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Morning, you you know. >> the older boys and ed ray managed to get out of the kids out of the sweltering trailer. dehydrated, december oriented hungry and scared the group wandered through the darkened quarry. >> everybody was kind of walking out in the open and i remember thinking they could be anywhere we need to hide and we were all walking around and everybody is going everybody be quiet go they stumbled upon a a quarry employee who quickly called the police. word of their sudden disappearan...

Iten enended up slide pg and th roof started collapsing. thats the point we knew we were going to have to do something. >> the older kids and ed ray came up with this plan if we are going to die we are going to die trying. >> we are saying edward we have to get out. we are going to die. >> what did the kid and driver do? >> they piled mattresses up so they could get high enough to the opening and they tried to remove whatever was blocking the hole they had put us in. later we found out they had ...

Their home. >> the last kid got off of the bus and all of us kids were singing. we were singing "my momma told you, you better shop around." that is the song we were singing whistling at the happened. >> it was a little after 4:00 p.m. when ray turned the because on to avenue 21 where a white van with its door ajar was parked near the center of the road. >> it looked like somebody had broken down and so edward went to swing the bus around the van. >> and at that point one of the kidnappers jumpe...

Managed to escape and get out and say here we are. >> bus driver ed ray died at age 91 in may of 2012. as a tribute, the bus from that infamous day was brought to rays funeral. >> ed didnt like to speak of himself as a hero. but you know the very pure definition of a hero would say edward ray. >> i love him. im glad that he made us feel safe in there. >> he was comfort when we needed comfort. he was strength when we needed strength. i believe that ed ray gave us what we needed. >> coming up, see...

Had been separated in two separate vans. up to to that point i did not know what had happened to him report other children. >> this was peanut and butter and crackers and boxes of cereal. there may have been bread. >> this was a diagram that illustrates the layout of the sub terrainian trailer. the only source of light was a flash light the kidnappers had given to ed ray. >> he was using that light and then ed ray told us that we all needed to try to get some sleep and so the flash light was tur...

Under control and how they managed to get out and say here we are. >> bus driver ed ray died at age 91 in may of 2012 as a tribute the bus from that infamous day was brought to rays funeral. >> ed didnt like to think of himself as a hero. you know very pure definition of a hero would say edward ray. a oo i love him. i am glad that he made us still in there. >> he was comfort when we needed comfort. he was strength when we needed strength. i believe ed ray gave us what we needed. >> coming up see...

Ed ray and the school children were returned home to chowchilla in the early morning hours of saturday, july 17, 1976. >> when they got us off the bus i never seen so many people in my entire life. [ applause ] >> me and the boys decided we better start digging or we were going to lose our lives there. we all got home safe. that is my story, i guess. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> the public was outraged when they heard the story of what had happened to ray and the children during the 30 hours t...

>> this is the actual list of names and ages one of the kidnappers scribbled on a jack-in-the-box bag as they pulled the kids from the vans. one-by-one, ed ray and the children were forced to climb down a ladder into a hole in the ground. >> i did not want to go into the hole. >> you are looking at what was waiting for them at the bottom of the ladder. a dark dusty styling hot moving van buried in the quarry. 14 mattresses lay in stacks. a crudely designed vent lakes system connected to two huge...

>> ed ray and the school children were returned home to chowchilla in the early morning hours of saturday july 17th, 1976. >> when they got us off the bus i never seen so many people in my entire life. (applause) >> man, a couple boys decided we better start digging we were going to lose our lives there same as getting if we dug ourselves out. we all got home safe. thats my story, i guess. >> thank you. >> thank you. (applause) >> the public was outraged when they heard the story of what had hap...

Kicking it. kicking it. and it ended up sliding and the roof started collapsing. thats the point that we knew we were going to have to do something. >> the older kids and ed ray came up with this plan we are going to die we are going to die trying. we are saying edward we have to get out. we are going to die. >> what did the kids and driver do to try to escape? >> they piled mattresses up to get high enough to the opening they left us. they tried to remove whatever was blocking the hole they had...