Marshall Applewhite, the wacky leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult ... mansion was draped in a purple cloth and adorned with black and white Nike sneakers. They set out on a mission from ...

in black shirts and sweatpants and with armband patches which read "Heaven's Gate Away Team.” Most infamously, though, they were all wearing those black-and-white Nike shoes, which was a model called ...

The Nike Decade in its black and white colorway is one of those shoes, and is tied to a particularly morbid moment in American history. The shoes were worn by members of the Heaven's Gate cult ...

“We know whatever happens to us after we leave our bodies is a step forward” — videotaped message by Marshall Applewhite, leader of Heaven’s Gate ... uniforms of black pants, shirts and new Nikes — ...

patches reading "Heaven's Gate Away Team" and black-and-white Nike Decade sneakers. Occasionally, the Decade will show up on eBay. They're expensive. One recent listing—no doubt pegged to the ...

When the Heaven’s Gate members were discovered, they were all wearing identical black-and-white Nike Decade sneakers – and the company soon discontinued the style, due to its macabre associations.

This line from a 1975 informational poster, which was shared around San Francisco, sparked one of America's most infamous cults: Heaven's ... all black and black Nike tennis shoes with a white ...

Clay Tweel's four-part HBO Max docuseries explores the Heaven's Gate cult beyond the 'Star Trek ... Tweel uses whimsical animated sequences set against black backgrounds to visualize the more ...

The paper turned up the local angle, as one does, noting that the podcast reveals Heaven’s Gate co-founder Bonnie Nettle’s ashes are scattered in White Rock Lake. Nettles died of cancer at ...