Date: Thu Oct 28 16:02:19 1999 From: murphy@MYBLUEHEAVEN.COM (Phil Murphy) Subject: ATLANTA JOURNAL "WACO" REVIEW To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
If you haven't already done so, rent and watch this film -- and then make your family and friends sit down to do the same. JUST DO IT. It's available at Blockbuster, Video Update and Hollywood Video, everywhere. --
>The Atlanta Journal >October 21, 1999 > >"Waco:" Makes a Good Case that the Killing of Koresh was Premeditated > >Startling story of a fatal siege >By John Beifuss > >By the time you finish watching“Waco: The Rules of Engagement,” even >the standard warning at the beginning of the video has become ironic, if >not sinister. “The FBI investigates allegations of copyright abuse,” it >states. What happens if you dupe the tape? Will agents gas you and torch >your home? > >The startling and controversial "Waco: The Rules of Engagement", an Emmy >winner and Academy Award nominee for best feature documentary in 1997, >has been vindicated in recentweeks, as Congress has released new >evidence suggesting a possible FBI and Justice Department cover-up in >the siege that killed more than 80 men, women and children near Waco, >Texas, on April 19, 1993. > >The movie, now available from New Yorker Video, does not whitewash the >strange, elusive character of David Koresh, the so-called “Sinful >Messiah” of the almost 60-year-old Branch Davidian sect that accepted >him as a divinely anointed interpreter of the Book of Revelation. > >But — armed with FBI footage, infrared aerial camerawork and even >graphic photos of the corpses — director William Gazecki and his >collaborators ask why a government investigation of alleged illegal arms >possession led to the slaughter of Koresh and his followers. > >The footage is examined to refute FBI claims that agents never fired >shots at the Davidian compound and that the fatal fires were set by the >people inside. The impact is as stunning as that of a documentary about >the Holocaust.