Waco Tribune-Herald

Infobox_Newspaper
name = Waco Tribune-Herald


caption = A sample front page of the
"Waco Tribune-Herald"
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1892 (as the "Waco Evening Telephone")
ceased publication =
price =
owners = Cox Newspapers
publisher = Belinda Gaudet
editor = Carlos Sanchez
language =
circulation =
headquarters = 900 Franklin Avenue
Waco, TX 76701
United States
ISSN =
website = [http://wacotrib.com wacotrib.com]
The "Waco Tribune-Herald" is an American daily newspaper serving Waco, Texas and vicinity.

The newspaper has its roots in five different predecessors, beginning with the "Waco Evening Telephone" in 1892. The "Tribune-Herald" took its current identity when E.S. Fentress and Charles Marsh, who owned the "Waco News-Tribune," bought the "Waco Times-Herald." That purchase was the beginning of Newspapers, Inc., a chain which eventually owned 13 newspapers.

The newspapers stayed in the Fentress family until 1976, when they were sold to Cox Newspapers of Atlanta, Georgia, which continues to own the chain.

The "Tribune-Herald" is best known for a series of stories in February and March 1993 about the Branch Davidian sect which was headquartered in a compound in Mount Carmel, near Waco. The series reported that leader Vernon Howell, later known as David Koresh, had turned the group into a cult, engaged in polygamy, abused children living in the compound, and was amassing an arsenal of weapons. The "Tribune-Herald" had been reporting on a number of issues about the compound in the months before the series. Federal authorities asked managing editor Barbara Elmore to hold off on the series, but she refused, and the first of seven parts was published on February 27, 1993. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was planning a raid on the compound on March 1, with warrants for Koresh and several followers, but the raid was moved up a day in response to the "Tribune-Herald" series. The raid turned deadly, as the Davidians were tipped off early and were expecting the federal agents. A shootout occurred, leading to a 51-day siege that ended in an attack on the compound, which resulted in its fiery destruction that was seen live by television viewers around the world.

ee also

* Waco Siege

External links

* [http://www.wacotrib.com/ WacoTrib.com, the Tribune-Herald web site]
* [http://www.rickross.com/reference/waco/waco9.html Tribune-Herald 1993 series about David Koresh and the Branch Dividian sect]