David Koresh, who had become the leader of a religious community that was well liked by their neighbors and had been at the ‘compound’ for 60 years, became a target of the FBI in February of 1993. A few years previous, Marc Breault, a self proclaimed prophet from Honolulu, had joined the Branch Davidians at Mt. Carmel and tried to take leadership from Koresh, who then asked him to leave. Breault vowed revenge, calling several national agencies making allegations against Koresh of adulterous sex, gun stockpiling, and child …
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