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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962072303321

Autore

Haldeman Bonnie <1944->

Titolo

Memories of the Branch Davidians : the autobiography of David Koresh's mother / / by Bonnie Haldeman ; as told to Catherine Wessinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waco, Tex., : Baylor University Press, c2007

ISBN

9786610930029

9781280930027

1280930020

9781602580886

160258088X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WessingerCatherine <1952->

Disciplina

299/.93

B

Soggetti

Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bonnie Clark -- The Haldeman family -- Vernon Howell becomes a Branch Davidian -- Bonnie Haldeman becomes a Branch Davidian -- David Koresh's shootout with George Roden at Mount Carmel -- Resettling at Mount Carmel -- Bonnie and Roy leave Mount Carmel -- Visits back and forth with folks at Mount Carmel -- The ATF raid, February 28, 1993 -- The siege -- The fire, April 19, 1993 -- 1994 criminal trial -- 2000 civil trial -- Life after the fire -- Going back to Mount Carmel -- Remembering the people and lifestyle at Mount Carmel -- Remembering the children -- Remembering David -- Appendix: poems by David Koresh.

Sommario/riassunto

The 1993 event at Mt. Carmel shocked all of America and has since spawned a plethora of books regarding the "truth" about the Branch Davidians. Memories of the Branch Davidians is the story told from the inside. The oral history of Bonnie Haldeman, the mother of Vernon Howell (David Koresh), it offers an intimate, first-hand account of how a boy named Vernon Howell became David Koresh. Haldeman paints a picture of Koresh that could only be told by one who knew both his



greatest strengths and his deepest faults.