When Angels Intervene to Save the Children: Basis for the Movie Starring Robert Urich and Richard Thomas : The Cokeville, Wyoming Bombing Incident

Cokeville, Wyoming was the perfect slice of American Pie--a rural community surrounded by ranches and built by committed families with strong religious convictions; certainly not the typical terrorist target--precisely why David Young chose it as the place to seize his hostages.

Shortly after lunch, Young and his wife charged the Cokeville Elementary School toting a small arsenal of weapons and pushing a cart carrying a deadly bomb. One hundred fifty-siz children and teachers were herded into a single classroom and the terror began.

But something was different. This was home-grown terrorism with a different motivation. David Young's twisted and deranged intent was to blow up the school creating a mass murder-suicide that would plunge them all into a "Brave New World" where he would rule over the children.

"When Angels Intervene to Save the Children" is a basis for the CBS movie "To Save the Children". The real story of this incident unfolded during interviews with school therapists and parents. The children's accounts attributed their survival to angels dressed in white who instructed and protected them and told them to stay calm. Fact by fact, the authors described every hour of the terrifying ordeal and recount piece by piece the children's stories of the miraculous escape.