Waco Tribune-Herald
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| Waco Tribune-Herald | |
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 A sample front page of the Waco Tribune-Herald |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Cox Newspapers |
| Publisher | Michael Vivio |
| Editor | Carlos Sanchez |
| Founded | 1892 (as the Waco Evening Telephone) |
| Headquarters | 900 Franklin Avenue Waco, TX 76701 United States |
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| Website: wacotrib.com | |
The Waco Tribune-Herald is an American daily newspaper serving Waco, Texas and vicinity.
The newspaper has its roots in five different 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 which eventually owned 13 newspapers.
The newspapers stayed in the Fentress family until 1976, when they were sold to Cox Newspapers of Atlanta, Georgia, which continues to own the chain.
The Tribune-Herald is best known for a series of stories in February and March of 1993 about the Branch Davidian sect which was headquartered in a compound in Mount Carmel, near Waco. The series reported that leader Vernon Howell, later known as David Koresh, had turned the group into a cult, engaged in polygamy, abused children living in the compound, and was amassing an arsenal of weapons. The Tribune-Herald had been reporting on a number of issues about the compound in the months before the series. Federal authorities asked managing editor Barbara Elmore to hold off on the series, but she refused, and the first of seven parts was published on February 27, 1993. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was planning a raid on the compound on March 1, with warrants for Koresh and several followers, but the raid was moved up a day in response to the Tribune-Herald series. The raid turned deadly, as the Davidians were tipped off early and were expecting the federal agents. A shootout occurred, leading to a 51-day siege that ended in an attack on the compound, which resulted in its fiery destruction that was seen live by television viewers around the world.
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[edit] External links
- WacoTrib.com, the Tribune-Herald web site
- Tribune-Herald 1993 series about David Koresh and the Branch Dividian sect
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