So what was “ Waco,” as we’ve come to know it, and how did the massacre unfold? The new three-part Netflix docuseries Waco: American Apocalypse, out on the streamer March 22, attempts to answer those very questions.ĭirected by Tiller Russell ( Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer), the series uses never-before-seen footage from the siege as well as CGI visualizations to pick apart what actually happened leading up to and during the bloody onslaught, from the point of view of both federal officials and Branch Davidian members. authorities and the extremely armed Branch Davidian religious sect became a media frenzy and a political and cultural lightning rod-one whose symbolism seemed to subsume the actual events that took place.
WHETHER YOU were cognizant of the news back in 1993, your understanding of the horrible Waco siege 30 years ago that resulted in the deaths of 86 people may be hazy. Leery at first, Thibodeau ultimately accepted the offer from “Messiah Productions,” and was quickly drawn into the fold."Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."
To make ends meet, he worked in the gift store of Mann’s Chinese Theatre, “looking like an organ grinder’s monkey in my short, brass-buttoned, scarlet jacket.” It was at this “lowest point” that he first crossed paths with Koresh, a guitarist and singer seeking a drummer for his Christian rock band. But his bandmates were more interested in drugs than their careers. After high school he attended a yearlong program at the Musicians Institute of Technology in Hollywood and joined a band, hoping for fame. That he was raised by an agnostic single mother whose “mantra was, ‘Question Authority,’” and who carried him on her hip to protests casts a dark irony over Thibodeau’s eventual involvement in a doomsday sect led by a controlling, patriarchal leader.Ī self-described “class clown,” the young Thibodeau was in truth a lonely kid who was teased for being overweight and poured his angst into a hand-me-down drum set.
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