Remembering The 51 Day Standoff In Waco, Texas – 25 Years Later

The Oklahoma Bombing Changed The Public’s Opinions On Waco

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After the Oklahoma City bombing, the media, as well as the public, began to reconsider their original thoughts on the Waco incident. Americans that previously supported the actions of the government were now calling for an investigation. By 1999, it was indicated by a Time poll that 61 percent of the American public believed that federal law enforcement had started the fire at the Branch Davidian compound. September 1999, Attorney General Reno appointed John C. Danforth as Special Counsel to investigate the matter. So began a year-long investigation which the Office of Special Counsel interviewed 1,001 witnesses, reviewed 2.3 million pages of documents, and looked over thousands of pounds of physical evidence.