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Outpouring of light like from heaven above. >> it was like christmas 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 emp...

Farmer and part-time bus driver. 55-year-old ed ray. >> ed ray was the most wonderful bus driver that you could have. >> irene and lin caucuse lindar sisters were also onboard the school bus that hot dry july afternoon when temperatures can reach 110 degrees. >> i was 12 and a half. linda, julie and stella our youngest she was is in kindergarten. fivion almost six at the time. >> this is the actual school bus the children were riding in that summer day more than 35 years ago. jody heavington sho...

The back of that van. that i knew. >> their bus hidden from view ed ray and the 26 children were hustled into two hot and windowless vans and driven from the scene. the mask -- mass kidnapping that would shock the world ap put chowchilla on the map had just begun. >> when jeff and jennifer browns mother came home at 4:30 that afternoon their house was empty her two children were nowhere to be found. >> their chairs were not in front of the tv, the peanut butter wasnt out. i called the school aft...

Separate vans. to that point i didnt know what happened to him or the other children. >> there was wuter crackers and cereal may have been bread. >> this was a diagram from the alameda county sheriffs office that illustrates the layout of the trailer. the only source of light was the flashlight the kidnapers gave to ed ray. he used the light but ed ray told us we needed to try to get some sleep. so the flashlight was turned off. we all laid down and i know i slept. >> what kind of monsters who k...

And kept kicking it and kicking it. and it ended up sliding and the roof started collapsing. and that is the point that we knew we were going to have to do something. >> the older kids and ed ray came up with this plan that if we are going to die, we are going to die trying. >> we said we got to get out or we are going to die. >> they piled mattresses up to get high enough up to the opening that they had left us and tried to move whatever was blocking the hole that they had put us in. and later ...

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 an olympic archer hit the bul...

Farmer and part-time bus driver. 55-year-old ed ray. >> ed ray was the most wonderful bus driver that you could have. >> irene and lin caucuse lindar sisters were also onboard the school bus that hot dry july afternoon when temperatures can reach 110 degrees. >> i was 12 and a half. linda, julie and stella our youngest she was is in kindergarten. fivion almost six at the time. >> this is the actual school bus the children were riding in that summer day more than 35 years ago. jody heavington sho...

Heaven above. >> it was like christmas 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 p...

It. and it ended up sliding and the roof started collapsing. and that is the point that we knew we were going to have to do something. >> the older kids and ed ray came up with this plan that if we are going to die, we are going to die trying. >> we said we got to get out or we are going to die. >> they piled mattresses up to get high enough up to the opening that they had left us and tried to move whatever was blocking the hole that they had put us in. and later we found out that they had put a...

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 turned off. so we all laid do...