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Waco : a survivor's story
- Title
- Waco : a survivor's story / David Thibodeau and Leon Whiteson with Aviva Layton.
- Author
- Thibodeau, David
- Publication
- New York : Hachette Books, 2018.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-4332 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xx, 379 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- One of nine survivors of the attack on the Branch Davidian compound in 1993 describes how he came to join the religious community and offers an eyewitness account of the tragedy.
- Uniform Title
- Place called Waco
- Alternative Title
- Place called Waco
- Subject
- Thibodeau, David
- Koresh, David, 1959-1993
- Branch Davidians > Biography
- Branch Davidians
- Waco Branch Davidian Disaster (Texas : 1993)
- 1993
- Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Law Enforcement
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs
- HISTORY > United States > 20th Century
- HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- RELIGION > Cults
- Texas
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Previously published as: A Place Called Waco.
- Contents
- Prologue: this could be the day that I die -- Book I: A sense of community. A galaxy far away ; The man and the music ; Coming to the mountain ; Edging toward belief ; Slipping through the fence ; The withering experience ; Temptations ; On rape, abuse, and guns -- Book II: Prelude to a holocaust. Visions and omens ; Showtime ; Aftershock ; No surrender, no quarter ; Ranch apocalypse -- Book III: Life as a survivor. "Are you comin' to kill me?" ; Half-truths and outright lies ; Ignorant questions ; Afterlife ; Climbing the mountain ; Back to the future ; The double helix -- Epilogue -- Special thanks and acknowledgments -- Appendix: The Mount Carmel Community: The living and the dead -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-4332
- ISBN
- 9781602865730
- 1602865736
- LCCN
- 2017042172
- OCLC
- 993420657
- Author
- Thibodeau, David, author.
- Title
- Waco : a survivor's story / David Thibodeau and Leon Whiteson with Aviva Layton.
- Publisher
- New York : Hachette Books, 2018.
- Edition
- Updated and revised edition.First paperback edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1993
- Added Author
- Whiteson, Leon, author.Layton, Aviva, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-4332