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.

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The captives would escape unharmed and the kidnappers were caught.

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