Marshall Applewhite
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Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr., also known as Do, among other names, was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement, and organized their mass suicide in 1
Applewhite in an initiation video for Heaven's Gate, September of 1996
A depiction of a scene from the Book of Revelation, which Applewhite believed described interactions between humans and extraterrestrials
Comet Hale–Bopp over California in April 1997
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicide of its members in 1997. Often described as a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite and B
Marshall Applewhite
…Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 24, 1997), also known as Do, among other names, was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult), and organized their mass suicide in 1997. The suicide is the largest mass suicide to occur inside…
A recruitment flyer posted in San Francisco in August 1975