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Heaven's Gate: In late March 1997, 39 bodies were found in a rented mansion in the San Diego community of Rancho Santa Fe, California. They all belonged to a group called Heaven's Gate, an extremely insular religious movement begun in 1975 by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Truesdale Nettle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomson, Andrew, producer
Other Authors: Swain, Madeleine, narrator
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Geelong, Australia : World Wide Entertainment, 2007.
Series:World history in video.
Subjects:
Heaven's Gate (Organization)
Cults > California.
Mass suicide.
Terrorism.
USS Cole Bombing Incident, Aden, Yemen, 2000.
Aden (Yemen)
San Diego (Calif.)
Terrorism
Suicide collectif.
Terrorisme.
Attentat contre l'USS Cole, Aden, Yémen, 2000.
Cults.
California.
California > San Diego.
Yemen (Republic) > Aden.
2000
Documentary
Alexander Street Video.
Documentary.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Heaven's Gate: In late March 1997, 39 bodies were found in a rented mansion in the San Diego community of Rancho Santa Fe, California. They all belonged to a group called Heaven's Gate, an extremely insular religious movement begun in 1975 by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Truesdale Nettles. The couple eventually became known by several names, including do and ti or simply 'the two'. After Nettles' death from cancer in 1985, Applewhite and his followers became increasingly convinced that their physical bodies were just temporary vehicles. They also became sure that the real selves were due to be taken to another, more evolved, kingdom via a spaceship trailing in the wake of Haley's Comet. USS Cole: The USS Cole was an American Navy guided missile destroyer that was attacked by two suicide bombers on the morning of the 12th of October 2000. The Cole was in the middle of a refueling stop at the Yemeni port of Aden, when a small craft, loaded with explosives, approached on the port side. The blast caused an eleven by eleven meter gash in the side of the ship, and ripped through the ship's galley, killing seventeen sailors and injuring a further 39. Crew members fought to contain flooding and several support ships including the British Navy's HMS Marlborough came to the Cole's assistance.
Item Description:Previously released on DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011).
Physical Description:1 online resource (6 min.).