so long before david karesh stole inadvertently or otherwise.had quite the effects of what happened to waco. >> the branch davidians were somewhat interactive with the town of waco is that a fair statement? >> allowed the branch davidians had day jobs in town. karesh had one legal wife, rachel she was a checkered karesh himself like to take his guitar and go to chelsea street pub at night and sing his songs which for some reason note record producer in l.a. ever wanted to acquire. when the media came in and immediately fell in the events of february 28 the atf operation, they wanted stories every t day the more lurid the better they would fan out until waco to try to find people do you know any of the branch davidians? have you seen them do disgusting things? all they were ever told us they are kind of strange but they keep to themselves, they are okay for they could not find people to complain about the branch davidians for these many yearss. later there quite a few people who say i was so the whole time i always suspected they were terrible. b

from the manson family to david karesh and the branch davidians there are similarities and differences. but haven't written about the late 1960's i wanted to learn more. i am 18, 19, 20, growing up now. how do we segue from the chaos of the late 60's into, let's go with ronnie reagan and conservatism? that is sweeping the country in the 70's. what has to happen? five was going to write about the 70's i thought two teams would resonate with readers. one was watergate. i thought there was nothing new i could bring to watergate. whenever there is about that is there. the other was people's temple and what happened in jonestown in guyana. supposedly the prime example in our history of when some charlatan gets a bunch of sheepish followers to do his bidding up to and including killing themselves. don't drink the kool-aid is part of our lexicon. i thought, could there be something in that? i started poking around and learned two things. first, it was not kool-aid. it was a cheap knockoff called flavor aid and as many as one third of the people that died in jonestown did not voluntarily drink