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May 3, 2024 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Caroline O'Donoghue |John Marrs |John McPhee |Jeff Guinn
Thanks for reading ReadersBlock! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. by Caroline O'Donoghue Read it if you’re into: Contemporary dramas, Irish culture, modern loveThis contemporary work of fiction revolves around Rachel and James, two college-aged friends who meet at a bookstore in Cork and bond instantaneously. Their union is tested when Dr. Fred Byrne, Rachel’s married professor, enters the picture.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
imdb.com | David Auburn |Jeff Guinn |Johnny Newman
An alternate take on the story of the bank-robbing duo.An alternate take on the story of the bank-robbing duo.An alternate take on the story of the bank-robbing duo.
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Apr 15, 2023 | 
sentinelsource.com | Jeff Guinn
Thirty years ago on a barren hill in McLennan County, Texas, just outside Waco, a 51-day standoff between the FBI and a religious group known as the Branch Davidians concluded in a conflagration that killed most of the Davidians besieged in their Mount Carmel base, including more than 20 children. Jeff Guinn is the author of "Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage," from which this was adapted for The Washington Post.
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Apr 10, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Jeff Guinn
Jeff Guinn is the author of "Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage," from which this op-ed is adapted. Thirty years ago on a barren hill in McLennan County, Tex., just outside Waco, a 51-day standoff between the FBI and a religious group known as the Branch Davidians concluded in a conflagration that killed most of the Davidians besieged in their Mount Carmel base, including more than 20 children. Outrage ensued.
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Apr 1, 2023 | 
lonestarliterary.com | Jeff Guinn
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Mar 14, 2023 | 
news.wgcu.org | Mike Kiniry |Jeff Guinn
While visitors to Koreshan State Park in Estero have often asked whether there was any connection between Cyrus Teed Koresh — the man who founded The Koreshan Unity which called the land home beginning in the early 1800s, and David Koresh — the man who led the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas from the mid 1980s until the group’s fiery demise during an FBI siege gone wrong on their Mount Carmel compound on April 19th, 1993 — the answer was always no, there is no connection between the two and...
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Feb 18, 2023 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Jeff Guinn
The Branch Davidians were an eccentric religious group in Waco, Texas, whose leader, David Koresh, had multiple wives and slept with under-age girls. More than 80 cult members died in 1993 after FBI agents laid siege to their compound. In yesterday’s Daily Mail, the first part of our instalment of a new book about the massacre told how Koresh persuaded his followers that to reach Heaven they must die in a battle with the government.
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Feb 17, 2023 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Jeff Guinn
At 9.48am on a misty February morning, a lawyer raced to his office and rang the emergency services. 'There are 75 men around our building shooting at us!' Wayne Martin shrieked. Gunfire was clearly audible in the background. The number on the operator's screen indicated that Martin was calling from Mount Carmel, a sprawling building located on scrubland nine miles from Waco, Texas. The operator transferred the call to the county sheriff's office, where it was picked up by the deputy sheriff.
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Feb 4, 2023 | 
lonestarliterary.com | Jeff Guinn
Jeff Guinn on weaving the past into fiction and nonfiction Jeff Guinn, whose newest book launched last week and who will be a featured author at the 2015 Texas Book Festival, has written about everyone from Santa Claus to Charles Manson—literally. And it’s his sense of the literal in historical fiction that has created such a huge following and a fan base for the Fort Worth writer. Known for his meticulous and extensive research, Guinn often debunks historic myths in his novels.
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Jan 27, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Kevin Cook |Jeff Guinn
In July 2021, police arrested a Virginia man, who was charged with breaching the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. According to the Justice Department, the man, Fi Duong, continued to stake out the Capitol in the weeks and months after the riot and discussed plans for building and testing bombs.
