Press Release

ABC misled children of Waco participants - and now the public.

Bradley H. Borst                                                  April 17, 2003  4pm MT

The Producer of the ABC Prime Time program, scheduled to air this evening, miss represented the facts of how this program would play out.  I was told that we would be allowed to ask an FBI representative any questions wed like to ask. When the time came to ask my questions the Producer said I was not allowed to present my questions. This morning the Good Morning America host, Charles Gibson, inferred that the participants of the show were allowed to ask all of their questions, even the blunt ones.  This did not happen. The whole tone of the program promotional seen this morning appeared to be a sham designed to lay the entire blame for the events of 4-19-93 on David Koresh, and in the process exonerating the FBI of any responsibility.  I agreed to participate in the ABC show to tell the truth about who the Branch Davidians were and the involvement of the BATF and FBI.  In February, I went to New York for the interview.  During the interview, I was betrayed and the program is a misrepresentation of my position and the real story of Waco.  In other promotional advertisements, ABC has made misleading statements about the Branch Davidians in what appears to be an attempt to justify the historical end result.