Episode 4: Gate Expectations (Heaven's Gate)

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Heaven's Gate's original website remains active to this day with a flashing RED ALERT banner still blinking. You can visit it and see for yourself here.  

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In writing this episode, we consulted the following primary and secondary sources:

 Primary Sources

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 ​"Heaven's Gate's Happy Ending." Saturday Night Live. URL (accessed March 28, 2017). 

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"Heaven's Gate: A Timeline." San Diego Union-Tribune, March 18, 2007. URL (accessed March 28, 2017).

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Purdum, Todd S. "Ex-Cultist Dies In Suicide Pact; 2d Is 'Critical.'" New York Times, May 7, 1997. URL (accessed March 28, 2017).

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"Suicide Linked to Heaven's Gate." Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1998. URL (accessed March 28, 2017).
 

Secondary Sources

Bearak, Barry. "Eyes on Glory: Pied Pipers of Heaven's Gate." New York Times, April 28, 1997. URL (accessed March 28, 2017).

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Chryssides, George D., and Benjamin Zeller, eds. The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

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Robinson, Wendy Gale. "Heaven's Gate: The End?" Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3, no. 3 (1997). Available online here.

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Zeller, Benjamin E. Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion. New York: New York University Press, 2014.