He was the father of two, but was estranged from his elder daughter. They forget about what happened in Cokeville with a lot more people and the potential of what was there. "We could tell that he was becoming very nervous. I'm proud of all my children. Even though the majority of the townspeople are LDS, there are lots of people of a variety of faiths in the room that day. Because they weren't in a gun, the pressure wasn't chambered enough to where you could direct it. Mark Junge: Today is the 23rd of September, 2010. He had tried this deviceand they were designed tothat it would be a delayed explosion. Only the man and his wife, who accidentally detonated the bomb, died that day in 1986. She lured them by telling them there was either an emergency, a surprise, or an assembly there. Because it was sittin' low enough and the kids were low enough that it would have done it. Mark Junge: Well, yes. Either way, right after my joke is about when David excused himself from the room. I did not have to imagine how God would move that day when I said my little prayer just hours before, I simply knew he would. The woman who died with her husband as they held an elementary school hostage with a gasoline bomb last week was not killed by the . Well, you know how fine that dust is. She acknowledges these students for assisting her in researching her contributions to the WyoHistory.org web site. David had the makeshift bomb attached to his body and housed inside a grocery cart, while Doris and Princess carried an arsenal of rifles, handguns and ammunition, as well as the Zero Equals Infinity handouts. What had happenedI can't explain it. Rich Haskell: Approximately an hour and ten, hour and fifteen minutes. To my right is Sue Castaneda who is the Wyoming Oral History Project Director, and across the table from me is Rich Haskell, who is a certified bomb technician. There are some survivors that couldn't believe how accurate much of it was. All the hostages escaped, though 79 were hospitalized with burns and injuries. Cokeville Recollects Miracle of 1986: Hostage Survivors, Town Residents Compile Book, ________. And you could see that she had been burning by just looking at her out on the front lawn. Mark Junge: You think when we talk to you to bring this up againI know you're emotional about itbut does it hurt you to talk about this? Mark Junge: Do you think he took up thatwanted to take that up because of you? We're in a conference room here on the main floor. Which is hard to believe, but a positive experience in that they learned something. The circuit was powered by a 9-volt lantern battery. So you got that and you got the flour and the gasoline and that's what it was all designed to do in millisecond delays. This all happened about 8 months after the bombing. On May 16, 1986, David and Doris Young took 154 people hostage at the Cokeville Elementary School in tiny Cokeville, Wyo. He knew it was a predominantly Mormon [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] community. All the hostages escaped, though 79 were hospitalized with burns and injuries. He did it right. Lenita's father Rocky was a fifth grade teacher at Cokeville Elementary School at the time of the bombing, Lenita was a seventh grader. Chalkboards andwhat do they call those?whiteboards, I think they are, along the walls. I did see the lighting had changed in the room, and it was right in the same timeline as everyone else's witness. Well, with the window being open, with the ceiling tiles being able to lift up and down, I think that absorbed a lot of the explosion of the gasoline bottle. TC (the director) also worked incredibly hard to make this a story that can be widely appreciated by members of all faiths. They believed in reincarnation, which probably led, in part, to the creation of Davids Brave New World idea. He listened so well, so patiently. When I walked inside of the classroomit was a kindergarten classroom which meant that the desks were smaller, everything was smaller because of the smaller children. Rich Haskell: I don't think that they were planningor David was planning on the ceiling tiles in the school. David saw John Miller, the music teacher, trying to escape and shot him in the back. What is cokeville miracle about? Explained by Sharing Culture Recording and transcription by Wyoming State Archives. Well, he had went into the bathroom and she was out with the bomb, and they said she was complaining of a migraine headache. At that time, about 500 people lived in Cokeville, and there were slightly more than 100 students attending the elementary school. A compilation project by the Cokeville Miracle Foundation, a 501(c) (3) charity. Amy Bagaso Williams was a fifth-grader when a couple used a bomb while taking hostages at her Wyoming school on May 16, 1986. I actually created a website knowing that people would wonder what was real and what wasn't. I'm not saying all of 'em were bombs, but why did God cut out Cokeville and say nobody's going to get hurt in this? And he didn't even ask me if I wanted to do that. Cokeville Elementary School is located at 205 N. Sage St. in Cokeville. On May 16, 1986, David and Doris Young took 154 people hostage at the Cokeville Elementary School in tiny Cokeville www.wyohistory.org 25 years after school bombing, Wyoming town remembers the . Mark Junge: Why do you think that God chose Cokeville to save? It was perfect! The wire was cut. How much interaction did you have with the director/producers of the movie? I think you should know that it can be difficult to watch - but that it has a very rewarding outcome. That's what it was designed to do was to go out and be particles and that gasoline was gonna ignite it and blow it up. You see the bag ladies pullin' them around behind them when they go to the store and they can put their groceries in or whatever else. Mark Junge: They weren't big enough, in a way. Once the wooden piece was removed, the two metal connectors completed the circuit, detonating the bomb. Everybody that was inside that room, they just started throwin' them out the windows, out the doors, just anyand she happened to be one they threw out the window. Then, several years later, Jennie Sorensen identified what she thought was a teacher who led her out of the building after the blast. Doris developed a headache from the gasoline fumes, and raised her hand to her forehead. And screaming, I can't imagine the screams that she was making. That dead-man switch is a piece of string that goes around your wrist and it's hooked into a clothespin, the other end of it. Mark Junge: Do you know the names and birthdates of all your grandchildren? What did you find out about them? Two of the three blasting caps on the bomb failed to detonate; the wires to each tuna can had been reportedly cut. But it still sent flames all over in the room and you can see where all the flames were in that room. My name is Mark Junge and I'm here at the Hiltonis it the Hilton Hotel? During the Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis. 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. Cokeville seems like a pretty small town. Go to their hands and knees and crawl out. I think it's because of the ages of the kids, to start with. Upon entering the classroom, children saw an arsenal of weapons, a grocery cart and an unfamiliar manDavid Young. I believe a presence was entering the room at about that time. It packed the brute force of twenty-five sticks of dynamite. Doris accidently triggered the bomb by motioning to her hostages with her arms. She was a total torch! At least 74 people, most of them children, suffered second-degree burns when the bomb went off at about 4 P.M. at the Cokeville Elementary School. Kind of a synopsis of what they were going to do and what their plans were and the whole thing. SHARE Cokeville recollects 'miracle' of 1986. where there's only a limited population, that's going to throw the fear of God into everybody. The Youngs both died that day. And I'm sure that that made him very nervous. I'd like to think so. I was literally blown out the door when the bomb went off , and i remember how time slowed down in those seconds. I had the chance to watch the pre-screening of the film and it was very emotional. . Yeah, we didn't get a lot of sleep. There was nobody killed but the perpetrators. Go to school and learn how to do it." Number one, that's where he worked. It has shaped me to know that God is real. So many of 'em thatI don't know. On one hand people didn't want money to be made off of suffering, but on the other hand it felt ungrateful to not share it in the way that TC would or could. Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources, Repanshek, Kurt J. My name is Kamron Wixom, I was a 12 year old 6th grader in 1986 when a mad man took over my school (Cokeville Elementary) with a bomb and his guns. David, Doris and Princess proceeded to the elementary school and entered the building shortly after 1 p.m. that Friday. Do you ever think about them? May 12, 2011, 2:30am PDT. Mark Junge: This bomb was designed to do what? Casper Chapter, Wyoming Archaeological Society, June Frison chapter, Wyoming Archeological Society. Cokeville Bombing - Wyoming The town has worked to be as respectful as possible to the multitude of experiences that day. You know their names but not their birthdays. But David refused to reveal his plans entirely until moments before they unfolded. Dr. Clark is the faculty advisor of the Sweet Memories: Research Group at Western. On May 16, 1986, former town marshal David Young and his wife Doris Young took 167 children and adults hostage at Cokeville Elementary School. Contact us at editor@wyohistory.org for information on levels and types of available sponsorships. David went to the school office, handing out a manifesto titled "ZERO EQUALS INFINITY" and announcing "This is a revolution!" You start messing with the kids, now you're going to have yourself a war. Angelic Intervention save all 153 in bomb blast - Cokeville Wyoming 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. They did a good job telling this story. Cokeville had so little crime that many folks didn't bother to lock their doors. Many of the children who stated they saw angels were of various faiths. What is the LDS population of the town and how big was your school? He just said just go do it. I can't explain it. David's youngest daughter from his first marriage, Princess, entered the elementary school with David and Doris, but refused to carry out the plan, leaving to report the incident at the town hall. Did you see anything? The Hartley story didn't come out publicly until my parents (who wrote the book in the year after the bombing) began asking questions about this kind of thing. We know for a fact that he had tried that device because he did it in Arizona and totally destroyed a school bus. Well, he had put wooden shelves for layers. I never did get to see that untilI think it was two days lateractually what they had taken as far as the paperwork was concerned. I think he went in the Marine Corps because of me and served 25 years and retired. When the thing went off, when the bomb exploded, they just started chuckin' people out the windows. Rich Haskell: Yes, I did. That's what David Young forgot to realize just how important families were. Cokeville, Wyoming - Wikipedia [5], "You could see that the roof tiles had been lifted out of their brackets. From Tragedy To Triumph- Talking To A Cokeville Bombing Survivor. Mark Junge: Do you think David or Doris would have cut it? Had a small pin-hole leak in it and it dripped into both containers and they both became paste. Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources, Cheyenne. Peterson, Carol. But I walked up to the window and looked inside the window and didn't hardly see anything out of the ordinary except it was all black inside. Mark Junge: Oh, really! The windows had been knocked outhad been blown out. I walked into the bathroom and there was the suspect that had started this whole mess, layin' there on the floor with ahe had a pistol in his hand and you could tell he had shot himself in the head. 96 views, 2 likes, 0 loves, 0 comments, 2 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from J.Cano: Law & Order: SVU - Best Episode David returned to the restroom and killed himself, ending the hostage crisis. Rich Haskell: Well, you know, that's a really good question. There was no give in the school bus. On May 16, 1986, when former town marshal David Gary Young and his wife Doris Young took 154 children and 13 teachers hostage at Cokeville Elementary school in Wyoming, and kept them at bay with a shopping-cart sized bomb attached to five hairpin-trigger blast caps, it should have ended in great tragedy - one of the worst in American history. Returning, David Young shot his wife, then himself. . Because they refused to participate, Princess, Deppe, and Mendenhall were never charged in relation to this crime. Anything? And that's where the bomb sat and that's where they sat. According to survivor accounts, Doris enticed many into the first grade room by announcing that their presence was required for a school assembly. Edit: Also, were you at that early screening? It brings back lots of memories but it doesn't hurt because actually it was a positive experience. First grade teacher Janel Dayton on the 1986 bombing of Cokeville Bullet Hit Woman Who Died in School Siege - Los Angeles Times [6] With permission, the teachers brought in books, art supplies and a television to help keep the children occupied. Excerpt from the book "On This Day In Wyoming History": David young Seven people in the Chicago area died after ingesting Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide. TC is one of my heroes. The gasoline bottle was leaking. I didn't touch the body at all. It was suggested we say a group prayer and I thought it was a great idea, so I helped gather a group of us together. It would have killed them. . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The Power of Faith: 25 Years After School Bombing, Town Remembers Story of Survival., Mitchell, Ruth Ann. I cannot explain it! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 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She lifted her hand up to rub her forehead and when she did that pulled the pin out and detonated the bomb. What should people know going into the film? Read more Rich Haskell: Yep. And my children. The man and woman who took an elementary school here hostage Friday, injuring 70 children when their homemade gasoline bomb exploded, had ties to the Posse Comitatus and other white supremacist. Mark Junge: In fact, didn't you say you burned up your engine? Sue Castaneda: Did you look at (unintelligible). Rich Haskell: Because of the response and because of the emails and everything that took place. This sub is dedicated to faithful discourse on church topics. Interview by Mark Junge. 154 of us were held hostage for almost 3 hours in a 30x32 room when the bomb actually detonated - all 154 hostages survived. 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, [1] took 136 children and 18 adults hostage at Cokeville Elementary School. Jessica Clark, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history and political science at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs, Wyo. So if it can happen there it can happen anywhere in the United States. When I looked at everyone looking at me (as if I should call on someone to say it) I realized I should call on Allyson Cornia - literally because she was the smartest kid in the class! the children began describing things more specifically and that is when the mom was prompted to find the photograph of their grandmother. They learned to trust in their God, the kids were healed for the most part, and they value life more now. Hi, I am working on publicity for the film, and I will chime in if anyone needs it, or has other questions. In the days and weeks immediately after this event, most accounts focused on the horrors of the day. Carbon County School District No. Don't go past this square. By Deseret News. Mark Junge: Yeah, my brother-in-law worked in the Navy as a chief petty officer and he worked with what they called EOD. Thus, when David and Doris Young entered the towns only elementary school with an arsenal of weapons and a gasoline bomb in a grocery cart, no one saw it coming. On May 16, 1986, . David became increasingly agitated, and decided to leave the room. Mark Junge: Okay. On May 16, 1986, when former town marshal David Gary Young and his wife Doris Young took 154 children and thirteen teachers hostage at Cokeville Elementary school in Wyoming and kept them at bay with a shopping-cart sized bomb attached to five hairpin-trigger blast caps, it should have ended in great tragedy - one of the worst in American history. Students, teachers, visitors, staff who survived the ordeal and bystanders began recounting their memories of this event as it was still unfolding. He was asking large amounts of money. Journal entries also indicate that he saw opportunity in the close-knit community; he wrote, "Threaten one and all are at your mercy." [T]rust is big here youngsters grow up knowing they can turn to many other members of the community with confidence, write Hartt and Judene Wixom in Trial by Terror: The Child-hostage Crisis in Cokeville, Wyoming. You know, the kids have forgot about it, let's let 'em move on. And, then, shortly after 4 p.m., the bomb exploded. Have you had anything like this, anything close to this happen? [7] Geography [ edit] Although many were burned, some severely, only the perpetrators of this horrible incident died. They attempted to crowd 154 people into one of the two first grade classrooms, a room with a total capacity of 30 students and a teacher. She tied the string around her wrist. Rich Haskell: Well, run fordo another term as sheriff and then retire, and my wife and I are going to doshe loves genealogy. A look back at the bombing of Cokeville Elementary School Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Sue Castaneda: Carla said that some people were mad that we were there. I cannot tell you what happened. One teacher was shot when he tried to flee,. She was totally burned. Rich Haskell: Yes, absolutely. NOTE: Witness to Miracles was published in 2006 by Pronghorn Press, www.pronghornpress.org . Mark Junge: That's a mighty powerful gun! I can understand that. It just embedded into the walls from the ammunition from the heat. Rich Haskell: Absolutely. What stands out in your mind the most, looking back? Cokeville miracle marking 25 years - Deseret News I actually hadn't thought of doing that, yet. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. And the bathroom was off to the side of it because it was the kindergarten class. Also, how long was it before the kids started talking about seeing angels? The only thing I bristle at is that TC has me suggesting that we say a prayer. Can you describe this? Rich Haskell: No. Everyone else survived, including the injured John Miller. And if I had been a little less of a jokester I may have seen something in that strange light. Some of the children just sat right all around and just watched him. I don't know how many people under the age of 35 know about the Chicago Tylenol murders, but for a few weeks in 1982, it was a national news sensation. Well, when I arrived at Cokeville, of course they had the roads all blocked off and there was not a lot of people around the school at the time. results in the deaths of perpetrators David and Doris Young; 154 hostages survive. Rich? Couple in School Blast Linked to Extremist Group But he knew the culture, he knew the type of people, and I'm not sayin' that Mormon people are better than anybody else, but their way of life is family is first. Mark Junge: And you know, in Sue and I's conversation with these dozen people we've talked to now, seems like they also feel the same way you do. He came out of the bathroom, is what we figured. Rich Haskell: Okay, I'll buy that! The bomb did detonate and fire, thick black smoke and toxi fumes filled the room. But everything was black, like you had gone in there with a flamethrower and just torched everything inside there. How did you determine how everything looked when this went up in smoke itself. Mark Junge: What's been your experiences since then? over there. Associated Press. The Cokeville Miracle. When faith bears a miracle. - Medium When Columbine took place, it was such a big deal, and I mentioned to a couple people, "You know, Columbine wasn't the first school to have anything happen." The Cokeville Town Hall is located at 110 Pine St. For more information, visit the website of the Cokeville Chamber of Commerce at http://www.cokevillewy.com or call (307) 459-4195. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. They lived in a mobile home with Princess, Davids youngest daughter from his first marriage. David and Doris Young took 167 hostages (150 children, 17 adults and one unlucky UPS driver) at the elementary school. They have a lot of first-person histories of the actual event, teachers, investigators and students. They had a circle of tape around the device itself and they said, "Do not come inside of this circle. Mark Junge: And you're sheriff in Sweetwater? Rich Haskell: Yeah. She was a divorce who earned money working as a waitress and singer in a local bar. There was no give in the school bus. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals on the history and heritage of Germans from Russia on the Northern Plains. I don't know. In 2006, the Cokeville Miracle Foundation compiled a book of recollections about the day from parents, emergency workers and former hostages. With the explosionwhat occurred? Survivor is my Name: Voices of the Cokeville Elementary School Bombing. Produced by Wyoming State Archives for Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources, the package includes interviews with 14 people about the events of May 16, 1986. I didn't look at the speedometer, I was just kind of watchin' for animals and everything else. Windows were opened to rid the room of gasoline fumes, and prayers were offered in small groups among the children. Rich Haskell: Well, by none of the kids bein' hurt that was supposed to be hurt. After a stand-off lasting two and a half hours, the gasoline bomb the couple had brought into the school went off prematurely, badly burning Doris Young while David Young was out of the room. I gathered up some of the equipment that I would need and a change of clothes and proceeded to Cokeville. On May 16, 1986, David and Doris Young entered Cokeville Elementary School with a gasoline bomb, a variety of rifles and handguns, David's philosophical writings and demands for $300 million All the hostages escaped, though 79 were later hospitalized with burns and injuries, the majority of which were severe.[3][2]. 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. Rich Haskell: Well, I got a lot of it while I was in the Marine Corps and in the Army National Guard. It was a great movie, very well directed and acted. "If you can see the bomb, the bomb can see you," an officer shouted. Just like with a pair of pliers, pair of snips. Weredo you think it had something to do with angels? And they had practiced how to get out of that building. On May 16, 1986, an elementary school in Cokeville, Wyoming, was held hostage by a couple with a bomb. Rich Haskell: It's a combustible. That much I know. No. Mark Junge: Did you help bring the body out? The Cokeville hostage crisis began the afternoon of May 16, 1986, David and Doris Young took 154 children and adults hostage at the Cokeville Elementary School in tiny Cokeville, Wyo. Cook, the school's secretary and the first person taken hostage, could tell Young's threats were serious. In the tiny classroom, they watched movies, played games, prayed. There are a select number of people that would do this, so thank you. I certainly enjoy my grandkids a lot more. I got a chance to talk to Jennie Sorensen Johnson, who was seven when David Young rolled a bomb into her first grade classroom. Accessed May 17, 2013, at, Wyoming Horror: A Fiery Schoolhouse Bomb., A 1986 Hostage Event at a Cokeville, Wyoming Elementary School., Jarvik, Elaine. The miraculous events that followed have changed many people foreverespecially survivor Amy Bagaso Williams. Although many were burned, some severely, only the perpetrators of this horrible incident died. 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. This wasn't a simple bomb. The explosion engulfed her in flames and burned many nearby children. Jessica Clark, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history and political science at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs, Wyo. 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,[1] took 136 children and 18 adults hostage at Cokeville Elementary School. Reporters from all the regional news outlets were on the scene by the time of the explosion or shortly thereafter. David and Doris both returned to Cokeville on May 16, 1986. She is a trained rural historian who specializes in oral history, childhood history and memory studies. Rich Haskell: Well, after I arrived it took probably three to four hours to make sure everything was neutral and everything was not going to be a threat any longer. David Young. They were sitting out across the fence with scopes on their rifles just ready to shoot until the sheriff went out and said, "No. She is a trained rural historian who specializes in oral history, childhood history and memory studies. Rich Haskell: Uh, I can understand that.
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