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The fact that they did was declared a “miracle” by investigative lawmen on the scene. Only the two perpetrators, David Young and his wife, Doris, died. LDS film maker T. C. Christensen, who ...
Feb 27, 2011 · 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. 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 ...
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 154 hostages – 136 children and 18 adults – at Cokeville Elementary School. David Young entered the school with his wife transporting a large ...
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“A Projectile Killed Doris Young, Not Bomb Blast, Police in Cokeville Say.” Deseret News, May 24, 1986, 11. Accessed May 17, 2013 at http://news.google.com/newspapers/p/deseret_news?id=nz1TAAAAIBA...Castaneda, Sue and Mark Junge. “Survivor is my Name: Voices of the Cokeville Elementary School Bombing.” Produced by Wyoming State Archives for Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources, the packa...“Cokeville Bombing.” Undated scrapbook. Cokeville Public Library.“Cokeville Children Held Hostage by Bomber.” News Examiner, May 22, 1986.“A 1986 Hostage Event at a Cokeville, Wyoming Elementary School.” Unsolved Mysteries, Season 9, Episode 43. 1997.Jarvik, Elaine. “Cokeville Recollects ‘Miracle’ of 1986: Hostage Survivors, Town Residents Compile Book.” Deseret News (May 15, 2006). https://www.deseret.com/2006/5/15/19953524/cokeville-recolle...Matray, Margaret. “25th Anniversary of Wyoming School Attack.” Denver Post.com. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18072820.________. “The Power of Faith: 25 Years After School Bombing, Town Remembers Story of Survival.” Casper Star Tribune (May 15, 2011). http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article%E2%80%943077bf4a...The black and white photos are from the Casper Star-Tribunecollection at the Casper College Western History Center. The color photo of the Cokeville School is from the Wyoming State Archives. Used...
May 17, 1986 · The couple was identified as David Young and his wife, Doris. Residents said Mr. Young was the town's marshall for about six months six or seven years ago. They said he had been dismissed by the ...
May 18, 1986 · David Young met Doris Lydle, his future wife, in Cokeville. Lincoln County Sheriff T. Deb Wolfley said he has traced her to Idaho and Tucson, where a house trailer is registered in her name. David ...
Sep 28, 2017 · Hugh Hefner, who founded Playboy magazine, which he described as being there to "ignite the flame that became the sexual revolution," has died, the magazine said Wednesday. He was 91 years old ...
