Mike Hanson Archives, Branch Davidian VHS Tape Preservation
Mike Hanson introduces a series of unedited interviews from his archives, specifically highlighting a 2000 interview with Katherine Matteson, one of the oldest Branch Davidians. Hanson details his efforts to digitize over 2,200 live shows and thousands of 25-year-old VHS tapes featuring figures like Alex Jones and Jeff Davis. He requests $25 donations to support the preservation project in exchange for signed copies of his book.
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00:00 I love Mike Hanson Archives. Get ready to run folks, it's Mike Hanson here and I like that painting that was done in 1962 of the Come and Take It. And it's a beautiful painting if you ever want to see that person its at 3307 Highway 90 East alternate in Gonzales Texas at the Independence Motel here. It's in the lobby, that is so beautiful!
00:37 Well today I'm here to talk to you about an interview that I found recently, that i did in 2000 with Katherine Matteson. She was one of the oldest Branch Davidians and she died in 2010 it should be on this videotape, but I found it and I wanted to put it up unedited for y'all to see. Especially for Branch Davidians that are still living and Branch Davidian children that came out 27 years ago because it really tells you what your elders believed
01:28 And once again, if you want to subscribe there down at the button down there to Mike Hanson Archives. Hanson archives, H-A-N-S-O-N archives or Waco archives and our newest one trailer park show Archives, so I have four YouTube channels and I appreciate y'all subscribing to all of them And we are putting up all the 25 year old VHS tapes We figured out one time that between Alex Jones Jeff Davis and a bunch of these other Patriots like Bob Dacey
02:15 George Humphrey and Steve Lane and Jimmy Ritter and all this that I've done over 25 I'm live on there Twenty five twenty two hundred live shows So we're trying to get all those put up on YouTube right now. And if you'd like to help with that send us $25 and I'll send you a signed copy of my new book And the address to send that is, hopefully she'll put it up right now. 901 St Joseph Street.
02:56 And that's in Gonzales, Texas 78629 Okay. Here is Katherine Madison I met Katherine Madison when she moved to Austin in 1995 to live with Wyla and We did get her on a couple of shows down here. I got those up on Mike Hanson archives But this is a never Scene interview with Katherine Madison and I'm going to you'll see her getting ready and all this stuff. I'm gonna run it for y'all Unedited because I think she has such a good personality And everything, I want you all to see She really cared about people in the other Branch Davidians and she's just basically a damn good person
03:51 And they were treated so bad by the media and the government. I'm glad we had the chance to rebuild a church for them, and just to get be with him for seven months up there in Waco was really great. Here it is folks, Catherine Madison's she's passed away now but she lives on in this video from the year 2000 Thanks a lot and God bless be sure to help support us send this $25 to that address and we'll send you a signed copy of this book and We're well, we can do a lot of money with a lot of good with $25 at least get one more video tape up
04:39 for history and that's what we're trying to do. We got all these thousands of tapes to get put up hopefully I'll live long enough to see it happen thanks a lot God bless it here is Katherine Mattison. It goes flop! Speak up real good too where you want stand? I can stand right there alright well then, I don't like that mirror but right here if all these eagles are good You know just tell what you want tell the people you know like you did Uh, let me see. Let's see... uh... What is that? The backlighting is hitting you. Hold on. Yeah you look good right there. Well let me just ask you some questions and then you can just fill in. First of all I want to thank everybody Is that what you wanted from me? Yeah basically because you haven't seen anybody since the uh... No I haven't
