CULTS: The Last Transmission: Heaven's Gate

Marshall Applewhite believed — and made others believe — that
Earth was about to be wiped clean, and that the only escape was
to shed the human body and board a spacecraft trailing the
Hale-Bopp comet. In March 1997, 39 members of Heaven's Gate were
found dead in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, dressed
in matching black and wearing new Nike sneakers. They had packed
bags for the journey. Applewhite had been refining this theology
for decades, and the people who followed him were not fringe
figures — they were educated, thoughtful, and completely certain.
We look at the belief system, the man who built it, and the
community that died by it.


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