Josh Clark
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Appearances Over Time
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But a current affairs show called A Current Affair, the Australian version back in 1992, went and interviewed David Koresh.
And this is before anybody knew who David Koresh was.
So they had a lot of foresight and they went and investigated it because this is a I mean, obviously, it's a really big deal that there's a. Yeah.
Essentially what everyone thought of at the time and still do in a lot of ways.
A cult leader who is sexually abusing the children of his sect.
That's definitely worth investigating.
That's not what the ATF investigated him for, though.
And they were going to go out with guns blazing.
Allegedly, the thing that initially caught the ATF's attention, they were already aware that there was such a thing as the Branch Davidians and that they had a business selling guns at gun shows.
But the thing that really caught their attention was apparently a UPS driver
was delivering a box, and I guess the box fell open and a bunch of grenade shells fell out.
And the UPS driver thought, that's odd.
Like, who gets 50 grenade shells delivered to their compound?
And I guess alerted the federal authorities.
And that's when they really started investigating the branch civilians.
I say we take a break and talk about how well that investigation was conducted.