Chowchilla school bus hijacking victim credits kidnappers for his life's victories, has met all 3 in person

Larry Park and Lynda Carrejo Labendeira were both aboard a bus hijacked from Chowchilla, California, in July 1976. But both have different perspective about recent events.

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Woods, now 70, and the Shoenfelds buried bus driver Ed Ray and Dairyland Elementary School students alive just east of San Francisco – in a moving van that offered little light and ventilation or water, food and bathroom supplies. Everyone survived, despite the staggering heat. 

Just this week, Woods, the final of the three hijackers and the alleged ringleader, was granted parole. But Park, now 52, has overcome the trauma and struggles that started with the Chowchilla events and instead has chosen to live a life of "peace."