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Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum

https://www.whem.org

Founded: 19 Apr 1996
Re-issued: 4 July 2023

Waco Still Burns

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Introduction

July 4, 2025: More than thirty (30) years have passed since more than 80 men, women, and children — all innocent before the law — were killed by United States paramilitary forces.  (Counting the four Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms victims, the Waco Holocaust produced 89 autopsies.) The civilian victims were members of the Branch Davidian religious community and met their deaths without due process of law—at the hands of a government that was designed to ensure due process of law.

The events happened more than a generation ago, and modern sources contain only a distorted shadow of those 51 days of horror.  Anyone not familiar with the story should read Brief History.

Not one person responsible for the deaths has been indicted.  Waco Still Burns.

"All warfare is based on deception," wrote the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.  And so the war goes on: government agencies and their apologists continue to deceive us about the deaths of more than 80 innocents.

Deep State?

Is there such a thing as the "deep state" — a permanent stratum that controls government policy and remains entrenched despite changes in nominal leaders?

The Waco Holocaust was carried out under the Clinton administration.  Since then, the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have done nothing to bring the killers to justice.  This phenomenon argues that the "deep state" certainly exists.

Melissa Morrison when she was alive. After her "rescue" by the FBI, only her lower extremities were found. Her head, arms, and torso were missing (MC Doe 74). The manner of her death was not determined. (Photo: U.S.News and World Report, May 3, 1993 pg. 23)

John-Mark Stanley McBean attended Newbold College, graduated with a first degree in Theology, and joined Koresh's group in about 1989. His charred body was found in the concrete room missing all four limbs and head, like a classic case of identity obfuscation. Cataloging the remains as "MC Doe 32," the medical examiner commented wryly on the written report, "Head injury cannot be ruled out."

Robert Mueller held the office of the Director of the FBI from September 4, 2001, to September 4, 2013.  On his way to the Senate hearing confirming his appointment, he was personally informed (by this writer) of the circumstances of death of the Branch Davidians.  Even if he had not been so informed, he surely had heard of the Waco siege.  As an attorney, he surely had heard of due process and the Bill of Rights.  The encounter is narrated in the chapter, Lightning Strikes New FBI Director.

Yet, aware of the FBI's fingerprints all over the Davidian cadavers, Mueller did nothing to bring the killers to justice.  What kind of religious bigotry demands prosecution for the deaths of Jews, but ignores the deaths of Branch Davidians?

Yet, aware of the FBI's fingerprints all over the Davidian cadavers, Mueller did nothing to bring the killers to justice. What kind of religious bigotry demands prosecution for the deaths of Jews, but covers up the deaths of Branch Davidians?

Notably, Mueller's official term as FBI Director began just days before September 11, 2001. The attack on the Pentagon, we are told, was "an act of war." Yet Mueller, as Director of the FBI (a civilian agency), was given absolute control over the grounds of the Pentagon and the debris, including the classified materials disgorged from the ruined offices.

The Waco Holocaust seems to have been a demonstration project.  It was the Deep State's announcement to Americans and the world that it could do anything to anyone and would never be held accountable.  No congress, no judiciary, no media, and no public conscience would interfere with its dreadful designs.

Why the Branch Davidians?

And why the Branch Davidians?  David Koresh's birth name was Vernon Wayne Howell, but he changed his name legally to David Koresh to agree with his role (as he believed) in the Biblical Saga.  Koresh is the transliterated Hebrew name (כורש) of the Persian king who released the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity, chronicled in the Book of Ezra.  The name usually appears in English Bibles as Cyrus.  David is the name of the great Hebrew king from the tribe of Judah, an ancestor of Jesus.

Koresh's theology was controversial: He believed that we are living in Apocalyptic times and that the existence of Israel was not necessary for the return of Christ.

Survivor Stories

Discretion is advised when considering the accounts of Davidian survivors, particularly when those accounts do not agree with the objective and forensic evidence.

According to government records released contemporaneously with the Waco Holocaust (Report of the Department of the Treasury on … Koresh), deep-cover government agents were living among the Davidians pretending to be Davidians.  Those agents may be among the "Davidian survivors."

According to an article in the Sunday Times in March, 1993, there were also, deep-cover professional intelligence agents living in the Mt. Carmel Center. These agents set up a virtual test laboratory of surveillance devices within the Center. A month before the raid, agents replaced normal telephones with converted sets that doubled as microphones to relay all conversations to government listening posts. Fiber optic microphones and cameras were inserted into walls and air vents. These fiber optic devices relayed audio and visual images back to a control center. (The Sunday Times, March 21, 1993, "FBI Brings Out Secret Electronic Weapons as Waco Siege Drags On")

Later on, during the siege, thermal images scanned outside walls, and tracked body heat to reveal the whereabouts of each of the residents at any given time; lasers were used to detect window vibrations to eavesdrop on conversations, and the British Special Air Service flew a multi-sensor surveillance aircraft with forward-looking infra-red radar (FLIR) and a low-light television. The equipment on the aircraft could pinpoint the location of anyone throughout the center.

The Waco Holocaust had all the appearances of a military/intelligence operation.  Ostensibly organized under the Department of Treasury, the designers called it "Operation Trojan Horse."  The Trojan Horse, of course, was the mechanism the ancient Greeks used to smuggle saboteurs into the City of Troy.  In like manner, those who designed the Trojan Horse attack on the Branch Davidians planted undercover agents in the Mt. Carmel Center, agents who pretended to be followers of David Koresh.

The Dead Can Speak
And the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum Gives Them a Forum And They Have Been Given a Forum

Since ancient times, inquiries into questionable deaths have started with the bodies of the victims.  Notably, the government and its apologists never honestly address the autopsies of the Davidians.  Those autopsies were published for the very first time in the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum (April 19, 1996) and now in Waco Still Burns (July 4, 2025).

Thanks to Our Friends

The Museum could not have been built, promoted, and perpetuated without enormous support from a wide range of friends and supporters, some of whom remain anonymous.  Linda Thompson was a courageous and energetic Indianapolis attorney who devoted her life and career to battling public wrongs, such as the murder of the Branch Davidians.

She produced two videos on the Waco Holocaust, currently available on the Internet: Waco, the Big Lie and Waco, the Big Lie Continues.

Linda Thompson (April 26, 1953 - May 10, 2009), born Linda Capps, was a civil liberties attorney, a militia movement supporter, and one of the first to raise a public objection to the murder of the Branch Davidians.

Linda was a friend of the Museum and the first to review and promote it.  When she read it for the first time, Linda, praised it with the words, "You've nailed it!"

  Linda passed away on May 10, 2009.  Her sister Annette wrote of her:

Linda was an Army veteran and a controversial attorney. After the federal raid on Ruby Ridge, Linda formed the American Justice Federation in Indianapolis, IN. She was one of the first attorneys to drive to Waco and offer to represent David Koresh before he and the others in their compound passed away. She was the first to call out the feds and Janet Reno on the senseless killings at Waco. She produced the videos "Waco The Big Lie" and "America Under Siege". She was persecuted and ridiculed for years, until later all her accusations were proven true by the mainstream media. Her legal career ended way too early due to her medical issues. She was a fierce advocate for many.

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The Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum consists of five galleries and several introductory pieces.  These pieces are:

1. Send a message to the Museum Curator

Now, here are the Galleries:

Waco Still Burns consists of the following galleries:

	I. WAR From February 28 to April 19, 1993, "Operation Trojan Horse" was a military action conducted with military or quasi-military personnel using military equipment and serving a military purpose.  It was war, not law enforcement.
	II. FIRE On Monday, April 19, 1993 (Patriot's Day), government forces drove military tanks into the complex, destroying the buildings.  The ruins caught fire and burned with unusual ferocity.  This was no ordinary house fire.
	III. DEATH Warning: graphic and shocking Investigation into questionable deaths should begin with the autopsies.  The Museum includes the complete set of autopsy reports.  They show that most of the Davidians had been dead long before the day of the fire.
	IV. BURIAL Multiple projects were designed to hide the awful truth of the Waco Holocaust.  The Museum examines some of them.
	V. LIBRARY Other resources have been collected in the Museum for students of those events. Some are referenced within the Gallery essays, others are simply shelved here for study.

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