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Ep. 38 PART ONE: The Great War with David Koresh in Waco, Texas

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Before the 51-day siege that shocked the world, there was Vernon Wayne Howell, a lonely boy growing up in Texas who would eventually reinvent himself as David Koresh.

In Part One of our Waco series, we trace Koresh's life from his troubled childhood and struggles in school to his deep fascination with religion, prophecy, and the apocalypse. We'll explore how a young man searching for purpose found his way into the Branch Davidian community at Mount Carmel, and how his charisma, ambition, and increasingly radical beliefs helped him rise through the ranks to become its controversial leader.


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