In "Ambush in Waco," the events that led to the fatal February confrontation that began the standoff are traced from two points of view, that of the cultists and that of the agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Event television has a whole new meaning nowadays.Īctually, this movie, produced and directed by Dick Lowry and written by Phil Penningroth ("When the Bough Breaks"), was already in production when Federal agents decided on April 19 to end a 51-day standoff with the Branch Davidians, Koresh's religious cult. Little more than a month after the Texas fire that claimed the lives of David Koresh and 71 other people, at least 17 of them children, NBC is racing into prime time, tomorrow at 9 P.M., with "In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco." The elapsed time between news story and television docudrama grows ever shorter as networks scramble to exploit a seemingly inexhaustible based-on-fact marketplace.
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