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April 15, 2025 102 mins

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This is the story of how 27 children, along with their bus driver Ed Ray, were all abducted at one time by 3 masked men. 27 missing people made this the largest kidnapping in US history to this day. 


Resources:  

HBO Max Chowchilla 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Chowchilla_kidnapping 
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ajp.138.1.14 
https://www.cityofchowchilla.org/300/1976-Bus-Kidnapping 
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/02/health/chowchilla-childhoodtrauma/index.html 
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/chowchilla-bus-kidnapping-frederick-woods-rare-photos-from-one-of-the-largest-kidnappings-in-u-s-history/9/ 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chowchilla-bus-kidnapping-frederick-woods-ran-a-gold-mine-and-christmas-tree-farm-from-prison/ 

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