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Am
erica
ns S
lau
gh
tere
d o
n A
irstrip
Bo
die
s lie o
n a
Gu
yana
airstrip
by th
e p
lan
e w
hich
w
as to
carry th
em
back to
Georg
eto
wn. R
ep. L
eo
Rya
n a
nd fo
ur o
ther A
merica
ns w
ere
massa
cred la
y
mem
bers of the People's T
emple. (U
PI (c) 1978 S
an F
rancisco Exam
iner)
UPI pa,. W
Goa R
eam.
UPI ',anneal R
ep
. Le
o R
yan
' Jim
Jones
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r
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ME
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n
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e K
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ew
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ntin
el C
om
pa
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oxville
, Te
nn
. 37
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er 2
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No
. 29
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82 P
ages, F
our s
ectio
ns ,
Mass S
uicid
e, Mu
rde
r Sw
ee
p S
ec
t
Lan
e W
arn
ed
R
ep
. Ry
an
of
'Persecu
tion
' B
y CLA
RK
RE
ID
ne
ws
...ee
l ...ea
. Go
rge
s...I
WA
SH
ING
TO
N —
Mem
phis la
wye
r M
ark
Lan
e w
arn
ed U
.S. R
ep
. Leo J
. R
yan (1
)-Calif.) th
at "fu
rther p
erse
cu-
lion
" of a
n e
xiled
relig
iou
s gro
up
callin
g
itself "T
he
Pe
op
le's T
em
ple
" cou
ld re
sult
in a "m
ost e
mbarra
ssing situ
atio
n" fo
r the U
nited States.
• R
yan a
nd fo
ur o
ther A
merica
ns w
ere
' kille
d S
atu
rday a
s they p
repare
d to
leave
Jo
ne
stow
n, G
uya
na
, afte
r tou
ring
the
P
eople's Tem
ple compound near th8te.
Th
e C
alifo
rnia
Re
pre
sen
tative
■ had
flown to G
uyana on a congressional fact.
Cam.. nem
Press Demand,"
GE
OR
GE
TO
WN
, Guyana —
A G
uya-n
a g
ove
rnm
en
t officia
l said
tod
ay
the
band o
f Am
erica
n re
ligio
us fa
natics w
ho
massacred R
ep. Leo J. Ryan of C
alifornia a
nd
fou
r oth
er A
me
rican
s in h
is pa
rty h
ad
be
gu
n a
w
ave
of m
ass su
icide a
nd
murd
er th
at le
ft 400 p
erso
ns d
ead a
nd
600 missing.
Guya
na M
iniste
r of In
form
atio
n S
hir-
ley F
ield
-Rid
ley sa
id G
uya
ne
se tro
op
s to
da
y cap
ture
d th
e h
ea
dq
ua
rters o
f the
P
eo
ple
's T
em
ple
in th
e ju
ng
le c
ity o
f Jo
ne
stow
n a
nd
Me
nd
tha
t som
e o
f the
victim
s appare
ntly w
ere
murd
ere
d. •
Mrs. F
ield
-Rid
ley to
ld a
ne
ws co
nfe
r-ence
that so
me o
f the victim
s "show
ed
sign
s of vio
len
ce, in
clud
ing
pre
sum
ed
gunshot w
ounds, which w
ere not consist-ent w
ith su
icide." S
he sa
id so
me o
f the
victims sh
ow
ed
no
sign
s of vio
len
ce a
nd
w
ere
pre
sum
ed
to h
ave
be
en
po
ison
victim
s. S
he said a man w
ho fled from the reli-
gio
us co
mm
unity h
eaded b
y a C
alifo
r-nia
n, R
ev. Jim
Jones, re
ach
ed a
polM
e
statio
n in
the
jan
gle
d in
terio
r of G
uya
na
and re
porte
d th
at le
aders o
f the se
ct w
ere
pre
pa
ring
for a
ma
ss suicid
e b
y poisoning.
Jones, 46, variously called himself the
"pro
phet o
f God" a
nd "fa
ther" a
nd
pre
ach
ed a
flam
boya
nt m
ixture
of o
ld-
time fa
ith h
ealin
g, ra
cial in
tegra
tion a
nd
socialism.
Mrs. F
ield
-Rid
ley sa
id, "S
om
e o
f the
bodies were found in hom
es, some w
ere fo
un
d in
clea
ring
s in th
e fo
rests, b
ut n
o
live p
erso
ns w
ere
found . . T
he tro
ops
are searching for them."
Mrs
. Fie
ld-R
idle
y s
aid
troo
ps h
ad
been unable to locate Jones, a form
er San
Francisco H
ousing Authority director.
Mrs
Kath
y H
unte
r, a fre
e-la
nce
write
r from
Ukia
h, C
alif., w
ho
a fa
milia
r w
ith th
e P
eo
ple
's Te
mp
le se
ct, said
a
Guya
nese
parlia
ment m
em
ber h
ad to
ld
her in
a te
lephone c
onvers
atio
n th
at
Jones had comm
itted suicide. A
California psychologist w
ho accom-
panie
d R
yan to
Guya
na to
try to g
et h
is daughter out of Jonestow
n said mem
bers of the group rehearsed m
ass suicide and signed undated suicide notes before they left C
alifornia. "T
he
y w
ill all b
e d
ea
d to
mo
rrow
," said S
tephen Katzaris, w
hose sun An
tho
-ny
. 23
, wa
s c
ritica
lly w
ou
nd
ed
in th
e
Satu
rday n
ight a
ttack in
which
Rya
n, a
C
alifornia Dem
ocrat, was killed.
Rya
n, a
ccom
pa
nie
d b
y aid
es, re
po
rt-ers, and relatives of som
e sect mem
bers, ca
me
to th
is form
er B
ritish co
lon
y on
the
north
easte
rn sh
ould
er o
f South
Am
erica
last w
eek to investigate reports of large=
I• I
scale
abuse
s of m
em
bers o
f the re
ligio
us
gro
up. .
The U
S. R
epre
senta
tive, 5
3, w
as kill-
ed b
y a sh
otg
un b
last a
s he a
ttem
pte
d to
ta
ke se
vera
l dise
nch
an
ted
me
mb
ers o
f the sect back to G
eorgetown by plane.
A k
nife
-wie
ldin
g a
ssaila
nt h
ad a
t-te
mp
ted
to sta
b R
yan
ea
rlier w
hile
the
R
epre
senta
tive w
as visitin
g Jo
nesto
wn.
Tw
o m
em
bers o
f Rya
n's g
roup, in
cludin
g
law
yer M
ark L
an
e, d
isarm
ed
the
atta
ck-er, and R
yan was nut injured.
Th
e d
ea
d in
clud
ed
thre
e n
ew
sme
n
and o
ne o
f the se
ttlem
ent's d
efe
ctors.
Ten p
erso
ns w
ere
wounded, th
ree se
ri-o
usly, a
nd
the
hu
sba
nd
o
f on
e of th
e
wo
un
de
d h
ad
a stro
ke. T
he
US
. Em
ba
s-sy said they w
ere all Am
ericans. S
urvivo
rs of th
e a
ttack sa
id a
ba
nd
of
black and white m
embers of the P
eople's
Te
mp
le o
pe
ne
d C
ure
with
au
tom
atic
w
ea
po
ns a
nd
sho
tgu
ns a
s Rya
n a
nd
his
pa
rty we
re b
oa
rdin
g p
lan
es -a
t the
Pa
rt K
aitim
m a
irstrip,
eig
ht
mile
s s
outh
of
Jon
esto
wn
an
d IS
O m
iles n
orth
we
st of
Georgetow
n. •
In S
an
Fra
ncisco
, a P
eo
ple
's Te
mp
le
spokesm
an w
ho id
entifie
d h
imself a
s
Arch
ie Ja
me
s de
nie
d th
at m
em
be
rs Of th
e se
ct did
the a
irport killin
gs.
Rya
n, re
po
rter D
on
Ha
rris, 42
,• an
d
cam
era
man R
obert B
row
n, 3
6, b
oth
of
NB
C N
ew
s an
d b
oth
Lo
s An
ge
les re
si-dents; G
regory Robinson, 27, a photogra-
ph
er fo
r Th
e S
an
Fra
ncisco
Exa
min
er,
an
d P
atricia
Pa
rks or P
arke
r, IA
w
ho w
as tryin
g to
esca
pe
from
Jon
esto
wn
,
See 40 e,p.F
AD
, Pag
e A
4
• I E
IJ
I '•- P
io
n
Eyew
itness T
ells of M
assacre, Nig
htm
arish W
att tor K
escue
flow
n to
Guya
na o
n a
congre
ssional ta
ct• fin
din
g m
issio
n to
de
term
ine
wh
eth
er
any A
meric
an .c
itizens w
ere
. bein
g h
eld
a
ga
inst th
eir w
ill by th
e le
ad
er o
f the
re
ligio
us fa
ctio
n, fo
rmer S
an F
rancis
co
po
litician
Jim Jo
ne
s. Lane, w
ho re
pre
sents
Jones, h
ad
acco
mp
an
ied
Rya
n's
pa
rty e
n th
e to
ur.
On
e n
ew
s rep
ort in
dica
ted
La
ne
also
ha
d
be
en
killed
wh
en
the
gro
up
wa
s atta
cked
b
y g
un
me
n. S
tate
De
pa
rtme
nt o
fficia
ls,
ho
we
ver, in
dica
te L
an
e e
scap
ed
. Lane's
warn
ing to
Rya
n w
as m
ad
e in
a le
tter d
ate
d N
ov. 6
,1978, a
nd w
as
rele
ased to
day b
y R
yan's
adm
inis
trativ
e
assista
nt, Jo
e H
olsin
ge
r. In
tha
t lette
r La
ne
ch
arg
ed
tha
t "v
ario
us a
gencie
s o
f the U
S. G
overn
-m
ent h
ave s
om
ew
hat c
onsis
tently
op-
pre
ssed th
e P
eople
's Tem
ple
Institu
tion."
"So
me
of th
e m
em
bers o
f the P
eop
le's
Tem
ple
have h
ad to
flee fro
m th
e U
.S.in
ord
er to
experie
nce a
fulle
r opportu
nity
to
enjo
y rig
hts
whic
h w
ere
not a
vaila
ble
to
them
with
in th
e U
.S.," w
rote
Lane.
The a
ttorn
ey im
plie
d th
at th
e a
lleged
pe
rse
cu
tion
wa
s c
on
tinu
ing
in G
uya
na
a
nd
tha
t the
1200-m
em
ber cu
lt had b
een
"offe
red
refu
ge
" in tw
o o
the
r co
un
tries.
La
ne
told
Rya
n th
at J
on
es a
nd
his
fa
ctio
n h
ad
no
t acce
pte
d th
e to
e o
the
r offe
rs, b
ut "it is
their p
ositio
n th
at if re
li-gio
us p
ers
ecutio
n c
ontin
ues a
nd if it is
fu
rthere
d th
rough a
witc
h h
unt c
onduct-
ed
by a
ny b
ran
ch
of th
e U
.S. G
ove
rn-
See L
ET
TE
R, P
age A
-2
The %
Roaring eyew
itness account 0
the
killin
gs In
Gn
ya
ns w
as w
ritten
by
Sa
n P
rem
ise
. Ch
ron
icle
rep
orte
r Ro
n
lave
rs, w
ho
wa
s w
ou
nd
ed
Sa
turd
ay In
th
e g
un
fire th
at k
illed
Re
p. L
eo
Rya
n
an
d fo
rm o
the
rs o
n a
rem
ote
airs
trip In
G
am
ma. in
ners
, who w
as e
n ro
ute
to
Wa
sh
ing
ton
with
the
oth
er w
oo
nd
ed
, d
icta
ted
the
sto
ry to
his
city
de
sk
TH
E E
DIT
OR
. B
y RO
N JA
YE
RS
to sea F
rew
:Ks
Ch
roa
lde
SA
N J
UA
N, P
uerto
Ric
e (A
P) -
Jo
ne
sto
wn
is e
ve
ry e
vil th
ing
tha
t every
body th
ought —
and w
ors
e.
We k
new
that b
efo
re th
e s
hootin
g
Sta
rted
. T
he
sla
ug
hte
r be
ga
n a
t 4:2
0 p
.M.
Satu
rday (G
uyana tim
e) w
hile
we w
ere
sta
ndin
g b
esid
e th
e tw
in-e
ngin
e a
irpla
ne
tha
t ha
d b
rou
gh
t us to
Pe
rt Ka
ilum
a,
se
ve
n m
iles o
uts
ide
Jo
ne
sto
wn
, on
F
rida
y a
nd
tha
t ha
d re
turn
ed
to p
ick a
s
0P. 1
wa
s w
aitin
g b
etw
ee
n B
ob
Bro
wn
a
nd
Do
n H
arris
, the
two
NB
C m
en
wh
o
we
re kille
d. W
e h
ad
be
com
e clo
se frie
nd
s d
urin
g th
e co
urse
of o
ur o
rde
al.
Th
e firin
g e
rup
ted
fron
t gu
ns clo
se b
y. I w
as h
it first. I w
as k
nocked to
the
gro
un
d b
y a
slu
g in
the
left s
ho
uld
er,
ap
pa
ren
tly from
a 3
8-ca
libe
r we
ap
on
.
•
I cra
wle
d b
ehin
d th
e rig
ht w
heel o
f th
e p
lan
e.
Bo
b B
row
n s
taye
d o
n h
is fe
et a
nd
kept film
ing w
hat w
as h
appenin
g, e
ven
as th
e a
ttacke
rs a
dva
nce
d o
n h
im w
ith
the
ir gu
ns.
He
wa
s in
cre
dib
ly te
na
cio
us.
While
I was try
ing to
decid
e w
heth
er
to s
tay w
here
I was o
r risk th
e 1
00-y
ard
-dash
acro
ss the close
-crop
pe
d g
ross fie
ld
to th
e ju
ng
le, I n
ow
Bro
wn
go
do
wn
. T
he
n I s
aw
on
e o
f the
atta
cke
rs s
tick
a s
hotg
un rig
ht in
to B
row
n's
face, in
ches
aw
ay, if th
at (T
hen th
e a
ttacker s
hot
him
.) I'll n
ever fo
rget th
at s
ight a
s lo
ng a
s
I ran, a
nd th
en I d
ived h
ead-firs
t into
th
e b
rush
. I g
ot u
p a
nd sc-ra
mble
d a
s far in
to th
e
sw
am
p a
s I c
ould
. I was a
bout 1
50 y
ard
s
from
the a
irstrip
and u
p to
my w
ais
t in
wa
ter.
I pushed th
rough th
e ra
in fo
rest,
wa
lkin
g p
ara
llel to
the
run
wa
y, try
ing
to
figure
out w
hat h
ad h
appened.
I could
n't s
ee m
uch. I h
ad lo
st b
oth
p
airs
of g
lasse
s h
ad
with
me
. B
ut th
ere
wa
s s
ilen
ce
. Ap
pa
ren
tly th
e
pa
rty o
f atta
ckers
whic
h m
ust h
ave in
-clu
ded fo
ur, fiv
e o
r six
men w
ith g
um
, ha
d fle
d.
was fa
r chsw
n th
e fie
ld b
y th
e tim
e I
OP
ISsh
als
as
Ro
n J
ave
rs
'I Was O
ne o
f the L
ucky O
nes'
movem
ent d
ifficult a
nd u
ncom
forta
ble
-n
ot o
nly fo
r us b
ut th
ose
wh
o h
ad
cho
sen
u
s a
s th
eir q
ua
rry.
The ra
in m
ay h
ave
save
d o
ur live
s. E
ve
ry tim
e w
e h
ea
rd a
no
ise
, esp
e-
cia
lly w
he
ne
ve
r we
he
ard
a tru
ck a
lon
g
the
Po
rt Ka
itum
a ro
ad
, we
tho
ug
ht w
e
wo
uld
be
atta
cked
ag
ain
. O
f co
urs
e, n
on
e o
f us h
ad
an
y
weapons.
• A
nd tim
e m
oved s
low
ly, in
finite
ly
slo
wly
. W
hen we
first re
ach
ed
Jo
ne
sto
wn
, on
F
rida
y n
igh
t, the
atm
osp
he
re w
as liv
ely
and co
rdia
l. We fo
und o
urse
lves g
ettin
g a
re
al C
oo
k's
To
ur, w
ith e
ve
ryth
ing
ar-
ranged fo
r us. T
here
was g
reat ro
ck
music
from
the J
onesto
wn b
and a
nd
ente
rtain
ment d
urin
g d
inner.
And w
hile
we trie
d, m
ain
ly a
t first, to
g
et a
wa
y fro
m th
e o
rga
niz
ed
fun
, we
w
ere
told
ho
w h
ap
py e
ve
ryo
ne
wa
s.
But b
efo
re w
e le
ft for a
n e
venin
g's
d
rive
thro
ug
h fo
ot-d
ee
p m
ud
to P
ort
Ka
itum
a, a
yo
un
g m
an
slip
pe
d D
on
Ha
, ris
of N
BC
a m
essa
ge
writte
n o
n a
ch
ild's
sla
te. s
ayin
g, 'P
lea
se
he
lp m
e g
et o
ut o
f Jo
ne
stow
n.'
It had fo
ur s
ignatu
res.
Ra
ck in
Po
rt Ka
itum
a, w
here
the e
n-
tire g
roup o
f us s
pent F
riday n
ight in
a
tin-ro
ofe
d d
isco —
a s
mall b
eer p
arlo
r w
ith a
ph
on
og
rap
h a
nd
a fe
w re
co
rds —
lo
ca
l Gu
ya
ne
se
be
ga
n te
lling
us h
orro
r sto
ries.
They to
ld a
s a
bout o
ne m
an w
ho h
ad
esca
pe
d fro
m th
e c
olo
ny la
st s
um
me
r, trucklo
ad. T
he re
porte
rs and ca
mera
men
were
told
we w
ould
go o
ut in
the firs
t batch
, but R
ep. R
yan w
ould
wait to
leave
in
'Whees=
d re
l. ie
ved to
be g
oin
g.
Jo
ne
s a
gre
ed
tha
t the
20
pe
op
le w
ho
w
ante
d to
could
leave w
ith u
s. lie
even
said
he th
ought th
ey m
ight b
e "b
ette
r off" s
om
ew
here
els
e if th
ey n
o lo
nger
wante
d to
slay in
Jonesto
wn.
Su
dd
en
ly, th
ere
wa
s a
co
mm
otio
n in
th
e c
entra
l build
ing th
at s
erv
es a
s th
e
co
lon
y's
me
etin
g p
lace
— a
larg
e s
t tu
re w
ith a
tin ro
of a
nd p
acked d
irt floor.
A ch
ee
r ran
g th
rou
gh
the
crow
d.
• T
he
n, a
yo
un
g w
hite
ma
n m
ad
e a
di-
rect lu
ng
e a
t Rya
n w
ith a
kn
ife.
Th
e b
lad
e w
as a
t Rya
n's
thro
at w
he
n
Ma
rk L
an
e a
nd
Ch
arle
s G
arry
, Jo
ne
s'
atto
rneys a
nd lo
ng-tim
e s
upporte
rs,
gra
bb
ed
the
we
ap
on
. T
he
atta
cke
r wa
s c
ut b
efo
re h
e c
ou
ld
be
disa
rme
d.
And R
yan's
shirt w
as d
renched w
ith
the a
ttacke
r's blo
od.
Ryan ra
n to
the tru
ck a
t that p
oin
t and w
e lu
mbere
d o
ff thro
ugh th
e m
ud to
th
e a
irstrip
. S
ha
ke
n b
y w
ha
t he
tho
ug
ht
was h
is su
cce
ssfu
l na
rrow
esca
pe
, Rya
n to
ld u
s
as w
e re
ach
ed th
e a
irstrip, "1
would
n't b
e
aliv
e 'if it w
as n
ot fo
r Ma
rk L
an
a"
Rya
n live
d o
nly a
few
min
ute
s longer.
Afte
r the
vio
len
ce
of th
e a
ttack a
t the
airs
trip, w
e s
till had to
wait fo
r rescue.
It was g
ettin
g d
ark
, and th
ere
was n
o
chance
for a
rescu
e p
lane u
ntil m
orn
ing
. W
e sp
en
t the
nig
ht lis
ten
ing
to th
e
sto
ries th
e 1
2 fo
rmer re
sid
ents
of J
ones-
tow
n h
ad to
tell.
Th
ey c
orro
bo
rate
d e
ve
ry e
vil s
tory
about th
e p
lace
that w
e h
ad h
eard
.
They to
ld a
s h
ow
Jim
Jones h
ad le
d
the
en
tire co
lon
y into
ma
king
a m
an
iaca
l su
icide p
act w
ith h
im.
Th
ey ta
lke
d a
bo
ut s
torm
of w
ea
po
ns
in th
e a
o-ca
lled p
eace
ful ju
ngle
mia
slen.
And w
henever th
ere
was a
cris
is,
the
y re
ca
lled
. Jo
ne
s h
ad
asse
mb
led
the
w
hole
colo
ny in
to a
huge circu
lar a
ssesn
bly
and m
esm
eriz
ed th
em
into
a
gre
em
en
t. W
e u
nders
tood th
en w
hy th
ere
had
be
en
an
om
ino
us ch
ee
r from
the
Pe
op
le's
Tem
ple
resid
ents
at J
onesto
wn b
efo
re
the
yo
un
g k
nife
-wie
lde
r ch
arg
ed
a
t R
yan
. D
aybre
ak —
whic
h a
m n
ever e
xpect-
ed to
see, fin
ally ca
me.
At 8
:30
a.m
., the
first b
atc
h o
f Gu
ya
-nese tro
ops a
rrived a
t Pert K
ellu
m&
T
he
y h
ad
flow
n to
a la
nd
ing
field
at
Ma
the
ws R
idg
e a
bo
ut 3
0 m
iles a
wa
y, an
d
were
transporte
d b
y b
uck a
bout h
alfw
ay
from
the
ridg
e to
wh
ere
we
re w
aitin
g.
Then, to
ensure
them
selv
es a
gain
st
be
ing
am
bu
sh
ed
in e
xp
ose
d v
eh
icle
s,
the
y c
om
ple
ted
the
ir ma
rch
on
foo
t S
till more
troops a
rrived.
There
were
enough a
t last to
secure
th
e p
erim
ete
r of th
e P
ort K
aitu
ma
air-
strip
, It wa
s s
till fairly
ea
rly in
the
m
orn
ing
,. W
hile
80
so
lde
rs m
arc
he
d to
Jo
ne
s-
tow
n to
ma
ke
su
re n
o m
ore
ma
rau
de
rs
co
uld
'sw
ee
p o
ut fro
m th
e d
ea
dly
se
ttle-
me
nt re
scu
e flig
hts
arriv
ed
to ta
ke
ou
t th
e s
urv
ivors
. -
Fiv
e in
our g
rans w
ore
eatio
vny e
r se
vere
ly wo
un
de
d.
• T
im R
eite
rman, re
porte
r frow
n. T
he
Exam
iner, w
ith tw
o b
alle
t wounds in
his
le
ft arm
, and I w
ith m
y s
hould
er w
ound,
we
re a
mo
ng
the
kiCky o
ne
s.
retu
rne
d to
the
airs
trip.
An
d th
en, lik
e th
e o
the
r su
rviv
ors
, I re
turn
ed
to th
e c
ripp
led
pla
ne
. Leo R
yan w
as o
n h
is b
ack in
a b
lue
cord
suit, ly
ing in
the m
ud in
front o
f the
righ
t wh
ee
l of th
e a
ircra
ft. D
on
Ha
rris la
y a
lon
gsid
e th
e m
idd
le
Of th
e p
lan
e.
Bro
wn
wa
s a
t the ta
il of th
e I8
-pa
s-
senger O
tter.
Pattie
Park
er, o
ne o
f the p
eople
who
ha
d a
ske
d u
s to
he
lp h
er e
sca
pe
from
5
1. J
on
esto
wn
, wa
s ly
ing
at th
e fo
ot o
f the
p
lan
e's sta
irs. G
reg
Ro
bin
so
n, T
he
Sa
n F
ran
cis
co
E
xam
iner p
hoto
gra
pher a
t the s
cene,
was a
t the le
ft wheel.
There
were
four G
uyanese s
old
iers
at
the
far e
nd
of th
e fie
ld.
Th
ey to
ld u
s th
ey h
ad
no
t be
en
ab
le
to s
ho
ot a
t the
atta
cke
rs d
urin
g th
e a
s-
sault b
ecause th
ey w
ere
afra
id th
ey
Would
kill s
till more
people
. T
he
on
ly p
olic
em
an
at th
e fie
ld,
carryin
g a
single
-shell sh
otg
un, h
ad b
een
dis
arm
ed th
e m
om
ent th
e m
en fro
m th
e
People
's T
em
ple
began firin
g fro
m th
eir
truck a
nd tra
iler w
hile
we w
ere
gettin
g
rea
dy to
bo
ard
the
two
pla
ne
s; o
ur o
wn
cra
ft and th
e s
malle
r one th
at w
as s
et to
• c
arry
aw
ay th
e fu
gitiv
es fro
m
Jon
esto
wn
. A
s n
ea
rly a
s w
e c
ou
ld te
ll, ab
ou
t ha
lf. on
ly to
be
ca
ptu
red
by g
ua
rds fro
m
the
atta
cke
rs w
ere
wh
ite a
nd
ha
lf we
re J
on
esto
wn
an
d th
en
be
ate
n.
bla
ck. T
ho
se
of u
s w
ho
ha
d s
urv
ive
d
When w
e re
turn
ed th
e fo
llow
ing
' we
re s
till terrifie
d.
.
morn
ing to
Jonesto
wn, w
e w
ere
not s
m.
We to
ok o
ur m
ost s
erio
usly
wounded P
rised to
see Jim
Jones' c
are
fully
sta
ge-
to th
e s
old
iers
' ten
t an
d th
en
we
retire
d m
an
ag
ed
pro
du
ctio
n s
tart to
cra
ck.
into
Port K
aitu
ma, th
e s
ettle
ment n
ext
Ed
ith P
ark
er, o
ne
of th
e 1
20
0 fo
llow
-
to th
e a
irstrip
an
d w
en
t Into
a s
ma
ll ca
fe e
ms tra
pp
ed
in J
on
esto
wn
, ap
pro
ach
ed
ca
lled
a ru
m h
ou
se.
Rep. R
yan a
nd s
aid
she w
ante
d to
leave
The lo
cal G
uyanese k
new
they w
ere
with
him
. ris
kin
gth
eir o
wn
sa
fety
by le
tting
us
The lis
t gre
w.
sta
y, b
ut th
ey w
ere
extre
me
ly k
ind
to • A
bo
ut a
n h
ou
r be
fore
it ,va
s tim
e fo
r u
s. a
s to
lea
ve
Jo
ne
sto
wn
, nin
e p
eo
ple
sa
id
We
sto
od w
atc
hes d
urin
g th
e s
torm
y th
ey w
ante
d to
go
nig
ht —
takin
g tu
rns s
tandin
g g
uard
in
Th
ee
12
. p
airs
ou
tsid
e th
e p
olic
e h
ut w
he
re o
ur
Fin
ally
, ab
ou
t 20
go
t up
the
ir co
ura
ge
. wounded w
ere
lyin
g.
to d
efy Jo
ne
s. T
he h
eavy tro
pic
al s
torm
made
There
were
toom
any o
f us fo
r one
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issin
g in
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ult M
as
s S
uic
ide
, Mu
rde
rs
Sta
rts on P
ag
e O
ne
were
kille
d.
He
r hom
e a
ddre
ss w
as n
ot
know
n.
A W
hite
Ho
use
sta
tem
en
t sa
id P
resi-
de
nt C
arte
r wa
s s
ad
de
ne
d b
y R
ya
n's
d
ea
th. "II w
as h
is d
rive
to g
et in
form
a-
tion
at firs
t ha
nd
tha
t led
to h
is tra
gic
d
ea
th," th
e sta
tem
en
t said
. Law
yers
Lane a
nd C
harle
s G
arry
ca
me
to G
uya
na
with
Rya
n to
act a
s
counsel fo
r Jones. L
ane, w
ho h
ad b
een
reporte
d m
issin
g fo
r hours
, was n
ot
harm
ed a
nd w
as in
Georg
eto
wn, a
ccord
-in
g to
his sta
ff me
mb
ers in
Me
mp
his.
There
was n
o w
ord
on th
e
where
-abouts
of G
arry
, who s
urv
ivors
said
re-
ma
ine
d b
eh
ind
at J
on
esto
wn
to try
to
ne
go
tiate
the
rele
ase
of a
no
the
r settle
r. • O
ne s
urv
ivor, N
BC
field
pro
ducer
Robert F
lick, s
aid
the k
illers
fired 5
0 to
75 s
hots
at R
yan's
gro
up a
s th
e p
lanes
we
re b
ein
g lo
ad
ed
. -
"People
were
bein
g w
ounded a
nd fa
ll-in
g to
the g
round.
As
the
y fe
ll, pe
op
le
with
shotg
uns w
ould
walk
over a
nd a
t poin
t-bla
nk ra
nge s
hoot th
e v
ictim
in th
e
head," F
lick s
aid
in a
n a
ccount b
roadcast
by N
BC
. "That w
as h
ow
Ryan a
nd H
arris
d
ied
." A
ccord
ing
to F
lick, th
ere
were
eig
ht
to 1
2 g
un
me
n, b
oth
bla
ck an
d w
hite
. S
urv
ivors
fled in
to ju
ngle
while
they
sta
yed u
ntil n
ightfa
ll. T
he g
overn
ment fle
w tro
ops to
Port
Kaitu
ma y
este
rday, a
nd F
lick s
aid
they
arre
sted n
ine su
spects. A
Guya
nese
go •
em
ment s
pokesm
an in
New
York
, Jack
Ge
lina
s, s
aid
on
e o
f tho
se
arre
ste
d w
as
an A
meric
an n
am
ed L
arry
John L
ayto
n.
His h
om
e a
dd
ress w
as n
ot re
vea
led
. P
olic
e a
nd
so
ldie
rs a
rrive
d a
t Po
rt K
aitu
ma
at d
ayb
rea
k a
nd
a G
uya
ne
se
m
ilitary
pla
ne fe
rried th
e s
urv
ivors
back
to G
eo
rge
tow
n. A
U.S
. Air F
orc
e C
I41
to
ok th
em
to P
ue
rto R
ico
an
d to
An
-dre
ws A
ir Force
Base
in W
ash
ingto
n.
The b
odie
s re
main
ed a
t Port K
aitu
ma.
Sta
te D
epartm
ent s
pokesm
an T
om
Res-
ton s
aid
the
y w
ere
to b
e b
rou
gh
t to
Georg
eto
wn w
here
auto
psie
s w
ould
be
perfo
rmed to
com
ply
with
Guyanese la
w
in ca
ses in
volvin
g h
om
icide.
'Th
e w
ou
nd
ed
ho
sp
italiz
ed
at th
e
Ro
ose
ve
lt Ro
ad
s N
ava
l Ba
se
in P
ue
rto
Ric
o w
ere
An
tho
ny K
ats
aris
, of P
otte
r V
alle
y. C
alif., w
ounded in
the c
hest; B
en
Gozn
ey, w
ho
wa
s fle
ein
g fro
m J
one
s-
tow
n a
nd
wa
s w
ou
nd
ed
in th
e a
bd
om
en
, and B
everly
Oliv
er o
f San F
rancis
co,
who h
ad tw
o s
ons in
Jonesto
wn a
nd w
as
wounded in
both
leg
s.
A N
avy s
po
ke
sm
an
sa
id M
rs. O
live
r's
husband, H
ow
ard
, 'suffe
red a
stro
ke in
G
eorg
eto
wn a
nd w
as h
ospita
lized w
ith
his
wife
. F
ive o
f the s
urv
ivors
were
hospita
l-ic
ed
at A
nd
rew
s. T
he
y w
ere
Ja
ckie
S
peie
r, on
e o
f Rya
n's a
ide
s, who w
as list-
ed in
serio
us c
on
ditio
n w
ith "e
xte
nsiv
e
gunshot w
ounds"; S
an F
rancis
co C
hro
ni-
cle
rep
orte
r Ro
n J
ave
rs a
nd
NB
C so
und-
ma
n S
teve
Su
ng
, with
sh
ou
lde
r wo
un
ds;
Sa
n F
ran
cis
co
Exa
min
er re
po
rter T
im
Reite
rman, w
ounded in
the fo
rearm
, and
Caro
lyn B
oyd. w
ho w
as b
ein
g tre
ate
d fo
r sh
ock a
nd
em
otio
na
l stress.
Ric
hard
Dw
yer, d
eputy
chie
f of th
e
U.S
, Em
bassy in
Georg
eto
wn, w
as
slig
htly
inju
red, a
nd in
was W
ashin
gto
n
Po
st rep
orte
r Ch
arle
s Kra
use
. Jo
ne
s, w
ho
is m
arrie
d a
nd
ha
s s
eve
n
child
ren, w
as b
orn
in In
dia
na, th
e s
on o
f a p
oor, in
terra
cial co
uple
. At o
ne tim
e, h
e
co
uld
list a
mo
ng
his
frien
ds G
ov. E
d-
mund 0
. Bro
wn J
r., Los A
ngele
s M
ayor
Tom
Bra
dle
y a
nd S
an F
rancis
co M
ayor
Georg
e M
oscone, w
ho a
ppoin
ted J
ones
ch
airm
an
of th
e c
ity H
ou
sin
g A
uth
ority
afte
r the P
eople
's Tem
ple
help
ed h
int w
in
the m
ayo
ral e
lectio
n in
1975.
But J
ones' s
tar fa
ded a
fter a
serie
s o
f alle
gatio
ns b
y fo
rmer m
em
bers
. They
com
pla
ined th
at h
is m
eth
ods o
f contro
l in
clu
ded b
eatin
gs a
nd e
xhaustin
g w
ork
schedule
s, a
nd a
ccused h
im o
f exto
rting
huge s
um
s o
f money a
nd is
suin
g d
eath
th
rea
ts to
an
yo
ne
wh
o s
traye
d fro
m th
e
chh
rch o
r discre
dite
d it.
The rig
id d
isciplin
e w
as d
esig
ned, fo
r. m
er m
em
bers
sai, to
toughen m
em
bers
so
they co
uld
survive
a n
ucle
ar h
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% ".roill'ei says father 'obsessed' it GEORGETOWN, Guiana (AP) — The eon of fanatical cult leader Jim Jones 'aid Tuesday his father was a sick man, is "man obsessed ... a very frightened pan," but he was worshipped by women rand held enormous sway over his :devoted disciples. 7
Stephan Jones, 19, said he and his Pmother recently had tried to keep his 46- 5,ear-old father out of the sect's decision-:making process, but he admitted they
ailed. On Jones' orders, more than 400
residents of the jungle camp of the Peo-ple's Temple sect committed suicide
*Saturday. Jim Jones and his wife were :among the dead. I" "We all here and in the ,States are *shocked," the younger Jones told reporters. "We can't understand it
cause it is not our way of life and never has been." * "My entire life I've lived to better the ?Ives of people and not to destroy them."
The 8-foot-4 Stephan, who came here from Jonestown three weeks ago as coach of the camp's basketball team, said his major concern now is the well-being of the survivors, including 500 or so■ camp residents who fled into the jungle during the mass suicide.
"The utmost in all our minds is the safety of those unaccounted for and the safety of the people here," he said. "I want to do, all I can to see everybody gets a chance to fad someplace to settle down and start over again, if that is at all possible."
But he said it seems impossible to con-tinue the settlement at Jonestown, 150 miles northwest of here.
A survivor of ritual said armed men stood in a ring around the Peoples Temple settlers gathered by Jim Jones for the mass suicide. The cultists drank cups of fruit drink laced with cyanide, and the witness said at least one woman
balked but was shouted into submission by fellow sect members.
Had he been in Jonestown, Stephan said, he might have been able to talk his father out of ordering mass suicide. If this failed, he said, he would have stood up and discredited and denounced his father to try to convince people he was wrong.
The young Jones praised the communal life of the camp, but he said it was flawed by a growing paranoia and the egotism of his father. ,
feel Jim Jones was a man obsessed with his own ego and power. There were women up there who worshipped him," he said.
Asked how he thinks history will view his father, the younger Jones said: "I don't care. I just hope it doesn't discredit what I have done. I can almost say I hate this man for, what he has done. He has destroyed everythng I've lived for."
FBI confirms cult probe, SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The FBI
confirmed on Tuesday that its agents were investigating rumors that Peoples Temple members had plans to kidnap or assassinate highranking U.S. officials to avenge any harm which might come, to the cult's leader, the Rev. Jim Jones.
"There are the rumors, and some death threats have been made, but we don't know whether the threats are from cranks or got," said FBI agent Robert Fuller.
One death threat was reported against the son of an aide to Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif. Ryan was killed in an ambush in Guyana near the San Franciscobased cult's settlement:..
Jones' body was found Monday at the settlement, along with the remains of more than 400 temple members, the vic-tims of a masa suicide.
The deaths of Jones and his followers came after the ambush Saturday at a landing strip near the settlement left Ryan, three newsmen and a temple member dead.
Ryan's group was preparing to leave after a fact-finding visit to the Jonestown commune when fanatic followers of Jones opened fire on the delegation. -
The FBI said it has known of the con-tingency plan for some time, but has received new information from defec-tors over the past few days.
Fuller said the information came from current and former 'temple members and that the plan called for retaliation in the- event Jones was ar- rested or harmed. . •
One death threat was reported to have been against Will Holsinger, son of Ryan's administrative aide, Joe Holsinger.
The younger Holsinger had been employed by Ryan the past two months to investigate the Peoples Temple in San Francisco.
A few hours after the first radio reports of the shootings at the landing strip, the wife of the younger Holsinger received a telephone call saying "Your husband's Meal ticket, had his head blown off and he (Will) might be next."
Police were notified and the family ' moved to another San Mateo residence which is being guarded by police.
_Cult doctor's fate unknown HOUSTON (AP) — The camp doctor
who reportedly brewed and ad- •I ministered the poison that killed more
than 400 people in Guyana had written to his family of "the satisfaction of
J 0 assisting poor people, many of whom have never seen a doctor in their lives."
Dr. Larry Schacht, 30, was a physician in Jonestown, Guyana, serv-ing the members of the Peoples Temple.
Odell Rhodes, a teacher, at the South American colony who escaped the mass suicide, said Schacht prepared the cyanide potion and helped nurses ladle it out, starting by spooning or squirting it into the mouths of infants. Rhodes, said adults then lined up and received the poison drink in paper cups. ,
0 , The bodies of more than 400 persons were found in and around the Jonestown meeting hall, including that of the the Rev. Jim Jones, founder of the sect. The suicides occurred shortly after a U.S. congressman and four others were am-
fi bushed and killed at the settlement. The doctor's fate was unknown, His
O brother, Danny Schacht, said 'Tuesday, r "We really don't know what happened. 1.0 We'll just have to wait and see." ; Earlier, Schacht had said he was certain
his brother would not commit suicide. - His father, Ezra Schacht, told the
; Beaumont. Journal In a copyright story: "I'm just drained here. I can't believe
-0. something as productive as this (his ; son's work) was smashed." ' tp Larry Schacht's letters W his family
I
made /,''no -mention of rumors that members of the settlement were being
A held against their will. He wrote that the Pgoples Temple
"proclaims the true brotherhood and liberation of the blacks. The pastor has
t told the congregation that the Bible is used to keep them in slavery. Actually,
it the pastor is a prophet and stands for s r and is fighting for the true liberation of 1 t
l' all mankind and to make this a better
o world." ' ' ''' The family said Larry Schacht joined
the Peoples Temple in California; at-; tended a junior college and then medical t.school in Mexico: He went to Guyana
about two years ago. ' ga Danny Schacht said that before join- to ing the group, his brother "was
i somewhat aimless. These people turned ,01t. him around and gave him a sense of
self-fulfillment."
Camp doctor, nurses brewed deadly brew
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A survivor of the mass suicide at the Jonestown religious settlement said the camp doctor and his two nurses brewed the deadly purple drink of cyanide and Kool-Aid in a large stainless steel vat and then administered it to the babies first.
Dr. Lawrence Schacht, 30, of Houston, Tex., and his two nurses squirted the fruity-flavored potion into the mouths of squirming babies before ladling it into paper cups for hundreds of adult members of- the Rev. Jim Jones' Peo-ple's Temple Saturday at their isolated jungle colony in northwest Guyana, said Odell Rhodes, a 36-year-old teacher.
Rhodes said he escaped when Schacht asked for a stethoscope and he volunteered to get it. Instead of return-ing, he fled into the jungle, he said.
Two other aged survivors were found in the camp, and 12 others who fled came out of the jungle. The police count of bodies in the camp reached 409 by Monday night, and Guyanese troops were sear—aing the jungle for hundreds of others believed to have fled when Jones summoned them to die.
Rhodes said he saw mothers give the poison to their children before taking it themselves.
"It just got all out of order," he reported. "Babies were screaming, children were screaming, and there was mass confusion."
Armed guards turned back persons who tried to leave the ritual.
Those who drank went into convulsions, their eyes rolled upward and they gasped for breath before fall-ing dead.
Jones, clad in black pants and a color-ful casual shirt, was found on his back on the pavilion stage. He apparently shot himself in the right temple. The body of his wife was nearby. -
Bodies carpeted the open-air pavilion, and the yard around it was solid with them. Many of the victims clutched each other.
"From the air it literally looked like a garbage dump where somebody dumped a lot of rag dolls," said Charles Krause of the Washington Post, who visited Jonestown as a representative of the foreign press.
Another survivor, Grover Davis, 79, said he realized what was coming when
Jones announced by loudspeaker: "The place." He said he slipped off and hid in time has come for us to meet in another a hole at the edge of a clearing.
Death vat The vat of death sits on a sidewalk on the compound of Peo-ple's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, Monday, with bodies of followers around after Saturday's mass suicide. The vat con-tained an ads drink laced with deadly cyanide. (AP Laser-photol
THE POST, Frederick, Md., Wednesday, November 22, 1978 — Page A-15
Today's topic
Why did they die? NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of
members of a religious cult formed an orderly line, then took their lives with a draught of poison. Shocking, yes. And bizarre. But not, say the experts, surprising.
Challenged from without, shaken by defections within, the Rev. Jim Jones's People's Temple swelled with uncer-tainty, then "imploded," experts believe. Nearly 400 cultists took their own lives in the isolated jungle of Guyana, a tiny South American republic.
Some reportedly were shot, but Guyanese authorities said most ap-parently died of poison. An estimated 700 others were believed to have fled in-to the jungle. The suicides — including Jones, his wife and son — died just hours after the sect ambushed and killed five Americans, including U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of California.
Mind-befogging though the mass suicide appears, scholars on suicide and cults such as the People's Temple say they saw it coming. It was only a ques-tion, they say, of who and when.
"Nobody has believed we silly people who said it is possible to control people to this degree. But It has happened," said Boston psychiatrist John Clark, who lias studied these cults for five years.
"This is not surprising," said Rabbi James. Rudin, an Official of the. American Jewish Committee who has written extensively on cults. "It's not surprising when you consider the totalitarian atmosphere in which most cults operate."
"Our war, our side — it's a madness of many," said Dr. Edwin Shneidman of the University of California, the nation's only professor of thanatology — a discipline named for Thanatos, the Greek god of death.
These men say that strong, even totalitarian, leaders like Jones leave no room for their adherents to dissent. Often, says• Clark, it is this uniformity of thought and belief that attracts follopers:
"People who go into cults are in a state of mind that does'not allow inside information to enter. They feel safe, cozy. They can talk their own language to each other. It's reinforced by their op-position to all outside reality — an 'us and they' mentality."
Clark believes Congressman Ryan cracked this wall of uniformity when he visited the People's Temple commune Saturday to investigate alleged abuse of sect members: several members chose to leave with him. These events, Clark says, "tore apart the cult's sense of certainty."
"I think the thing imploded," he said. • "You have to understand that there is no room for ambiguity in groups like this. When ambiguity occurred, when something went wrong, they all panick-ed and the cult destroyed itself."
The ambush and killings followed. Within hours, according to witnesses, cult members lined up fOr a-draught of poison reportedly brewed in a large vat.
Mark Lane, a lawyer representing the cult, was at the camp just before the deaths. He said the members discussed suicide before he fled, fearing for his own life. He said two cult members told him: "We are all going to die now."
"They were smiling ... they looked ge-nuinely happy," Lane said.
A California • psychologist, who ac-companied Ryan to Guyana to try to get his daughter out of Jonestown, said members of the group rehearsed mass suicide and signed undated suicide notes before they left California for Guyana.
One can only speculate about Jones' motives. There were reports he was seriously ill. He was apparently fascinated by suicide and once led a demonstration calling for a "suicide barrier" on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. But a more compelling question is why his followers were will-ing to Join him in death.
Mass suicide scene This view shows the area of PeoPle's Temple at Jonestown, Guyana, where cultists commit-ted mass suicide Saturday. Authorities said some poisoned themselves and others used guns. (AP Laserphoto)
. . Bodies of People's Temple followaW fill the meeting hall of the cult's setNlement in Jonestown, Guyana, Monday. More than 400 of the faithful memberi of the amtrovetvial religious sect killed themselves Saturday following the slaying of U.S. Rep. lAro Ryan, D-ull., and his party in an ambush at a remote airstrip in Port &dame. 4.4P 1Laseephoto)