Word: thibodeau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once it was easy to pass over a story like David Thibodeau's. He says he saw the shiny thing embedded in a wall of the chapel in the Branch Davidian compound, where he took refuge with fellow believers. It was the middle of a lull between government tear-gas assaults, and in the calm, Thibodeau studied the thing. "It was the size of a Coke can," he says. "Silver, stainless steel in color. There were three fins on the back. It was some kind of projectile." Before he could look more closely, however, the screech of tanks started...
...more of the "truth" still be out there? The range of truthmongers is broad. Thibodeau, for example, is one of nine people who emerged from the compound alive on April 19 and is an unnamed litigant in a class action, an excessive-force lawsuit in Texas by survivors and victims' families. His memory of the rocket in the chapel wall is part of his forthcoming book, A Place Called Waco. Others argue that the tear gas, at the very least, set the stage for an inadvertent inferno--a claim long since dismissed as bad science by an independent investigation. Meanwhile...
Sticks and Bones, an intelligent and provocative play by David Rabe, brings up complex issues regarding the Vietnam War and racial stigma through the eyes of the supposedly prototypical American family, centered around the married couple Ozzie and Harriet (Timothy Foley '98 and A. Samantha Thibodeau '96). After seeing the play, however, one realizes that things are not always what they seem...
Foley and Thibodeau perform excellently in their opposition to Lewy. From sudden impassioned outbursts to normal family dialogue, they make the characters believable and coherent. Foley had a particularly difficult job in portraying Ozzie so well, because the character borders on an incredible madness. He cannot deal with his wounded son's attitude and the questions it raises about his own youth and his own interaction with war. At times Ozzie appears normal, and at others he oversteps the bounds of rationality...
...times are changing. Look around you at all the silver hair here," said precinct warden Julia Thibodeau, who has been counting ballots for the city for 46 years...