jeff guinn, any comments for nancy? jeff: it is wonderful we have people who not only care about history but about an active part of it. good for her. thank you for sharing that story about the emergence in. if lady bird had been involved -- in charge of either the agencies in waco, we would not have the tragedy. she would've been more thoughtful. peter: you live in fort worth. we were talking about the george w. bush library and the lbj library in austin. you told a fascinating story that i think nancy and others might like to hear. jeff: people always ask when i got interested history. one important moment was when i was a sophomore at the university of texas at austin, they begin building the lbj library and campus. lyndon johnson retired to his ranch and he would come on campus by helicopter with his assistant, tourist curves goodwin, -- doris kearns goodwin, and some family or friends. he would take them onto is talking about different things. johnson would allow some of us college students, maybe three or water any

i'm joined by jeff guinn the author of the book waco, branch davidians and legacy of rage. it has been 30 years since that event. welcome to the program. take us back to early 1993. what was going on? who was david and who are the branch davidians? guest: they were a breakaway group from the seventh church that originally separated in the 1930's and by 1993 they were settled on 77 acres of property outside of waco texas david karesh was the leader and accepted by them as a prophet who was the land from the book of revelation who with his followers was going to lead a battle against the government to bring about the end of time or the end of days and a new holy kingdom on earth afterward. the branch davidians were accepted as strange but otherwise left alone by their waco neighbors. they come to the attention of the fbi and the atf. there were charges they had illegal automatic weapons and other things involving abuse of children, polygamy, statutory rape of young children. there were a lot of rumors though nothing had been definitively proven. host: how many people were liv

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i'm joined by jeff guinn the author of the book waco, branch davidians and legacy of rage. it has been 30 years since that event. welcome to thero

peter: for the past two hours, we have been talking with jeff guinn. here is his most recent book, "w aco, david koresh, the branch davidians, and a legacy of range." everything that you have seen today on in-depth will re-air this evening. now, we continue our live coverage of the tucson festival of books. next, we show you a program from yesterday. this is an author discussion on the opioid crisis. >> the world changed in 1996 when purdue pharma bought -- brought out oxycontin. it became the go-to prescribed opioid that promised hours of relief from severe pain. the controlled release formula was supposed to have less abuse potential because it won't be absorbed slowly and there was not an instant high. wrong. in 2001, 107,000 to 108,000 died from overdoses. i will quote the "washington post" scott higman that is the equivalent of a 737 boeing crashing and burning and killing everybody on board every single day. today's three authors all have spent hours with interviews and research and the unraveled millions of strands that created the opioid crisis

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. >> live sunday from festival bugs, investigative journalist jeff guinn are our guest on in-depth think history and american outlaws. he has written books about bonnie and clyde, charles manson, and the mexican border war and his latest book waco about the 51 days stand up in texas between feder agents and david christ branch davidians. your phone calls, comments,h text, and it -- and tweets. >> sunday night on the q&a in his book driving the green book, alvin hogg talks about the green book an annual travel guide used by many african-americans from 1936 to 1967 during the jim crow area. he visited a dozen of those sites to learn more about the books history and lasting impact. >> the green book helped african-american survive a very difficult time. it also enabled them to negotiate between unknown territory where you do not know what was going to happen, but it also was an act of resistance, saying we are not going to take this anymore. resilience. see what we can do as people come as americans to create a brighter future, to make our lives livable and enjoyable. >> alvin hall and his

. >> live sunday from festival bugs, investigative journalist jeff guinn are our guest on in-depth thinkon history and american outlaws. he has written books about bonnie and clyde, charles manson, and the mexican rd war and his latest book waco about the 51 days stand up in texas between fedal agents and david christ branch davidians. to end the conversation with your phone calls, comments, text, and it -- and tweets. >> sunday night on the q&a in his book driving the green book, alvin hogg talks about the green book an annual travel guide used by many african-americans from 1936 to 1967 during the jim crow area. he visited a dozen of those sites to learn more about the books history and lasting impact. >> the green book helped african-american survive a very difficult time. it also enabled them to negotiate between unknown territory where you do not know what was going to happen, but it also was an act of resistance, saying we are not going to take this anymore. resilience. see what we can do as people come as americans to create a brighter future, to make our lives livable and enjoyab