![]() ![]() She claimed the raid was to protect the children, ignoring the fact that the federal government has no authority to enforce child molestation laws. Their boss, Attorney General Janet Reno, who made a career of prosecuting hapless men of phony child molestation charges based on "false memory" testimony from three-year-olds, began a diversionary public relations move. (10) As the siege dragged on, the FBI became more embarrassed and enraged. The FBI cut off electric power to the Davidians and harassed them 24/7 with blaring music. ![]() (9) The FBI, acknowledging that the BATF had bungled their raid, took over and established a siege of the compound. (8) The BATF agents continued their attack and the Davidians began returning fire, holding them off until nightfall, but suffering numerous casualties. His father-in-law, standing behind him, was killed. ![]() He fell backwards, closing the door as he fell. He was immediately struck down in a hail of bullets. (7) David Koresh, opened the front door and begged the agents to stop their assault. (6) One of the Branch Davidians, in a panic, called 911 for help. Bullets, possibly 50-caliber, went through the roof and walls of the main building. (5) BATF agents in a Blackhawk helicopter began firing on the compound. (4) The agents began shooting and killing the dogs, which is standard procedure in such police raids. (3) Dogs began barking at the 80 strange men just arrived on the scene. (2) Military helicopters from nearby Fort Hood, in support of the BATF mission (illegally it turns out), arrived at the compound, hovering overhead. (1) Two truckloads of armed agents drove up in front of the compound's main building. As best anyone can ascertain, this is how it went down. It is not clear what happened in this raid since the public and press were kept a mile away when it was happening and forensic evidence was destroyed afterward by the government. The compound was home and church to a religious cult led by David Koresh. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) raided the Branch Davidian compound to serve warrants as part of an investigation into illegal possession of firearms. It is not known whether he got firearms training in those services. Hennard had served in the Navy and Merchant Marines. His weapons were a Glock 17 and a Ruger P89. George Jo Hennard drove a pickup truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and began shooting people inside with two handguns. See interesting video commentary and song by Kinky Friedman. 357 Magnum revolver, a 9mm German Luger, and another small caliber pistol. He carried the following weapons into the tower: a sawed-off shotgun, a Remington 700 6mm bolt-action hunting rifle with a 4x Leupold Scope, an M1 carbine, a Remington. Whitman served in the Marines from 1959 to 1964. Charles Whitman murdered 10 people and wounded 40 others firing a rifle from a tower on the University of Texas campus. His assassination weapon was an Italian Carcano 6.5mm rifle of WWI vintage.Īustin, August 1, 1966. Oswald had spent the years 1957 to 1959 in the Marines, where he rated as a "sharpshooter" in one of his riflery tests. Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas school book depository building. To give perspective, I've listed below some notable Texas firearms incidents from the past fifty years.ĭallas, November 22, 1963. That incident, like the two mentioned in Full Metal Jacket, occurred in Texas, a state with a longstanding vibrant and thriving gun culture. The foregoing scene came to mind recently when a US Army officer went berserk and shot dead thirteen people in a Fort Hood psychiatrist office. And scored two hits, including a head shot.ĭo any of you people know where these individuals learned how to shoot?ĭrill Instructor: In the marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you'll all be able to do the same thing! He got off three rounds from an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds. He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. From that school suppository building, Sir!ĭrill Instructor: All right, knock it off. Private Snowball: Sir! He was pretty far. Private Snowball: Sir! He shot Kennedy, Sir!ĭrill Instructor: That's right. Charles Whitman killed twelve people from a twenty-eight story observation tower at the University of Texas, from distances of up to four hundred yards. He was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, Sir.ĭrill Instructor: That's affirmative. From Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket (1987):ĭrill Instructor: Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was? ![]()
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