The 1995 Palo Verde derailment took place on October 9, 1995, when Amtrak's Sunset Limited was derailed by terrorists near Palo Verde, Arizona on Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Two locomotives, Amt
Sunset Limited Derailment
The site of the derailment in 2013. The large gouge in the embankment was created by the impact of the train.
Waco siege
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The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by US federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult known as the Branch Davi
1995 Palo Verde, Arizona, derailment
…Seventy-eight people were injured, 12 of them seriously and 25 were hospitalized. Four typewritten notes, attacking the ATF and the FBI for the 1993 Waco Siege, criticizing local law enforcement, and signed "Sons of the Gestapo", were found near the scene of the wreck, indicating that notes had been left nearby…
The Mount Carmel Center in flames on April 19, 1993
Vernon Howell (later David Koresh) in a 1987 mug shot
The Branch Davidian compound (Mount Carmel Center) photographed during the siege
ATF agents attempting to enter the Branch Davidian compound on February 28, 1993