Only nine people survived the massive conflagration that trapped and killed 74 others-including 21 children-in Waco, Texas, on April 19, 1993, and 24-year-old David Thibodeau was one of them. The result is a memoir that reads like a thriller, with each page taking us closer to the eventual inferno.By David Thibodeau and Leon Whiteson with Aviva LaytonĪ Book and Six-Part Television Series on Paramount NetworkĢ5 YEARS LATER, THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SURVIVAL STORY OF WACO, BY DAVID THIBODEAU, ONE OF ONLY FOUR UNPROSECUTED SURVIVORS, COMES TO TELEVISION IN A HOTLY ANTICIPATED MINISERIES STARRING MICHAEL SHANNON AND TAYLOR KITSCH.Ģ5 years later, the re-issued book Waco, A Survivor’s Story and a six-part miniseries can be seen on Paramount Network (now in 2018.) Today, it grips the nation and its audience just as choppy cable-news coverage of a tense government standoff did in 1993. We also understand Thibodeau's brutally honest assessment of the United States government's actions. We get inside the day-to-day life of the community. We meet the men, women, and children of Mt. In this compelling account - now with an updated epilogue that revisits remaining survivors-Thibodeau explores why so many people came to believe that Koresh was divinely inspired.
He remained there until April 19, 1993, when the compound was stormed and burned to the ground after a 51-day standoff with government authorities.
Though he had never been religious in the slightest, Thibodeau gradually became a follower and moved to the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. When he first met the man who called himself David Koresh, David Thibodeau was a drummer in a local a rock band. David Thibodeau survived to tell the story. Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch - Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.
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