Born in Waco, Texas, Donald Howard graduated from Baylor University in 1979, later receiving a master of arts from the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. In 1996, Howard produced, wrote, and directed Letter from Waco, a documentary broadcast nation-wide on PBS that explores the social history of Waco, Texas, as well as the 1993 stand-off between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Branch Davidians.
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Donald Howard. UT Documentary Center. Accessed April 20, 2011. http://utdoccenter.org/faculty/howard/ .
From the guide to the Letter from Waco, Videocassette 98-084., 1996, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)