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The newspaper has its roots in five predecessors, beginning with the Waco Evening Telephone in 1892. The Tribune-Herald took its current identity when E.S. Fentress and Charles Marsh, who owned the Waco News-Tribune, bought the Waco Times-Herald. That purchase was the beginning of Newspapers, Inc., a chain that eventually owned 13 newspapers.
A chronological history of the Waco, Texas compound that burned to the ground with 76 Branch Davidian cult members still inside on April 19, 1993.
Over the course of 51 days, from Feb. 28 to April 19, 1993, various U.S. federal government agencies were in a tragic and violent standoff with the religious group, Branch Davidians led by cult ...
The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-544-8. Bernstein, Patricia (2007). "Waco Lynching". In Paul Finkelman (ed.). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century. Vol. 5.
The 1993 clash in Waco, Texas at the Branch Davidian complex is an illustration of such defensive violence. History has shown that groups that seek to withdraw from the dominant culture seldom act on their beliefs that the endtime has come unless provoked. [67]
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In 1894 Brann moved to Waco, Texas, to become an editor with the Waco Daily News. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] By February 1895 he had decided to attempt to revive the Iconoclast , and this time the paper was successful, with a circulation nearing 100,000 people.
As you mentioned, Waco profoundly changed the image of the FBI in a lot of conservative circles and you can see its impact in later incidents, like the Bundy standoff in Oregon.