Date: Sunday, 13 Jun 1993 01:49:51 EDT
From: <[34 AEJ 7 D] at [CMUVM.BITNET]>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: DIVIDIANS CALLED 911 WHEN ATF ATTACKED - ABC Nightline

In article <1vaqkd$[ac 0] at [usenet.rpi.edu]>, [k--c--r] at [mercury.ral.rpi.edu] (William
Katcher) says:
>
>In article <[93161 13190034 AEJ 7 D] at [CMUVM.BITNET]> <[34 AEJ 7 D] at [CMUVM.BITNET]> writes:
>>All that is irrelevant in light of the vital FIRST call. The person
>>making THAT call CLEARLY did NOT have a clue that the armed assassins
>>outside were the warm and friendly forces of his/her loving federal
>>government. That person knew only that armed, masked, murderous bandits
>>were attacking the ranch and that the occupants were trying to hold them
>>off long enough to call 911 and get some help from their duly-elected
>>Peace Officers.
>
>Maybe I am rembembering the program incorrectly, but I remember the first
>call to 911 being from a guy named Wayne who was repeatedly shouting,
>"Call your guys off!"  If this is correct, then it indicates that the
>BD's clearly new who the attackers were.

I did manage to tape this episode of _ABC Nightline_. I believe you
are being confused by the way ABC edited the show. Immediately after
the first call to 911 the line to the Dividians appears to have gone dead
for some little time. Then there was another in a series of calls. ABC
edited out the delay between the calls and jumps abruptly to the
second call in such a way as to (unintentionally on the part of ABC,
I am sure) tend to make the first and second calls appear to be
a single call. At least that's my present reading.

W. K. Gorman