Waco Milk Dialogue
Source activity: Conflict between FBI, with other agencies, and David Koresh, Branch Dravidian Sect.
Activity Date: March 8, 1993 (about 1 week after the siege started, 6 weeks before the end.)
Original form: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/milknegotiation.html
Comments: Extensive context notes are on the web.
Situation: Koresh and his followers are in an FBI siege in Waco, Texas.
Dialogue is in the early phase of the conflict.
FBI has previously offered to give milk, provided that
additional children are released.
Some children have previously been released.
Sherriff Jack Harwell is a local law enforcement official.
Analyst: W. Mann
Revised: 8/5/02
DMT Game
Speaker Game
Turn # Text from Sheriff Harwell Text from David Koresh Actions and depth 2 depth 1
Name Name
Uni laterals
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1 SHERIFF
David about those babies on Action
JACK bg AO1 AO1 o - -
this milk-- Offer
HARWELL
2 DAVID (pursue
But those are our children. o - -
KORESH prior offer)
3 SHERIFF --that concerns me. Why have--
HARWELL I'm, I'm concerned about those
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babies. I want those babies o - -
AO1
taken care of. Now, if you
need some milk--
4 DAVID Do you know what they're
bg IO1 Info Offer IO1 o - -
KORESH saying now?
5 SHERIFF
--out there I'll see what I can
HARWELL
do about getting that milk out extend bg
o - -
there to you because I want AO1
those babies taken care of.
6 DAVID Well, here's the thing, Mr.
KORESH Harwell. What they're saying now
is after we've already sent three
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more kids out, then they're o - -
IO1
telling us that they want four
more kids before they send us
the milk.
7 SHERIFF Well, would that help to, to get
ag IO1, bg Action
HARWELL the milk out there to you? AO2 o - -
AO2 Offer
Would that--
8 DAVID
It'll definitely help the babies. ag AO2, bt o - -
KORESH
9 SHERIFF All right. All right. That's good. Trust
at, bg TS1 TS1 o - -
HARWELL Would it help us-- Seek
10 DAVID
And I told them I would send
KORESH
some pictures of the remaining TELL1 o - -
children and the mothers.
11 SHERIFF
If I get that out there to you
HARWELL
would that help your, your
knowing that I'll do what I tell
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you? I've, I've not talked to o - -
TS1
these people here but I will see
that that's there, I'll see that it's
delivered to you, and--
12 DAVID
Well, yeah, I mean we--like we
KORESH
told them, in the position we're in
I've been talking to all the guys
and stuff here, I said, look, in our
profession of faith we know what
we believe and we believe what
rg TS1,
we know. I says now it's between
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God and them. Now, God's told
TELL1
me to wait, you know, and I'm
waiting, I says, but, you know, we
have to realize that whatever
comes to us after this point is all
in the hands of God and there's
not a --
13 SHERIFF
Yes, I -- - o - -
HARWELL
14 DAVID --nation or power that's going to extend
o - -
KORESH overrule what God wants. TELL1
15 SHERIFF Well, if I get-- how much milk
bg IS1 Info Seek IS1 o - -
HARWELL do you need, David?
16 DAVID Well, we, we told them, we told
KORESH them we needed six gallons ag IS1 o - -
because I have--
17 SHERIFF
All right. If I get you six -- I'm, bt IS1;
HARWELL Promise o - -
I'm going to see that you get -- PRO1
18 DAVID rt IS1;
KORESH -- I have -- extend ag o - -
IS1
19 SHERIFF -- six gallons of milk brought
HARWELL out, but I'm not going to let extend
o - -
those babies suffer because of PRO1
--
20 DAVID There's one, two, three, four,
KORESH five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, extend ag
o - -
fifteen, sixteen -- there are IS1; bt IS1
sixteen kids here that still drink
milk.
21 SHERIFF Well, do you think six gallons rt IS1; bg
IS2 o - -
HARWELL is enough? IS2
22 DAVID Well, yeah, I mean, we, we figure
ag IS2 o - -
KORESH --
23 SHERIFF
All right. I'll, I'll see that you
HARWELL
get the six gallons of milk. If --
I'll need to get them and work
bt IS2; bt
that out. Now, I'm not going to
IS1; bt AO2;
be able to sit here with you
repeat o - -
David and work all the terms.
PRO1;
What I wanted to do to you -- I
TELL2
say with you is to sit here and
talk from my heart to you and
let you know that we --
24 DAVID at IS2; at
Well, I appreciate it and we love
KORESH IS1; ACK, o - -
you all.
POL
25 SHERIFF -- we're concerned about you
HARWELL all and we, we care for you. We
love you and those babies I
just -- it just makes my heart extend
o - -
swell up to see those kids TELL2
come out and how well they've
been taken care of and, and all
this.
26 DAVID
And, and -- - o - -
KORESH
27 SHERIFF And they're being taken care
HARWELL of now. Now, I can't answer -- I
wasn't involved in how they
extend
were going to be -- I know o - -
TELL2
they're in good care now but I
wasn't involved and wasn't
aware that --
28 DAVID
Right. ACK o - -
KORESH
29 SHERIFF -- they were supposed to be
HARWELL turned over to parents and
grandparents or what that extend
o - -
process was. I've been TELL2
involved in other things, David,
trying to keep --
30 DAVID
Yeah, I understand. ACK o - -
KORESH
31 SHERIFF -- some level head about all
HARWELL this so that we can resolve this
thing. You don't know how extend
o - -
deeply I mean it when I say I TELL2
want you all out without your
being hurt.
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