World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-03-27

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-03-27
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[0:05] [music] On World News Tonight this

[0:07] Thursday, the mass suicide in

[0:09] California. 21 women, 18 men. Members of

[0:12] a cult who believe [music] they would go

[0:13] to heaven on a UFO.

[0:16] >> Planet Earth

[0:18] about to be recycled.

[0:21] Your only chance to evacuate

[0:25] is to leave with us. and the

[0:28] extraordinary meeting between Martin

[0:30] Luther King's son and the man in prison

[0:33] for Dr. King's murder.

[0:35] >> Did you kill my father?

[0:37] >> No. No, I didn't. No.

[0:43] >> From [music] ABC. This is World News

[0:46] Tonight with Peter Jennings.

[0:47] >> Good evening. It has been some news day

[0:49] and we're going to begin tonight with

[0:50] the strange suicide of the 39. It's very

[0:53] strange. The 18 men and 21 women whose

[0:56] bodies were found last night just north

[0:57] of San Diego may well have considered

[1:00] that now was the time to leave this

[1:02] world because they had been given the

[1:05] ultimate gift of everlasting life. This

[1:07] story will stretch your imagination

[1:09] before we're finished. Based on what we

[1:12] know, this may be about people who

[1:13] thought it was time to shed their human

[1:16] containers because out there behind the

[1:18] Hailbop comet, there was a UFO waiting

[1:21] to transport them beyond this world to

[1:24] the kingdom of heaven. We have several

[1:26] reports. ABC's Brian Rooney, first of

[1:28] all, standing by in the San Diego suburb

[1:30] of Rancho, Santa Fe. Brian, what's the

[1:32] latest?

[1:33] >> Peter, all of the bodies are out of the

[1:34] house now. It did take some time. The

[1:36] first officers who went in there

[1:37] yesterday were nearly overcome by fumes.

[1:40] And investigators spent a good deal the

[1:41] night checking the house to see th