Fearful tale from Chowchilla bus kidnapping survivors
Jennifer Brown and her brother Jeffrey, among 26 children, recount being abducted from a school bus in Chowchilla California last Thursday. They describe a gunman, two accomplices, a green van, a dirt burial in a quarry, and a desperate rescue as they clung to hope and remembered Christmas.
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Jennifer
San Francisco Examiner
Jeffrey
Jeff
Livermore
Ed Ray
Mike Marshall
Robert
Children recall Chowchilla kidnaping escape in quarry
Narrators recount the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping near Livermore where 26 children and their driver escaped from a rock quarry 95 miles from home. Jennifer and Jeffrey debate punishment for the kidnappers with differing views on harshness and life imprisonment.
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Robert
Chowchilla Slough
Ray
Livermore
Jennifer
Jeffrey
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