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'Nightmare in Chowchilla': Survivors of the 1976 school bus kidnapping reunite after 45 years

'Nightmare in Chowchilla': Survivors of the 1976 school bus kidnapping reunite after 45 years

Fox News
Monday, February 28, 2022 12:47:24 PM UTC

Survivors of one of the largest kidnappings in U.S. history are speaking out about their experience that have plagued their minds for the past 46 years in the Fox News podcast, “Nightmare in Chowchilla: The School Bus Kidnapping.”

Many of survivors of the Chowchilla kidnapping gather at the Ed Ray Day celebration on August 22, 1976. Ray, the school bus driver, is pictured back row center next to Michael Marshall.  (Handout courtesy of Jennifer Brown Hyde) Alameda County Sheriff Tom Houchins, left, holds composites of two suspects in the kidnapping of 26 Chowchilla school children as Madera County Sheriff Ed Bates describes the men during a news conference. (AP) In this July 20, 1976 file photo, officials remove a truck buried at a rock quarry in Livermore, Calif., in which 26 Chowchilla school children and their bus driver, Ed Ray were held captive. (AP Photo/James Palmer, file) In this July 17, 1976 file photo, members of the Alameda County Crime Lab and FBI work around the opening to the van where 26 Chowchilla school children and their bus driver were held captive at a rock quarry near Livermore, Calif. (AP File) A transport driver secures one of three vans recovered by Alameda County Sheriff's Deputies from a warehouse in San Jose, Calif., July 24, 1976. Authorities believe the three vans were used to transport 26 Chowchilla school children and their bus driver Ed Ray, to a rock quarry near Livermore, California. (AP Photo) California officials allow photographers to take pictures of the inside of this van in Livermore, Calif., on July 24, 1976.  The van was used as a prison for the 26 Chowchilla school children and their bus driver. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer) (AP Photo/Jim Palmer) Officials begin to dig out the truck trailer in the Livermore, Calif. rock quarry, in which 26 Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver, Ed Ray were held captive.  (ALAMEDA COUNTY D.A.'S OFFICE) Families of the 26 children who were abducted from their school bus along with the bus driver await word of their fate outside police headquarters in Chowchilla, July 16, 1976. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer) Officials at the Livermore, Calif. rock quarry, in which 26 Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver, Ed Ray were held captive.  (ALAMEDA COUNTY D.A.'S OFFICE) Chowchilla kidnappers Richard Schoenfeld, James Schoenfeld and Fred Woods  (ALAMEDA COUNTY D.A.'S OFFICE) Fred Woods, James Schoenfeld, Richard Schoenfeld pictured in custody (ALAMEDA COUNTY D.A.'S OFFICE) Chowchilla kidnapping ringleader Fred Woods  (ALAMEDA COUNTY D.A.'S OFFICE) Survivor Jennifer Brown Hyde pictured at age 9 standing near a granite monument in Chowchilla, Calif. dedicated to the 26 schoolchildren and bus driver Ed Ray. (Handout courtesy of Jennifer Brown Hyde ) Ed Ray, the California school bus driver who was hailed as a hero in the Chowchilla kidnapping. (ALAMEDA COUNTY D.A.'S OFFICE)

"I'm 50 years old, and I can have an anxiety attack over getting in the car with my husband," Hyde told Fox News senior correspondent and "Nightmare in Chowchilla" host Claudia Cowan. 

"The release of some of the kidnappers a few years ago was a little difficult on me, but I got through it," she said. "I'm resilient. I've proven that time and time again. I can just about live through anything." 

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