Investigators said McVeigh held extremist views and planned the bombing on the anniversary of the end of the Waco siege between law enforcement and the Branch Davidians. Other speakers at Saturday’s ...

In February 1993, the Waco Tribune-Herald newspaper started an in-depth series called The Sinful Messiah about the Branch Davidians, an offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in Waco.

“I just made a note of it in my notepad.” The Waco siege was a 51-day standoff between a religious group, the Branch Davidians, and federal agents that occurred between Feb. 28 and April 19, 1993.