The Associated Press. On April 19, , the day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; about 80 people, including two dozen children and sect leader David Koresh, were killed.
Then on the same date in , Timothy McVeigh, seeking to strike at the government he blamed for the Waco deaths, destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing people. McVeigh was convicted of federal murder charges and executed in In , a funeral was held at the White House for President Abraham Lincoln, assassinated five days earlier; his coffin was then taken to the U.
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