So former US Congresswoman, Jackie Speier, who survived the 1978 Jonestown attack that killed Congressman Leo Ryan, prior to the mass cyanide suicide of over 900 Americans, disagree with the plan ...

More than 900 people died on November 18, 1978, including a US congressman named Leo Ryan. Now that Guyana is considering a proposal by a government-backed tour operator to open the now-overgrown ...

Speier was an aide to then-Congressman Leo Ryan, who was assassinated during the massacre. They were there to investigate claims that people were being held against their will at the People's ...

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Jim Jones preyed on isolating people like this. After ordering the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan, Jim Jones postured his last “white nights” ritual as a symbolic waving of a white flag.