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Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, [a] among other names, [b] was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult ), and organized their mass suicide in 1997.
Mar 7, 2023 · The origins of Heaven’s Gate stretch back to 1972 when a nurse named Bonnie Lu Nettles met a seminary dropout named Marshall Herff Applewhite. Both Nettles and Applewhite were experiencing...
Dec 13, 2020 · Marshall Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, is shown in an undated image. Applewhite and 38 followers died in a mass suicide in 1997.
Apr 2, 2014 · Marshall Applewhite was the leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult in Texas. He was a self-proclaimed prophet, drawing rhetoric from science fiction and scripture.
Mar 11, 2022 · Heaven's Gate was started in the early 1970s by Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lou Nettles. Applewhite was the son of a Presbyterian preacher and became a talented stage actor and singer.
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985) and Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997), known within the movement as Ti and Do, respectively.
Aug 9, 2022 · As founder of the California-based Heaven's Gate cult, Marshall Applewhite and 38 of his followers died by suicide in March 1997 to ascend to an Earth-saving spaceship.
Dec 4, 2020 · HBO Max's new docuseries 'Heaven's Gate' explores the true story of Marshall Applewhite ("Do"), who lead followers to suicide following the Hale-Bopp Comet.
Mar 25, 2022 · 25 years ago Heaven’s Gate co-founder and leader Marshall Applewhite filmed a message encouraging members of his cult, Heaven’s Gate, to die by suicide. On March 26, 1997, the police discovered the bodies of 39 members in a suburban house near San Diego.
(CNN) -- The young life of Marshall Herff Applewhite offered no clues to the tragic end in store for him and 38 of his followers decades later at a mansion near San Diego.
