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In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry and forced them into what could have become a mass grave: a moving van soon to be covered with 6 feet of dirt.
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry and forced them into what could have become a mass grave. Almost 50 years on, those students have become unwitting pioneers in what child trauma can look like decades later
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry and forced them into what could have become a mass grave. Almost 50 years on, those students have become unwitting pioneers in what child trauma can look like decades later