Talk:George Roden

inaccurate statement
"He was convicted and found not guilty..." -- what??? How could he be both? I think this statement needs to be clarified. T-bonham 07:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Thank you for pointing that out. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity at his trial. -- arkalochori  undefined  07:44, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Vernon Wayne Howell
Vernon Wayne Howell filed a petition in California State Superior Court in Pomona on May 15, 1990, to legally change his name "for publicity and business purposes" to David Koresh. On August 28, 1990, Judge Robert Martinez granted the petition. Ref: Clifford L. Linedecker, Masscre at Waco, Texas, St. Martin's Press, 1993, page 94. ISBN 0-312-95226-0.

Anyone referencing contemporaneous records (newspaper, court documents, etc.) would not find the name "David Koresh" in the record. They would find the name Vernon Howell. Since most of the dispute between George Roden and Vernon Howell occurred before his name change, referring to Howell as Koresh before 15 May 90 is anachronistic. Naaman Brown (talk) 01:47, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

What was Wayman Dale Adair doing in Latin America?
This is mostly a request for information, not a suggestion to add something to the article (at least for now). Does anyone know if Wayman Dale Adair was a missionary, a pilot, or an employee of a mining company in Latin America? Or maybe a member of a diplomatic staff?

It seems he traveled overseas a lot (by plane, back in times when it was not that common) for a person who was raised and died in Odessa, TX, and these travels took place before he turned 30.

There are publicly available records of three times when he would return to the U.S. by plane from Venezuela, Argentina, and Costa Rica (too bad only arrivals are recorded, not departures). Two times, the timing was interesting:
 * On December 10, 1957, he returns from Venezuela. Five days later there will be a referendum (the Venezuelan dictator wants to legitimize his power; but after the referendum he will be forced to flee). Well, it makes sense to leave before the unrest gets worse.
 * On April 14, 1961, he returns from Argentina. Argentina made a serious effort to organize talks between Cuba and the U.S. But the U.S. tried to obviate the need for such talks with the Bay of Pigs invasion (the Cubans and the Soviets knew, so the invasion failed). The invasion fleet sailed away for Cuba on the night of April 14, 1961.

The third time it was from Costa Rica (June 30, 1958), and Costa Rica does not really fit the guess that he worked for an oil company.

By the way, the story that Wayman Dale Adair considered himself a messiah seems to come from Marc Breault (Vernon Howell's follower-turned-enemy) and seems... unconvincing. And wasn't Adair Roden's neighbor, or an associate/family member of Roden' wife?

Periwinklewrinkles (talk) 02:33, 12 June 2021 (UTC)