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Jonestown — Part 1

123 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Cults & Extremism · Topic: Jonestown · 117 pages OCR'd
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2:5 .e  1 SF 89-250 DRH:jmr Guyana; the four NBC crew members and the five journalists, listed above; and four concerned relatives: Beverly Oliver; Anthony Katsaris; Jim Cobb; and Carolyn Boyd. After some communication with Jim Jones in Jonestown, the Ryan entourage was permitted to visit Jonestown with the exception of Gordon Lindsey. u, On ll/17/78, Ryan spoke with Jones and conducted interviews in performance of his Congressional inquiry. on the following day in preparation to depart Jonestown, some Jonestown residents expressed desires to depart with Ryan. In the process of loading persons to return to Port Kaituma to await transportation for Georgetown, Congressman Ryan was assaulted with a knife by Donald Edward Sly. Sly was subdued by Attorneys Garry and Lane and the Ryan entourage, along with, Jonestown members desiring to leave, prepared and departed for Port Kaituma, via truck. Larry Layton demanded to accompany the entourage but was suspected by other "defectors" to be a traitor and not a true "defector.fl4] At Port Kaituma, the Ryan entourage, with I the following Jonestown "defectors": Brenda, Gerald, Tracy, Dale, Edith, and Patricia Parks; Juanita, Tom, Edith, Teena, and James Bogue; Monica Bagby; Harold Cordell; Vern Gosney; and Chris O'Neal and alleged "defector" Larry Layton, prepared to board two airplanes, when a tractor trailer arrived at the airstrip carrying People's Temple PT! members who subsequently opened fire on the Ryan entourage. {Z4} » Witnesses at the airstrip interviewed, and have identified: Wesley Karl Breidenbach deceased!; Eddie Joe Crenshaw deceased!; Ronnie Dennis status unknown!; Stanley Brian Gieg deceased!: Ronald De-Val James deceased!; Ernest Jones deceased!; Robert Edward Kice deceased!; Thomas David Kice deceased!; Larry John Layton alive!: Anthony Simon deceased!; Ronald Tally deceased!; Albert Ardell Touchette deceased!; Joseph Lafayette Wilson deceased! as assailants. Killed during the assault by above persons B-2 I
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