Dymally announcing the safe return of Chowchilla 26 missing Children, 1976

Dymally announcing the safe return of Chowchilla 26 missing Children, 1976

Dymally, Mervyn M., 1926-2012

Mervyn M. Dymally announces to an overflow crowd of reporters, relatives and friends at the Chowchilla Fire Department that the missing 26 children who disappeared on July 15, 1976 were reported as safe by officials in Alameda County near San Francisco Bay Area, The children and their bus driver from Chowchilla, California, were kidnapped and buried alive in a tractor trailer. After about 16 hours underground, the driver and children were able to dig themselves out and escape.

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Mervyn M. Dymally Papers, Special Collections & Archives, California State University, Los Angeles

California State University, Los Angeles, Library. Special Collections & Archives

1976-07-16

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