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Adventist church, they eventually called themselves the branch davidians. >> pretty stable leadership for a lot of years, and they were known in town as a somewhat bizarre but benign religious group that pretty much kept to themselves. >> 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...

Known in town as a swit somewhat bizarre but benign religious group that pretty much kept to themselves. >> 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 king and conqueror of babyl...

Where are welcome back our continuing coverage of the nelson mandela memorial service. the name nelson mandela, nelson was a name given to him his first day of school which was come on practice then? >> absolutely. his given name was holy slasla which a literal translation means troublemaker. i think he was proud of that. he liked the idea of seeing himself as a troublemaker. he was a rebel in spite of also being an aristocrat and a statesman. i think that name, in a way, probably identifies with him more when you look back. >> a sense of the owe pregs in the country at the time that a black c...

System he helped set up in the 1990s and have to say this is a tragic loss but one we had to be prepared before and i said we have to figure out a way to honor his legacy every year, not here but a world-wide hero, somebody who meant a lot to a lot of people and somebody who went through a lot of persecution but we know he's the reason south africa was free. >> rick, it's interesting you did a lot of interviews with him and knew him well. nelson was not his given name. his birth name. he was given that name his first day of school as was very common under the british education system there. hi...

>> pretty stable leadership for a lot of years, and they were known in town as a swit somewhat bizarre but benign religious group that pretty much kept to themselves. >> 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 be...