The Conflagration at Waco

It used to be said—accurately, before the Left’s capture of the Fourth Estate—that journalism is “the first rough draft of history.” For those readers of a certain age, our own recollection of events serves the same purpose. I remember well the horrific 1993 showdown between federal law enforcement officers (ATF and FBI) and David Koresh (a/k/a Vernon Wayne Howell) and his followers at the Mount Carmel compound outside Waco in which over 80 people—including four ATF agents and many children—died. In Rashomon fashion, the events tended to be perceived in different ways, depending on one’s perspective. Which version is true?