News & Reviews: The First Waco Horror
In the News
Inside Decades-long Effort to Commemorate Notorious Waco Lynching
February 23, 2023 | Texas Monthly | Bernstein Interview
Reckoning with a lynching legacy
February 13, 2023 | Waco Tribune-Herald | Historian Bernstein Attends
A century later and still no anti-lynching legislation!
July 18, 2020 | Waco Tribune-Herald | Patricia Bernstein Featured as Guest Columnist
10 interesting Waco history reads to add to your bookshelf
September 28, 2019 | Waco Tribune-Herald
What history of lynchings teaches us about mass shootings
August 8, 2019 | Houston Chronicle
“The ‘Waco Horror’ still reverberates, 100 years later”
May 23, 2016 | CBS News
“In collaboration with the Baylor University Institute for Oral History, KWBU looks at how the lynching of Jesse Washington forever changed the city.”
May 13, 2016 | Texas Standard
“Waco’s Unfinished Legacy: 100 Years after Jesse Washington”
May 9, 2016 | KWBU-FM 103.3/Heart of Texas Public Radio
“Radio Documentary Marking the 100th Anniversary of Waco Lynching to Air on KWBU”
May 6, 2016 | Baylor Media Communications
Groups address Waco’s ‘unfinished legacy’ almost 100 years after Jesse Washington lynching
January 29, 2016 | Waco Tribune-Herald | by Kristin Hoppa
Waco Recalls a 90-Year-Old ‘Horror’
Broadcast May 13, 2006 | National Public Radio | Reporter Wade Goodwyn
In Waco, a Push To Atone for The Region’s Lynch-Mob Past
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 | Washington Post | Page A01 | by Sylvia Moreno, Staff Writer
Ghost of 1916 lynching still haunts Texas city
July 3, 2005 | Austin American-Statesman | by Mike Cox
Legacy of Shame: In 1916 in Waco, a crowd of thousands cheered as a 17-year-old was lynched. “We’re sorry” is only a start.
Friday, June 17, 2005 | Dallas Morning News
Solid work examines 1916 Waco lynching: Gruesome killing of teen helped move NAACP’s agenda
May, 22, 2005 | San Antonio Express-News | by Cary Clack, Metro Columnist for the Express-News
The Brutal Truth: Author Patricia Bernstein recalls a grisly, hate-fueled murder in The First Waco Horror
February 17, 2005 | Houston Press | by Scott Faingold
New book recounts Waco lynching of 1916
March 31, 2005 | Texas Jewish Post | Published in Fort Worth | by Steve Wisch
Fresh Outrage in Waco at Grisly Lynching of 1916
May 1, 2005 | The New York Times | by Ralph Blumenthal
Other Mentions
Waco lynching plays a Centenary”
May 22, 2016 | El Diario de El Paso
“Baylor student upholds NAACP’s legacy of advocacy”
May 6, 2016 | KSLA-TV
“Waco woman starts family’s oral history tradition”
April 22, 2016 | KWES-TV, NewsWest 9
Apology for slavery from Texas wouldn’t be enough
March 28, 2007 | The Houston Chronicle
“Waco horror” won’t “stay hushed”
April 30, 2005 | Houston Chronicle | Section A, Page 1, Edition 3 Star |
by Thomas Korosec, Staff
The First Waco Horror Review
February 20, 2005 | Houston Chronicle | by Fritz Lanham in the Zest section
Book revisits a long-forgotten lynching
Monday, March 21, 2005 | The Dallas Morning News | by Diane Jennings
The Waco Horror: Grisly 1916 lynching still overshadows city
Sunday, March 6, 2005 | Waco Tribune-Herald | Front Page | by J.B. Smith, Tribune-Herald Staff Writer
The First Waco Horror Editorial
February 27, 2005 | Waco Herald-Tribune | by Carlos Sanchez, Editor
Rod Rice, Houston Public Radio interviewed author Patricia Bernstein about her book, The First Waco Horror.
The story was aired on February 14, 2005.
A Nasty Skeleton in Waco’s Closet
February 28, 2005 | The Mexia Daily News | by Jerry Turner, Tales from Early Texas
Author analyzes ugly piece of Waco history
March 12, 2005 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) | by Art Chapman, Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Praise for The First Waco Horror
“Patricia Bernstein tells a tale that is long overdue, and tells it extremely well. This story is riveting, tragic, and an altogether indispensable part of American history.”
— Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
“Personalizing this tragedy puts a face and a name on an historic and horrific event that must not be forgotten. An important piece of historical research, well written and powerful.”
— Morris Dees, Co-Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center
“. . . Bernstein’s exceptionally well told account of the lynching and of the activists who exposed and denounced it ranks as one of the best accounts of a lynching ever published.”
— W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
