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- BA 89-173 2 prior to departure. A female said she was making final arrangements for the flight, including V.I.P. treatment for RYAN, and to fixm up the schedule and itinerary uf a . total of 16 concerned parents accompanied the Congressional party and press representatives 6 : + A‘ ee ee ee ee ek ee 18670 - 7 to Guyana On WOVETIDEr 14, L770, @CTiving at Georgetown. All of the group stayed in Georgetown except BEVERLY OLIVER, STEVE KATSARIS, JIM COBB and CAROLYN BOYD, who stayed in Jonestown. (ef RYAN went to Jonestown on Friday, November 17, 1978, and stayed until Saturday, November 18, 1978, taking about 20 declarations from Jonestown residents who desired to leave with the Congressman. (yj) Tr —‘C‘ SY - ae November 18, 1978 a truck containing 28 people, including 16 defectors, left Jonestown for the airstrip 8 miles away. The driver was STANLEY GINNS of Concord, California, who also had driven them from the airstrip to Jonestown the previous day. Among the defectors on the truck was LARRY LEYTON, brother of DEBBIE BLAKEY, mentioned abovey U\ ~ The trip to the airfield took more than an hour due to poor road conditions. z. Teo oh a a large and a small craft. piacing defector families in the large airplane, and single defectors in the smaller craft. It was obvious all present could not leave on the two planes, and that a return trip would be necessary. ° LEYTON insisted on leaving on the first plane to take off All defectors were checked for weapons before FL it Net win he - Tat Ne oh Nee ee ee TT ee ae ee he hae ee ee ee _—e + i boarding. LEYTON, wearing a poncho, entered the smaller plane prior to search and was challenged. LEYTON pulled a pistol and began firing inside the plane, before gun wrestled from him by DALE PARKS. LEYTON then fled the area./ ¥ A few minutes later a tractor with flatbed on rear arrived et the airstrip with about ten men, both white and Negro. The truck began circling the planes as the men cn the truck fired upon those not yet on board the two planes. SPEIER, RYAN and NBC newsman DON HARRIS attempted to hide behind the plane wheel. Both RYAN and HARRIS were hit by gunfire and killed. SPEIER played dead but was struck by “bullets in the right forearm and right thigh. The atteck lested a few manutest Uf 23