The television series “Waco” devotes a good portion of its screen time to character David Thibodeau, a drummer who met Branch Davidian leader David Koresh (Taylor Kitsch) at a Los Angeles bar.

By the time of the 1993 Waco siege, ... (FBI negotiation transcripts between Kathryn Shroeder and Steve Schneider with interjections from Koresh himself) that David Koresh and his followers did not call themselves Branch Davidians.

Other people did things in the series that they attributed to my character, like burying the body out front, due to time constraints and the need to have fewer characters do more things,” Thibodeau said. Koresh asks him to fill in as drummer in his band, ultimately leading Thibodeau (Rory Culkin) to move into the Mount Carmel compound which later became the backdrop for a deadly siege. The series focuses on allegations against Koresh relating only to one of his “wives,” who was underage when he had a child with her. Read by Robert Fass. David Thibodeau speaks about David Koresh and his experience inside the Waco compound. David Thibodeau, one of only nine Branch Davidian members to survive the fire, told TIME in a recent interview that he believes the dead Branch Davidians were shot by the FBI. A new miniseries is coming to television and Thibodeau's book was the inspiration for it. A horrific account by David Thibodeau, one of the few Branch Davidians to survive both their leader’s doctrine and the F.B.I.’s bungled “rescue” attempt. “My story wasn’t really about me.

2020-04-26T02:49:41-04:00. Time Magazine explained that the show even reunited Thibodeau with the FBI agent who also lived through the standoff with David Koresh, Gary Noesner. David Thibodeau (Rory Culkin) David Thibodeau lived in the Waco compound and was one of the few survivors of the siege.