Faraday Kidnappings of Victorian Schoolchildren
Nightlife

Faraday Kidnappings of Victorian Schoolchildren

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 202618 min
  • Documentary
  • History

Michael Adams, creator and host of the Forgotten Australia podcast joined Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife to remember the Faraday Kidnappings.

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John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Bolden proceeded to kidnap at gunpoint six female pupils and

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The Victorian government claimed it would pay the ransom but the victims escaped and

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. On this day, October the 6th back in 1972, lessons in a one-teacher school in the rural town of Faraday, near Bendigo in Victoria, were suddenly interrupted. Two men, Edward John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Bolden proceeded to kidnap at gunpoint six female pupils and

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their teacher demanding a one million dollar ransom. The Victorian government claimed it would pay the ransom but the victims escaped and the criminals were captured. An ABC News report from the time spoke to one of the pupils, the very well spoken

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ten year old Robin Howarth as well as the then local MP Lindsay Thompson who was the member for Malvern. They just came in and howled a gun on us and then they just drove us off in the van, took us up to the bush and then one man went away, came back and they both went away in the morning. They said they'd come back at dawn but they didn't so we...

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