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2 days ago · The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at Port Kaituma, including U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, an act that Jones ordered. Four other Temple members committed murder-suicide in Georgetown at Jones' command.
1 day ago · Rep. Leo Ryan was killed in the shooting. Speier was working as an aide to Ryan in 1978. They were in Guyana to investigate human rights abuses at a camp run by cult leader Jim Jones.
4 days ago · Leo Ryan: November 18, 1983: P.L. 98-159, 97 Stat. 992: On November 18, 1978, Congressman Ryan was murdered in Guyana while on a mission to investigate allegations of abuse at an American camp of cult leader Jim Jones. He was awarded the medal posthumously five years later. Ryan is the only U.S. Member of Congress killed in the line of duty.
2 days ago · A henchman of Jones, who claimed was acting without orders, murdered California Congressman Leo Ryan as he tried to assist defectors. Ryan had previously been denied access to the compound but came anyway.
20 hours ago · 0. Former U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier announced on social media Thursday she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. “I just became one of the 300,000 women per year who are diagnosed with breast ...
4 days ago · The former Made In Chelsea star was cheered on by her son Leo, partner Ryan Libbey, brother Sam Thompson, and mum Karen Sharing a video taken by a Libbey on Instagram, Thompson admitted she almost ...
2 days ago · California Representative Leo Ryan was in Jonestown to check on the remote community, and he was killed by gunfire at an airstrip as he tried to escape the tense situation. [126] [127] White remarked to two aides who were working for his reinstatement, "You see that?
