Among the cult's following, Marshall was known as "Do." Following the discovery of the Hale-Bopp comet in July of 1995, Marshall told the Heaven's Gate members that it was a signal from aliens.

A ctor Jim Parsons, who rose to stardom while playing Sheldon Cooper in the long-running sitcom The Big Bang Theory, has found his next role. After a Broadway run and his work as ...

Heaven’s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite, better known to his followers as ‘Do’ Hill Harper tonight investigates the bizarre San Diego-based 1997 mass suicide by UFO religious cult Heaven ...

Heaven’s Gate was led by Marshall Applewhite, who went by the name “Do,” and Bonnie Nettles, who went by “Ti.” ...

Marshall Applewhite, who founded Heaven’s Gate in 1974 and went by the name “Do,” brainwashed his followers into believing that the world was going to end in 1997 and the only chance to ...

It’s impossible to pinpoint when a mind first veers from eccentricity into madness, but Marshall Applewhite may have hit that fork in 1969 when Neil Armstrong took humankind’s first step on ...

Marshall Applewhite, the cult’s co-founder and leader, was a music instructor at UA in the early 1960s, about 12 years before he founded Heaven’s Gate with a co-believer, Bonnie Nettles.

What was eventually discovered is that they were told by their leader, Marshall Applewhite (aka “Do”) that they should join a spaceship that’s trailing the arriving Hale-Bopp comet.

April 16 2018, Published 4:42 p.m. ET Texas music-teacher-turned-cult-leader Marshall Applewhite, became known for leading the biggest mass suicide in American history in 1985.