Mass Suicide, Murder Sweep Sect Cam

Issue No. 29,503 — 523-3131 Knoxville, Tenn. 37901, Monday Evening, November 20, 1978 82 Pages, Four sections , Mass Suicide, Murder Sweep Sect Cam.. nem Press Demand," GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A Guya- na government official said today the band of American religious fanatics who massacred Rep. Leo J. Ryan of California and four other Americans in his party had begun a wave of mass suicide and murder that left 400 persons dead and 600 missing. Guyana Minister of Information Shir- ley Field-Ridley said Guyanese troops today captured the headquarters of the People's Temple in the jungle city of Jonestown and Mend that some of the victims apparently were murdered. • Mrs. Field-Ridley told a news confer- ence that some of the victims "showed signs of violence, including presumed gunshot wounds, which were not consist- ent with suicide." She said some of the victims showed no signs of violence and were presumed to have been poison victims. She said a man who fled from the religious community headed by a Califor- nian, Rev. Jim Jones, reached a polMe station in the jangled interior of Guyana and reported that leaders of the sect were preparing for a mass suicide by poisoning. Jones, 46, variously called himself the "prophet of God" and "father" and preached a flamboyant mixture of old- time faith healing, racial integration and socialism. Mrs. Field-Ridley said, "Some of the Americans Slaughtered on Airstrip bodies were found in homes, some were found in clearings in the forests, but no Bodies lie on a Guyana airstrip by the plane which members of the People's Temple. (UPI (c) 1978 San live persons were found . . The troops was to carry them back to Georgetown. Rep. Leo Francisco Examiner) are searching for them." Ryan and four other Americans were massacred lay Mrs. Field-Ridley said troops had been unable to locate Jones, a former San Francisco Housing Authority director. Mrs Kathy Hunter, a free-lance Lane Warned writer from Ukiah, Calif., who a familiar with the People's Temple sect, said a scale abuses of members of the religious Guyanese parliament member had told Temple opened Cure with automatic group. . weapons and shotguns as Ryan and his Rep. Ryan of her in a telephone conversation that The US. Representative, 53, was kill- Jones had committed suicide. party were boarding planes -at the Part ed by a shotgun blast as he attempted to Kaitimm airstrip, eight miles south of A California psychologist who accom- take several disenchanted members of panied Ryan to Guyana to try to get his Jonestown and ISO miles northwest of 'Persecution' the sect back to Georgetown by plane. Georgetown. daughter out of Jonestown said members A knife-wielding assailant had at- • By CLARK REID of the group rehearsed mass suicide and tempted to stab Ryan earlier while the In San Francisco, a People's Temple news...eel ...ea. Gorges...I signed undated suicide notes before they Representative was visiting Jonestown. spokesman who identified himself as WASHINGTON — Memphis lawyer left California. Two members of Ryan's group, including Archie James denied that members Of Mark Lane warned U.S. Rep. Leo J. "They will all be dead tomorrow," lawyer Mark Lane, disarmed the attack- the sect did the airport killings. Ryan (1)-Calif.) that "further persecu- said Stephen Katzaris, whose sun Antho- er, and Ryan was nut injured. lion" of an exiled religious group calling ny. 23, was critically wounded in the The dead included three newsmen Ryan, reporter Don Harris, 42,• and itself "The People's Temple" could result Saturday night attack in which Ryan, a and one of the settlement's defectors. cameraman Robert Brown, 36, both of in a "most embarrassing situation" for California Democrat, was killed. Ten persons were wounded, three seri- NBC News and both Los Angeles residents; Gregory Robinson, 27, a photogra- the United States. Ryan, accompanied by aides, report- ously, and the husband of one of the • Ryan and four other Americans were ers, and relatives of some sect members, wounded had a stroke. The US. Embas- pher for The San Francisco Examiner, ' killed Saturday as they prepared to leave came to this former British colony on the sy said they were all Americans. and Patricia Parks or Parker, IA who was trying to escape from Jonestown, Jonestown, Guyana, after touring the UPI pa,. W Goa Ream. UPI ',anneal northeastern shoulder of South America Survivors of the attack said a band of People's Temple compound near th8te. Rep. Leo Ryan' Jim Jones last week to investigate reports of large= black and white members of the People's See 40e,p.FAD, Page A4 The California Representative ■ had fact. flown to Guyana on a congressional -Jr _ I I _t • A I• I • I EIJI '•- P ion flown to Guyana on a congressional tact• finding mission to determine whether any American .citizens were. being held Eyewitness Tells of Massacre, Nightmarish Watt tor Kescue against their will by the leader of the religious faction, former San Francisco They told as how Jim Jones had led The %Roaring eyewitness account 0 I crawled behind the right wheel of truckload. The reporters and cameramen the entire colony into making a maniacal politician Jim Jones. the killings In Gnyans was written by the plane. were told we would go out in the first suicide pact with him. Lane, who represents Jones, had San Premise. Chronicle reporter Ron Bob Brown stayed on his feet and batch, but Rep. Ryan would wait to leave They talked about storm of weapons accompanied Ryan's party en the tour. lavers, who was wounded Saturday In kept filming what was happening, even in 'W in the ao-called peaceful jungle miaslen. One news report indicated Lane also had the gunfire that killed Rep. Leo Ryan as the attackers advanced on him with hees=drel. ieved to be going. And whenever there was a crisis, been killed when the group was attacked and form others on a remote airstrip In their guns. Jones agreed that the 20 people who they recalled. Jones had assembled the by gunmen. State Department officials, Gamma. inners, who was en route to He was incredibly tenacious. wanted to could leave with us. lie even whole colony into a huge circular assesn however, indicate Lane escaped. Washington with the other woonded, While I was trying to decide whether said he thought they might be "better Lane's warning to Ryan was made in bly and mesmerized them into dictated the story to his city desk to stay where I was or risk the 100-yard- off" somewhere else if they no longer a letter dated Nov. 6,1978, and was wanted to slay in Jonestown. agreement. THE EDITOR. dash across the close-cropped gross field released today by Ryan's administrative to the jungle, I now Brown go down. Suddenly, there was a commotion in We understood then why there had By RON JAYERS been an ominous cheer from the People's assistant, Joe Holsinger. to sea Frew:Ks Chroalde Then I saw one of the attackers stick the central building that serves as the Temple residents at Jonestown before In that letter Lane charged that SAN JUAN, Puerto Rice (AP) - a shotgun right into Brown's face, inches colony's meeting place — a large st the young knife-wielder charged at "various agencies of the US. Govern- Jonestown is every evil thing that away, if that (Then the attacker shot ture with a tin roof and packed dirt floor. Ryan. ment have somewhat consistently op- everybody thought — and worse. him.) A cheer rang through the crowd. Daybreak — which am never expect- pressed the People's Temple Institution." We knew that before the shooting I'll never forget that sight as long as • Then, a young white man made a di- "Some of the members of the People's rect lunge at Ryan with a knife. ed to see, finally came. Started. At 8:30 a.m., the first batch of Guya- Temple have had to flee from the U.S.in The slaughter began at 4:20 p.M. I ran, and then I dived head-first into The blade was at Ryan's throat when nese troops arrived at Pert Kellum& order to experience a fuller opportunity Saturday (Guyana time) while we were the brush. Mark Lane and Charles Garry, Jones' They had flown to a landing field at to enjoy rights which were not available standing beside the twin-engine airplane I got up and sc-rambled as far into the attorneys and long-time supporters, to them within the U.S.," wrote Lane. Mathews Ridge about 30 miles away, and that had brought us to Pert Kailuma, swamp as I could. I was about 150 yards grabbed the weapon. were transported by buck about halfway The attorney implied that the alleged seven miles outside Jonestown, on from the airstrip and up to my waist in The attacker was cut before he could from the ridge to where were waiting. persecution was continuing in Guyana Friday and that had returned to pick as water. be disarmed. Then, to ensure themselves against and that the 1200-member cult had been I pushed through the rain forest, OPISshalsas And Ryan's shirt was drenched with 0P. being ambushed in exposed vehicles, "offered refuge" in two other countries. 1 was waiting between Bob Brown walking parallel to the runway, trying to the attacker's blood. Ron Javers they completed their march on foot Lane told Ryan that Jones and his and Don Harris, the two NBC men who figure out what had happened. Ryan ran to the truck at that point faction had not accepted the toe other Still more troops arrived. were killed. We had become close friends I couldn't see much. I had lost both 'I Was One of the Lucky Ones' and we lumbered off through the mud to offers, but "it is their position that if reli- There were enough at last to secure during the course of our ordeal. pairs of glasses had with me. the airstrip. movement difficult and uncomfortable - was his the perimeter of the Port Kaituma air- gious persecution continues and if it is The firing erupted front guns close by. But there was silence. Apparently the Shaken by what he thought strip, It was still fairly early in the furthered through a witch hunt conduct- I was hit first. I was knocked to the party of attackers which must have in- not only for us but those who had chosen successful narrow escape, Ryan told us ed by any branch of the U.S. Govern- us as their quarry. morning,. ground by a slug in the left shoulder, cluded four, five or six men with gum, as we reached the airstrip, "1 wouldn't be The rain may have saved our lives. While 80 solders marched to Jones- See LETTER, Page A-2 apparently from a 38-caliber weapon. had fled. alive 'if it was not for Mark Lana" was far chswn the field by the time I Every time we heard a noise, espe- Ryan lived only a few minutes longer. town to make sure no more marauders returned to the airstrip. cially whenever we heard a truck along After the violence of the attack at the could 'sweep out from the deadly settle- And then, like the other survivors, I the Port Kaituma road, we thought we airstrip, we still had to wait for rescue. ment rescue flights arrived to takeout - returned to the crippled plane. would be attacked again. It was getting dark, and there was no the survivors. Leo Ryan was on his back in a blue Of course, none of us had any chance for a rescue plane until morning. Five in our grans wore eatiovny er • cord suit, lying in the mud in front of the weapons. We spent the night listening to the severely wounded. Tim Reiterman, reporter frown. The • right wheel of the aircraft. • And time moved slowly, infinitely stories the 12 former residents of Jones- Don Harris lay alongside the middle slowly. town had to tell. Examiner, with two ballet wounds in his Of the plane. When we first reached Jonestown, on They corroborated every evil story left arm, and I with my shoulder wound, Brown was at the tail of the I8-pas- Friday night, the atmosphere was lively about the place that we had heard. were among the kiCky ones. senger Otter. and cordial. We found ourselves getting a Pattie Parker, one of the people who real Cook's Tour, with everything ar- had asked us to help her escape from ranged for us. There was great rock 51. Jonestown, was lying at the foot of the music from the Jonestown band and plane's stairs. entertainment during dinner. Greg Robinson, The San Francisco And while we tried, mainly at first, to Examiner photographer at the scene, get away from the organized fun, we was at the left wheel. were told how happy everyone was. There were four Guyanese soldiers at But before we left for an evening's the far end of the field. drive through foot-deep mud to Port They told us they had not been able Kaituma, a young man slipped Don Ha, to shoot at the attackers during the as- ris of NBC a message written on a child's sault because they were afraid they slate. saying, 'Please help me get out of Would kill still more people. Jonestown.' The only policeman at the field, It had four signatures. carrying a single-shell shotgun, had been Rack in Port Kaituma, where the en- disarmed the moment the men from the tire group of us spent Friday night in a People's Temple began firing from their tin-roofed disco — a small beer parlor truck and trailer while we were getting with a phonograph and a few records — ready to board the two planes; our own local Guyanese began telling us horror craft and the smaller one that was set to stories. • carry away the fugitives from They told as about one man who had Jonestown. escaped from the colony last summer, As nearly as we could tell, about half. only to be captured by guards from the attackers were white and half were Jonestown and then beaten. black. Those of us who had survived When we returned the following ' were still terrified. . morning to Jonestown, we were not sm. We took our most seriously wounded Prised to see Jim Jones' carefully stage- to the soldiers' tent and then we retired managed production start to crack. into Port Kaituma, the settlement next Edith Parker, one of the 1200 follow- to the airstrip and went Into a small cafe ems trapped in Jonestown, approached called a rum house. Rep. Ryan and said she wanted to leave The local Guyanese knew they were with him. riskingtheir own safety by letting us The list grew. stay, but they were extremely kind to • About an hour before it ,vas time for us. as to leave Jonestown, nine people said We stood watches during the stormy they wanted to go night — taking turns standing guard in Thee 12. pairs outside the police hut where our Finally, about 20 got up their courage . wounded were lying. to defy Jones. The heavy tropical storm made There were toomany of us for one

shock and emotional stress. stress. emotional and shock

Reiterman, wounded in the forearm, and and forearm, the in wounded Reiterman,

cle reporter Ron Javers Javers Ron reporter cle

Carolyn Boyd. who was being treated for for treated being was who Boyd. Carolyn

man Steve Sung, with shoulder wounds; wounds; shoulder with Sung, Steve man

gunshot wounds"; San Francisco Chroni- Francisco San wounds"; gunshot

San Francisco Examiner reporter Tim Tim reporter Examiner Francisco San

ed in serious condition with "extensive "extensive with condition serious in ed Speier, one of Ryan's aides, who was list- was who aides, Ryan's of one Speier,

his his

husband, Howard, 'suffered a stroke in in stroke a 'suffered Howard, husband,

Cult Mass Suicide, Murders Murders Suicide, Mass Cult

4UU fread, 600 Missing in - in Missing 600 fread, 4UU

Georgetown and was hospitalized with with hospitalized was and Georgetown

iced at Andrews. They were Jackie Jackie were They Andrews. at iced

Gozney, who was fleeing from Jones- from fleeing was who Gozney,

in cases involving homicide. homicide. involving cases in

town and was wounded in the abdomen, abdomen, the in wounded was and town Rico were Anthony Katsaris, of Potter Potter of Katsaris, Anthony were Rico

Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Puerto Puerto in Base Naval Roads Roosevelt

and Beverly Oliver of San Francisco, Francisco, San of Oliver Beverly and performed to comply with Guyanese law law Guyanese with comply to performed

Georgetown where autopsies would be be would autopsies where Georgetown wounded in both both in wounded

who had two sons in Jonestown and was was and Jonestown in sons two had who

State Department spokesman Tom Res- Tom spokesman Department State

Valley. Calif., wounded in the chest; Ben Ben chest; the in wounded Calif., Valley.

His home address was not revealed. revealed. not was address home His

drews Air Force Base in Washington. Washington. in Base Force Air drews

took them to Puerto Rico and to An- to and Rico Puerto to them took

to Georgetown. A U.S. Air Force CI41 CI41 Force Air U.S. A Georgetown. to

military plane ferried the survivors back back survivors the ferried plane military Kaituma at daybreak and a Guyanese Guyanese a and daybreak at Kaituma ton said they were to be brought to to brought be to were they said ton

an American named Larry John Layton. Layton. John Larry named American an

Gelinas, said one of those arrested was was arrested those of one said Gelinas,

emment spokesman in New York, Jack Jack York, New in spokesman emment

Kaituma yesterday, and Flick said they they said Flick and yesterday, Kaituma

stayed until nightfall. nightfall. until stayed

head," Flick said in an account broadcast broadcast account an in said Flick head,"

arrested nine suspects. A Guyanese go • • go Guyanese A suspects. nine arrested by NBC. "That was how Ryan and Harris Harris and Ryan how was "That NBC. by

to 12 gunmen, both black and white. white. and black both gunmen, 12 to

point-blank range shoot the victim in the the in victim the shoot range point-blank

died." died."

ing to the ground. ground. the to ing

75 shots at Ryan's group as the planes planes the as group Ryan's at shots 75 negotiate the release of another settler. settler. another of release the negotiate

Robert Flick, said the killers fired 50 to to 50 fired killers the said Flick, Robert

ing to his staff members in Memphis. Memphis. in members staff his to ing

harmed and was in Georgetown, accord- Georgetown, in was and harmed

with shotguns would walk over and at at and over walk would shotguns with

mained behind at Jonestown to try to to try to Jonestown at behind mained

were being loaded. loaded. being were

counsel for Jones. Lane, who had been been had who Lane, Jones. for counsel abouts of Garry, who survivors said re- said survivors who Garry, of abouts

came to Guyana with Ryan to act as as act to Ryan with Guyana to came reported missing for hours, was not not was hours, for missing reported

death," the statement said. said. statement the death,"

known. known.

death. "II was his drive to get informa- get to drive his was "II death.

tion at first hand that led to his tragic tragic his to led that hand first at tion

dent Carter was saddened by Ryan's Ryan's by saddened was Carter dent

were killed. killed. were

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'The wounded hospitalized at the the at hospitalized wounded 'The

Richard Dwyer, deputy chief of the the of chief deputy Dwyer, Richard

A Navy spokesman said Mrs. Oliver's Oliver's Mrs. said spokesman Navy A

Five of the survivors were hospital- were survivors the of Five

wife. wife.

The bodies remained at Port Kaituma. Kaituma. Port at remained bodies The

Police and soldiers arrived at Port Port at arrived soldiers and Police

Survivors fled into jungle while they they while jungle into fled Survivors

The government flew troops to Port Port to troops flew government The

According to Flick, there were eight eight were there Flick, to According

One survivor, NBC field producer producer field NBC survivor, One

"People were being wounded and fall- and wounded being were "People

There was no word on on word no was There

Lawyers Lane and Charles Garry Garry Charles and Lane Lawyers

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Johnny Sharp, 10, 4404 Washington Pike. Pike. Washington 4404 10, Sharp, Johnny

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Homer Tolley, 65, Rt. 1, 1, Rt. 65, Tolley, Homer

Everett L. Summers, Summers, L. Everett

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Roger D. Smith, 18, Rt. 2, Seymour. Seymour. 2, Rt. 18, Smith, D. Roger

K.G. Stevens, 57, Oliver Springs. Springs. Oliver 57, Stevens, K.G.

Clyde E. Moulton, 64, Sevierville. Sevierville. 64, Moulton, E. Clyde

Michael J. AYITIBBO, 27, Mobile, Mo., formerly formerly Mo., Mobile, 27, AYITIBBO, J. Michael Guy Wilhite, 53, New Market. Market. New 53, Wilhite, Guy

Mrs. Grace Grace Mrs.

Mrs. Thomas (Stella) Perry, 78, 1237 Blond Blond 1237 78, Perry, (Stella) Thomas Mrs.

Mrs. Marshall Marshall Mrs.

Jornes Milton Stooksbury, 65, Antersonville. Antersonville. 65, Stooksbury, Milton Jornes

Walton E. (Bill) Webb, 46, Horrin.n. Horrin.n. 46, Webb, (Bill) E. Walton

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Mrs. WIllions (Gustavo B.) Irwin, 80, 1905 Nick- Nick- 1905 80, Irwin, B.) (Gustavo WIllions Mrs.

Tom G. Helton, 78, Seymour. Seymour. 78, Helton, G. Tom Mrs. Julio Holt, 84, Rt 4, Clinton. Clinton. 4, Rt 84, Holt, Julio Mrs.

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Mrs. Ethel Curtis Ford Sian, 89, Omsville, Va. Va. Omsville, 89, Sian, Ford Curtis Ethel Mrs.

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Mrs, Mrs, Iris Byri (Galley) Cook, 57, Norman Rd., Powell. Powell. Rd., Norman 57, Cook, (Galley) Byri Iris

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chhrch or discredited it. it. discredited or chhrch

because his rules and rituals left them them left rituals and rules his because

Dona Austin Baker, 78, 1515 Isobel° Tower. Tower. Isobel° 1515 78, Baker, Austin Dona

huge sums of money and issuing death death issuing and money of sums huge terrified and often brainwashed. brainwashed. often and terrified

financially dependent on the church. church. the on dependent financially

ing submitted to his authoritarian regime regime authoritarian his to submitted ing

included beatings and exhausting work work exhausting and beatings included

Mrs. Arthur C. (Roberto Webb) Dore, 91, 3611 3611 91, Dore, Webb) (Roberto C. Arthur Mrs.

Williorn Wayne Collins, infant son of Mr. nod nod Mr. of son infant Collins, Wayne Williorn schedules, and accused him of extorting extorting of him accused and schedules,

threats to anyone who strayed from the the from strayed who anyone to threats

allegations by former members. They They members. former by allegations

complained that his methods of control control of methods his that complained

or a facist takeover of the United States, States, United the of takeover facist a or

so they could survive a nuclear holocaust holocaust nuclear a survive could they so

mer mer

Tom Bradley and San Francisco Mayor Mayor Francisco San and Bradley Tom

a poor, interracial couple. At one time, he he time, one At couple. interracial poor, a

could list among his friends Gov. Ed- Gov. friends his among list could after the People's Temple helped hint win win hint helped Temple People's the after

mund 0. Brown Jr., Los Angeles Mayor Mayor Angeles Los Jr., Brown 0. mund

which Jones had predicted. predicted. had Jones which

George Moscone, who appointed Jones Jones appointed who Moscone, George children, was born in Indiana, the son of of son the Indiana, in born was children,

the mayoral election in 1975. 1975. in election mayoral the chairman of the city Housing Authority Authority Housing city the of chairman

Post reporter Charles Krause. Krause. Charles reporter Post

slightly injured, and in was Washington Washington was in and injured, slightly

U.S, Embassy in Georgetown, was was Georgetown, in Embassy U.S,

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But Jones' star faded after a series of of series a after faded star Jones' But

The rigid discipline was designed, for. for. designed, was discipline rigid The

Jones, who is married and has seven seven has and married is who Jones,

of Knoxville. Knoxville. of

Maruie Lane, 52, 2812 Jersey Ave. Ave. Jersey 2812 52, Lane, Maruie

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a graduate of Faulkner Junior College in in College Junior Faulkner of graduate a Mobile, Ala.. his family has learned. learned. has family his Ala.. Mobile,

Mobile, and a member of the Church of of Church the of member a and Mobile,

Catholic High Grad Dies Dies Grad High Catholic

Saturday in a motorcycle accident in in accident motorcycle a in Saturday

sumed to be under some emotional bias, I I bias, emotional some under be to sumed

intend to go to the source and to allow allow to and source the to go to intend but that is precisely the purpose of this this of purpose the precisely is that but

I have heard from relatives are negative, negative, are relatives from heard have I

working in Mobile as a machinist. He was was He machinist. a as Mobile in working

those 'on the other side' the opportunity opportunity the side' other the 'on those

the word of relatives who can be pre- be can who relatives of word the

inquiry," wrote Ryan. "Rather than take take than "Rather Ryan. wrote inquiry,"

investigation of the People's Temple was was Temple People's the of investigation

at the request of relatives of members of of members of relatives of request the at

Government persecution, adding that his his that adding persecution, Government

the cult who were concerned about their their about concerned were who cult the

challenged the attorney's charges of of charges attorney's the challenged

of People's Temple and which might very very might which and Temple People's of

well result in the creation of a most most a of creation the in result well GOVernment." GOVernment."

embarrassing situation for the U.S. U.S. the for situation embarrassing

amid . . . they will will they . . . amid which may flow from further persecution persecution further from flow may which consider accepting either offer." offer." either accepting consider

wrote. "the important consequences consequences important "the wrote.

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Michael J. Armetta, 27, a graduate of of graduate a 27, Armetta, J. Michael

A former Knoxville man was killed killed was man Knoxville former A

In a Nov. 10 reply to Lane, Ryan Ryan Lane, to reply 10 Nov. a In

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threat, I believe it reveals more than than more reveals it believe I threat,

reporter. reporter.

sentative, according to an eyewitness eyewitness an to according sentative,

knifing at the Guyana camp shortly be- shortly camp Guyana the at knifing

fore Ryan was killed at the airstrip. airstrip. the at killed was Ryan fore

a young man who lunged at the Repre- the at lunged who man young a

Mrs. Hurtle (Debbie) Hilton, Knoxville; Knoxville; Hilton, (Debbie) Hurtle Mrs. thwarted thwarted

Mrs. Jan (Pat) Vahagus, Mississippi, and and Mississippi, Vahagus, (Pat) Jan Mrs.

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grandmother, Mrs. Annitte Armetta, Armetta, Annitte Mrs. grandmother,

Roy Armetta, S. Haven Road; sisters, sisters, Road; Haven S. Armetta, Roy States, "does not impress me at all." all." at me impress not "does States,

embarrassing situation" for the United United the for situation" embarrassing in Jonestown." Jonestown." in

the Immaculate Conception. Conception. Immaculate the

thousands thousands open an with connection in hunt' 'witch

House of Representatives into the wet wet the into Representatives of House fare of American citizens presently living living presently citizens American of fare

vague vague

and honest inquiry of the United States States United the of inquiry honest and

to speak in their own behalf." behalf." own their in speak to

with your (Lane's) use of the phrase phrase the of use (Lane's) your with

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Lane saved Ryan from a possibly fatal fatal possibly a from Ryan saved Lane

The first attempt on Ryan's life was was life Ryan's on attempt first The

Berry's is in charge: charge: in is Berry's

lie leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. and Mr. parents, his leaves lie

The congressman told Lane "your "your Lane told congressman The

Ryan added. "I am truly disappointed disappointed truly am "I added. Ryan

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Puerto Puerto lEan, lEan, % ".roill'ei says father 'obsessed' it GEORGETOWN, Guiana (AP) — The The 8-foot-4 Stephan, who came here balked but was shouted into submission eon of fanatical cult leader Jim Jones from Jonestown three weeks ago as by fellow sect members. 'aid Tuesday his father was a sick man, coach of the camp's basketball team, Had he been in Jonestown, Stephan is "man obsessed ... a very frightened said his major concern now is the said, he might have been able to talk his pan," but he was worshipped by women well-being of the survivors, including father out of ordering mass suicide. If rand held enormous sway over his 500 or so■ camp residents who fled into this failed, he said, he would have stood :devoted disciples. 7 the jungle during the mass suicide. up and discredited and denounced his father to try to convince people he was Stephan Jones, 19, said he and his "The utmost in all our minds is the Pmother recently had tried to keep his 46- wrong. safety of those unaccounted for and the The young Jones praised the 5,ear-old father out of the sect's decision- safety of the people here," he said. "I :making process, but he admitted they communal life of the camp, but he said it want to do, all I can to see everybody was flawed by a growing paranoia and ailed. gets a chance to fad someplace to settle On Jones' orders, more than 400 the egotism of his father. , down and start over again, if that is at feel Jim Jones was a man obsessed residents of the jungle camp of the Peo- all possible." ple's Temple sect committed suicide with his own ego and power. There were *Saturday. Jim Jones and his wife were But he said it seems impossible to con- women up there who worshipped him," :among the dead. tinue the settlement at Jonestown, 150 he said. I" "We all here and in the ,States are miles northwest of here. Asked how he thinks history will view *shocked," the younger Jones told A survivor of ritual said armed his father, the younger Jones said: "I reporters. "We can't understand it men stood in a ring around the Peoples don't care. I just hope it doesn't cause it is not our way of life and Temple settlers gathered by Jim Jones discredit what I have done. I can almost never has been." for the mass suicide. The cultists drank say I hate this man for, what he has done. * "My entire life I've lived to better the cups of fruit drink laced with cyanide, He has destroyed everythng I've lived ?Ives of people and not to destroy them." and the witness said at least one woman for." FBI confirms cult probe, SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The FBI Ryan's group was preparing to leave confirmed on Tuesday that its agents after a fact-finding visit to the were investigating rumors that Peoples Jonestown commune when fanatic Temple members had plans to kidnap or followers of Jones opened fire on the assassinate highranking U.S. officials to delegation. - avenge any harm which might come, to The FBI said it has known of the con- the cult's leader, the Rev. Jim Jones. tingency plan for some time, but has "There are the rumors, and some received new information from defec- death threats have been made, but we tors over the past few days. don't know whether the threats are from Fuller said the information came cranks or got," said FBI agent Robert from current and former 'temple Fuller. members and that the plan called for One death threat was reported against retaliation in the- event Jones was ar- the son of an aide to Rep. Leo Ryan, D- rested or harmed. . • Calif. Ryan was killed in an ambush in One death threat was reported to have Guyana near the San Franciscobased been against Will Holsinger, son of cult's settlement:.. Ryan's administrative aide, Joe Jones' body was found Monday at the Holsinger. settlement, along with the remains of The younger Holsinger had been more than 400 temple members, the vic- employed by Ryan the past two months tims of a masa suicide. to investigate the Peoples Temple in San The deaths of Jones and his followers Francisco. came after the ambush Saturday at a A few hours after the first radio landing strip near the settlement left reports of the shootings at the landing Ryan, three newsmen and a temple strip, the wife of the younger Holsinger member dead. 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 0J 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. 10. 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 made /,''no -mention of rumors that members of the settlement were being IA 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 all mankind and to make this a better o l' 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 somewhat aimless. These people turned i,01t. him around and gave him a sense of self-fulfillment." Camp doctor, nurses brewed deadly brew

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A Jones announced by loudspeaker: "The place." He said he slipped off and hid in survivor of the mass suicide at the time has come for us to meet in another a hole at the edge of a clearing. 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 Death vat garbage dump where somebody dumped a lot of rag dolls," said Charles The vat of death sits on a sidewalk on the compound of Peo- Krause of the Washington Post, who ple's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, Monday, with bodies of visited Jonestown as a representative of the foreign press. followers around after Saturday's mass suicide. The vat con- Another survivor, Grover Davis, 79, tained an ads drink laced with deadly cyanide. (AP Laser- said he realized what was coming when photol THE POST, Frederick, Md., Wednesday, November 22, 1978 — Page A-15

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NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of "This is not surprising," said Rabbi "I think the thing imploded," he said. • members of a religious cult formed an James. Rudin, an Official of the . "You have to understand that there is no orderly line, then took their lives with a American Jewish Committee who has room for ambiguity in groups like this. draught of poison. Shocking, yes. And written extensively on cults. "It's not When ambiguity occurred, when bizarre. But not, say the experts, surprising when you consider the something went wrong, they all panick- surprising. totalitarian atmosphere in which most ed and the cult destroyed itself." Challenged from without, shaken by cults operate." The ambush and killings followed. defections within, the Rev. Jim Jones's "Our war, our side — it's a madness of Within hours, according to witnesses, People's Temple swelled with uncer- many," said Dr. Edwin Shneidman of cult members lined up fOr a-draught of tainty, then "imploded," experts the University of California, the nation's poison reportedly brewed in a large vat. believe. Nearly 400 cultists took their only professor of thanatology — a own lives in the isolated jungle of discipline named for Thanatos, the Mark Lane, a lawyer representing the Guyana, a tiny South American Greek god of death. cult, was at the camp just before the republic. These men say that strong, even deaths. He said the members discussed Some reportedly were shot, but totalitarian, leaders like Jones leave no suicide before he fled, fearing for his Guyanese authorities said most ap- room for their adherents to dissent. own life. He said two cult members told parently died of poison. An estimated Often, says• Clark, it is this uniformity of him: "We are all going to die now." 700 others were believed to have fled in- thought and belief that attracts "They were smiling ... they looked ge- to the jungle. The suicides — including follopers: nuinely happy," Lane said. Jones, his wife and son — died just hours "People who go into cults are in a A California • psychologist, who accompanied Ryan to Guyana to try to get after the sect ambushed and killed five state of mind that does'not allow inside Americans, including U.S. Rep. Leo information to enter. They feel safe, his daughter out of Jonestown, said Ryan of California. cozy. They can talk their own language members of the group rehearsed mass suicide and signed undated suicide notes Mind-befogging though the mass to each other. It's reinforced by their op- before they left California for Guyana. suicide appears, scholars on suicide and position to all outside reality — an 'us cults such as the People's Temple say and they' mentality." One can only speculate about Jones' they saw it coming. It was only a ques- Clark believes Congressman Ryan motives. There were reports he was tion, they say, of who and when. cracked this wall of uniformity when he seriously ill. He was apparently visited the People's Temple commune fascinated by suicide and once led a "Nobody has believed we silly people demonstration calling for a "suicide who said it is possible to control people Saturday to investigate alleged abuse of barrier" on San Francisco's Golden to this degree. But It has happened," sect members: several members chose to leave with him. These events, Clark Gate Bridge. But a more compelling said Boston psychiatrist John Clark, question is why his followers were will- who lias studied these cults for five says, "tore apart the cult's sense of years. certainty." ing to Join him in death. Mass suicide scene

This view shows the area of PeoPle's Temple at Jonestown, Guyana, where cultists committed 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)