Episode 154: Waco:

There are few cults that are as well known as the one we are talking about today. For those of us old enough to remember, hearing the word Waco brings up memories of seeing that fire rage on the evening news. 

But things for the Branch Davidians started back in the 1930's. One man took a group of his followers to Waco Texas where he set up his own twisted version of the Seventh Day Adventist.

Some 50 years later, one Vernon Howell, AKA David Koresh would make his way to the group and what followed was one of the worse disasters, some might say, that the US government has ever caused. 

 TPL EP 154 Source Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidic_line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

https://www.newsweek.com/does-branch-davidians-still-exist-what-happened-david-koresh-cult-1789158