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thank you. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. it remains one of the most >> it remains one of the most shocking crimes in history. >> no children, no footprints. no blood. >> 26 children with their bus driver kidnapped and buried alive. how did they survive? oo we were running out of the of oxygen. >> it's a hot new sport but it has been around for ages. meet the olympic champion who not only trained the star of the hunger games but is out to hit the bullseye again in london. despite sanctions brand new mercedes are all over the streets of tehran. who is buying them will surprise
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you. >> i am allison cam rat taw. >> i am amy kellogg. >> i am ar they withel neville are here on "fox files." >> the summer of 1976 was a best of times for america. t bee gee's ruled the air waves. the country through a huge party to celebrate the 200th birthday of the 4th of july. the center piece was operation sail a nautical spectacular in new york harbor. it was happy days on tv and the omen had movie goers shaking in their seats. but a real life horror story was about to unfold in chowchilla. a farming community in central california agricultural belt 150
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miles southeast of san francisco. >> we had pigs and a barn and chickens. coming down the street with the neighbors and jennifer crown. >> we knew the entire town. it was a small all american town. >> had a few shops a few stores. it was not a very big town. >> thursday july 15th, 1976. c with only one day left of summer school a group of children at chowchilla's dairy land school piled on to a school bus to head home following an afternoon of swimming. the group included 10-year-old jody, 6-year-old larry and his 8-year-old sister andrea, 9-year-old jennifer brown and her 10-year-old brother jeff. >> jennifer, what did you do on the bus? what was it like? >> it was care free. we talked and sang. the windows were open the warm air blowing. if we were good we got to listen to the radio. >> behind the wheel was local
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farmer and part-time bus driver 55-year-old ed ray. >> ed ray was the most wonderful bus driver you could have. >> irene and linda and two sisters were on board that hot july afternoon when temperatures can reach 110 degrees. >> i was 12 and a half linda julie our youngest was in kindergarten. almost 6 at the time. >> this is the actual school bus the children were riding that summer day more than 35 years ago. jody showed her son matthew where she sat on that fateful day. >> i was sitting about right here, randi. >> under a scorching sun it went past theal monday orchard and wheat field. the bus would periodically stop to drop off a child in front of his or her home parents set their watches by the schedule. >> the last got off the bus and
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all of the kids were singing. my mama told me you better shop around. that was the song we were singing when it happened. >> it was a little after 4:00 p.m. when ray turned the bus on to avenue 21 where a white van with the door ajar was parked near the center of the road. >> it looked like somebody had broken down. edward went to swing the bus around the van and at that .1 of the kidnapers jumped out of the passenger side with a rifle came up to the driver's side and told edward to open the door. the other kidnaper got on to the bus and took over. >> i do remember seeing one of the kidnapers with panty hose pulled over his face and holding a gun. >> i was scared immediately. >> who are you? what's going on here edward asked. the guy told him to shut up and move to the back of the bus. >> one of the masked men got behind the wheel as the other held a sawed off shot gun on his
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terrified hostages. a third man followed in the rig white van. 26 children between the ages of 5 and 14 and their driver sater fied as their school becauus wa come deered. >> when did you get really afraid? >> after they drove us down a little bit they pull the bus into an actual slew bed. >> they found the marsh that was a mile from where it had been ceased. >> it wasn't a smooth drive down. >> everybody is crying. they are telling us to shut up or we are going to get hurt. shut up. >> we are waiting. what's going to happen now. they back up. one van and fill that with half of the students and then bring another van to fill up the other half. >> i did not want to get into the back of that van. that i knew.
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>> their bus hidden from view ed ray and the 26 children we hustled into two hot windowless vans and driven from the scene. the mass kidnapping that would shock the world and put chowchilla on the map had just begun. when jeff and jennifer brown's mother joe came oh home from her job at an insurance company at 4:30 that afternoon their house was empty. her two children were nowhere to be found. >> their chairs were not in front of the tv, the peanut butter wasn't out. i called the school after an hour or so they weren't home. nobody knew where the bus was. they just disappeared. >> we received notifications on the watch commander that the school bus had disappeared. >> ed bates was the sheriff and one of the lead investigators on the case. >> we had sent our one patrol car to the school to find out what in the world happened to them. >> word of the bus's disappearance quickly spread through the tight nit community.
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the citizens of chow kill law went into a panic. this is an era before text messages and gps. >> how can a school bus with 26 kids on it just vanish? >> we ahurted all of the law enforcement agencies. but my josh to tell law enforcement to look out for a yellow bus they are in all directions. >> they found the bus from the air. somebody saw it hidden in the bushes and down in the slew and no children. no footprints, nothing. no blood. no sign of anything bad. something it happened to the kids and they knew they were done. >> we got a phone call to come to the courthouse which we did. all of the parents were called. the fbi was there. they had this big meeting they talked to husbaus but didn't kn anything. >> it was unusual there was no known or apparent motive.
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>> as news spread around the country and around the world chowchilla found itself at the center of a media frenzy. >> we were immediately called by every state, every government in the world asking what it happened. they were talking about zodiac killers and people from outer space. oo [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil® for their headaches. my name is sunshine and i have three beautiful girls. i like taking advil® for a headache. it nips it in the bud. and i can be that mommy that i want to be. ♪ [ male announcer ] take action. take advil®. ♪ why let constipation stry miralax.? mirlax worksdifferently than other laxatives. it dws water into your colon to unblock your system naturally.
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as the police and >> as the police fbi and locals search for the missing school kids and their driver the terrified hostages were driven for hours by their captors in two sweltering windowless van. along with the heat they had no food water light and no bathrooms. >> we are all pretty terrified. >> it's hot. hot. it was like you couldn't breathe aged kids had to use the
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bathroom. they would urinate on you. it was horrible. >> the bus driver remained a fatherly figure through out the ordeal. >> i felt lucky evidences in our van. >> i know he held some of the children. >> he is responsible for all of the children he doesn't know what's going on in their van he tried to keep us comfortable. >> for 11 gruelling hours they had been driven around in a van in order to disorient them. it came to a stop at 3:00 a.m. friday morning. >> we had no idea where we were. >> where they were was a rock quarry. it was only about 2 hours north of chowchilla. >> took edward off first and we didn't know what was going to happen. we just kept waiting and they took one out at a time. >> they asked our name took a clothing asked us to climb down a ladder into the ground. >> this was one of the names
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they scribbles on to the bag. ed ray one by one were forced to climb down a ladder into a whole in the ground. >> i did not want to go in that hole. >> you are looking at what was waiting for them at the bottom of the ladder a dark dusty stifling hot moving van that had been buried in it the quarry. 14 mattresses lay stacked around the corridor ventilation system with batteries brought in air into the ground. >> it was a hell hole. >> what did it look like or smell like? >> it was being driving around in a van 12-hours with no rest room to walk down the ladder into a buried semi trailer that had crude toilets cut out in the we' wheel wells was a blessing. that was the first time we had food and water it was the first time i had seen my brother because we had been separated in two separate vans.
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at that point i didn't know what happened to him or other children. >> there was butter and crackers and serials. there may have been some bread. >> this is a diagram fox files obtained from the sheriff's office that illustrates the layout of the subterranean bus. >> he tried to get some sleep so the flashlight was turned off so we all went down and i kn>> who took the school kids bus driver and buried them alive? 24-year-old fred woods and two brothers 24-year-old james shown feld and 22-year-old richard show enfeld were after one thing, easy money. the kidnapers were from affluent families from the san francisco bay area. their failed dreams of making
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movies and investing in real estate led them to come up with a bizarre kidnapping plan to net them 5 million in cash. this is the actual budget they put together. >> they did a lot of preparation. it so happened the father owned a rock quarry. they would get an old van and bury it and do all of the work that was necessary to have up there. >> why chow kill law. >> chowchilla because there was very little likelihood of getting apprehended by a round of patrol cars. >> 24-hours into their ordeal the kids and ed ray decided remaining passive was no longer an option. >> there was a beam that was holding the ceiling up and one of the boys started getting hyper and started kicking it. kicking it.
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kicking it. iten enended up slide pg and th roof started collapsing. that's the point we knew we were going to have to do something. >> the older kids and ed ray came up with this plan if we are going to die we are going to die trying. >> we are saying edward we have to get out. we are going to die. >> what did the kid and driver do? >> they piled mattresses up so they could get high enough to the opening and they tried to remove whatever was blocking the hole they had put us in. later we found out they had put a steel plate on top of the hole and had put semi batteries on top of that. and then they had built a wooden box and covered it with sand to camouflage it. >> with the food gone and convinced they had been left for dead he had ray and some of the older boys worked for four-hours to free themselves with their makeshift tomb. despite the steel plate being almost half an inch thick and
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two industrial batteries on top of it weighing 100 pounds each nothing was going to stop them from freeing themselves from what surely was to become a mass grave. >> the first thing that had ton dob was the sheet metal had to be pushed off to the side. they keep letting the dirt fall moving the sheet metal more and more dirt falls. as the kidirt would file up i would scrape the dirt out from under the feet. >> i would hold the flashlight deb would hold the flashlight. they would stand on my shoulder for a while, they would stand on edward's shoulder for a while. >> as they moved the steel plate aside and moved the batteries aside which then disconnected our ventilation system and we were tryistarting to lose oxyge starting to get weaker and weaker. please let us make it out. please let us make it out. as they kicked their way trfree and got the box lose there was outpouring of light like from heaven above.
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>> it was like christmas morning. >> the older boys and ed ray managed to get all of the kids out of the sweltering trailer. dehydrated disoriented hungry and scared they wandered through the quarry. >> everybody was out in the open i remember thinking they could be anywhere. we need to hide. we were walking around almost like wow. everybody is saying quiet. everybody be quiet. they stumbled on a quarry employee who quickly called police. word of their sudden reappearance spread like wildfire. >> the children have been found they are in good shape. ♪ it's where fear goes unwelcomed... ♪ and certain men... find a way to rise above. this is the land of giants. ♪
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>> ed ray and the school children returned home to
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chowchilla in the early morning hours of saturday july 17th, 1976. >> they got us off the bus i have never seen so many people in my entire life. (applause) >> me and a couple boys decided we better start digging we were going to lose our lives there or try. we got them home safe. that's my story, i guess. (applause) >> the public was outraged when they heard the story of what had happened to ray and the children during the 30 hours they were missing. but one question lingered, if it was a kidnapping why wasn't a random see manned made. the reason was simple. with the media police and fbi swarmed chowchilla the phone system couldn't handle the increased volume of calls. >> the kids say we tried to call to make a demand but couldn't get through. >> unable to make the ransom
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demand they had gotten the surprise of their lives when they turned on the tv news on friday night. >> they certainly didn't expect the kids and bus driver to escape. >> with their plan having gone horribly awry it wasn't long before the old moving van he bought and buried on his father's property led authorities to fred woods. >> it was found out fred woods had been arrested on a previous occasion. that led to his accomplices. >> a wanted bulletin was issued for all three. a massive manhunt was launched. rick schoenfeld gave up first the other were in custody within two weeks with their bail set at $1 million each. july, 1977 although the three pled guilty to 27 counts of kidnapping for ransom the judge ordered them to stand trial to decide if they had inflicted
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bodily injury on their victims. wave ago right to the jury kidnapers elected to be tried by the judge. for woods and the schoenfelds were huge. if they ruled they had inflicted bodily injury it meant life without parole. if not parole was a possible. that fall after a 7 yeweek tria the judge ruled they had inflicted bodily harm and sent them to life without parole. an appeals court reversed the decision in 1980 making all three eligible for parole. >> i didn't like that. mental harm is just as bad sometimes even worse than physical harm. little children 5, 6, 7, 8 years old we know some are messed up emotionally. i was in the youth authority for five years for violent behavior. i have used methamphetamines, crack, cocaine, pcp.
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>> you still have nightmare as soon as>> i haven't had nightmares in years, but i sleep with a night light. that's not normal for somebody in their mid 40s. >> there was more tragedy for jennifer and joe brown. five years after the kidnapping jeff brown was killed at age 15 in an industrial accident. >> he was upset at god for taking him from me. i couldn't comprehend how he got us out of that hell hole and turned around a few years later and taken him from me. >> fox files contacted all three kidnapers and received letters back from two of them james schoenfeld and jack woods. james said i am and always will be sorry for my actions. >> all three of them should be very, very sorry. they can thank god every day that we are alive that they didn't murder us that we didn't smoother to death.
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>> 14 days after his 13 year anniversary of being free. >> i have found forgiveness. my soul has been bruised, battered and crushed by my hatred of the kidnapers. i just collapsed at the base of the cross one day and just asked god to take that hatred from me. i am ready to let them know that i for give them and to ask their forgiveness for the years that i spent hating them. >> really? you can do that? >> he is the devil himself right there. >> he is the devilled himself? >> he is. >> i don't have the words to say how sorry i am for everyone who was and continued to be affected by my crimes. there is nothing i wouldn't do to take back that day. but i guess time can only be turned back in the movies or on
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tv. >> thank you mr. woods for your words. does it change anything? no. >> lawyer gary duke hofe represents fred woods. >> basically the over arching standard is would his parole release create an unreasonable risk of danger to society. it is clear beyond any reasonable dispute that fred woods is any danger to anybody. it has been 36 years. >> scott richard's lawyer. >> the reason we have a parole system is because we believe in rehabilitation as a society. we believe people can change. >> they have had some surprising allies in their fight for release. one is retired appellate judge william knew some who took part in the decision that made them eligible for parole. the other who successfully prosecuted the three. he declined to be interviewed
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but he sent copies of letters he wrote urging the relief -- rel of richard schoenfeld. >> it is hard for me to understand how after all of these years public servants could turn and be tray the victims that they were supposed to be protecting. although richard schoenfeld was released from prison in june 2012, fred woods and james schoenfeld remain behind bars. >> they need to stay in there. you can't believe how hard my heart is pounding right now with this discussion with parole. i believe they need to serve their term. it has affected each one of us individually in different ways, but we are haunted by that and it's never going to go away. >> the real heros are the bus driver and the older boys and the children and the manner in which he kept them under control how they managed to escape, get
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out and say here we are. >> bus driver ed ray died at age 91 in may of 2012. as a tribute the bus from that infamous day was brought to ray's funeral. >> ed didn't like to speak of himself as a hero. but you know, very pure definition of a hero would say edward ray. >> i love him. i am glad that he made us build safe in there. >> he was comfort when we needed comfort. he was strength when we needed strength. i believe ed ray gave us what we needed. >> coming up, see an olympic archer hit the bulls eye and next find out who in iran is driving these expensive cars.
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lorig. >> life from america's news headquarters i am greg boss well. the olympic games are closed. the u.s. came out with a medal for the 5th straight american games. they are bringing home 104 medals 46 ch them gold. 80,000 people packed the olympic stadium for the closing ceremonies. performances included the reunited spice girls monty python a tribute to john lennon and the who. a major milestone for congresswoman gabrielle giffords moving home to tucson a year and a half after a mass shooting left her severely injured. they left houston where giffords had been receiving specialized care. lawsuit n loughner pled guilty for wounding 6 people including
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gifford. now back to fox. >> exotic cars lavic apartments and sleek shopping complexes. fox files found these images inside the islamic republic of iran. eye toll yaw khomeini's revolution was meant to arrest the oppressed redisprib butte the wealth and mike pie et the standard. a small group of super rich iranians are living large. >> they are the biggest safest in iran. >> fox files sat down with chairman of the london based system. >> it cost a million dollars and you have to pay the duty 100
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percent. you have to have saved $2 million. >> iran is a country of traitors and business people for the last 3,000 years. >> for centuries the silk road gave the dynasty with riches. he and his beautiful wife farrah had a way to show of their wealth. >> in 1979 the iranian revolution drove the monarchy out of the country promising a more equitable society but a new class moved in benefitting from a sort of krohnism. >> despite sanctions in 2010 iran sold 72 billion worth of oil with much of the profits going to the elite. >> they are connected unrivalled in the next 24 years from the
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resistance. >> they ahe is an iranian econo. >> we have price division of 5 to $25 million people who have six or seven super luxury cars lamborghinis, maserati. >> porsche opens a dealership in iran and 2011 sold more cars than any other middle eastern country. >> no problem driving cars in iraq. >> so who are these elite iranians buying up multi-million dollars and driving around in fancy cars there are sanctions in place how do they manage to accumulate such fantastic wealth? >> what started as a religious movement the shaw in 197 will was involved in a mafia like organization and business and all elements of iranian society. >> mark wall lawsuit is former
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u.n. ambassador to management and reform. he is the ceo of united against nu nuclear iran. you have the religious beliefs infiltrated that economy. >> there's a select group of elite clerics who become rich in political connection and corruption. >> one of the fathers and former president ayatollah is one of the richest men in iran. >> he has been a dominant political figure in iran. >> agreement you clergy. you can see. >> many of the super rich has been linked to iran's original complex network of charitable foundations. fox news reported extensively on the ongoing case of iran's new york based charity. >> one of the quickest ways to make huge amounts of money is to become an important person .
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>> the charity foundation found assets from the royal family assisting businesses and ordinary iranians. in many cases powerful clerics used them as their own personal slush fund. >> the 300 families are just hugely welcome. >> there are lots of people are full me mmm. they are kept by the guard core so-called protectors of the islamic regime. >> the iranian police have for many years purchased and bought the fooins of western goods.
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>> life is becoming harder for businesses. though he denies it much of the world community accuses iran of pursuing nuclear weapons. they have dozens of sanctions targeting iran's international trade and banking systems. pressure caused them to close thor their so room at porsche. fiat is under pressure to stop doing business with the republic. fiat announced it was suspending sale there is. >> has it become more difficult for rich iranians to get their hands on cars or whatever else they buy? >> it is more difficult. but if you want it they would find a way of getting it. >> most often through the united arab emirates across from the gulf of iran. >> the emirates because of short trading routes has been a key trading partner legally and illegally for many there still
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is a list of trades in iran and loopholes. >> in 201 # 1 when german chanceler retired jet was sold it ended up in the hands of the iranian via ukrainian middle men. >> it is told the best time to make money. corruption has become endemic. >> they pay more for meat and other staples than americans do. >> there have been reports that iran is suffering from rampant inflation. the cost of milk bread, chicken has sky rocketed. >> the resentment must build or are they living in such a bubble they don't come into contact with average or lower income iranians? >> that bubble could burst. so i think you are seeing a great people and industrious hard-working people fed up with the krohnism and corruption
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glory. ram. fox files is at this year's national archery competition in it >> fox files had over 8,000 kids from all over the united states come to prove they have got what it takes to be champions. >> you never know who is going to win.
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it could be a 6th grader or 12th grader. >> roy is the president of the national archery school program. >> first tournament was 40 kids back in 2002. now they will have 7,000 students. >> from cave men to cowboys archer ry was once an essential tool for survival. today it's katniss everdeen the aspiring lead character of the smash hit the hunger games is breathing new life into the world's oldest sport. >> shoot arrows? oh my gosh. >> i think it's a unique beautiful sport and why not use it. a shot gone can you shoot arrow. that's the thing. >> you like it? >> yeah. >> fox files sat down with the u.s. olympic champion khatuna
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lorig. she trained jen you have lawrence to shoot like a pro. have you ever shot arrow before? she said no. absolutely never seen a bow in a and arrow in real life. >> what's the first thing you start with? >> stance, alignment, drills which you stand properly when you holding the bow. it was very, very exciting to see my student on the screen. i think she nailed it pretty well. >> it has been a long challenging journey for khatuna to become a champion. growing up in a wore torn country she dreamed of some day winning limb biolympic gold. she is had more success in this country she now calls home, america. >> i appreciate and respect this country so much because i have been through so much in my life. >> born in the former soviet repub lynn of georgia she competed four times representing three different countries. in 1992 as the ussr
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disintegrated she competed for the unified team and won the bronze. the olympics in atlanta, georgia and sydney, australia followed. there she represented the newly independent republic of georgia. for the u.s. in beijing in 2008. at the london olympics she competed for the 5th time. although she failed to medal she did come in 4th place in the individual event. khatuna is the second ranked archer in the u.s. she makes hitting a target 230 feet away look easy even though that's more than half a football field away. >> what does it take? >> it takes a lot of practice. you need to be strong mentally and physical strength. we practice from 8:00 in the morning until 6:00 pm and we shoot like 500 arrows. >> take me through a typical training session for you when you were learning it?
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>> we had the life about 3, 4 hours after school practice. i was going to the training camps from 9:00 to 4:00 p.m. to practice shooting for 500 shots a day. >> at the soviet union class war brought challenges that almost ended khatuna's career. >> had no electricity. hi to practice under candlelight. one candlelight by the target and one by me in my basement. it wasn't going well at all. >> 92 was kind of what i figured out it makes me unhappy. i can do anything. it was a political issue. there was nobody that cared about the sport. >> i qualify for olympics in 96
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my life changed that year. that's why i said in the u.s. and started a new life, a new home. she became a u.s. citizen so she could represent the united states in the beijing olympics. >> how did it feel to become the flag bearer? >> unbelievable experience. i didn't medal but i got choose maybe because i waited so long to compete for the u.s. and i can probably never thank enough them to give me that glory at the closing ceremonies. very, very lucky person. >> do you plan to go more than just one more time? >> why quit? tell me. no reason to quit. if i can shoot gold and compete out there and still be in the top, win competitions and keep chasing my goal, win and win
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8 mile >> 8 miles south of san diego it is one of only three olympic training centers in the u.s. >> will you give me a lesson? >> absolutely. you ready for it? >> yeah, ready. >> she turns me into an archery addict. a oo ok>> okay. 1, 2 -- >> there you go. you are doing pretty good. look at that. to your face again. i want you to aim the arrow down
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low blue then the release. look, you shot gold. >> you are good. >> thank you. >> you get addicted, you know? >> we spoke to members of the rode runner archery club nonprofit turning them into potential olympians. >> why is it so time consuming? >> it takes a lot of practice. it is a form of art it takes a lot of time to know your body and know every movement it takes to hit the gold every single time. >> jay, how long have you been doing archery? >> for about four years now. >> what has it done for you? >> it has changed my life. archer ry shooting so many times a day and meeting people offver the country at competitions. taught me to dedicate my time to something. >> 3,000 mileings away archery also changed the lives of
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students at this small elementary school. >> he is the pe teacher thanks to a grant rob brought an unusual idea to the school principle. >> you want to shoot arrows in a public school? i said do i look like i just jumped off a churn nip truck? there's no way unless you can convince me this is going to work and it will be good for kids. >> kids that participate in math have higher test scores they can block out distractions there's a higher attendance rate lower discipline problems. it sold itself. >> one of the best decisions i have made in 6 years. >> at a boy. >> how many championships? you talked about how everybody knows the kids from new jersey. >> we had 6 great state titles.
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>> little did i know what would become of jennifer. >> you are going to pull back the corner of your smile. >> very nice. >> jenna and two dozen of the students went to the national tournament in kentucky where they competed against 7800 other archers. getting there took a 13 hour bus ride and 13,000 dollars raised by parents and the community. >> from 292 out of 300 jenna won the bronze becoming the number three in her division. she also tied for fourth overall out of more than 3200 archers. so whether it's katniss everdeen law tuna lorig or one of the thousands of kids who made it to
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