Sharon Haddock is a professional writer with more than 35 years' experience, 17 at the Deseret News. My name is Kamron Wixom, I was a 12 year old 6th grader in 1986 when a mad man took over my school (Cokeville Elementary) with a bomb and his guns. 154 of us were held hostage for almost 3 hours in a 30x32 room when the bomb actually detonated - all 154 hostages survived. Two people walked into the local elementary school and took the town’s children and teachers hostage. On a sunny Friday afternoon in 1986, the unthinkable happened in the small town of Cokeville, Wyoming. The man's name was David Young, a former town marshal. Fresh off this experience and sensitive to the impact of talking about heavy topics, a friend looped me into a Facebook thread about a new movie coming out in June called "The Cokeville Miracle." He had been the tiny's towns only police officer in six months during 1979 and when he was fired, he moved to Tucson, Arizona. TC scores once again, and I believe this is his best work yet! 3 Comments | Post or read comments . Directed by T.C. The film was based on the Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis in 1986 and the book The Cokeville Miracle: When Angels Intervene by Hartt Wixom and Judene Wixom. The True Story of the Cokeville Miracle. Content advisory: There are scenes that would be scary for young children and a bomb explodes. The Cokeville Miracle is a 2015 drama film written & directed by T. C. Christensen and starring Jasen Wade, Sarah Kent and Kimball Stinger. The film stays very close to that written record. I've driven past Cokeville, Wyoming, but never knew about the madman and his wife who held an elementary school hostage in 1986. The Cokeville hostage crisis began the afternoon of May 16, 1986, when David and Doris Young took 154 children and adults hostage at the Cokeville Elementary School in tiny Cokeville, Wyo. At least 74 people, most of them children, suffered second-degree burns when the bomb went off at about 4 P.M. at the Cokeville Elementary School. The Cokeville Miracle hits theatres Friday June 5 th. You can search the web for yourself and find quite reasonable natural explanations for the Loretto Chapel staircase staying up—if that’s the ‘miracle’ you mean: see for instance The Loretto Chapel staircase: A lesson in physics, not miracles. After a stand-off lasting two and a half hours, the gasoline bomb the couple had brought into the school went off prematurely, badly burning Doris Young while David Young was out of the room. Christensen. With Jasen Wade, Sarah Kent, Kimball Stinger, Alexa Rae. I had read the book some years ago and was touched by it. "The Cokeville Miracle," which is not yet rated and has a running time of 93 minutes, is scheduled for limited release June 5. It sounds like surefire fodder for a faith-based film, which is exactly what "The Cokeville Miracle" is. 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