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Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. (May 5, 1925 – November 18, 1978) was an American teacher and Democratic Party politician who represented California's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 until his assassination hours before the Jonestown massacre in 1978.
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
Pinckney, his brother Tom, and Brown were all killed at the scene. [2] [8] Huey Long Senate Louisiana : September 8, 1935 Carl Weiss (possibly) Assassination Died two days after Weiss fired a handgun at him at close range inside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge [9] Robert F. Kennedy Senate New York : June 5, 1968 Sirhan Sirhan
Jones' sons, Stephan, Jim Jr. and Tim, were in Georgetown with Jonestown's basketball team to play in a tournament with the Guyanese national team. [179] In the moments before the suicide, Jones contacted Stephan with orders to "get revenge" on enemies of the Temple in Georgetown before committing suicide themselves.
One was a U.S. Congressman, three were journalists and 914 were residents of the Peoples Temple agricultural mission known as Jonestown. About 80 members of Peoples Temple who were living in ...
Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a 2007 documentary television film on the History Channel about the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones.From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
The appeal of Jonestown. Jim Jones was a charismatic pastor in San Francisco who led a racially diverse congregation called the Peoples Temple from 1955 to 1978. Jonestown was one of the many ...
The Bay Area's Jackie Speier is retiring after more than 40 years in public life that began when she was shot five times in a deadly ambush in Guyana.