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Don Harris (September 8, 1936 – November 18, 1978) was an NBC News correspondent who was killed after departing Jonestown, an agricultural commune owned by the Peoples Temple in Guyana. On November 18, 1978, he and four others (including Leo Ryan ) were killed by gunfire by Temple members at a nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma , Guyana .
The funeral homes sued Tri-State and Marsh, eventually settling first for $36 million with the plaintiff's class in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Ultimately, the Marsh defendants also settled for $3.5 million after their insurer, Georgia Farm Bureau, agreed to pay the settlement.
In 1996, Jonestown increased its borders by annexing a large parcel which had recently been bought by a real-estate development group. By 1999, the city had 1,500 residents and the Lake North area of Travis County, which includes Jonestown, had seen a 62% rise in median home prices from US$84,500 to US$137,250 in the five-year period from 1994 ...
In many cases, responsibility for cremation of the remains was distributed to Dover area funeral homes. In August 2014, the never-claimed cremated remains of nine people from Jonestown were found in a former funeral home in Dover. [197] As of September 2014, four of their remains had been returned to next-of-kin, and the remaining five had not.
The paper began as the Forest News, founded in 1875, published by the Jackson County Publishing Company. It was renamed to the Jackson Herald in 1886. [3] In 1891 The Jackson Herald was sold to J.J. Holder for $3000; the old ownership had been "somewhat unfriendly" to the Farmers' Alliance, the new ownership was expected to be friendly towards the Alliance.
Christine Miller (June 4, 1918 – November 18, 1978) [1] was a member of the Peoples Temple cult led by Jim Jones.She is known for being the only Temple member to publicly urge Jones against carrying out the group's mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978.
The Jackson Free Press, referred to often as simply "JFP", is a community magazine available free of charge at various retail establishments in Jackson, Mississippi. It was founded in 2002 by Mississippi native Donna Ladd and author and technology expert Todd Stauffer .
Adlene Harrison, first woman mayor of Dallas, Texas. 1977. Carole Keeton Strayhorn, first woman elected mayor of Austin, Texas [1]: 238–239 1982. Kathryn J. Whitmire, first woman elected mayor of Houston, Texas. 1985. Ann Pomykal, first woman elected mayor of Lewisville, Texas [394] 1986. LaNelle McNamara, first woman elected mayor of Waco ...