The Shootout at Mount Carmel

ID: 1960 ~ Source: Source: Coker Jr., Gary J., Interviewed by Rebeckah Ann Crowe, November 20, 2003 in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History. View full interview.
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Gary J. Coker Jr., who later would defend Vernon Howell and his followers in court in 1988, describes their initial arrest after the November 1987 shootout at the new Mount Carmel Center—an attempt to regain control of the property from George Roden.

This file appears in: The Branch Davidians

By Ashley Yeaman
Often confused with the Davidians, the Branch Davidians are a splinter group organized in 1955 by Ben Roden following the death of Davidian founder Victor T. Houteff. Houteff had founded the Davidians, a small Adventist reform movement, in 1929. Six…