According to his followers, David Koresh, a poor student who struggled with dyslexia, had a way of taking the many fractured, at-times opaque texts of the Old and New Testament of the Bible and knitting them into one coherent, apocalyptic story about the state of things.
The end was near. A final battle was coming. And Koresh’s Branch Davidians religious sect, an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventists based in a compound near Waco, Texas, would be right at the centre of it.
