In the summer of 1976, three masked gunmen hijack a school bus full of children in rural Chowchilla, California. The twenty-six kids and their bus driver are driven to a quarry and buried alive. Back in town, no one has any idea where the children went, who took them, or why. The local sheriff and the FBI launch a massive manhunt to track down the kidnappers ... Show More
Dec 2022
Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping | One Survivor’s Story | 3
On the afternoon of July 15, 1976, nine-year-old Jennifer Brown Hyde and her older brother Jeff were returning home from a summer school trip to a local pool. On their way home, masked men with guns boarded their school bus, and her life was changed in an instant. In this special ... Show More
41m 22s
Jan 2023
Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | Headwaters | 1
In 1913, former President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a perilous expedition to explore one of the last unmapped rivers in the Amazon. Roosevelt was joined by his son Kermit, famed Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon, and a team of naturalists and porters. But as the party sets o ... Show More
44m 37s
Jul 2022
The Chowchilla Kidnapping
On July 15th, 1976, a school bus driven by 55-year-old Frank Edward Ray, for Dairyland Elementary, in the school district of Chowchilla, California, was hijacked by three armed men. Ed Ray was driving 26 children, ranging in age from 5 to 14, home from a summer class trip to the ... Show More
1h 9m
May 2024
SURVIVED: The Chowchilla Kidnapping
<p>On a warm summer day in 1976, 26 children went missing from the town of Chowchilla, California, setting off one of the most bizarre kidnapping cases in U.S. history.</p><ul><li>Be sure to check out the Max documentary, <a href="https://www.max.com/movies/chowchilla/35e6ffd5-2c ... Show More
38m 11s
Aug 2021
History's Dumbest Criminals, Part 2
<p>In the second part of this series, the guys are joined once again by Pod Yourself A Gun's Vince Mancini and Matt Lieb to explore the startling story behind the infamous 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping, where a trio of young men planned to get rich by kidnapping a school bus full of ... Show More
1h 2m