The 1993 event at Mt. Carmel shocked all of America and has since spawned a plethora of books regarding the ‘truth’ about the Branch Davidians. Memories of the Branch Davidians is the story told from the inside. The oral history of Bonnie Haldeman, the mother of Vernon Howell (David Koresh), offers an intimate, first-hand account of how a boy named Vernon Howell became David Koresh. Haldeman paints a picture of Koresh that could only be told by one who knew both his greatest strengths and his deepest faults.
Table of Content
Foreword, Catherine Wessinger
1 Purpose of This Autobiography
2 Bonnie Clark
3 The Haldeman Family
4 Vernon Howell Becomes a Branch Davidian
5 Bonnie Haldeman Becomes a Branch Davidian
6 David Koresh’s Shootout with George Roden at Mount Carmel
7 Resettling at Mount Carmel
8 Bonnie and Roy Leave Mount Carmel
9 Visits Back and Forth with Folks at Mount Carmel
10 The ATF Raid, February 28, 1993
11 The Siege
12 The Fire, April 19, 1993
13 1994 Criminal Trial
14 2000 Civil Trial
15 Life after the Fire
16 Going Back to Mount Carmel
17 Remembering the People and Lifestyle at Mount Carmel
18 Remembering the Children
19 Remembering David
Appendix: Poems by David Koresh
Works Cited
Notes
About the author
Bonnie Haldeman was the mother of David Koresh and a surviving Branch Davidian. She lived, traveled, and worked with the Branch Davidians in Texas, California, and Hawaii from 1985 until 1991.
Catherine Wessinger (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is the Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Professor in Arts and Sciences, and she is Professor of the History of Religions in the Religious Studies Department, Loyola University, New Orleans. She is the author of How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate, editor of Millennialism, Persecution and Violence: Historical Cases, and co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.
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