(Waco) Branch Davidians : Kirk D. Lyons collection, 1979-1998 1993-1995.

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(Waco) Branch Davidians : Kirk D. Lyons collection, 1979-1998 1993-1995.

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The (Waco) Branch Davidians: Kirk D. Lyons Collection was received as a gift from Kirk D. Lyons in 2006 June. The collection begins with legal briefs and reports of various court cases brought against the surviving members of the Branch Davidian sect. This series comprises the majority of the collection, particularly a case in which the United States prosecuted 12 leading Davidians in 1994 (USA vs. Branch et al). The other half of the collection contains secondary literature that was generated in reaction to the Waco Siege of 1993. Much of this is sympathetic towards the Davidians.

6.3 linear feet (14 manuscript boxes)

Baylor University Libraries, Moody Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8145767

Baylor University Libraries, Moody Memorial Library

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Mount Carmel Center (Waco, Tex.)

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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...