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From: [t h f 2] at [kimbark.uchicago.edu] (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Waco Lies
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 00:51:33 GMT

>Gun Week, Friday, January 21, 1994.  Page 4.
>
>'WACO:  THE BIG LIE'  REVEALED AS A HOAX
>
>by Dean Speir, Industry Editor.
>
>The most sensational footage contained in "Waco:  The Big Lie" has
>been revealed by Machine Gun News columnist Ken Carter as an editing
>trick, thereby thouroughly negating any value that the videotape might
>have had in damning the FBI's April 19th actions in causing the
>conflagration which destroyed the Branch Davidian compound and nearly
>all of its barricaded inhabitants.
>
>Produced by The American Justice Federation of Indianapolis, IN and
>narrated by "Linda D. Thompson, J.D." the now discredited segment
>purpoted to show a government combat engineering vehichle used in the
>assault on the Davidian's main building, with a distinct burst of
>flame emanating from the muzzle of its gas insertion device, an image
>which called into serious question the government's assertion that it
>used no incendiary or flame-throwing devices.
>
>"Waco: The Big Lie" had been discuseed in Gun Week's Oct 8th Industry
>Intelligencer column, which noted that "there are a number of errors
>on the relatively short tape...but there is an extraordinary
>sequence...which clearly shows a tongue of flame..."  The column also
>called the segment "factual" since it had apparently been pulled off
>CBS News' satellite.
>
>"Linda Thompson suckered all of us with that one" Carter told Gun Week
>as he was in the process of preparing a "corrective" photograph from
>the original, unedited video footage.  "And she had to have known
>exactly what she was doing, since the videotape sequence was edited a
>split second before the vehichle pulls back and executes a hard turn
>which clearly shows the 'flame' image stabilize and turn(ed) out to be
>piece of wall board."
>
>Carter indicated that the revealing photograph will be published in
>the next issue of Machine Gun News.
>
>"We have a tough enough fight on our hands as it is without having
>anyone 'on our side' lying about something like this," Carter said.
>
>The videotape had been selling for $20 through the mails and at gun
>shows since last summer.
>
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