Waco: American Apocalypse, Part 4

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

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4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The tragedy at Waco became a rallying cry for the anti-government movement within America and the foundation for arguments surrounding gun rights and religious freedom. In this final episode of the Waco companion podcast, Tiller speaks again with Lee Hancock and then with Bob Ricks, the FBI’s Assistant Special Agent in Charge, about the FBI’s failed response to Waco, rampant conspiracy theories, government distrust, Waco’s connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing a year later, and how the events of 30 years ago resonates through to the present day. Waco: American Apocalypse is streaming now on Netflix.

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0:00.0	Hi, just a heads up before we start.
0:02.8	There's a brief discussion of suicide in this episode.
0:05.8	If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide,
0:09.2	information and resources are available at W. Wanna Talk About it.com.
0:16.0	That's W.W.
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0:18.8	Talk About it.com. dot com. Welcome back to episode four of Waco American Apocalypse, the Companion Podcast Series.
0:37.0	With me again today is Lee Hancock.
0:41.0	Waco was live on television over everybody's lunch hour.
0:47.0	You could watch this thing unfold from the very beginning, from February 28th when all the sudden you know people getting
0:56.4	home from church or waking up or whatever they were doing all the sudden they were
1:00.9	seeing breaking news bulletins with this shootout live on television
1:05.4	and then over your lunch hour 51 days later you could watch as this building went up in flames
1:12.4	with 80 people inside. So it wasn't just a
1:15.8	trauma for the people that were involved or who witnessed it firsthand. It was a
1:20.8	trauma for the entire country and it was a story that was so complicated. It was hard to get arms around and very quickly
1:32.4	elements of the story were adopted or hijacked, if you will, by different groups
1:39.9	who wanted to use the divinians as poster children.
1:43.7	The NRA very quickly came in, other gun groups came in,
1:48.0	tax protesters.
1:49.4	You know, there was enough that was traumatic
1:51.8	and it was unresolved and enough questions around it and the feeling that the feds were not being
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