I told him hed have to wait in line to go in the restroom, cause it was occupied and he didnt think I was very funny at all. She tried to run back in, but the firefighters wouldnt let her.. To their surprise, experts discovered that only one of the bombs five blasting caps had gone off. At approximately 1:30 p.m. on a sunny Friday afternoon, David Young and his wife, Doris, quietly and methodically took control of Cokeville Elementary. The film was subsequently released on DVD and Blu-ray for distribution by Excel Entertainment Group through Deseret Book and affiliated retailers. So I went down to the office and by the time I got there they had talked to the secretary. I just expected to see dead bodies every place, he said. According to investigators at the time, if the bomb had functioned as designed, it would have blown off the entire southwest side of the school building. Ron and Claudia both talk to Jason, who then tells him "there were other people in the room." for our own actions (no Man, family clan, village, town, city, state, government, or religion condoning withholding the above noted original and innate freedoms) we will collectively evolve into the next step of wherever it is were going (Nowhere in the REALITY of 0-[infinity] but still a long way from achieving it.). Yet it happened right in front of me! Rating: PG-13, for violence, peril and mature themes. Based on TRUE events-On May 16, 1986, in the small ranching community of Cokeville, WY, David and Doris Young took an elementary school hostage for several h. Submitted by Abel on Sun, 2018-04-22 12:57. And at first, I thought, please, just leave it alone. Not that I know of. The Cokeville Miracle, a movie by T.C. There are also a couple scenes where parents are outside the school being held back by police. Janel Dayton: No, on the other side. . In an effort to keep the children away from him, teachers used masking. As tensions mounted, some of the younger children began to edge towards David Young. Haskell also mentions that the open windows and doors provided ventilation for the explosion. You and I are only one-half inch from death." Ultimately, no hostages were killed, and several children reported seeing angels or deceased relatives who helped guide them to safety. Youngs homemade bomb was contained inside an old shopping cart. After a few threw up in trashcans, Young allowed the teachers to open a window, creating a vent that would buffer the force of the blast. We just have to look deep enough to see them, because they are there.. That, in addition to the fact that he picked out Grandma Elliott, is evidence I cant deny, he says. And though the walls were pocked from shrapnel, no one was hit by any of it. Soon after that, my brother came over and told me we were going to go sit by the window. Young had tested an identical bomb inside an old school bus. Mark Junge: Where was your classroom in relation to the one you were forced into? Whenever you happen to meet them, youre glad to see them. A lot of them had lost everything. As soon as the children began arriving into the arms of frantic parents and waiting emergency workers, their excited stories began. Some said a beautiful woman had advised them to go stand near the window. The children that were in the room for a little bit longer, they had black under their noses from breathing it. Young grew increasingly agitated as the afternoon wore on. Another teacher was trying to help me escape. She said, Lets go out the window. I said, No way! Because there was too much at stake. Motivated to attend for Jason, Ron tries to make it through the meetings. Socrates, reputed to be the wisest man of his time, investigated the basis of knowledge in a manner still available (Plato wrote it down and it survives), still as viable, and still as conclusive as it was 2400+ years ago. As they entered the room, each teacher was handed a typewritten manifesto with quotes from Shakespeare and Socrates and a mysterious title across the top of the paper that read, Zero equals Infinity. For more information about our sponsors and the people behind WyoHistory.org, visit our About Us page: Hostage crisis at the elementary school in Cokeville, Wyo. Mark Junge: Some of the people saw angels. Christensen Writing Credits (in alphabetical order) Cast (in credits order) Produced by Music by Christian Davis Rob Gardner Cinematography by T.C. Well, this is obviouslywell, I shouldnt say obviouslybut it seems like it would be the most outstanding event in your life so fartraumatic event, is that right? Mark Junge: How do you do that?! He is still far out, but starts to rush towards Cokeville, as he is the nearest officer and every other one is out of town. But I guess, you have to judge it day by day. Sue Castaneda: What did happen to the other two guys, because I dont know. Thats one thing he cannot do, she says. At first, authorities dismissed their claims as the panicked ramblings of frightened children but soon, as the childrens stories began to merge and meld and evidence began to stack up in their favor, they began to realize that indeed something miraculous had just occurred in Cokeville. Two of the other teachers were here this weekend. I cant leave! but he yelled Getout! Were told that life is a school. He announced, Cross this line of death and Ill start shooting the grown-ups. Ambulances, fire trucks, and news cameras lined the streets. They came across a picture that she had never seen before. Believing 2 plus 2 equals 4 hardly invalidates Knowing 0=[infinity]. In May 1986, cop Ron Hartley (Jasen Wade) is at a crime scene, during which two people were murdered. The Cokeville hostage crisis began the afternoon of May 16, 1986, when David and Doris Young took 154 children and adults hostage at the Cokeville Elementary School in tiny Cokeville, Wyo. All the nurses cried as they cleaned my wounds, she says, and the doctor was talking to my parents about skin grafts and plastic surgery.. And they were all doing that. David became increasingly agitated, and decided to leave the room. Mark Junge: Oh, yeah. When he said that, it lined up with the physical evidence. I thought he was just out of breath and so I just went on, I didnt know hed been shot. I was a first grade teacher in 1986 at the Cokeville Elementary School. The top basket contained a gallon milk jug of gasoline, wired with a blasting cap. Still, it's never overly dark or threatening, as writer-director T.C. He says that hatred will not be the answer but prayer will. This school is being taken hostage! Jasen Wade as Ron Hartley, the film's protagonist, one of the town's deputies who is questioning his faith as his children are taken hostage. T.C. Thats not entertainment to me anymore. Now people come and people go, but always as people, no longer as individuals from which people had risen (or succumb). We went on down the hall. That, I think, shows my gratitude., We can find small miracles in our everyday lives, adds Johnson. Rich Haskell explained how the bomb was designed to work: When the blasting caps triggered, particles from the cans would go into the air, mix with the gasoline, which was on a time delay, and ignite in a fireball. They take her hostage, and when David starts harshly yelling at a student, Penny confronts him. And part of its because were isolated. Ron, on the same day, travels to help his brother with some issues, while Cindy and Jason go to the school. It explodes and Doris is ignited in flames. Trying to get in the U. S., granted, but they were innocent people and they just got wiped out. It was a sophisticated bomb consisting of layers of wooden shelves with hundreds of rounds of ammunition on top, a layer of gasoline below, and tuna fish cans full of powder, resting on top of blasting caps. He told me to go back by the bathroom door and make sure that anyone that went into the bathroom came out, because there was another doorway on the other side of the bathroom. So anyway, I cleared out the debris and tried to go back in to see if anybody needed help, and it was just as black in there as could be. On May 16th, 1986, in the small town of Cokeville, Wyoming, David and Doris Young entered the local elementary school with a bomb and held the entire school hostage in one room. In the wake of the madness, Ron Hartley, whose children were inside the classroom . Mark Junge: Everybody. He demanded a ransom of two million dollars per hostage ($308 million, $720 million adjusted for inflation), and an audience with President Ronald Reagan. In the school, gas from the bomb begins to leak and children are getting sick. I took a few steps and started feeling heat on my skinI realized I was on fire.. Although Cokeville is a predominantly LDS community, Christensen says he chose not to portray any specific religion in The Cokeville Miracle, now available on DVD. Itold him, It wasnt Grandma Meister because shes alive and living in Pinedale.. Ron Hartley, lead investigator for the Lincoln County Sheriffs Office, had four children who survived the bombing. He indicated that he wouldnt mind dispensing with the teachers. Joshua Cooper as John Miller, a music teacher who is shot by David Young after the bomb goes off. After Penny leaves, David and Doris take three people (two staff, one student) into Room 4, where David takes control of a class being held in the room. On May 16, 1986, David Young, Cokeville's former town marshal, and his wife, Doris, carried five rifles, five handguns and a "dead man's bomb" into the elementary school. The incident was detailed in the book When Angels Intervene to Save the Children by Hartt Wixom and his wife Judene, which formed the basis for a CBS made for TV movie titled To Save the Children. Some people said they thought the one on the grass was me, because we were about the same build, same height, same coloring. He then expresses his triumph with his second wife, Doris (Kymberly Mellen). Eight months later, Payne learned who the woman in white was when her mother pulled out an old locket. On May 16, 1986, an elementary school in the tiny town of Cokeville, Wyoming, was held hostage by a married couple with a bomb. Mark Junge: Do you stay in contact with the people who were in the room? And the gasoline fumes had made some of the children sick. We never had the kind of fire drills that it sounds like you guys kept going over. Janel Dayton: No. Barta Heiner as Verlene Bennion, an elderly teacher at Cokeville Elementary who suffers from smoke inhalation after the bomb goes off. Or theyre trained to be obedient? Janel Dayton: Very cohesive. Immediately following the detonation, the teachers started to shove children into the hallway, and through two open windows onto the grass outside the school, causing chaos as panicked parents tried to break through police lines. Janel Dayton: Well, I fell off Mount Timpanogos [in Utah] once, and that was a little bit of a scare! The Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis occurred on Friday, May 16, 1986, in Cokeville, Wyoming, United States, when former town marshal David Young, 43, and his wife Doris Young, 47, took 136 children and 18 adults hostage at Cokeville Elementary School. Mark Junge: Thats why you think its significant, because it teaches us something? Penny speeds to the local police station where she informs them of her father's plan, proving it by showing them Deppe and Mendenhall, still handcuffed. All the hostages escaped, though 79 were hospitalized with burns and injuries. The couple corralled a large group of students and teachers into a single classroom. [6] With permission, the teachers brought in books, art supplies and a television to help keep the children occupied. about the actual history, the making of the film, and looking for the hand of God in daily life. It took me a few years to connect the priesthood blessing with the LDS Church, but I knew something special happened that day, she says. Janel Dayton: Yeah, and I dont think that helped. (Laughs). While looking through a family album with her grandmother, Johnson stopped at a familiar face. After being fired for misconduct, he moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he married Doris Young. So we decided to take some masking tape, and we tapedI think it was an eight-foot square in the middle of the room, right here, and he pushed the cart, the homemade bomb into this, and we told the children this was the magic square. But do we know what awaits us after this life? He had been aware of above-average achievement scores from Cokeville's education system. Drama 2015 1 hr 33 min. Some also gathered together in groups to pray. It is. The knowledge of their experiences has shaped my life personally, and now with this movie, even more lives can be blessed with the knowledge of what help there is from the other side, he says. Seemingly, some thousands of years ago, several individuals combined, or perceived their combination and therein created Man. When you do interrogations in law enforcement, you watch for body language. We went into the room. The little kids needed drinks. Janel Dayton: He didnt write it. Although the request seemed strange, the teachers complied and soon the 30 foot by 30 foot room was packed full of all 154 children and 13 teachers. Then I saw my momrunning down the street. I dont know why, but I am grateful.. So she was really disturbed and she told me to get the h. . Many children showed signs of distress with sobs, complaining of headaches from the smell of gasoline from the bomb, or simply wanting to go home. So whats your assessment of Doris and David Young? She picked up the kids and they were gone. The article had said what states they were going to go into and Wyoming wasnt one of them. I dont know whyI cant explain it.. Will I see my family again? I was really scared for the unknown. Im glad! Janel Dayton: And it was dark. The circuit was powered by a 9-volt lantern battery. My husband was the one that decided that they would do that. Jillette Dayton as Christina "Tina" Cook, the Secretary of Cokeville Elementary. Words emphasized by the speaker are italicized. And like a lot of inspirational films, the movie could use a little more subtlety and restraint. Alexa Rae as Cindy Hartley, Ron and Claudia's daughter. After a few minutes, Max Excell (Alan Peterson), the school principal who had been away, walks in and discovers the situation. The three walk into the school undetected, and announce to their secretary, Christina Cook (Jillette Dayton), their plan. My husband had had an association with him, but Id never seen him before. So I went through the door and tried to move the barricade. Janel Dayton: When this book was written, one young man says he put it in a badger hole. one hostage asks Doris. [5][10][8], When the bomb detonated, the majority of the explosive force was channeled through loose ceiling tiles into the roof, and open windows acting as vents. I believe what everybody else says and have faith that they saw what they saw. One teacher recalls, You couldnt see in front of you, all you could do was feel. Students reportedseeing a bright flash followed by a mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke. Mark Junge: Thats a really interesting statement! Enter your email to receive updates on our LDS Living content, 2022 LDS Living A Division of Deseret Book Company, 7 Book of Mormon verses that have changed my perspective on body image, Why faith crises are real, and how we can avoid making them worse for loved ones, 7 Latter-day Saint resources that answer questions about death and the spirit world. Janel Dayton: Mm-hm. The true miracle was not that I survived or that the third-degree burns I suffered healed without a traceit was that I learned I was not alone in the world.. My face was completely unrecognizable, she recalls. Janel Dayton: As she reached out for the little mother that was there with a bunch of her kids, and the mother said, My responsibilitys to my children. And I didnt see when David came out and shot her. While chatting with one of the teachers, Doris accidentally triggers the bomb by gesturing with her hand. As she was ready to take us into the second-grade room, this young woman, very pretty young woman, came flying through the door and she was just hysterical. Meanwhile, Doris went from classroom to classroom, luring 136 children, six faculty, nine teachers, and three other adults, including a job applicant and a UPS driver, into a first-grade classroom for a total of 154 hostages. Director T.C. David, Doris and Penny (Caitlin EJ Meyer), one of David's two daughters from his previous marriage, bring the bomb into the school, with Doris and Penny carrying firearms. The Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis occurred on May 16, 1986, in Cokeville, Wyoming, United States, when former town marshal David Young 44, and his wife Doris Young 47, took 136 children and 18 adults hostage at Cokeville Elementary School. Some of the teachers said, Oh no, she was in on it! She wasnt. Thats when I saw the angels. I am so grateful I had the chance to work with Director, TC Christensen on this Official Music Video for his film, "The Cokeville Miracle", a true story abou. In 1979, he had been the towns marshal for only six months and residents remember his Wyatt Earp style of law. The movie's second half looks at the aftermath once the bomb goes off, as the town sheriff (Jasen Wade) interviews hostages and tries to grasp what happened. David Young entered the school with his wife transporting a large gasoline-filled device that appeared to be a bomb. Debbie Sparks and Steven Moore, both EMTs, discuss on May 9 the elementary school bombing. The first is August 16, the day of my physical birth, and the second is the day I call my spiritual birth: May 16, the day of the bombing., I try my best to make it a better world, says Wixom. Some of the children just sat right all around and just watched him. Ron then goes to the youth room where they are singing "A Child's Prayer". At approximately 1:30 p.m. on a sunny Friday afternoon, David Young and his wife, Doris, quietly and methodically took control of Cokeville Elementary. Kamron Wixom, a sixth grader, prayed with about a dozen of his fellow students. They glided down through the ceiling, then hung in the air for a second. SHARE Cokeville recollects 'miracle' of 1986. I walked down to the office and as I came to the crossroads in the hallway, I saw a man and a woman pushing a cart that had some gallons of fluid in it, and my first impression was that they were probably cleaning fluid sales people. The Cokeville Miracle: When Angels Intervene Hartt Wixom, Judene Wixom 3.83 254 ratings43 reviews "This is a revolution! The Cokeville Miracle Free with ads PG-13 YouTube Movies & TV 160M subscribers Subscribe 23K Share Children who were held hostage in their elementary school tell stories of miraculous things,. Because one of the policemans little sons came out of the door and looked at the barricade, and I knew what he was thinking: Should I go over that and get out of here? I said, No, you cant do that. I felt bad about that, but that was my assignment. Mark Junge: Why didnt they want their names attached? Mark Junge: How would you describe this community of Cokeville? I have no idea when that was because I was standing right by that door, or right through the one door. (Laughing) Well, I dont mean to make light of it, but, I mean, I just wonder how you were affected? David Young had initially planned to involve longtime friends Gerald Deppe and Doyle Mendenhall, who had invested money with him in a get-rich-quick scheme that he had called "The Biggie. Janel Dayton: not in the realm of entertainment any more. I began to wonder, What happens if I die today? But these little sisters sacrificed a lot to come. Mark Junge: Did this whole incident, Janel, strengthen you, or do you think it kind of shookyour trust in people? Thats my angel! And it wasnt Grandma Meisterit was my Grandma Elliott. One man in the audience had attended school in Cokeville years after the hostage-taking. Mark Junge: Were you trying to keep the kids quiet, tamped down? And to me, it s a type in a shadow of what s going to happen to the world, according to the Bible. Its not that we are better or more special than someone elseits not that God loved us more. It was. And two weeks prior to the incident, the volunteer fire department had, for the first time, practiced for how to treat the elementary school if it were to catch on fire. Liz Christensen as Pat Bennion, Verlene's daughter-in-law and one of the teachers at Cokeville Elementary. Visibly irritated, Young instructed the teachers to push the tables and chairs to the edges of the room and to tape a square on the floor around the bomb located in the middle. Stevens, who may be recognized for starring in the 1986 Church film Our Heavenly Fathers Plan, explains that his character embodies numerous people and does not represent a specific denomination. At best a probability, at worse nonsense, proof in any event is very distant from reality. As the investigation unfolded, authorities began to realize that David Young was a very sick man. Christensen, whose works include 17 Miraclesand Ephraims Rescue, felt it was time to share those events with the world. Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV. In Cokeville, Ron is playing with his two children; Cindy (Alexa Rae) and Jason (Kimball Stinger). Play trailer 2:15 1 Video 6 Photos Drama Family History Children who were held hostage in their elementary school tell stories of miraculous things, but many adults are skeptical that the Cokeville Miracle ever truly happened. Except for the families involved, the event at Cokeville, Wyoming, on May 16, 1986, probably slid into the dustbin of history many years ago. Did you see angels? And they would need to be directed to get out of every exit possible. When he arrived at the scene, he was immediately told that the physical evidence didnt add up. She didnt tell me her name, but I think it was Grandma Meister. This was exactly what I was looking for. In 1986, more than 150 schoolkids and adults were held hostage at an elementary school in tiny Cokeville, Wyo. But I just had a feeling, you know, what if somebody comes back and tries tothat bothered me. We are in Cokeville at Janels house and were in the kitchen, at the kitchen table. I think there are lots of good people. Janel Dayton: Mm-hm. This came to pass as Man attempts to preempt those rights of the individual. The feeling [after the prayer] was one of total confidence that we had just placed our lives in the hands of our loving Heavenly Father, he recalls. Doing this? But I knew the instant mymom opened the locket that it was her. cokeville miracle hoax. But it was a very valuable experience. Youll write about it in your journals and youll have a great story for your grandchildren.. Everything feels pat and oversimplified, with no gray areas. Mark Junge: Coming out of Timpanogos Cave, or something? Years later, Jennie Johnson, the student who blacked out and was carried from the burning room, was looking through an old photo album with her grandmother. The Cokeville Miracle - theatrical trailer. So if you are protected, youre being protected right now. In the days after the bombing, more astonishing evidence came to light. Nearly three decades since the miraculous events transpired in the tiny town of Cokeville, Wyoming, movie producer T.C. 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