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Jonestown — Part 2
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BQ 89-495
or three days before finding men
in a canoe on the river. They asked if we were
and we said yes. They told us that everyo
had given them our descriptions.
they went across the river in the canoe where
efense Force (GDF) was waiting for them. The
town
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-% at the airport were in Georgetown. We stayed where we were
for a night before going to Georgetown. In Georgetown,
ORDELL RHOADES, who escaped the Jonestown suicide, told
us that when the tractor and truck returned from the airport,
a
they reported to Rev. JONES that everyone was dead. Rev.
JONES appeared happy according to ORDELL. ORDELL advised
people shouting and clapping, it was because Rev. JONES
explained to the group that RYAN and his friends weren't
gOing anywhere. Ww
ORDELL explained that Rev. JONES stated that because
of the shootings at the airport, the GDF would be coming
to Jonestown, so he announced the mass suicide. First,
the little babies were given the poison down their throat.
Then some of the people took it voluntarily. Other people
were forced to take it or be killed by the guards. ORDELL
advised us while this was going on, he was hiding under
a building and when it got dark, he escaped into the junglef{u/
ese ras accra while the shooting was taking
Place at the airport, ere were Guyanese soldiers at the
t. 4 L7C end of the airstrip, but they never attempted to stop the
shooting or even help the survivors after the assassins
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