. After nine weeks of interviews with both children and adults living at the compound, DCS closed their investigation, having been unable to secure evidence corroborating the child abuse claims reported by former Koresh supporters who had come to disagree with his teachings. The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) are an apocalyptic new religious movement founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden. Syracuse, N.Y., 2000. Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America. Some 25 minutes later, the Branch Davidians set several fires, and at 12:25 pm gunfire was heard inside the compound. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. Ignoring pleas for leniency from the defendants and the forewoman of the jury that convicted them, a Federal judge today sentenced five Branch Davidians to 40 years in prison for their roles in. Building primarily on the example of the 1978 murder/suicide of 914 people at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Mission in Jonestown, Guyana, a loose confederation of aggrieved parents, moral entrepreneurs, concerned mental health professionals, and other sympathizers had aggressively marketed the notion that all new religious movements or "cults" were led by dangerously unstable con men who destroyed the mental freedom of their members and could easily lead them to their death. All the while, news teams from across the country remained camped out at a designated roadblock roughly two miles from the 77-acre property, watching and waiting to see how the standoff would end. Collectively, the property was estimated to have sold for about $600,000. "Religious Totalism, Exemplary Dualism, and the Waco Tragedy." Koresh had also been accused of having sexual intercourse with underage girls at Mount Carmelin fact, his former followers say he'd admitted to having intercourse with Michelle Jones, the younger sister of his legal wife, Rachel, when Michelle was just twelve years old. ( NewsNation) On the 30th anniversary of a fiery standoff between ATF and FBI agents and religious cult Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas, a survivor is speaking out. Houteff came to see himself as the seventh and final link in a line of reformers including Martin Luther, Miller, and Ellen White. He had a car that he was driving and he said the Lord gave it to him., He was a very disheveled kind of guy, he continued. Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream now, wherever you get your podcasts. Hint: They hold off on talking about their alien god until much later. Led by Joseph Bates, James White, and Ellen G. Harmon, who would marry White in 1846, the group argued that October 22, 1844, had in fact been a crucial date for human salvation, because Jesus Christ had entered the heavenly temple on that day in preparation for the final judgment. //