The Waco: A New Revelation Story

"Waco: A New Revelation" features interviews with former FBI Special Agents, former Special Forces and CIA operatives, explosives and weapons experts, Branch Davidian survivors, Texas and federal officials, including former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

The film opens with aerial footage of the smoldering Davidian compound. The blackened rubble resembles a war zone; a voice declares, "my life would change forever as I came to know what failure means." Over the somber soundtrack, the comments continue, punctuated with scenes no one wants to remember, but few can actually forget. Is that a child's toy among the smoldering rubble? Was that a blackened skull, one wonders, as another voice exclaims, "I have seen the gates of hell, I have seen the gates of hell."

From deftly woven scenes of congressional hearings, exclusive behind the scenes footage from the Waco evidence lockers, television news coverage, archival footage of the Davidians and interviews with researchers, survivors and law enforcement officers, the tragic story beings to take shape.

We move to February 28th, 1993, and watch as the ill-fated BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) raid on the compound unfolds. Who fired first, and for what reason? Four BATF agents and six Davidians are killed in the raid. The surviving Davidians are charged with murder, thus beginning the 51-day standoff.


That same evening three Davidians, including Michael Dean Schroeder, attempt to re-enter Mt. Carmel to join their families. Schroeder is killed by BATF agents. The film examines the suspicious events surrounding his death – was he in fact murdered?

We watch the story continue through weeks of negotiations with the Davidians: the frustrations, the confusion, the antagonism leading up to the decision by the Justice Department to insert tear gas into the compound.


Then, on the morning of April 19, 1993, we watch as tanks mounted with boom structures rip holes in the compound walls and insert the tear gas. Still the Davidians do not come out, and the FBI reports gunfire coming at them from within the compound. The gassing and demolition of the building continues until late morning.

Fire suddenly breaks out. We see the flames spread quickly in the wind. The compound is soon engulfed. Within minutes, 52 adults and 25 children, including two trauma-born infants, perish in the flames. The fire, the FBI claims, was started by the Davidians.


But questions surrounding the death of the Davidians and the official FBI account of the siege persist – questions such as:

Why was there a premature destruction of the crime scene – a destruction that resulted in critical evidence not being recovered?

Why were shots heard and empty shell casings recovered from an FBI sniper position – when the FBI claims they did not fire their weapons during the siege? And stationed at that position: a sniper notorious for his actions at Ruby Ridge.

Who killed Jimmy Riddle, a Davidian, whose body was found outside the compound walls? He was shot through the head and his body mutilated by a tank. But where are the evidentiary portions of his body? Who killed Jimmy Riddle? Was there more to his death than previously thought?

The questions continue.

Dr. Edward Allard, an infrared expert, analyzed the Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) videotape made by an FBI airplane circling overhead during the siege. The FLIR videotape shows a tank at the back of the compound. The vehicle discharges two men who, according to Dr. Allard, fire into the compound with automatic weapons. Over 60 shots are fired.

Maurice Cox, a former intelligence analyst, testifies in a report that the flashes seen on the Waco FLIR tape could not be solar reflections. Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, narrator and former FBI Crime Lab analyst, concurs.

If the FBI was not shooting, then who was? Was the Delta Force, an elite counter-terrorist military unit in action at Waco – in violation of federal law prohibiting the use of military forces against US citizens?



And who started the fire? Why were pyrotechnic devices capable of starting the fire found in the rubble of the compound if the FBI claims it never used them? Why were pyrotechnic devices found at all three points of origin of the fire?

Why were the bodies of 15 Davidians found shot to death near the only undamaged exit from the compound? Were the flashes on the FLIR tape during the fire actually gunfire aimed at that exit? And how could the bodies accidentally be left to decompose before forensic testing could take place?

Why does the evidence seem to indicate that the hole in the top of the church vault – the "bunker" – was made by the detonation of a high-explosive demolition charge? Why were only the bodies of women and children found in that bunker, and did they die as a result of that explosion?

And finally, why does the evidence show the chain of command during the operation at Waco leading to the office of Vincent Foster and to the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton? Was Vince Foster's suicide related to the deaths at Waco? Why did some of Foster's files on Waco end up missing after his death, and who appears to have seen them last?


The answers are shocking, the evidence disturbing, and the overall conclusions difficult to face. But this is the story that couldn't be ignored; the story of newly uncovered evidence, of missing or destroyed evidence; of shocking testimony and outright deception. It's a story of human fallibility and the abuse of power; a story of outsiders and insiders, and the tragic consequences of violence met with violence.

"Waco: A New Revelation" is a film America needs to see.

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