Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. was an American cult leader. He founded what became known as the Heaven’s Gate religious group. The group members died by mass suicide in their mansion in 1997. Believing that their souls would ascend to the spaceship and be given new bodies, the group members killed themselves. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
About Marshall Applewhite in brief
Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. was an American cult leader. He founded what became known as the Heaven’s Gate religious group. The group members died by mass suicide in their mansion in 1997. Applewhite and his followers believed that they would be visited by extraterrestrials who would provide them with new bodies. Believing that their souls would ascend to the spaceship and be given new bodies, the group members killed themselves. Apple white was the son of a Presbyterian minister. He attended several universities, and as a young man, served in the U.S. Army. He was a baritone singer and enjoyed spirituals and the music of Handel. He lost his career after pursuing a sexual relationship with a male student. He later became an openly gay choral director and performed with the Grand Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He is survived by his wife, Anne Pearce, and their two children, Mark and Lane. He also leaves behind a son, Lane Applewhite, and a daughter, Sarah Applewhite. He had a daughter with a different woman, Lisa Applewhite; she died of cancer in 2010. He has a son with another woman, Jennifer, who died in 2012. He leaves behind two sons, Lane and Mark, who were born in 1994 and 2011. He lived in Texas and died in Florida in 2013. He left behind a wife and two children; he had no children with his ex-wife. His son Lane is now married to a woman who he met at the University of St.
Thomas in Houston. His daughter has a child with another man, Michael, who lives in New York City. He wrote a book about his experiences, “Heaven’s Gate: The Final Journey” (2000). He also wrote a play, “The Last Song” (2002). He died in a car accident in 2013; he is buried in a Texas cemetery with his wife and his two children. His wife, Lisa, died in 2014; his son Lane, who is also buried in Texas, was buried in New Mexico. He previously lived in California, where he lived with Bonnie Nettles, a nurse, and had a close friendship with her. In the early 1990s, he began to publicize their theology. In 1996, they learned of the approach of Comet Hale–Bopp and rumors of an accompanying spaceship. They concluded that this spaceship was the vessel that would take their spirits on board for a journey to another planet. They believed that their bodies were the mere containers of their souls, which would later be placed into new bodies; they believed they were divine messengers. In 1997, they organized their mass suicide, claiming the lives of 39 people. Some commentators attributed his followers’ willingness to die by suicide to his skill as a manipulator, while others argued that their willingness was due to their faith in the narrative that he constructed. His students regarded him as an engaging speaker and speaker and a stylish dresser.
You want to know more about Marshall Applewhite?
This page is based on the article Marshall Applewhite published in Wikipedia (as of Nov. 01, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
