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. Just like with a pair of pliers, pair of snips. We figured that he had dropped down on his knee, took his pistol and shot her to put her out of her misery, because when we went out and looked at her, there was a hole up through the bottom of her chin, and it came out the top of her head. Carbon County School District No. I was still trying to make sense of it all! Cokeville Elementary School is located at 205 N. Sage St. in Cokeville. She was a divorce who earned money working as a waitress and singer in a local bar. When the children became increasingly loud, Doris Young began begging the teachers to settle the group down. At 1:00 pm, they pulled up to the Cokeville Elementary School and unloaded a gasoline bomb, along with four rifles and nine handguns. I guess I should say I am only speaking as a child, the adults were probably tense the entire time! Trent Toone, Mormon Times. Lenita's father Rocky was a fifth grade teacher at Cokeville Elementary School at the time of the bombing, Lenita was a seventh grader. Rich Haskell: No, I don't think it exited. Rich Haskell: Yes. "If you can see the bomb, the bomb can see you," an officer shouted. Mark Junge: In fact, didn't you say you burned up your engine? Transcriber's notes: I have added some reference footnotes to this transcript where I thought appropriate. So timelines and characters may be switched up, but the overall spirit of it and the facts are laid out true to witness testimonies. Okay? It'sI'm still doing that kind of thing because whenever they hold General Conference in Salt Lake City I go to Salt Lake City to be part of the bomb team for the church while they have General Conference. Cokeville Children Held Hostage by Bomber., Cokeville Elementary School Bombing: 25-Years Later. Accessed May 17, 2013, at, Fagg, Ellen. My husband and I are looking forward to seeing the movie, as we weren't around when it happened and have just recently learned about it. Everyone else survived, including the injured John Miller. AN EXPLOSION of vapors, resultLing from a combination of circumstances at the Kearney, N. J., plant of the Koppers Coke Company, on May 17, 1948, resulted in the death of ten men and started a . Rich Haskell: Yeah, I think I did. Sue Castaneda: Did you look at (unintelligible). Cokeville seems like a pretty small town. Rich Haskell: Not really that often, but every time I think about it I get very emotional. ITT: people who want to pick a fight with someone who survived an incredible experience. And that's exactly what took place in Cokeville. He shot and killed her. 96 views, 2 likes, 0 loves, 0 comments, 2 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from J.Cano: Law & Order: SVU - Best Episode Chalkboards andwhat do they call those?whiteboards, I think they are, along the walls. [5] The leaking gasoline's fumes prompted teachers to open the classroom windows, unknowingly creating vents for the impending explosion. There are a select number of people that would do this, so thank you. Located in Lincoln County and nestled between the towns of Star Valley and Kemmerer on the Wyoming-Idaho border, Cokeville, many residents believed, was a safe place to rear children. Sue Castaneda: Carla said that some people were mad that we were there. 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 later learned he'd been shot in the back. What stands out in your mind the most, looking back? Then when I became a deputy, Sheriff Stark says, "You know, we're going to start finding a bunch of old explosives, dynamite and things. I don't know what. You have to think about what you're doing right at that particular time so you can stay focused on what you have to deal with. Mark Junge: Okay. Rich Haskell: You know, with 33 years of law enforcement, I've seen a lot of things. Cokeville Miracle Marking 25 Years.. They lived in a mobile home with Princess, Davids youngest daughter from his first marriage. It packed the brute force of twenty-five sticks of dynamite. Mark Junge: What were they designed to do? The windows had been knocked outhad been blown out. The Hilton Garden Suites in Laramie, Wyo. In the movie, it shows the tension building towards the prayer and then shortly after the bomb went off. TC, I think, saw it the same way. When I arrived I could see out on the lawn, there was a black object laying out on the grass. The timelines of some events are fuzzy Its hard to nail down what stands out the most, there were a LOT of crazy things I'd never seen before then, or since really. She lifted her hand up to rub her forehead and when she did that pulled the pin out and detonated the bomb. 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. Throughout both baskets were chain links, gunpowder, and boxes of ammunition acting as shrapnel. Interview by Mark Junge. Even though the majority of the townspeople are LDS, there are lots of people of a variety of faiths in the room that day. Doris accidently triggered the bomb by motioning to her hostages with her arms. Mark Junge: That's a record of all the people we've talked to! Rich Haskell: I did not. Edit: Thank you so much for your questions! Had a gallon milk jug full of gasoline on one level, had aluminum powder, flour and those two components was in tuna fish cans directly under the gasoline bomb. That's why I have a computer. The bomb did detonate and fire, thick black smoke and toxi fumes filled the room. I have no doubt about my friends witness testimonies - even though I saw or heard nothing such as they did. Here is a local story from the 20 year anniversary (we are at the 29th year now), What's your side of the story? On May 16, 1986, an elementary school in the tiny town of Cokeville, Wyoming, was held hostage by a married couple with a bomb. 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. Totally destroyed it! Mark Junge: What do you want to do with the rest of your life? Whenever they would come to Wyoming I would be part of their security team. We had people from ATFAlcohol, Tobacco and Firearmsand there was another bomb technician that came up from Evanstonhe was studying to be a bomb technicianand we all looked at that and said, "That wire's been cut." The Cokeville Elementary School was the site of a horrific hostage situation on May 16, 1986 when David and Dorris Young took a homemade bomb inside the school. Rich Haskell: If it would have went off like it was supposed to have gone off, it would have lifted the roof off of that school. 2 Recreation Board, Indigenous People in Wyoming and the West, Emergency Management Coordinator Kathy Davison on the 1986 Bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, EMT Glenna Walker, Mother of Three Young Children, on the 1986 Bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Lead Investigator Ron Hartley, Father of Four Student Survivors, on the 1986 Bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Public Works Director and Fireman Kevin Walker, Father of Three Young Children, on the 1986 bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Secretary Tina Cook on the 1986 Bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, First grade teacher Janel Dayton on the 1986 bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Second grade teacher Carol Petersen on the 1986 bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Third grade student Rachel Walker Hollibaugh on the 1986 Bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Third grade student Jamie Buckley King on the 1986 Bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Fourth grade teacher Kliss Sparks on the 1986 bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Fourth grade student LeaKae Roberts on the 1986 Bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Green River Historic Preservation Commission, Natrona County Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Natrona County Recreation Joint Powers Board, Sublette County Historical Preservation Board, University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources, Casper Chapter, Wyoming Archaeological Society, June Frison chapter, Wyoming Archeological Society. It was cut. He was in high fevers until the therapist allowed him to speak openly. So he did try that device. First grade teacher Janel Dayton on the 1986 bombing of Cokeville Elementary School Published: November 8, 2014 Janel Dayton, Wyoming State Archives photo. What did you find out about them? My name is Mark Junge and I'm here at the Hiltonis it the Hilton Hotel? I mean, we're talking about from kindergarten kids up to 10-, 11-, 12-years old. David attached the bomb trigger to his wrist and threatened the group that he might, at any time, move his arm and ignite the bomb. Used with permission and thanks. Rich Haskell: I am. Mark Junge: Well, yes. She is a beautiful example of turning tragedy into triumph. The blasting cap in the gasoline jug functioned properly, initiating the explosion. No, not at all. I believe there was a hundred-and-sixty-plus people involved that was being held. Dr. Clark is the faculty advisor of the Sweet Memories: Research Group at Western. And the bathroom was off to the side of it because it was the kindergarten class. The top basket contained a gallon milk jug of gasoline, wired with a blasting cap. 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. One teacher was shot when he tried to flee,. Can you describe this? What had happenedI can't explain it. 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. Rich Haskell: I took pictures of it. Sept. 21, 2010. Mark Junge: Well, what do you think would cause two people like this to do this? They forget about what happened in Cokeville with a lot more people and the potential of what was there. 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 . He was asking large amounts of money. SHARE Cokeville recollects 'miracle' of 1986. In 2006, the Cokeville Miracle Foundation compiled a book of recollections about the day from parents, emergency workers and former hostages. Over the course of time he did various things to get our input from script readings early on, to being there on set, etc. Mark Junge: This bomb was designed to do what? Weredo you think it had something to do with angels? She acknowledges these students for assisting her in researching her contributions to the WyoHistory.org web site. And afteryou look in there and you could see little pockmarks all through on the walls, and after we finished with our investigationit took us three days to totally do the whole entire sceneyou could tell where those pockmarks were bullets from the heat had gone off. So I went to Huntsville, Ala., to Redstone Arsenal. Then, several years later, Jennie Sorensen identified what she thought was a teacher who led her out of the building after the blast. Rich Haskell: Well, I didn't know a lot about 'em and I still don't know a lot about 'em. He still needed to tell it to his parents though, and that's basically what you see in the movie. He listened so well, so patiently. The kids couldn't have cut it. 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. But shortly after entering the school, Princess decided to rebel. Have there been any lingering psychological effects from going through something so traumatic while so young? I immediately went into rendering safehe had brought in several devices with him to place in different places in the room, and there was a lot of ammunition, a lot of guns out in the hallway, and I immediately started rendering all those safe, making sure that those were safe and they could move them out of the building. 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 . And it was a perfect trajectory up into the ceiling where that bullet was. Many recalled praying silently, forming prayer circles and seeing angels during the crisis. 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. Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources, Cheyenne. Where you find brackets [ ] I have added words for explanation or to complete an awkward sentence. How much interaction did you have with the director/producers of the movie? I got a chance to talk to Jennie Sorensen Johnson, who was seven when David Young rolled a bomb into her first grade classroom. Now, 28 years later, Conger and more than a dozen other survivors are reliving . TC is one of my heroes. Sue Castaneda: Where did you get your training for that? By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Parentheses ( ) are used for incidental non-verbal sounds, like laughter. 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. 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. David set himself near the center of the room with the grocery cart bomb nearby, as Doris went from room to room rounding up people. She fled the building and drove the Youngs vanwith Deppe and Mendenhall still insideto the town hall, where she reported her fathers plan. On May 16, 1986, . On May 16, 1986, a man and his wife with a bomb took . 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. But it didn't. Current students at Cokeville Elementary School aren't taught about the '86 bombing, but most know the general story. On that Friday afternoon in their quiet, rural town, a deranged couple entered the communitys elementary school, took those inside hostage and detonated a bomb in a first grade classroom. The incident was detailed in the book The Cokeville Miracle: When Angels Intervene[12] by Hartt Wixom and his wife Judene, published by Cedar Fort, Inc., which formed the basis for a CBS made-for-TV movie titled To Save the Children. Family is the most important thing in a Mormon family. David Young. She was a total torch! By Deseret News. (Laughs) But as I was passing through Kemmerer I stayed in radio contact.
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