BEST OF (#43 OF 576) THE MIRACLE AT COKEVILLE
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On a sping day in 1986 two people walked into the Cokeville Elementary School in Cokeville Wyoming and held 154 children and adults hostage in a 50' X 50' room for 2 1/2 hours, claiming that this was a revolution, and that they wanted a ransom payment of $2 million dollars for every child in the room. They entered the building with a gas bomb capable of blowing the side of building out easily if it were detonated. The wife of this crazed husband wife team accidentally triggered the bomb in the crowded room. Shrapnel from the blast peppered the walls but miraculously, only one of the four explosive devices ignited despite the gas flames that shot the woman across the room, and most of the blast went straight up through the ceiling. Other than the man and wife, who died, not another person was killed, although one was shot and many were burned. Some said it was an incredible piece of luck. But as the children's stories began to come out in the days and weeks that followed- their lives were saved by much more than luck. Their story follows-
Trailer for TC Christensons “the Cokeville Miracle” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLwaKDaW5ZY
Interviews with students and parents; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj9j6L694X4
Book: the CokeVille Miracle: When Angels Intervene by Hartt and Judene Wixom ;
Armstrong, Jamie. LDS Living“The Astonishing True Story Behind The Cokeville Miracle Movie” published at www.ldsliving.com/the-Cokeville-miracle/s/79933 Co.Ag Music “Rage” Copyright Free
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| 0:32.0 | Just after lunch on May 16th, 1986, at the Cokeville Elementary School in southwest Wyoming, near the Idaho border. |
| 0:41.9 | Some of the younger students had just returned from a teddy bear picnic at the city park. |
| 0:46.7 | And in Carol Peterson's second grade classroom, the children had just gathered in reading groups |
| 0:51.6 | when a strange woman walked into the room. |
| 0:55.2 | The woman whose name was Doris Young and her husband David had, just minutes ago, |
| 1:01.0 | parked in front of the school and unloaded a gasoline bomb affixed to a rolling cart, |
| 1:06.5 | along with four rifles and nine handguns. |
| 1:10.4 | They immediately entered the school and confronted the front office personnel |
| 1:13.6 | by claiming that this was a revolution, handing out broadsides marked |
| 1:18.6 | zero equals infinity, which contained their manifesto claiming they wanted to start a brave new world. |
| 1:26.6 | The man, David Young, had been the sheriff of Cokeville six years previously for a period of six months. |
| 1:33.3 | He told the principal to get on the phone now to the White House and demand a $2 million ransom for each child in the school. |
| 1:42.3 | As you can imagine, the front office was left in shock, |
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