(Waco) Branch Davidians : Mount Carmel Seventh Day Adventist collection, 1938-1998 1959-1961, 1996-1997.

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(Waco) Branch Davidians : Mount Carmel Seventh Day Adventist collection, 1938-1998 1959-1961, 1996-1997.

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The (Waco) Branch Davidians: Mount Carmel Seventh Day Adventist Collection was received as a gift from Calvin Smith and the Strecker Museum in 1999. The collection contains primary source material from the Waco Branch Davidian sect under the leadership of Victor and Florence Houteff. Most of this material is comprised of correspondence and financial records. The second half of the collection contains secondary literature (magazines and newspaper clippings) as well as photographic materials concerning the Waco Siege of 1993.

1.8 linear feet (4 manuscript boxes)

Baylor University Libraries, Moody Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8145761

Baylor University Libraries, Moody Memorial Library

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Branch Davidians

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Koresh, David, 1959-1993

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Mount Carmel Center (Waco, Tex.)

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Smith, Calvin B., 1940-

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The religious sect known as the Branch Davidians was the product of a reform movement within the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Problems began when a group of Adventists, led by Bulgarian immigrant Victor Houteff, began to challenge the traditional hierarchy of the denomination. Houteff claimed to have received personal revelations from God and published his controversial views in a book entitled The Shepherd's Rod (1932). Houteff and his followers believed that the spiritual gift of...