Knowledge is again a way to conceive, but conception is enlarged through rules less combination specific. Our job was to tell people about the church and. Alexa Rae as Cindy Hartley, Ron and Claudia's daughter. So I went down to the office and by the time I got there they had talked to the secretary. ), a disciplines observing the singular rule that a fact becomes knowledge when it can be proved. David Young, hearing the explosion, rushed back into the room with a .45 pistol in one hand and a .22 in the other. 2.Not all men in beards are bad, but the eyes can tell you. [13], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}420457N 1105719W / 42.08250N 110.95528W / 42.08250; -110.95528. As was suggested at the beginning of this writting, Man is an invention, he is lots of individuals. Haskell also mentions that the open windows and doors provided ventilation for the explosion. In the wake of the madness, Ron Hartley, whose children were inside the classroom . Were you married in the Temple? During the next few hours, the teachers create a "magic square" of masking tape on the floor where only David is allowed to go. Cokeville - old-fashioned America at its best Located in Wyoming's southwest corner, along the Idaho border, Cokeville is a small community of less than 1,000 people. But then I realized the miracle it was. 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. 1 of 7. Thats one thing he cannot do, she says. A lot of them had lost everything. The bomb is about to go off. I did just what she said. David wasit was just like he was dead. Drama 2015 1 hr 33 min. One surviving teacher recalls: The kids were sitting in circles, and, as I looked over at them, you could see the circles would be saying a prayer. 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So if you would just give me your name and tell me what you did at the school, and then on what day it was, and so forth. Do you have anyyoure a pretty perceptive person, so what do you think was goin on? Ron doubts this but Claudia believes him after Jason points out a picture of his great-grandmother, who had passed away years earlier, saying she was his angel in the classroom. Therell be a contest between good and evil, and itll look like evils going to triumph, but it doesnt. Meanwhile, police and parents gathered out of sight of the school room where hostages were gathered. Director T.C. Thats not entertainment to me anymore. As a matter of record, therefore, some 2400+ years ago, Socrates, and individual, addressed himself to an evolving concept called knowledge. Jason, however, seems traumatized and Ron takes him to see a psychologist. Mark Junge: Were your parents that way too? Wed taught for years together and one of em after the incidentI was over here preparing, and one of the men teachers came in and I said, Look across there. Because the teacherd had some papers up here, and you know, the smoke had seeped up underneath em and when she took the papers down it looked like a deaths head with its arms spread out. I believe what everybody else says and have faith that they saw what they saw. Their experience was honed over the next two weeks as an electrical short in the schools alarm kept setting it off initiating a series of unplanned, but beneficial, fire drills. 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. Sue Castaneda: Because they said he worked here before. When he arrived at the scene, he was immediately told that the physical evidence didnt add up. Then I saw my momrunning down the street. Nearly three decades since the miraculous events transpired in the tiny town of Cokeville, Wyoming, movie producer T.C. He confides in them that he saw people dressed all in white angels. But it was a very valuable experience. She is the head of this oral history project. Yet it happened right in front of me! Young was a former Cokeville town marshal who had been living in Arizona for several years. David tells him to call the local authorities and tell them he demands $2,000,000 for each child, and if he doesn't return in 15 minutes, he will begin shooting students one by one. Mark Junge: What makes people do this? The film was subsequently released on DVD and Blu-ray for distribution by Excel Entertainment Group through Deseret Book and affiliated retailers. Trying to get in the U. S., granted, but they were innocent people and they just got wiped out. But the final, conclusive explanation came as the smoke cleared from the room. Despite the fire from the blast, David shooting his gun, and his remaining ammo exploding in the heat of the fire, everyone but Doris still manages to evacuate safely. We are in Cokeville at Janels house and were in the kitchen, at the kitchen table. [5] The leaking gasoline's fumes prompted teachers to open the classroom windows, unknowingly creating vents for the impending explosion. Etched into the wall, just behind the blast area, was the burnt outline of a large, human-shaped figure with what looked to be wings extending from the sides of its body. We went into the room. In May 1986, cop Ron Hartley (Jasen Wade) is at a crime scene, during which two people were murdered. Shortly after that, David leaves for the restroom, telling Doris to take his place at the bomb. David attached the bomb trigger to hi The lady that was in there with me noticed that the window was open. Janel Dayton: No. So that really helped to get people out. As tensions mounted, some of the younger children began to edge towards David Young. We just did a few takes of those scenes and we had it., There was really a sense of reverence on the set because we knew that we were dealing with a real event, says Stevens. Christensen Hartt Wixom (based on the book: "The Cokeville Miracle) So I went through the door and tried to move the barricade. They were probably in worse shape than any of us because they didnt know what was happening to their children. I dont know why I didnt think of it, cause I do about everything else, but I didnt. Wielding a homemade bomb and several guns, the Youngs took staff members hostage as they made their way to the first-grade classroom. Soon, gasoline fumes from the bomb filled the hot, crowded room, making students and teachers sick and convincing Young to allow some windows to be opened. [8] This unintentionally activated the triggering mechanism and the bomb exploded, severely injuring Doris, and filling the room with black smoke and pockets of fire. So I thought maybe I needed to tell them they were in the wrong place if this was part of it. Almost as frequently as people come and go, additional, more distant concepts (from whatever reality is the individual/that precedes them); families, clans, tribes, villages, towns, cities, states, and civilizations make their brief passages and then leave the scene. Kamron Wixom, a sixth grader, prayed with about a dozen of his fellow students. But it was really. This school is being taken hostage! How is this to be? Sue Castaneda: What do you thinkwhen we were little we did fire drills, but all it was, was line up, go outside. They began lifting children out of a blown-out window and instructing them. The film debuted on June 5, 2015, in select theaters in Utah, and then across the United States. (Laughing) Well, I dont mean to make light of it, but, I mean, I just wonder how you were affected? Believing 2 plus 2 equals 4 hardly invalidates Knowing 0=[infinity]. 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. Soon two teachers ran to her aid and slapped the flames out with their bare hands. But do we know what awaits us after this life? we know that 2 plus 2 equals 4 or that a line perpendicular from the ground is up, or that Christ is good (bad or indifferent), or that our names or ages are such and such. The miraculous events that followed transformed the lives of hundreds of people, including many who witnessed angels or received heavenly help from deceased ancestors. ~ Transcriber Russ Sherwin, Oct. 28, 2010. Everybody kept saying, Isnt this a miracle? But I took it as luck, says Hartley. The jug of gasoline had a pinhole-sized leak on its bottom. Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV. But I knew the instant mymom opened the locket that it was her. Paul Hunt and Channon Voyce as Doyle Mendenhall and Gerald Deppe, two of David Young's friends who also refuse to participate in holding helpless, little children hostage. T.C. Two of the other teachers were here this weekend. Except for the families involved, the event at Cokeville, Wyoming, on May 16, 1986, probably slid into the dustbin of history many years ago. But I understand, you dont go up there in April! They havesomeone said there were 280 of them now, from all over the world, and we just got the biggest kick out of em because theyre just so fun. In one careless instant (some say she was startled), her animated movements pulled the cord on her wrist too tight. [5] The wooden piece was tied to Doris' wrist by a string. I was just feet from him. Ron is informed of the bombing and he expresses that God isn't real. T.C. Mark Junge: Now, when you got outside, you said something about a lady that didnt know what was going on, she drove down the street and she didnt know what was happening? Absolutely. I said, I dont know where my children are! I knew exactly what to do and where to goI couldnt have done that on my own. He found his wife engulfed in flames, staggering around the room. After a two-and-a-half hour standoff, the children were becoming restless, so the teachers preoccupied the kids in the form of movies, games, prayer, and books. ", About 2 1/2 hours into the standoff, David transferred the triggering mechanism of the bomb to Doris' wrist, and went to a small bathroom that connected the first and second grade rooms. I think there are lots of good people. Returning to the scene, David shot his wife, a teacher, then himself. Janel Dayton: When this book was written, one young man says he put it in a badger hole. Janel Dayton: A lot of little sister missionaries. find out how The hostage takers took part in the singing. Remembering the Miracle at Cokeville. And at first, I thought, please, just leave it alone. Shed been dead for three or four years.. Pretty amazing! That bomb should have leveled the wing of this school, but it looks like the bomb blast went straight up. And though the walls were pocked from shrapnel, no one was hit by any of it. The bomb exploded prematurely, sending her flying across the room like a flaming torch. Their only claim to fame is a boarded-up bank on main street that was once robbed by Butch Cassidy. Other children started doing the same thing.. Then the second person that came was the music teacher that fell at my feet. Meyer) is more wary. She screamed at David and said, I cant believe that youre going to go through with this! He tossed her the keys to the van and told her to get the heck out of there, which she did. Pretty soon one of the teachers came throughMr. As the children were being sheltered, the drama inside the school continued to unfold. Because it was the only time weve ever done it from one 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.). Because economically, its probably very expensive to have a school here. When Jason puts his foot inside the magic square, David loses control and yells at Jason, who doesnt flinch. The Cokeville Miracle (404) 5.4 1 h 33 min 2015 X-Ray PG-13 The Cokeville Miracle is an astounding true story about survival in the face of unimaginable terror. Janel Dayton: Mm-hm. In the school, gas from the bomb begins to leak and children are getting sick. But thats not what lifes about. It would not have been fair to portray this as an LDS-specific miracle.. . No, but its a huge part of our lives. (Laughs). So we waited in there for a few minutes and pretty soon Doris came and got us and took us down the hall. I had a kind of an ominous feeling, but I thought, well theyve seen me, so Ill keep going. 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. The film was written and directed by T. C. Christensen, (The Work and the Glory, Only a Stonecutter, 17 Miracles, Ephraim's Rescue) and produced by Ron Tanner and Christensen. The film was based on the Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis in 1986[3] and the book The Cokeville Miracle: When Angels Intervene by Hartt Wixom and Judene Wixom. 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.. 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 96 children and 18 adults hostage at Cokeville Elementary School. Then the classes started coming in. Doris then manipulates the rest of the school to go into Room 4, telling them "a surprise" waits for them. 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. When the children became increasingly loud, Doris Young began begging the teachers to settle the group down. Some people said they thought the one on the grass was me, because we were about the same build, same height, same coloring. She crawled for the door. The events began unfoldingjust after lunch on May 16, 1986 when an unknown woman walkedfrom classroom to classroom, interrupting the teachers lessons, and announcing that there was an emergency in Room 2 and that the teachers should rush the children there right away. Words emphasized by the speaker are italicized. Because they didnt go along with it. David Young entered the school with his wife transporting a large gasoline-filled device that appeared to be a bomb. And I'm sure that that made him very nervous. Mark Junge: Theres a lot of different people there, in Temple Square, from all over the world. There was no give in the school bus. So she was really disturbed and she told me to get the h. . Do you go back to the Mormon handcart history in your family? Her mother moved, immediately. Debbie Sparks and Steven Moore, both EMTs, discuss on May 9 the elementary school bombing. I went down the hall and was going to go in the other door and it was the same. They are strong believers in a higher power and if you argue otherwise, they will throw down the gauntlet and tell the tale of the events that transpired on May 16, the day an army of mysterious ethereal entities were sent to protect their precious children. She didnt tell me her name, but I think it was Grandma Meister. This was exactly what I was looking for. But he was the one that wanted the thing perpetuated. Ron begins to return to Cokeville, when he is informed of the hostage situation. Some recollect being thrown completely across the room, smashing into the walls. Janel Dayton: Well, everybody knows everybodys business. I could see it through the window, and I didnt think much of it because it was the delivery area and often this type of vehicle drove up. You and I are only one-half inch from death." Other children also gave accounts of heavenly intervention, and in the months after the bombing, more of them were able to identifyancestors who helped keep them safe on the day of the crisis. 2023 www.azcentral.com. And of course, that was very useful when this actually happened, because we cleared the room, someone said in forty-five seconds. At that point we had two first grade groups: I taught one of them and Jean Mitchell taught the other group. It was a normal day for the 154 children . [7] The mechanism was triggered by a dead man's switch, consisting of a wooden piece separating two metal connectors within the jaws of a clothespin, forming an incomplete circuit. Thats when Hartley asked his wife to get out the family photo album. Many of the extras in the film are children of those who were students at the time the bomb went off, Christensen explains. If I deleted an entire phrase, I have inserted ellipses Where you find brackets [ ] I have added words for explanation or to complete an awkward sentence. The next day, the five set out for Cokeville Elementary School, where David reveals their real plan is to take the school hostage and blow it up with his bomb, which will then lead to David being the leader of a "brave new world". That was a crisis, because when the kids, when it was time to go home, then they realized that they werent going home. 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. She said, Lets go out the window. I said, No way! Because there was too much at stake. The fact that the perpetrators didnt survive was a huge blessing or wed still be going to court to make sure they were treated fairly. Do you have. He also shoots a teacher, John Miller (Joshua Cooper), in the back as the man leaves the classroom to help children escape. One effect is that, for quite a long time after I went in any public building, anything, I made sure I sat by the exit. She tells him that he needs to control it or he could lose her and their children. 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. (Laughs) Wont go quite that far! Socrates concluded, just as we must, As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.. In 1979, he had been the towns marshal for only six months and residents remember his Wyatt Earp style of law. . The Knowledge of Nothing is all there is (to know), but 99.9% of us dont even know that. He visits the investigating certified bomb expert, Rich Haskell (Rick Macy), from Sherrif's office in Rock Springs, who tells him that three of the five wires in the bomb were mysteriously cut; not broken, but cut clean. The classroom was filled with angels and saints, beautiful beings who calmed the terrified children and told them what to do. David and Doris both returned to Cokeville on May 16, 1986. She tried to run back in, but the firefighters wouldnt let her.. [2] Before leaving the room, David attached the bomb's detonation device to his wife's wrist. It was very dark from the smoke. And I was a little of the thought that, is this a hoax? It was. In 1986, more than 150 schoolkids and adults were held hostage at an elementary school in tiny Cokeville, Wyo. Mark Junge: You went out the south door, I assume. Mark Junge: He said something about the potty? 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. Mark Junge: Why didnt they want their names attached? Years later, when Johnson was about 12 years old, she finally learned the identity of the mysterious woman. I cant leave! but he yelled Getout! For the next few years something would trigger, you know, among the teachers, because we all of us were there for quite a long time. Cindy and Jason notice him and run to him, and he asks for their forgiveness as well. Cast: Jasen Wade, Nathan Stevens, Kymberly Mellen, Sarah Kent. When the family's nightly prayer comes, Ron refuses to say it, as he is questioning his faith due to all the horrible things he's seen. Ambulances, fire trucks, and news cameras lined the streets. This knowledge of nothing then is all we have for all the lessons of history, these 2400+ years, Christ, revolutions, insurance, relativity, moon and space probes, cruesades and inquisitions, Shakespeare, Newton, medical science, hydrogen, fusion, metalurgy, Hitler, electricity, government and law, etc.? That0=[infinity] is TRUE, REALITY, and a symbolic manner of prphrasing Socrates conclusion regarding the limits of knowledg is another matter. Ron then goes to the youth room where they are singing "A Child's Prayer". Janel Dayton: We were missionaries. Because in the bus, everything was solid in the school bus. 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. I followed him and sat down, and he then went and got my sister Rachel. And then another teacherId been over preparing a talk for church once, and he came in and I was talking to him a little bit about religion, and he said, Oh, Im waiting to see the burning bush. And so, after this happened, I said, Well, what did you think? He said, I dont know who saved us, but I sure like his style! (Laughs). 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. The events of May 16, 1986, left an indelible mark on the hearts of those who survived, helping them live their lives with a new perspective and deeper gratitude because of the Cokeville miracle. As the hostage situation dragged on for several hours,teachers busied the children with videos, stories, and songs but of course, their little minds inevitably wandered back to the situation at hand. 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