Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...

Arrival at Jonestown. The group of journalists and Congressman Leo Ryan arrived late on November 17, 1978. The Jonestown Institute The Ryan delegation arrives at the Port Kaituma airstrip in ...

The Guyanese site of the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people either died by mass suicide or murder in connection with ...

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.

Both American survivors of the mass suicide and murder and Guyanese have criticized the tour. But defenders say the site ...

Speier's boss, California Congressman Leo Ryan, wanted to investigate reports of abuse in Jonestown, where some of his San Francisco-area constituents were living.

As a footnote, Speier, then a 28-year-old legal aide to California Congressman Leo Ryan, ... including Ryan. That same day, more than 900 Jonestown citizens died at the urgency of Jones.

On Nov. 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, committed mass suicide at Jonestown, their Guyana-based settlement. Additional victims, including the late Calif… ...

Outgoing Rep. Jackie Speier on surviving Jonestown, Congressional legacy 05:23. After spending over a decade in Congress, Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, will be retiring.

According to the FBI, California congressman Leo Ryan had heard disturbing rumors swirling around Jonestown — beatings, forced labor, suspicious deaths, and mass suicide rehearsals — so he and a ...