1993 Federal agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. During the siege, a fire breaks out and most of the cult members are killed, including leader David Koresh and several children. ATC is the first public radio program to be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. As South Africans prepare to vote in their first all-race elections, ATC airs a series of reports on the status of African nations. In the elections, Nelson Mandela wins with 60 percent of the vote.
Civil war breaks out in Rwanda.
NPR moves its Washington headquarters to 635 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., an area of the city known as Chinatown. More than 100 people are killed when a bomb goes off at a federal building in Oklahoma City. The O.J. Simpson trial permeates media coverage throughout the United States and around the world. In October, the jury returns a verdict of not guilty. Theodore Kaczynski, a former University of California, Berkeley professor living as a recluse in a one-room cabin, is arrested at his Montana home for possession of bomb components.