Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Chuck Bryant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
14092 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

And the Branch Davidian went back and like, by the way, those are definitely not college students.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

Well, I mean, they got a warrant.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

So they had enough information to at least get like a legal warrant to search everything.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

Their goal initially was to just get those illegal weapons, arrest David Koresh, who, by the way, and I think you found this, was that like he had a relationship with the local sheriff.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

And at any point, the local sheriff could and I think did say like, hey, man, why don't you come in and like talk to us about what's going on?

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

So like none of this seemed to have been completely necessary.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

I think they also were the under the impression that like they were bunkered in and like he never left the compound.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

But upon further investigation, they found that he kind of regularly would leave the compound and they probably could have lured him out.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

But they, you know, they were kind of bungling this from the beginning.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

So they planned a surprise attack.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

kind of raid warrant serving where they would force entry and they were like, we're going to catch them off guard.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

They won't have time to arm themselves and it's going to go great.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

And, you know, part of this makes me wonder if they were feeding that informant bad information, too.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

I didn't I didn't ever see anything about that.

Stuff You Should Know
The 1993 Waco Siege

But like I've seen enough movies to know if they kept inviting this guy back to Bible study, then they may have been saying like, you know, all the guns here are under lock and key or whatever.