Speier went on to become a member of the California Senate and in 2008 won a special election, making her a Democratic congresswoman for the state’s 14th District, serving much of the same ...

Jackie Speier had a premonition in the days leading up to an impending fact-finding mission to Jonestown, a remote jungle settlement in Guyana founded by Rev. Jim Jones and his followers in the ...

“It's hard to believe that that actually happened,” says Jackie Speier, survivor and subject of “Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown.” ...

Private tourism group offering (controversial) guided tours of site of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Guyana after decades of abandonment ...

Nearly 50 years after the massacre at Jonestown, the South American country of Guyana is considering opening up the site for tourism. Former Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier, who was shot five ...

Former Peninsula Congresswoman Jackie Speier will provide exclusive political analysis on ABC7 News beginning with State of the Union Tuesday.

Jackie Speier on surviving the Jonestown massacre In 1978 the Calif. Congresswoman, then a congressional attorney, was nearly killed in a savage attack while on a fact-finding mission into Jim ...

Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA), Jonestown survivor, women’s rights advocate, and member of the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees will retire at the end of the 117th Congress. In an ...

In 1978, as a congressional aide, Speier was part of a delegation that traveled to South America to investigate the Jonestown cult and its murderous leader, Jim Jones.

Rep. Speier also touched on her experience as a staffer for the late Representative Leo Ryan (D-CA) when in 1978 they were ambushed in Jonestown, Guyana, and she was shot five times.

Ryan’s then 28-year-old aide, Jackie Speier, was very nearly a casualty, having been shot five times. Miraculously, she survived. Speier went on to become a member of the California Senate and in 2008 ...

“It's hard to believe that that actually happened,” says Jackie Speier, survivor and subject of “Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown.” ...