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Waco SiegeAtlas
Government & Politics · Law enforcement & justice system
The Waco siege has continued to resonate in anti-government extremist narratives decades after the event. Contested accounts of government conduct at Waco, sometimes described as dark theories, have persisted in public discourse long after the siege.
Open the caseTimeline
- 1993-04-19 · eventFinal assault, compound fire, and end of the siege
- 2018 · amplificationTwenty-fifth-anniversary coverage of lingering disputed Waco theories
- 2023 · amplificationThirtieth-anniversary analysis of Waco’s resonance in anti-government circles