Marshall Applewhite was the cofounder and leader of Heavenās Gate, a new religious movement that combined views of Christian eschatology with belief in unidentified flying objects (UFOs). He cofounded the group in the 1970s with Bonnie Nettles. The pair referred to themselves as āthe Two,ā a reference to key figures in Revelation 11, and later took on the names Ti (Nettles) and Do (Applewhite). After Nettles died from cancer in 1985, Applewhite took over sole leadership of the group. He died with 38 of his followers in the mass suicide in 1997.
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