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Three new books marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Waco siege continue the unending debate over what exactly happened—and why it still matters.

>> the davidians bought property about ten miles east of town, built a compound, and named their sanctuary mount carmel after the sacred biblical site in israel. but in the early 1980s a new member appeared who would change everything. his given name vernon wayne howell. handsome and magnetic, he convinced his followers he would one day be reborn as jesus christ. church members would come to worship him as david koresh. koresh being the hebrew name for cyrus, the legendary persian king and conquerer of babylon. >> he began to present the ideas that he had, and i would say 99% of the leadership...

April 19th, 1993, the siege at waco has come to a fiery end. >> this hour we have no word specifically on the fate of david koresh and specific followers. >> but how in the world could they have done that to their kids? nine people came out, not one of them brought a child. >> clive doyle is one of the nine who did get out. but he left his 19-year-old daughter inside. she had been one of koresh's child brides. >> you beat yourself up, why didn't i rescue, why didn't i save anybody? i've kicked myself ever since. people do strange things.

From god. >> clive doyle is a branch davidian survivor, and to this day a believer in david koresh. >> david was constantly talking to god. god told me to do this. god told me to do that. we accepted that. >> god speaks to me. i have a message to present. >> to outsiders koresh soon transformed the davidian church into a cult. >> the most important element of the cult is the leader. and they always describe the same way as being charismatic. >> i mean, there are some things that god has concealed in his written word that are to be brought to do right before the end of time. >> koresh preached ...

They have done that to their kids? nine people came out, not one of them brought a child. >> clive doyle is one of the nine who did get out. but he left his 19-year-old daughter inside. she had been one of koresh's child brides. >> you beat yourself up, why didn't i rescue, why didn't i save anybody? i've kicked myself ever since. people do strange things. >> i was not just shocked but just horrified. i mean, to think that these children had perished in the fire, and women and i started asking questions, like why did this happen? who started the fire? >> it almost became common belief that the...