Bill Buford — He Owed It to the Men He Lost at Waco | Part 2

In Part 2 of the Waco ATF raid story, Bill Buford takes us inside the gun room, round by round.

Buford walks through the exact moment he was hit, first by a rifle round through the floor, then twice by AK-47 fire, while a fellow agent bled out beside him from a severed artery. He describes climbing off a roof with no memory of how he did it, and the ATF medic who covered him with his own body while starting an IV under fire.

He also shares a story from Vietnam: a moment when an enemy soldier's rifle failed to fire at point-blank range, and the bullet he's kept ever since. And he explains, in his own words, why he went back to a job that nearly killed him, a single line that closes out this two-part conversation.

This is the rest of Bill Buford's story: the gun room, the medic who saved his life, and the reason he says he owed it to the men he lost.

Timestamps:

0:00 — The Moment He Was Hit
2:00 — Inside the Gun Room Firefight
5:30 — Getting Off the Roof
9:00 — The Medic Who Saved Him
10:30 — A Close Call in Vietnam
14:00 — From a Credit Bureau to ATF
16:30 — Why ATF Called in the FBI
17:45 — The Reason He Went Back

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