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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 ...
Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...
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 ...
The site of the Jonestown cult massacre, where more than 900 people died, has opened to tourists in the latest dark tourism ...
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.
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.
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… ...
Featured in the new doc, 'Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown,' the Democratic politician warns: ... where you are sworn in to Congress, taking over for Leo Ryan’s district.
A new three-part docuseries from Hulu, ‘Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown,’ helps to debunk the biggest myths about what was once considered a “mass suicide.” ...
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.