Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Frank Edward Ray (Reis), Hero of the 1976 Chowchilla S...

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My husband, was on the Alameda County Sheriffs Dept. investigation team.  Small world.

 

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Anselmo  Sao Miguel,

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In a message dated 5/19/2012 2:05:54 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time (Me, gfsj...@gmail.com writes:

The obituary of Frank Edward Ray 1921-2012 appeared in today's LA Times. In July of 1976, the school bus he was driving was hijacked. On board were Ray and 28 children ages 5-14. They were held in a moving van truck body buried in an old quarry near Livermore Ca. Ray and two of the older boys were able to dig their way out within a few hours and go for help.The kidnappers were 3- 20 something sons of prominant SF Bay Pennsula area families. They were sentenced to life terms and have been denied  parole despite several appeals. In 1993, Ray was portrayed by Karl Malden in a TV movie "They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnaping."

Ray,  whose birth name was "Reis" was born in Merced County. His father (as I recall)  was a half-brother of my Uncle Jose Reis  from Lomba Flores and married to my father's sister Angelina.
John Vasconcelos

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