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Knowing it could take years to get seats, new mom Chris Breault of Kankakee, Ill., wrote for five tickets to Bozo's Circus in 1977. She expected to give birth a few more times and didn't want any of her not-yet-conceived children to miss out on the chance to be part of the beloved TV show. The yak-haired clown with the red nose and floppy shoes had provided Breault with some of her favorite childhood memories, and she longed to sit in the studio bleachers with her own kids. By the time her tickets finally came...
...long. Breault's childhood will officially end in August when Bozo, the country's longest-running kids' TV character, goes off the air in Chicago, the last city where he still takes pratfalls. With its relentlessly slapsticky approach to entertaining kids, and competition from edgier children's fare on channels like Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network, "this type of programming is a dinosaur," says Joey D'Auria, a former stand-up comic who has played Bozo on Chicago's WGN since 1984. The station's general manager, John Vitanovec, calls cancellation of the low-rated show "strictly a strategic decision...
...Melissa Breault...
Once she moved to Waco, Sherri withdrew even more. She was impossible to contact, and she sought to end David's regular visits with Kiri. He grew alarmed when Breault, who had broken with Koresh, warned him and Sherri's mother of the abusive practices going on in the cult. Sherri, Breault said, was one of Koresh's favored wives. The gold pendant worn by Kiri, only 10, was a sign that Koresh planned to take her too as a wife...
...degree in religion from the University of Hawaii in 1986, he tried for a while to start his own church. He next applied for a job as minister at the local Adventist church. It was shortly after being turned down that he and his wife Judy met Marc Breault, then a recruiter for the Branch Davidians, an Adventist offshoot. Soon Schneider was gathering converts as far afield as Australia...