| The Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, burns on April 19, 1993, top, left; one man assists another affected by the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack in Tokyo, Japan, on March 20, 1995, right; and the body of a member of the Heaven’s Gate cult lies beneath a purple shroud in San Diego, California, on March 26, 1997, bottom, left. All three groups held millennialist beliefs. |