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 classroom was filled with angels and saints, beautiful beings who calmed the terrified children and told them what to do. That looks like a deaths head with his arms spread out. And he says, No, thats where the Lord stood when he protected us.. There was nothing extraordinary about her, just something weird.. Janel Dayton: Hed come to town with his gun. Transcribers notes: I have added some reference footnotes to this transcript where I thought appropriate. I didnt really think it was real until I saw the fireball go up. Christensen, whose works include 17 Miraclesand Ephraims Rescue, felt it was time to share those events with the world. one hostage asks Doris. Will I see my family again? I was really scared for the unknown. Remembering the Miracle at Cokeville. It was amazing to me.. 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. While he was gone, the unthinkable happenedDoris accidentally jerked the string and the bomb exploded. This allowed gasoline to drip into the tuna fish cans, turning the aluminum-flour mixture into paste, unable to aerosolize. Janel Dayton: Yeah, and I dont think that helped. The Cokeville Miracle . One child, named Nathan, explained what happened to him at that precise moment: I was sitting in the classroom playing with a toy when something made me look up. Ive never doubted for a second that they saw exactly what they claimed to have seen or heard, Wixom says. So the afternoon kind of dragged on. Below is the complete text of David Youngs rambling manifesto. Some recollect being thrown completely across the room, smashing into the walls. On Sunday, Jason refuses to attend church unless his dad does so as well. On May 16, 1986 in the sleepy town of Cokeville, Wyoming, a madman took an entire elementary school hostage. One remembers the carpet on the wall igniting, bursting into flames, and burning her arm. After a few minutes, Max Excell (Alan Peterson), the school principal who had been away, walks in and discovers the situation. Mark Junge: How would you describe this community of Cokeville? Behind him, leaning against the chalkboard, were a line of guns four rifles and nine handguns. Returning to the scene, David shot his wife, a teacher, then himself. Sue Castaneda: Because they said he worked here before. Play trailer 2:15 1 Video 6 Photos Drama Family History Children who were held hostage in their elementary school tell stories of miraculous things, but many adults are skeptical that the Cokeville Miracle ever truly happened. The childrens wild tales had just been fortified with physical evidence. Although the request seemed strange, the teachers complied and soon the 30 foot by 30 foot room was packed full of all 154 children and 13 teachers. Motivated to attend for Jason, Ron tries to make it through the meetings. SHARE Cokeville recollects 'miracle' of 1986. Janel Dayton: When this book was written, one young man says he put it in a badger hole. Wielding a homemade bomb and several guns, the Youngs took staff members hostage as they made their way to the first-grade classroom. If you ask residents of the town how such a thing could happen, they will look you in the eye, smile, and answer in one word Angels. At approximately 1:30 p.m. on a sunny Friday afternoon, David Young and his wife, Doris, quietly and methodically took control of Cokeville Elementary. David and Doris demonstrate igniting gunpowder while it is in the air, making it seem as if the air is on fire. But for Williams, her healing was not the greatest miracle she experienced. Kneeling, we bowed our heads and folded ourarms. Some of the children just sat right all around and just watched him. Do you have. The lady that was with David Young, the lady Doris, who was his wife, put the lady applying for a job and myself in the conference room. I saw bodies all over the lawn, and I didnt know if they were dead or alive, recalls Conger. None of the children were hit, but Miller was shot in the back as he helped others out of the burning school. As they waited, on their own, the children began to pray. 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. Because nobodythe parents didnt know what had happened. DVD. Janel Dayton: Well, when I got out there and cleared the barricade, I saw one little girl fall and she looked at me like, What is going on? And I never saw that child again. He had just big rings of perspiration. In 1986, more than 150 schoolkids and adults were held hostage at an elementary school in tiny Cokeville, Wyo. Some kids were badly burned, with skin hanging off their arms and necks. I feel like it was pretty significant. She crawled for the door. I had a kind of an ominous feeling, but I thought, well theyve seen me, so Ill keep going. You know, give 18 months of their lives at their own expense, and some of them came from very poor circumstances, but they said, The Lord wants us here.. He was the one that resurrected it. What made you do that? Location: Cokeville, Wyoming Date: May 16, 1986 Case Details: At 1:20pm on Friday, May 16, 1986, forty-three-year-old David Young and his forty-seven-year-old wife, Doris, wheeled a shopping cart containing a homemade gasoline-filled bomb into Cokeville Elementary School in Cokeville, Wyoming, just after the lunch hour recess. When the children became increasingly loud, Doris Young began begging the teachers to settle the group down. Lets cease being beasts and begin to be Gods! I would have thought I would have had to have actors to portray that, but those people knew what it felt likethat trauma of family members being held captive orthemselves being held captive. . Mark Junge: Coming out of Timpanogos Cave, or something? Soon two teachers ran to her aid and slapped the flames out with their bare hands. Jillette Dayton as Christina "Tina" Cook, the Secretary of Cokeville Elementary. Kymberly Mellen as Doris Young, David's second wife, who accompanies him on his devious plan, but treats the children with much kindness. It sounds like surefire fodder for a faith-based film, which is exactly what "The Cokeville Miracle" is. Now people come and people go, but always as people, no longer as individuals from which people had risen (or succumb). Ron is informed of the bombing and he expresses that God isn't real. You can tell through physical reactions when someone is lying and when they are not, he continues. Doris developed a headache from the gasoline fumes, and raised her hand to her forehead. I understand that she went down to the City Hall and alerted people. Janel Dayton: I think it was getting close to being bus time. I dont remember seeing any angels, but I definitely felt guided, she says. Christensen loves a good story. My Grandma Toomer looked at the picture of her aunt Ruth, whom I was referring to, and said she had never been a teacher that she knew of and that she was not from Cokeville. Thats when I saw the angels. The Wyoming State Archives collects, manages, and preserves public records from Wyoming state and local governments that have long term administrative, legal, and historical value. During the past few days at the school, the fire alarms have been going off without any smoke or any other trigger, baffling the staff. T.C. This section of the movie essentially plays like a thriller, as Young tests his explosives and then infiltrates the school. Itold him, It wasnt Grandma Meister because shes alive and living in Pinedale.. Youngs homemade bomb was contained inside an old shopping cart. Some said a beautiful woman had advised them to go stand near the window. Then I ranafter the fireman told me that I needed to leaveI ran down toI ran out of the building and ran down to the corner where everyone was gathering, and then I started looking for the little first graders. But I just had a feeling, you know, what if somebody comes back and tries tothat bothered me. At first, authorities dismissed their claims as the panicked ramblings of frightened children but soon, as the childrens stories began to merge and meld and evidence began to stack up in their favor, they began to realize that indeed something miraculous had just occurred in Cokeville. A lot of them had lost everything. David went to the school office, handing out a manifesto titled "ZERO EQUALS INFINITY" and announcing "This is a revolution!" Then they picked me up and told me to run, she says. 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. Current Stock: Quantity: Increase Quantity: Decrease Quantity: . Some of the teachers said, Oh no, she was in on it! She wasnt. Rating: PG-13, for violence, peril and mature themes. Janel Dayton: I always win! She had short, dark brown hair, Payne recalls. David and Doris both returned to Cokeville on May 16, 1986. As the childrens prayers grew louder, Doris Young too became irritated and begged the teachers to settle the unruly group down. It was the spring of the year. We pressed forward knowing that Heavenly Father wants this storytold, and that the benefits would far outweigh the hardships., I hope that people come away from the film impressed by the power of prayer, that if they have not been using prayer in their lives, they would start, says Christensen. So they moved furniture out of the middle of the room and taped off an area that he had the bomb in so that the kids werent with him. Many children showed signs of distress with sobs, complaining of headaches from the smell of gasoline from the bomb, or simply wanting to go home. Or theyre trained to be obedient? One little kid made [his] way to me and said, Teacher, are we going to be all right? The thought came into my mind, Well, were all right right now. And I decided thats all you can expect out of life is to be all right right now, because you dont have a clue what the future will bring. Get up and go to the window. Janel Dayton: My grandparents, on my fathers side, came from Denmark. It seemed like there was a glow on the floor. In other words, don't ask too many questions. 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. It was like our part was completely done, and it was just a matter of time.. I dont remember her saying anything to me, but I trusted and followed her out of the burning room. Pickup your copy on DVD or Blu-ray at Deseret Book stores or at deseretbook.com. Parentheses ( ) are used for incidental non-verbal sounds, like laughter. Janel Dayton: I think theyd just come into town and it was absolute chaos! Janel Dayton: Inspiration! 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. And to me, it s a type in a shadow of what s going to happen to the world, according to the Bible. 4.I need to pray. All the hostages escaped, though 79 were hospitalized with burns and injuries. (The story was previously filmed as 1994's "To Save the Children," a TV movie with Richard Thomas and Robert Urich.) I was a first grade teacher in 1986 at the Cokeville Elementary School. Mark Junge: How do you do that?! 1 of 7. 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. I think there are lots of good people. The Cokeville Miracle, a movie by T.C. Williams recalls a kindergarten teacher inviting her to join the teacher and some students in prayeran unfamiliar concept for the fifth grader. As he read his nonsensical manifesto, Zero Equals Infinity, children began to cry, including Williams. So anyway, I cleared out the debris and tried to go back in to see if anybody needed help, and it was just as black in there as could be. Around 3:45 P.M. the man, who witnesses noted was growing more and moreagitated at the 100+ children crying and praying, handed the rope to the woman and quickly left the room. Throughout the standoff, David grew increasingly agitated and irritable. [5] The leaking gasoline's fumes prompted teachers to open the classroom windows, unknowingly creating vents for the impending explosion. . 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. So I asked them, Who do you represent? and they said, Ourselves. And then he showed me the bomb and how it operated and said that if anyone tried to harm him that this bomb would go off. One man in the audience had attended school in Cokeville years after the hostage-taking. It was almost as if she landed on my shoulder. The news doesnt portray that, but it should. That, I think, shows my gratitude., We can find small miracles in our everyday lives, adds Johnson. Sarah Kent as Claudia Hartley, Ron's wife, who is worried about his skepticism. He had been aware of above-average achievement scores from Cokeville's education system. But these little sisters sacrificed a lot to come. Instead, the Cokeville Miracle had begun. Frantic parents, gathered behind police barricades, cried out for their children as police officers ran toward the school. My greatest blessing was that I had stepped back to move the barricade when David Young came out of the bathroom just feet from me, and when he shot Mr. Miller. I didnt even know whereto go or what to do. Conger continues, I found my older brother pretty quickly, and we just started walking toward our home. I asked him who he saw, and he said, I dont know. It went off, and I didnt hear anything after the bomb went off. And like a lot of inspirational films, the movie could use a little more subtlety and restraint. I was told my scars would completely heal, and no one would look upon my face and know what had happened. Its a very, very spiritual thing to him. I came home with the intent of factually proving to him that he couldnt have seen angels, Hartley recalls. Aware of the relativity of the games we play in our various existances, we will allow our individual trajectories (precepts and concepts) their original and innate freedom to achieve their own accords (determine their own natures ) without the hindrances of Man, families, clans, villages, towns, cities, states, or civilizations. In 1979, he had been the towns marshal for only six months and residents remember his Wyatt Earp style of law. Janel Dayton: Oh, time was totally immaterial! In the wake of the madness, Ron Hartley, whose children were inside the classroom . Sue Castaneda: Did you come home and cry? So I thought, well Ill go around to the other door because maybe the visibility would be better there. Emergency management coordinator Kathy Davison instructedthe town clerk to call dispatchers. In the days after the bombing, more astonishing evidence came to light. Words emphasized by the speaker are italicized. During the chaos, Doris' burnt body was expelled through a window, and left lying on the front lawn. 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. I have guns and this is a bomb. The bomb was an improvised explosive device constructed in a small two-wheeled shopping cart with two baskets, one on top of the other. The first is August 16, the day of my physical birth, and the second is the day I call my spiritual birth: May 16, the day of the bombing., I try my best to make it a better world, says Wixom. (Laughs) Wont go quite that far! The bomb is about to go off. I did just what she said. All the hostages escaped, though 79 were later hospitalized with burns and injuries, the majority of which were severe.[3][2]. 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.. Do you have anyyoure a pretty perceptive person, so what do you think was goin on? See The Cokeville Miracle in select theater. 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 met the bomb tech right there at the door, and he said, Hartley, what you have here is a miracle. Thats my angel! And it wasnt Grandma Meisterit was my Grandma Elliott. In 2006, the Cokeville Miracle Foundation compiled a book of recollections about the day from parents, emergency workers and former hostages. 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. Our job was to tell people about the church and. Young was a former Cokeville town marshal who had been living in Arizona for several years. David Young was the only police officer in Cokeville for six months in 1979. Penny speeds to the local police station where she informs them of her father's plan, proving it by showing them Deppe and Mendenhall, still handcuffed. Instead of shooting her like he had earlier threatened, he gets his car keys and throws them at her, commanding her to leave, saying she is no daughter of his. 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. 1986, in the small, ranching community of Cokeville, Wyoming, a deranged couple took an elementary school hostage for several hours before detonating a bomb inside a classroom that held every teacher and student in the school . But thats not what lifes about. [10][2][3] The injured were triaged to several area hospitals in Wyoming and Idaho.[2][3][11]. The man pointedly told the hostages that he could, at a moments notice, simply twitchhis arm totrigger the bomb. Submitted by Abel on Sun, 2018-04-22 12:57. Janel Dayton: Mm-hm. As they entered the room, each teacher was handed a typewritten manifesto with quotes from Shakespeare and Socrates and a mysterious title across the top of the paper that read, Zero equals Infinity. We put it on the table right in front of him, and I started flipping through the pages. Janel Dayton: Well, and then this other teacher, or one of us said, Youll just die when you go in there. And the other one said, Yeah, the pottys only a foot high. He didnt think we were a bit funny! They began lifting children out of a blown-out window and instructing them. After the doctor meets privately with Jason for a while, he simply tells Ron that, "You and Jason need to sit down and have a nice, long talk." So I thought maybe I needed to tell them they were in the wrong place if this was part of it. The children that were in the room for a little bit longer, they had black under their noses from breathing it. I knew exactly what to do and where to goI couldnt have done that on my own. David, Doris and Penny (Caitlin EJ Meyer), one of David's two daughters from his previous marriage, bring the bomb into the school, with Doris and Penny carrying firearms. He instructed us to put up a barricade so that nobody could get through the other side. He indicated that he wouldnt mind dispensing with the teachers. 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. We went into the room. So if you are protected, youre being protected right now. As a matter of record, therefore, some 2400+ years ago, Socrates, and individual, addressed himself to an evolving concept called knowledge. They got to America, and that wasnt easy. Now I understand. . 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, Certified Bomb Technician Rich Haskell on the 1986 Bombing of Cokeville Elementary School, Secretary Tina Cook 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. Christensen Film Editing by Casting By Art Direction by Monet Devilliers Costume Design by Ive commented to my husband, who was down at the City Hallbecause everybody had gotten word and had congregatedI said, I didnt hear any voices. He said, I could hear them down to the City Hall. So the concussioncause I was pretty close to the bombit had damaged my hearing. "Hey, lady, is this your first time kidnapping helpless little children?" Therefore, rather than learn the reality and limitations of knowledge, we refute truth with some age old axiom (bullets conquer stone axes), note the bobbing heads of surrounding bigots (99.9% of everyone) and return without doubt or question to selfish, self-centered, egotistical sub systems and social specific cultures fromwhich we otherwise might free ourselves. 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.). For some reason, we were all supposed to make it out of that classroom alive. Montpelier is about 31 miles away, Kemmerer 45, and Afton 55, and if that werent the case, there would be no school here. It was about 1 oclock in the afternoon, and I decided I would go down to the office and get my mail. Id read an article that there was a group of dissidents coming up from the south. Ill never forget that reunion when she ran toward us and wrapped us in her arms. The children are quickly evacuated as firefighters and paramedics are stationed right outside the doors and windows. Janel Dayton: A couple of little interesting incidents: We had a couple of men teachers who said that they didnt believe in God. We never had the kind of fire drills that it sounds like you guys kept going over. Alexa Rae as Cindy Hartley, Ron and Claudia's daughter. This included filming key scenes of The Cokeville Miracleon location in Cokeville, Wyoming, which created the unique opportunity of involving the actual survivors and people in the community. Sue Castaneda: What did happen to the other two guys, because I dont know. The hours ticked by as teachers read stories and students colored pictures and played with Legos. In Cokeville, Ron is playing with his two children; Cindy (Alexa Rae) and Jason (Kimball Stinger). The radiant apparition assured them that the crisis was almost over and they would be just fine. That was a crisis, because when the kids, when it was time to go home, then they realized that they werent going home. Her next memory is of running, the bright light of the sun, her grandfather hugging her, pulling her close. What was that incident? Because economically, its probably very expensive to have a school here. Everyone was just so black that you couldnt recognize anyone. Mark Junge: Yep. 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. You need to listen to your brother and remember that I will always love you. I rememberjust nodding my head. As the investigation unfolded, authorities began to realize that David Young was a very sick man. Nobody could help her. 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Still, in 2400 years, 24,000 years, or 240,000 eons, there is truth-relativity and TRUTH. Doris tried numerous times to calm the children by telling them to "think of it as an adventure movie," or that they "would have a great story to tell their grandchildren." My husband had had an association with him, but Id never seen him before. Janel Dayton: I didnt really notice the smoke so much. 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. Meanwhile, across town a teenage girl rushed into the Town Hall shouting that her father had taken a large bomb into the local elementary school. She lured them by telling them there was either an emergency, a surprise, or an assembly there. There are also a couple scenes where parents are outside the school being held back by police. 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