I watched Assault on Waco on the Discovery Channel last night, having sent the producers some footage and audiotapes.... I gave up after the first 20 minutes or so. There were too many areas where it was just plain invented.Etc.I mean ... there's ATF agent Robert Rodriquez, the most honest agent on the ATF side, and the only one with guts enough to go to Mt. Carmel undercover on the morning of the raid. He's given an account of what happened, as have some surviving Davidians. They agree that Koresh talked to him, left the room to take a phone call, and came back shaking. He told Robert that, I think, the ATF and National Guard were coming. Robert got the feeling that Koresh knew he was an agent (as he in fact did), and said he had to go. Koresh shook his hand and, in one account, said you have to do what you have to do.
In the movie, an angry Koresh confronts Robert, shouting that he is an ATF agent, as the other Davidians give him hostile stares. It just didn't happen. Koresh never accused him, and was shaking in fear rather than angry.
Is anyone else really really tired of these cable channels doing a really sloppy or, in some cases, completely incompetent reporting of historical events? This climbs on the pile that the History channel has been building with all their shocking revelations of the "real" history of various events.
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That's one that spins me up real tight. I hate watching the History Channel and seeing wrong history. It's just not how things should be done. TV movie of the week gets the history wrong is one thing, but, in theory, there was an expectation that the History Channel would get, oh, I don't know, the history, fundamentally, right.
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