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Jon Roland
--- On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:16:54 -0600 "David E. Parsons" <spi...@sprintmail.com> wrote:
I got this from my AOL news profile. tell others to look for or request the
film be shown in more theaters.
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Date: 97-04-16 05:48:47 EDT
WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As the infamous anniversary date of
April 19 approaches, Fifth Estate Productions is scheduling a nationwide
series of screenings for the new documentary film Waco: The Rules of
Engagement revealing FBI shootings during the deadly raid on the branch
Davidians four years ago.
For the past four years, the FBI has repeatedly testified before
Congress and told the news media that it did not fire a single shot at Waco.
Now the new documentary film Waco: The Rules of Engagement shows, among
other things, that the FBI did in fact shoot at the Davidians.
The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Martin
Luther King weekend, is the first complete story of the tragic 1993 federal
raid on the religious sect outside Waco, Texas.
One segment includes Forward Looking InfraRed (FLIR) video shot
by the FBI from an overhead aircraft. This heat-sensitive imagery
technology was made famous by the U.S. military during the Gulf War. The
tape shows what happened at the back of the Davidian building -- the side
not visible to television news cameras kept a mile away. This includes a
tank ramming the building, the building later catching fire, and a series
of strange flashes.
Then, as the film progresses, Dr. Edward Allard, a patent-holding
physicist and a former supervisor at the U.S. Army's Night Vision Lab
concludes that these flashes could only be explained as automatic gunfire
from near the government tanks toward the Branch Davidian building. His
conclusions matched those of an earlier expert analysis by Infraspection
Institute.
"When we first came across this evidence, it made us sick," said
the film's executive producer, former television correspondent Dan Gifford.
"Several things about this story are sickening, but we felt we had to
include them in the film."
Beyond the high-tech wizardry of heat-sensing videotape, Waco:
The Rules of Engagement presents the human drama of the terrible standoff.
Tapes of the Davidians calling for help on 911 and negotiating with the FBI,
mesh with home video made during the siege by Branch Davidians inside the
compound and by FBI snipers outside it as well as Branch Davidian film from
l959 providing a fascinating look at the early days of the sect.
After a critically acclaimed premier at Sundance, the honor of
being selected to open the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival,
and a very successful two-week theatrical run at the Roxie Cinema in San
Francisco, the producers are in discussion with a number of commercial
distributors to bring the documentary to theaters across the country.
Several theater and film festival screenings have already been scheduled
and will be announced in Washington on April 17.
CO: Fifth Estate Productions
ST: California, District of Columbia, Utah, Texas
IN: ENT
SU: EXE
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