Video: 'Chowchilla Kidnapping news footage'

(Thursday, July 15, 1976, around 4:00 p.m. PDT) — A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began today for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, California, by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell.

The captives would escape unharmed and the kidnappers were caught.

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