Date: 10/19/95 5:13 AM

To those at PBS who have made an excellent first step to integrating the web into the PBS programming mandate,
Thanks for setting up the www.pbs.org server! I have been looking around at various web sites that have been "thown up" in the last few months and this one is really nice.
Keep up the good work, especially with the Frontline stuff. It is really great to get more information on-line after viewing a show. No doubt us viewers will benefit from the augmented information you can put on-line for other shows like Nova and Nature.
Obviously, you have considered providing even more detail about a show on-line. The information you can provide at the web site will undoubtedly grow to accomodate the needs of your education customers and the demands of viewers. I was wondering, however, what the future limits on the depth you can go to with a particular show's on-line data is. For instance, at what point will a particular episode's web page be considered retired (ie no more tweeking or added data to that particular episode's on-line contect will be made)?
I hope the congress and the public will see the potential value in this improvement to our already excellent product, public television.
Sincerely,
Tim Bodine
Regular PBS Viewer

Date: 10/19/95 4:59 PM
From: Mike Schneider

Your website is a great augmentation to the "newsmagazine" format, which doesn't usually allow one access to any documents(other than transcripts of the show itself.) However, the site would be of better service to a curious public if it made available more of the documents discussed on the program. Of particular interest would be the briefings given to Ms. Reno when the possibility of a seige was first discussed.

Date: 10/17/95 11:06 PM

The Frontline story tonight was well researched and provided answers to lingering questions. When it first came on I feared it would be another conspiratorial essay of which we've grown so tired. Instead I found it to be thought provoking and objective.
Thank you,
Earl Faubion
Oklahoma City

Date: 10/18/95 3:09 AM
From: John Taylor

I found tonights show most informative. The fact that you obtained interviews with many of the principal FBI Agents, and their willingness to be candid gave me more insight than the senate hearings.
It also becomes apparent that Janet Reno was treated most unfairly and exercised great care in her decision to take action.
An excellent, informative program. Good job!

Date: 10/18/95 1:08 AM
From: Craig J. Bolton

Perhaps one of the most disgusting pieces of propaganda I've ever seen. Clearly deserves the Goebbels award for statist apologetics. Congratulations, and may all of your public funding be permanently cut off.
This experience is enough to induce one to vote for the Republicans, as inherently revolting as they may be....

Date: 10/17/95 11:06 PM

I thought the special you did was superb!!! Absolutely fascinating. I have one question/recommendation. Will the man who put this all together write a book about Waco? Is he already writing one? Are there any truly detailed studies about Waco that the producers know about in the works? For the last two years, I have been waiting for a dispassionate book about the incidents at Waco and have been completely disappointed with everything published to date. The accounts are either "inside the devil cult" or "how religious freedom was trampled in America".
I found the two most recent books about the topic: Ashes of Waco and Why Waco to be particularly disappointing (the Branch Davidian slant is obvious)
Once again, congratulations on a superb documentary.
Sincerely
Nicholas J. Eckert

From: Kim Whitmyre

Other than appearing to tip the scales in favor of our wonderful federal law enforcement boys, what did your program add? What is most interesting to me is the utter lack of inquiry into the initial justification for the action against the Davidians or David Koresh. From all I have heard, the charges were trumped up and the BATF was looking for some good publicity at budget-granting time. Hardly justification for home-grown facism. Evidently justification is a sometime thing.

Date: 10/18/95 9:17 AM
From: Richard W.Spisak Jr.

Superb and balanced program. I felt that the comparison of the two competing visions of how to resolve the crisis was far more illuminating than the polemics and angry apoligists we heard preening on the hill.
Dealing with fanatics does require a different set of tactics than dealing with economic criminals. Blaming the fallable lawenforcement officials with the deaths of so many innocent children while serving a particular anti-government agenda. Doesnot assist the analytic process that should be utilized as the Justice Department and it's law enforcement agencies review the events in an effort to upgrade responce tactics. The new century ahead and the increasing number of unbalanced prophets of the milenial days ahead. garantee more fanatics holed up with innocents. Those capable of calm deliberation in the face of growing irrationality must take what lessons that can be gained from such hard teachings as the Jim Joneses and the David Koreshes of this nervous world.
RW Spisak Jr.