Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from CBS Evening News for Monday, Apr 19, 1993


Title: Reckoning In Texas

Abstract:

A review and analysis of today's assault by government agents on the David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco (Texas) and the subsequent fire that destroyed the compound, including:

  • Taped segment with John Roberts (CBS), Bob Ricks of the FBI, Koresh's grandmother Jean Holub, Attorney General Janet Reno, Koresh's attorney Dick De Guerin, and mother of slain cult member Sandra Canizzo.
  • Interviews by Dan Rather (CBS) with surviving cult member's mother Belanda Ganem, Koresh's ex-wife Robyn Bunds, Reno, psychologist Margaret Singer, and Koresh's friend Ed Ray Goins.
  • Taped segment with Vicki Mabrey (CBS) and Ricks.
  • Taped segment with Bill Lagattuta (CBS), cult victim's mother Ruth Mosher, psychologist Paul Martin, daughter of Jonestown mass suicide victim Jynona Norwood, Professor Stephen O'Leary, and Branch Davidian member Karen Doyle.

  • Begin Time:10:30:00 pm
    End Time:11:05:00 pm
    TVN Record Number:650358
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1993-2009 Vanderbilt University
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