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Outgoing Rep. Jackie Speier on surviving Jonestown, Congressional legacy After spending over a decade in Congress, Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, will be retiring.
“It's hard to believe that that actually happened,” says Jackie Speier, survivor and subject of “Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown.” ...
Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Jonestown Survivor: Trump Has “All the Trappings” of Being the Next Jim Jones Featured in the new doc, 'Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown,' the Democratic ...
Survivor Jackie Speier Had a Premonition About Jonestown. Then a Real-Life Nightmare Unfolded (Exclusive) Jackie Speier was shot five times by gunman sent by the Rev. Jim Jones ...
At a rally in scorching Las Vegas on June 9, Donald Trump pointed out one of his followers in the crowd — a particularly fervent Trump fan nicknamed “Front-Row Joe” who’d attended over 200 ...
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 ...
The Guyanese site of the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people either died by mass suicide or murder in connection with the Jim Jones-led cult in 1978, has opened for tourism. After decades of ...
“It's hard to believe that that actually happened,” says Jackie Speier, survivor and subject of “Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown.” ...
Former Rep. Jackie Speier, who represented San Mateo County and San Francisco from 2008 to 2021, posted on Twitter about her diagnosis on Thursday.
Rep. Leo J. Ryan (right) sits with consultant James Schollart and aide Jackie Speier in a plane headed to Jonestown, Guyana, on a fact-finding mission to investigate alleged human rights by Jim Jones.
She survived a shooting, a miscarriage, and unfathomable loss—channeling it all into public service. Now, after 15 years in Congress, Rep. Jackie Speier is moving on.
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 ...