A Casket in the Courthouse

ID: 1962 ~ Source: Source: Coker Jr., Gary J., Interviewed by Rebekah Ann Crowe, November 20, 2003 in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History. View full interview.
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Waco lawyer Gary J. Coker Jr., describes the decision to include a casket—unearthed by George Roden in an attempt to delegitimize Vernon Howell—as evidence in the trial concerning the November 1987 shootout at the new Mount Carmel Center.

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…