Format: DVD, 720x480, 30 fps
Source: original VHS (4:3, NTSC)

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