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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 ray's funeral. >> ed didn't 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. i'm 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 bullseye and next find out who in iran is

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 batteries brought in air from above ground. >> it was a hell hole. >> what did it look and smell like? >> after being driven arou...

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 they were missing. but one question lingered. if it was a kidnapping why wasn't a random demand made?...

>> 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 masked kidnapping that would shock the world and put chowchilla on the map had just begun. when jeff and jennifer brown's mother joan came home from her job at anence company at around 4:30 that afternoon their house was empty. they are two children were no where to be found. >> the chairs were not in front of the tv and the peanut putter wasn't out. i called the school. nobody knew where the bus was. it just sort of disappeared. >> we received a notification fr...

>> 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 jumped out of the passenger side with a rifle, came up to the driver's side and told edward to open the door. and the...