Los Angeles Times,

May 27, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Ukiah Investigative Reporter Placed Under Protective Custody, B28,  Word Count: 444
June 9, 1978, ; Los Angeles Times, L.A. Couple Sue Religious Leader, by Russell Chandler,  B28, Word Count: 624

An elderly Los Angeles couple who said they were coerced by People's Temple leader Jim Jones to sell their home and turn the proceeds over to the controversial religious figure filed an $18 million suit Tuesday against Jones in Los Angeles Superior Court.

November 15, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Junket to Jungle May Not Be Welcome, page 27, Word Count: 339
November 15, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Guyana Police Detain Writer, B22, Word Count: 262

November 19, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Rep. Ryan, 4 Others Reported Shot, Killed, U. S. Fact-Finding Group Attacked in Guyana, Pilot Says, A1, Word Count: 1,259

November 19, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Sect Has Been Center of Controversy 2 Years, A20, Word Count: 300

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Ambush Survivors Flown to Safety; U. S. Opens Probe, by Ellen Hume and Robert L. Jackson, B1, Word Count: 1,257

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Conspiracy Theorist Accompanied Ryan, Reports Conflict on Lawyer Lane's Fate, B24, Text Word Count: 356

Attorney Mark Lane has pursued conspiracy theories throughout his career, whether defending Martin Luther King's assassin, James Earl Ray, or representing Lee Harvey Oswalds interests before the Warren Commission.

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Cult Leader Kills Self, His Wife and Son Among 383 Suicides at Campsite Mark Lane Describes Death Pact, A1, Text Word Count: 609,

"We are all going to die now," attorney Mark Lane said a religious cultist told him. "They were smiling," Lane recalled

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, FBI Reports Plot by Jones Followers,  A3, by David Johnston,

Text Word Count: 374

An alleged plot to kidnap high American political figures in the event that Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones was ever arrested or harmed was reported here Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Guyana Pledges Search For Slayers, B25, Word Count: 289

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Jones, Peoples Temple, by David Johnston and William Endicott, B1, Word Count: 1677

Ever since Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones began his ministry two decades ago, integrating a Disciples of Christ congregation in Indianapolis, he has been dogged by controversy.

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, 'Knew There Was Danger, Need to 'See for Himself' Led Ryan to His Death, by William Endicott, B3, Word Count: 926

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Pleas for News of Sect's Settlers Go Unanswered at S. F. Temple, by David Johnston, B3, Word Count: 639

Shaking the chain-link fence gate at the muddy parking lot behind the rundown Peoples Temple in San Francisco, a frail, aging black woman screamed, "Where's my mother? I want to see her."

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Reporter Describes Ambush, by Charles Krause, B1, Word Count: 1641

When the dump truck and tractor from Jonestown suddenly appeared on the side of the small landing strip in Port Kaituma Saturday about 4:15 p. m., the 16 disaffected members of the Peoples Temple who had decided to leave with Rep. Leo J.

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Reporter Describes Ambush, Ryan Sensed Cultists Would Attack, by Charles Krause, A5, Word Count: 1520

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Sect Lined Up to Get Poison, A1, Text Word Count: 1069

November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, 300 To 400 Cultists Reported Dead, Mass Suicide After Ryan's Murder Seen, B1;
Information Minister Shirley Field Ridley reported today that 300 to 400 bodies--and no one alive--had been found in the Guyana jungle camp of a California sect whose members killed five Americans including Rep. Leo J. Ryan of California and three news-..November 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Writer Who Probed Sect Cites Threats, Mysterious Visitors, Assaults, Fires Haunt Free-Lancer, by Robert J. Gore, B3, Word Count: 637

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Bodies May Have to Be Buried in Jungle, A2, Word Count: 501

U.S. troops flew in today to begin a macabre shuttle ferrying out corpses of more than 400 American cultists who drank a lethal brew of Kool-Aid and cyanide in fanatic loyalty to a suicidal messiah. But the condition of the bodies may force the soldiers to bury..

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Bodies of Jim Jones, 409 Cultists Found, by Leonard Greenwood, B1, Word Count: 2063

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Cult Neither Friend, Stranger in Guyana, by Karen DeYoung, B20, Word Count: 707

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Cult Refugees Find a Shelter, by David Johnston, B3, Word Count: 578

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Cult-Watcher Says He Gave U.S. Warning, B3, Word Count: 195

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Day Before Ambush, B23, Word Count: 488

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Jones' 'Concern for the Despaired' Cited, B26, Word Count: 253

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Jones, 409 Cultists Found Dead, by Leonard Greenwood, A8, Word Count: 1973

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Mondale, Califano Also Listed, B17, Word Count: 412

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, No Armed Squad at Sect's Farm, Garry Quoted, B19, Word Count: 201

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Probe of Cult Lacked Depth, Ryan Aide Says, by Robert Barkdoll,  B1, Word Count: 1162

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Ryan Aide Raps Probe of Cult, by Robert Barkdoll, A9,  Word Count: 1142

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Ryan's Body Brought Home in Military Jet, Services Scheduled in S.F.; Two Newsmen's Remains Flown to L.A., by Larry Stammer, A3, Word Count: 469

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Sect Plot to Kidnap U.S. Leaders Told, FBI Reports Scheme to Hold Hostages if Jones Were Arrested, by David Johnston, B3, Word Count: 384

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, S.F. Temple Active in Politics, Large Numbers of Volunteers Helped in Campaigns, by Kenneth Reich, B3, Word Count: 1146

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Son Tells o Paranoia, Cult Leader on Drugs Rev. Jones Called Sick, Obsessed, A1, Word Count: 549

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, 'Started with Babies', by Charles A. Krause, B1, Word Count: 1406

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Survivors Recover in Puerto Rico Hospital, B17, Word Count: 362

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Temple Flourished for Time in L.A., It Was Beautiful Thing,' Ex-Member Says, Until Dream Went Sour, by Doyle McManus, B3, Word Count:  666

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, The Horror in Guyana, A4, Word Count: 347

November 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Victims Ordered to Drink Cyanide With Kool-Aid, by Charles A. Krause,  A8, Word Count: 1348

When the Rev. Jim Jones learned Saturday that Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.) had been killed but that some members of the congressman's party had survived, Jones called his followers together and told them that the time had come to commit the mass suicide..

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, A Phenomenon of History, Cult's Suicide Believed One of Worst, by Bill Drummand, B21, Word Count: 907

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, At First, Everything Seemed So Alive, Peaceful at Camp, by Charles A, Krause, B1, Word Count: 1873

When I first reached Jonestown, with Rep. Leo J. Ryan's party, we were all struck by the neat wooden structures so far from civilization, and by the mix of blacks and whites, young and old--seemingly normal people who, we were told, had willingly chosen to...

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Authorities Raid Synanon Ranch, Seize Recordings, by Bill Farr, B1, Word Count: 709

Two dozen investigators armed with search warrants swooped down on a Synanon ranch in a remote secion of Tulare County Tuesday, seizing a "sizable number" of tape recordings at the sect's complex there.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Bodies of 3 Cult Victims Return Home, Rep. Ryan, 2 Newsmen Carried on Flight to San Francisco, L. A., by Larry Stammer, B3, Word Count: 778

Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.) and two California newsmen, murdered in Guyana by fanatics from the Peoples Temple cult they sought to investigate, returned home Tuesday in flag-draped coffins aboard a military jet.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Fate Unknown, Camp's Doctor Had Written of Satisfying Work, B20, Word Count: 320

The camp doctor who reportedly brewed and administered the poison that killed more than 400 people in Guyana had written to his family of "the satisfaction of assisting poor people, many of whom have never seen a doctor in their lives."

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Californian Barefooted, Handcuffed, Cultist Charged in 5 Murders, A1, Word Count: 445

Californian Larry Leyton was charged with murder here today in the jungle slayings of Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.) three newsmen and a woman.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Firm Planning 'Instant Book' on Cult Killings, Bantam Doing One, Washington Post May Publish Own Volume, by John J. Goldman,  B3, Word Count: 492

A race may be shaping up within the book publishing industry to print the first instant paperback about the Peoples Temple and massacre in Guyana.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Guyana Jungle Searched for Cult Survivors, by Leonard Greenwood, B1, Word Count: 1134, 

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Guyana Blocking U. S. Efforts to Widen Probe, by Ronald J. Ostrow and Oswald Johnson, B21,  Word Count: 530

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Jonestown Doctor Had Found Work Satisfying, page 12, Word Count: 298

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Not Mesmerized Freaks, Temple Cultists Victims of Needs, Analysts Say, by Lois Timnick, page 3, Word Count: 1168

The Peoples Temple cultists caught up in last weekend's horror in Guyana were not a weird collection of freaks mesmerized by a madman, but simple victims of needs that "locked in" to Rev. Jim Jones' vision, psychiatric experts say.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Relatives Who Wait Are Also Victims, B22, Word Count: 278

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Peoples Temples Affiliated With Disciples of Christ, Denomination Considering Adopting Means to Oust Erring Congregations in Wake of Guyana Horror, by Russell Chandler, B3, Word Count: 1331

The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), with which the Peoples Temples are affiliated, dislikes labels.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Temple Cultists Victims of Needs, Psychiatrists Say, by Lois Timnick, B1, Word Count: 1167

The Peoples Temple cultists caught up in last weekend's horror in Guyana were not a weird collection of freaks mesmerized by a madman, but simple victims of needs that "locked in" to Rev. Jim Jones' vision, psychiatric experts say.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Ryan Buried Near Bay in S. F. Services, Security Tight for Funeral; President's Son, Chip, Attends, A3, Word Count: 457

Leo J. Ryan, the crusading congressman who lost his life investigating religious fanatics in the jungles of Guyana, was buried today at Golden Gate National Cemetery near his beloved San Francisco Bay.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Son Tells of Jones' Paranoia, Drug Use, Describes Cult Leader as Frightened Man With 'One of the Biggest Egos', by Leonard Greenwood, B1, Word Count: 1326

The Rev. Jim Jones, who led more than 400 followers of his Peoples Temple religious sect to their deaths in a mass suicide and murder at their jungle commune, was egotistical, paranoid and probably dependent on drugs, his 19-year-old son, Stephan, told a press conference Tuesday.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Tense Cultists Wait Quietly in Locked Temple, B3, Word Count: 478, Two dozen stunned men and women, a remnant of the Rev. Jim Jones' San Francisco flock, held fast behind locked gates Tuesday at the Peoples Temple home base, quietly attempting to puzzle out their future.

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, TV's Don Harris Eulogized at Georgia Service, A2, Word Count: 225

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, U. S. Troops Begin Ferrying Bodies From Jonestown, A2, Word Count: 335, Helicopter-borne U. S. soldiers began ferrying out the bodies of 405 American suicide-murder victims from the remote Peoples Temple commune today as hopes dwindled for 500 to 600 cult members still missing in the dense and dangerous jungle.

November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Curiosity and a Desire to See Reality, Ryan Lit Own Way to Guyana--and Darkness, by Karen Feld, D7, Word Count: 758
Saturday, Oct. 15, 1978, was the last night of the 95th session of Congress. For Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.), it was his last night in Washington before he would head back home and then, several weeks later, embark on his fact-finding trip to Guyana.
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Details Given S.F. Temple, Shocked Followers Learn the Worst Is Really True, by Robert Scheer, A1, Word Count: 662
For several days the remnants of the Rev. Jim Jones' once-powerful church--two dozen bewildered and pained people--had been huddled in their headquarters here, not believing press accounts describing the deaths of their leader and their movement.
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Fear Seizes Other Cultists, Counselor Says, Talk of Death Squads Not Taken Lightly, Encino Woman Reports, by Ken Lubas, SF1,
Fear that has gripped survivors of the Peoples Temple following last Saturday's mass suicide and murder in Guyana is grabbing hold of escapees from numerous other cults, according to the founder of the Human Freedom Center.
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Jones Had Lung Fungus and Fever, Lawyer Says, by William Endicott, A6, Word Count: 456
Peoples Temple attorney Charles R. Garry returned here Wednesday from Guyana and said he was convinced the Rev. Jim Jones was a "terribly, terribly emotionally sick person" who has been "very paranoid" for at least the past year.
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, 'Kill 'Em, Kill 'Em' Words Echoed in Temple, Jones' Aide Charged in Murders Called 'Fanatic, Totally Irrational', by Richard West, A10, Word Count: 945
Larry Layton used to stand up at meetings of the Peoples Temple planning commission in San Francisco and scream "Kill 'em! Kill 'em!" when anyone questioned policies of sect leader Jim Jones, a former member of the cult said Wednesday.
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Links to Deaths Analyzed in Foreign Press, by William Endicott, page 4,  Word Count: 456

The mass suicide-murder of hundreds of Americans in the Guyanese jungle was viewed by some of the foreign press Wednesday as rooted in the 1960s, the era that spawned both the flower children and the evil of Charles Manson.
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Mixed the Lethal Brew, Jonestown Doctor Was 'Quiet and Conscientious', by Cathleen Decker, A1, Word Count: 556
Lawrence Schacht, a June 1977 graduate of the UC Irvine college of medicine, was a quiet and conscientious young man, notable neither for brilliance nor shortcomings, according to his peers.
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Names of 32 Survivors Given , A8, Word Count: 248
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Ryan Eulogized for 'Ever-Ready' Caring, Brown Among Officials Paying Final Tribute to Congressman Slain in Guyana, by William Endicott, A6, Word Count: 675
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, She Learns 2 of Kin Dead, 7 Missing, Georgia Town Hit Again by Cult Horror, by Jeff Prugh, A6, Word Count: 615
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Social Security for Cultists in Camp Delayed, A10, Word Count: 92

November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Tense Prelude, Raid on Synanon Strangely Cordial, by Bill Farr and Bill Overend, SD3, Word Count: 672
There had been tension in the air as eight carloads of law enforcement officers drove up winding Dry Creek Road to serve a search warrant on Synanon's remote retreat called Badger.
November 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Youth Describes Dream Changed Into Nightmare, by Charles A, Krause and Leonard Downie Jr., A1, Word Count: 1014
As the mental health of Peoples Temple church leader Jim Jones deteriorated rapidly over the past year, his Jonestown agricultural commune in Guyana became a nightmarish concentration camp.


November 24, 1978, Los Angeles Times, A Preoccupation with Death, Sex, Power, by David Johnston, B1,
November 24, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Children Died in Guyana, by Jerry Cohen, A6,

November 24, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Grisly New Discoveries, A1,

November 24, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Incidents Tell a Different Story of Jones, by David Johnston, B3,

November 24, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Jones, Wife to Be Buried Back Home in Indiana, A1,
November 24, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Mother Seeking Promised Land Is Left Desolate, by Jerry Cohen, B1,

November 24, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Mystery Over Cult Survivor Total Grows, by Jerry Belcher, B1,

November 24, 1978, Los Angeles Times, The Spookiness of Cults, by Ellen Goodman, D11,

November 24, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Woman, 76, Slept During Death Orgy, B27,


November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, 400 Attend Rites for S. F. Newsman Slain in Guyana, A28,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Congress to Probe U. S. Policy on Cult, A36,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Cult Has Plan to Kill Defectors, Attorney Says, by Nardo Zacchino, A3,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Cult Reportedly Got Assets From Layton, A28,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Cult Toll Tops 900; All Bodies Removed, by Jerry Cohen, A1,
November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, For Third World Nations, Any Help is Welcome, by John Peer Nugent, J2,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Garry Recalls Jonestown's Final Days--Guns, Drugs, Madness, by Robert Scheer, A3,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, 'Just an Average American Boy, A34,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Letter Defending Temple Was Right at Time, Dymally Says, by Kenneth Reich, A29,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Psyching Out the Cults' Collective Mania, by Louis Jolyon West and Richard Delgado, J1,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Use of Death Threats by Jones Reported, by Bill Farr, A3,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, 3 Who Escaped Say They Had to Abandon Money, by Leonard Greenwood, by Leonard Greenwood and Jerry Belcher, A1,

November 26, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Cultist Letter Sought Halt to Probe in L. A., by Bill Farr, B3,


November 27, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Jones' Body to Be Cremated, B30,
November 27, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Jones' Body to Be Cremated, A30,
November 27, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Last Bodies of Mass Suicide Return to U. S., B1,
November 27, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Memo Shows Cult, Soviet Discussed Move to Russia, A1,
November 27, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Security for 70 Returning Survivors to Be Very Tight, by Jeff Prugh, A14,
November 27, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Tell of Troubled Minds, Broken Homes, B26,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Apparently Cultist Note, by Ronald J. Ostrow, B14,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Bodies of Moscone, Milk to Lie in State in S. F. City Hall, A3,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Brother Forced to Go to Jonestown, Man Says, B18,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Considered Soviet Colony, B17,
November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Crowds Line Up in Dry-Eyed Vigil, by David Johnston, B1,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Doctor Among Cult Dead, A1,
November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Flood of Letters Praised Temple Leader, by Bill Farr, C5,
November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Guyana to Decide Which of 80 Temple Survivors Will Be Held, B14,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Jonestown First Hand, by Jerry Belcher, B1;

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Moscone Showed No Fear for His Personal Safety, by George Skelton, A22,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Politics Was a Gentleman's Game for Mayor, by George Skelton, B1,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco: From Guyana, C6,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, S. F. Mayor George Moscone Slain, B1,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, The Good Fortune of Knowing 2 Honorable Men, by Warren Olney, C7,

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, The Shock Was Too Deep for Tears, by David Johnston, A10m

November 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, Writer Had Been Sounding Warning on Jonestown for Months, by Mike Goodman, B3,
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November 29, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Cult Should Reimburse U.S., Lawmakers Says, Word Count: 107
November 29, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B7, 7 Elderly Survivors Prepare to Leave Guyana, Word Count: 1,043
The first group of survivors of the Jonestown mass suicide-murders Tuesday prepared to return to the United States today. Other cult members waited anxiously for word on how long they would be

November 29, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B7, 'House of Israel, Fugitive's Cult in Guyana Flourishes, Word Count: 465
November 29, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page SD9, The Jonestown Massacre: Don't Try to Explain It,, by Colman McCarthy, Word Count: 691
How do we explain to our children the horror in Guyana? Early last week, I ran out of words. The familiar terms tragedy, madness, violence--that serve well enough in transient seizures of mayhem like the Berkowitz murders or Attica suddenly reveal the limits of language.

November 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Carter Puts Inflation Fight First, Word Count: 331
President Carter said today that if it came down to a choice between giving up the battle against inflation or being a one-term President "I would maintain the fight against inflation."
November 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B8, Reagan Rates Jim Jones' Politics, Word Count: 103
November 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B8, 7 Elderly, Penniless Cult Members Flown to U. S., Word Count: 458
Seven elderly, penniless members of the depleted Peoples Temple cult, said to be "scared" and "not feeling well," returned to the United States from Guyana Wednesday.

November 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page SD-A1, Cult Member's Family Still Hopes, by Nancy Ray, Word Count: 1,296
Donna VeZain is painfully close to tears these days. She is grieving for her daughter and grandson who were among the hundreds of Peoples Temple followers at the jungle retreat in Jonestown, Guyana.
November 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page SG1, Fears for Nine Other Relatives, by Mark Lansdsbaum, Word Count: 848
The day before 910 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones perished in the Jonestown mass murder-suicide Nov. 18, one of the Peoples Temple followers, Alvaray Satterwhite, 61, wrote her brother, Joe McGowan of Pasadena, to say she and nine other relatives there were doing fine.
November 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page SE-A1, Horror of Jonestown Touches Lives of Two Long Beach Police Officers, by Robert J. Gore, Word Count: 1,158

November 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A11, Mother Believes June Letter From Girl was Phony, Couple Grieve, but Still Hope for Cultist Daughter, Grandson, by Nancy Ray, Word Count: 1080
Donna VeZain is painfully close to tears these days She is grieving for her daughter and grandson who were among the hundreds of Peoples Temple followers at the jungle retreat in Jonestown, Guyana.
November 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A18, The Jungles of Civilized Mankind, by Phil Kerby, Word Count: 632
We are confronted in a distant jungle and in the magnificence of the City Hall of San Francisco with the mystery of human existence and the riddle of that inexplicable creature man.

December 1, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 3, Thousands Attend Funeral Mass, Euloqy for Moscone, by William Endicott, Word Count: 811
Family, friends and public officials from across the nation filled the austere and futuristic St. Mary's Cathedral to overflowing here Thursday to pay final tribute to Mayor George Moscone.
December 1, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 3, Eight of Kin Died, by Michael Seiler,
December 1, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 17, Aide to Rep. Ryan May Seek His Seat,
December 1, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 22, 2 U. S. Senators Question Temple Airlift Costs,
December 1, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 23, Secret Service, FBI Probe Cultist 'Hit List' Reports
December 1, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B1, Envoy's Guyana Story
December 1, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page F11, Don't Blame the Government for the Jonestown Massacre, by William Raspberry,
December 1, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page I1, Anxiety, Depression, Withdrawal, Reactions to a Week of Horror, by Barry Siegel, Word Count: 1509
December 1, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page I32, 'Irresponsible At This Time', by Howard Rosenberg,

December 2, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Guyana's Hours of Horror,

December 2, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A9, More Jonestown Survivors Cleared to Return to U. S.,
December 2, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A9, On-and-Off Probe Into Cult Reported,

December 3, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Wounded Envoy's Story,
December 3, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 31, Six Cult Survivors Arrive in N.Y. on Way to California,

December 3, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page G1, Violence Eclipses the Light of the Golden West, by Warren Hinckle,


December 4, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 2, The Nation,
December 4, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page F1, A City in Shock, by Harriet Stix,
December 4, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 28, S.F. Angrily Denies NBC Report on Cult Probe,
December 4, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B29, 10 More Peoples Temple Survivors Arrive in N.Y.,

December 5, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 2, For the Record,

December 5, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 3, Ryan Family Backs Aide for Congress Seat,
December 5, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A10, Ryan Family Backs Aide for Congress Job,
December 5, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 16, Cult Aides Had Close Ties to U. S. Officials, Jones' Papers Show,
December 5, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B1, Jones Drew Up 'Hit Lists' at Whim, Sources Confirm, by David Johnston,

December 5, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B2, Cult Official Allegedly Slit Throats of Own 3 Children
December 5, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page F1, 'Instant' Paperback, by Harriet Stix, Word Count: 1789
Two weeks ago, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Marshall Kilduff sat down at his typewriter to turn out an "instant" book on the Peoples Temple cult. He found the job easier than he had expected it would be after having written several stories about the group. "The phrases were already there for me. Besides, there was not a lot of time to be cute--

December 6, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page E7, At the Root of Blacks' Affinity for Cults: Utter Desperation, by Earl Ofari,

December 6, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 5, Cultist Killed Woman After Helping Her Cut Children's Throats, Guyanese Says,

December 6, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B2, Sex With Guyana Official Was Own Idea, Cultist Says,
December 6, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Peoples Temple Acts to Disband,
December 6, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B3, 6 Survivors of Suicide Return to S. F. Temple, by Doyle McManus,

December 6, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B14, Targets Changed on Whim, by David Johnston,
December 6, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B31, Jones Ties to Russia and Cuba Hinted, by Russell Chandler,

December 6, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B32, Scramble for Ryan's House Seat Begins, by William Endicott,


December 7, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Attorney Lane Seeks Immunity for Key Cult Aide, by David Johnston and Doyle McManus,
December 7, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A22, FBI Looking for Fugitives Among Guyana Survivors,

December 7, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Lane Seeks Immunity for Key Aide to Cult Leader by David Johnston and Doyle McManus,
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December 8, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Grand Jury to Hear 17 Cult Survivors, by Doyle McManus,
December 8, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B3, No Wide Probe of Cults Due, Bell Declares, by Robert Rawitch, 

December 9, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Poor and a Seeker, She Believed in Jones, by Jerry Belcher,

December 9, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A26, Hearing Set in Rep. Ryan Slaying, by David F. Belnap,
December 9, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A28, Jury Questions 11 Jonestown Survivors, by Doyle McManus,

December 9, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A29, U.S. to Release Bodies of Cult Victims, by Ellen Hume,

December 9, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B5, Reagan's Comment About Peoples Temple,



December 10, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A1, No Sense of Betrayal, by Henry Weinstein,
December 10, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A28, Religion Termed Only a Cover, by Russell Chandler,

December 11, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Temple's $3 Million Was for Killings, Woman Says,
December 11, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Cult Defector Warns Parents, by John Dart,
December 11, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B27, Peking Poster Criticizes China on Human Rights,
December 11, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page C6, Peoples Temple Survivors,


December 12, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B1, Minister Tells of Daughters, by William Endicott,
December 12, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B10, Inspires Massive Shanghai Rally, by Linda Matthews,
December 12, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B28, Guyana Inquiry 'Badly Botched,' Doctor Says,

December 12, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B28, Reported Jones Confidante Subpoenaed by Grand Jury,

December 12, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page E21, U. S. Director to Make Movie on Guyana Deaths,

December 13, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A7, Officials' Bond with Jones a Puzzle, by Charles T. Powers,
December 13, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 27, Cult Body Count Raised 2 to 913,

December 13, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 27, Jonestown Money Total Put at $1 Million, by David F. Belnap,

December 14, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B1, Once a Believer, She Confronted Jones in Guyana, by Michael Seiler,
December 14, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B1, Expenditures on Return of Bodies Rapped, by Ellen Hume,
December 14, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page D6, Socialist State Faces Economic, Political Problems, by David F. Belnap,

December 14, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page D7, 16 Cult Survivors Refuse to Testify, by Evan Maxwell,
December 14, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page D8, Bullet Killed Jones, Doctor Tells Inquest,
December 14, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page D9, Admission of Slaying Role Told,
December 14, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page G44, CBS Buys Rights to Guyana Story, by Howard Rosenberg,

December 15, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B1, A Different Picture, by Doyle McManus and Henry Weinstein,
December 15, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Inquest Tour Makes Coroner III, by Charles T. Powers,
December 15, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B22, Parents' Belief in Daughter Was Right, by William Endicott,
December 15, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B22, 112 Temple Bodies Claimed,

December 16, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A20, U. S. Knew About Suicide Rehearsals but Says It Had No Hint of 'Imminent Danger', by Kenneth Freed,


December 17, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 1, Aftershock, by Judith Michaelson and Kenneth Reich,
December 17, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 3, Jim Jones Was Republican for 6 Years, by Doyle McManus and Henry Weinstein,
December 17, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page C6, Defectors Can't Accept the Explanations, by Bella Stumbo,
December 17, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page G5, Beware the Mere Mortal Who Guarantees Salvation, by Harold M. Schulwies,

December 18, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A2, Jim Jones' Son Admits Slayings,
December 18, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A27, Bid Was Made to Send Jonestown Funds to Russians, by Charles T. Powers,
December 18, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page C1, A Searching Family's Life in Ruins, by John Hurst and George Ramos,
December 18, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page C9, 700 Jonestown Victims Were Murdered, Chief Pathologist Believes,
December 18, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page C10, Guyana: the Airlift Was Right,
December 18, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page C10, Letters to The Times,

December 19, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A2, Jim Jones Son's Confession Called Bit of 'Sarcasm',
December 19, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page 2, Other 1 -- No Title,
December 19, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B2, Other 3 -- No Title,
December 19, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B16, Jim Jones' 19-Year-Old Son Confesses He Killed Cult Aide and Her 3 Children,

December 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Temple Funds Blocked,
December 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A1, Bovan Suspect's Claims of Self-Defense Attacked, by Jeffrey Perlman,

December 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Ryan Considered Carrying Gun for Protection in Guyana, by Bill Drummond,
December 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B1, Ryan Didn't Think Jones Would Let Him Into Camp, by Ken Freed and Bill Drummond,
December 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B3, State Department Use of Privacy Act Criticized, by Bill Drummond,
December 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B20, Rev. Jim Jones' Body Cremated,

December 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B20, Ryan Press Strategy Backfired, by Bill Drummond,
December 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B22, Jones' Son Charged with Guyana Slaying of Four,
December 20, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B28, State Investigates Alleged Voting Fraud by Temple, by Evan Maxwell and Doyle McManus,
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December 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Goldwater and Stennis Reported on Temple Hit List,
December 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Ex-Aides of Jones Trade Bitter Charges, by Doyle McManus,

December 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B1, Final Agony, by Charles T. Powers,
December 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B21, Defense Tries to Bar Layton Statement,
December 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B21, Ex-Jones Aide Testifies 2 Hours for Grand Jury,
December 21, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B21, Zurich Bank Ordered to Block Jones Account,

December 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A1, N. H. Editor Says,
December 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page SD-A7, New Guyana Nightmare: Grandson's Body Missing, by Nancy Ray,
December 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page D7, It's a Merry Christmas Season, by John Peer Nugent,

December 23, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A10, Jones 'Responsible,' Guyana Jury Rules,

December 25, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B7, Nothing Is Sacred Anymore, Especially at Yuletide, by George Nicholson,

December 27, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Grand Jury Hears First Peoples Temple Witness,

December 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A10, Temple Survivors, Defectors Reunite, by Evan Maxwell,
December 28, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Charges Against Dederich 'Ridiculous,' Attorney Says, by William Overend,
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December 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A5, Cults Reported 'Growing by the Day', by Robert Welkos,
December 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A15, Witness Coercion Charged in Peoples Temple Probe,
December 30, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page A16, Popes' Deaths Top Religion Story of '78 Writers List Jonestown as Second, Camp David Talks Third, by John Dart,


December 31, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page E3, Because the Western Elite Has Brought Religious Illiteracy, by Theodore Roszak,
December 31, 1978, Los Angeles Times, page E3, The Cults' Challenge is to the 'Experts', by John Dart,
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January 2, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Layton to Stand Trial,
January 2, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B9, Russ Reportedly Returned Temple Funds to Guyana,
January 3, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B8, Cultist Layton Ordered to Face Trial in Ryan Killing,

Other 5 -- No Title
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 2, 1979; OCA;

Other 4 -- No Title
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 2, 1979; SDA;
Other 1 -- No Title
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 2, 1979; BA;



January 4, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B11, Tape of Jones' Suicide Call Described as 'Eerie',

January 5, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B26, Jones Foster Children Reported,
January 5, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page C8, Banks Checked on Peoples Temple Funds, by Bill Farr,
January 5, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page SD-A2, Jones Church Probe Focuses on Banks, by Bill Farr
January 5, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A8, Search Warrants Served on Banks in Rev. Jones Probe, by Bill Farr,

January 6, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B1, 'Instant' Books on Massacre No Bonanza,

NO RUSH FOR 'INSTANT' BOOKS ON MASS SUICIDE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 6, 1979; OC_A1;




SOUTHLAND
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 9, 1979; B2;


THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 9, 1979; SD2;


THE NATION
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 10, 1979; B2;


FIRM LOYALTY
MARK FORSTER; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 12, 1979; A1;

Postscript:
Robert Welkos; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 12, 1979; C1;


Postscript:
ROBERT WELKOS; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 13, 1979; OC_A14;


'Instant' Books on Massacre No Bonanza
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 16, 1979; SD_A5;


Newsmakers----
Jennings Parrott; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 16, 1979; SD2;

January 17, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page C2, Peoples Temple Sued
January 18, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page E1, After Guyana, 'Thank God I'm Alive', by Marlene Cimons,
January 20, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A9, U.S. Seeking $4 Million From Jones Cult, by Bill Drummond,
January 21, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, A Private Eye's Uneasy Insight Into Cult Insanity, by Evan Maxwell,
January 22, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B11, Foster-Child Deaths in Guyana Studied, by Bill Drummond,


THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 23, 1979; 2;

January 24, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Judge Orders Dissolution of Peoples Temple, by William Endicott,

January 25, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, New Mayor Seeks to Brighten S.F.'s Image, by William Endicott,
January 25, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page E1, Her Honor, S.F. Mayor Dianne Feinstein, by Beverly Beyette,



Other 46 -- No Title
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 25, 1979; E20;

TELEVISION COMMENTARY
HOWARD ROSENBERG; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 25, 1979; E1;

UC Professor Grilled on 'Voucher' School System
LANIE JONES; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 25, 1979; SD_A2;

January 27, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B11, Another Suit Filed on Peoples Temple,

January 28, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Media Accused of Distortions, by William Overend,

January 29, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A8, New 'Religion' Called Motive in Jet Hijacking, by David Johnston and Sylvia Townsend,

January 29, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B1, Hijacking Motive--New 'Religion' , by David Johnston and Sylvia Townsend,



Patty Hearst Sentence Commuted
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 29, 1979; A1;
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February 2, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B28, State Dept. Agrees to Help Move Bodies,

February 4, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Press Covered Guyana Unfairly, Minister Says, by George Ramos,

February 4, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page D1, Other Views, by Beverly Beyette,

February 5, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A2, 583 Remain Unclaimed, 

February 5, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B8, Demonstration Planned at Hearings on Cults Today,

February 6, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Rev. Jones' Son Is Exonerated,
February 6, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B7, Cults a Perilous Nuisance, Hearing Is Told, by Bill Drummond,
February 6, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B7, Court Clears Jim Jones' Son in Cult Deaths,


THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 7, 1979; OC2;

THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 7, 1979; SD2;

THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 7, 1979; B2;

Brown Moves In From All Directions
JOSEPH KRAFT; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 8, 1979; D7;


February 8, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Jim Jones' Will Omits Daughters and Boy He Had Claimed as Son
Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones left a will that specifically excluded his two daughters and mysteriously omitted a 6-year-old boy he claimed as his son and who was the focal point of a bitter paternity dispute, it was disclosed today.


February 9, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B20, Jones Names Family, Communists in Will, 341 words
Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones, in a handwritten will disclosed Thursday, left all his property to his family and, if none survived, to the Communist Party U. S. A.


REFORM HOPES DASHED
CHARLES T POWERS; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 9, 1979; D1;



News in Brief
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 13, 1979; B2;


Religionists
DON ANDERSON; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 16, 1979; D8;
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February 17, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A24, 17 Foster Children May Have Died in Jonestown, by Philip Hager,

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News in Brief
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 18, 1979; A2;


 LEGAL NOITCES 1900
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 19, 1979; E2;


THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 19, 1979; A2;
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February 20, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A12, 3 in Emotional Bid for Ryan's Seat in Congress,

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News in Brief
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 20, 1979; B2;


TRADING ON CLOSE TIES
WILLIAM ENDICOTT; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 20, 1979; B1;


New Rules Let Hypnotists Work Legally in Torrance
LEO C WOLINSKY; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 22, 1979; CS1;


Fun and Games at the Sorority House
JOY HOROWITZ; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 25, 1979; E1;


THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 26, 1979; B2;

February 28, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page D7, Jonestown Horror Lives On in Foster-Care Abuses, by George Miller,
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News in Brief
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Mar 1, 1979; B2;

March 2, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Pines Asks For '73 Court Data on Jim Jones, by Bill Farr,


THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Mar 4, 1979; B2;

March 7, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Ryan Aide, GOP Hopeful Clich Spots in Runoff,

March 8, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page 21, April 3 Runoff Slated to Fill Ryan's Seat,
March 8, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B10, New Hearing Set in Guyana Deaths

March 9, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page E1, Jonestown Survivors Tell Their Story, by Dan Sullivan and Philip Zimbardo,

March 9, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page 3, Maria Katsaris: Jones Follower All the Way to the End, by Bella Stumbo,

March 13, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, File on Jim Jones' Arrest for Lewd Conduct Unsealed, by Bill Farr,

March 14, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Ex-Jim Jones Aide Kills Self After News Conference,

March 14, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Former Aide to Jim Jones Takes Own Life With Gun,




March 14, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B2, Auction of Peoples Temple Assets Today,
Peoples Temple assets--including dental equipment, motorcycles, buses, electric organs and drums filled with wheat--will be auctioned today in San Francisco under Superior Court orders. Peoples Temple founder, the Rev. Jim Jones and about 900 of his followers died in a mass murder-sui-...


March 15, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Probe of Cult Finds Few Cases of Welfare Fraud,

March 15, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B3, 300 Attend S.F. Auction of Peoples Temple Property,

March 15, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B10, Suicides Planned Early, Tape Indicates,


Other 6 -- No Title
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Mar 15, 1979; B3;

March 17, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A31, Panel Balks at Policing Congregations Despite Temple Suicides at Jonestown,

March 19, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A1, Attorneys For People's Temple Trade Charges, by Tracy Wood,

March 21, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Whistle-Blower Defies FBI Tradition, by Ronald J. Ostrow,

March 21, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page C7, 3 Years After Deprogramming, 'Moonie' Dropout Returns to the Fold, by David E. Anderson,


March 21, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page G1, A Reluctant Crusader's Legal Forays, by William Overend, 2,545 words

March 28, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page E5, $1 Million Claim Filed in Guyana Death

March 29, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page D7, An Innocent Girl, a Charismatic Pastor, and..., by Sandra Deacon,

March 29, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B21, Judge Can't Recall Rev. Jones Case, by Bill Farr,


March 30, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B28, Court Orders Burial of Peoples Temple Victims


March 30, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A28, Court Orders Burial of Peoples Temple Victims,

April 1, 1979,  Los Angeles Times, page A3, Split Aids GOP in Ryan Seat Race, by William Endicott,

April 7, 1979, Los Angeles Times,, page B4, 'Begging for Action Against Airport Beggars', by Margaret Palmer, Bill Zeitler, Charles Danford, Virgie Kearns,

April 11, 1979,  Los Angeles Times, page B3, Link to Dymally in Church Search, by Bill Farr,
Court documents made public Tuesday reveal that the searches of the Morningland Church in Long Beach and the offices of the church's attorneys in Sherman Oaks were conducted to gather evidence of an alleged illegal $10,000 payment to then Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally.


April 12, 1979,  Los Angeles Times, page B3, Dymally Attorney Denies Allegation of Church Bribe, by Bill Farr,

April 14, 1979,  Los Angeles Times, page B1, Jews Planning Low-Key Campaign for Converts, by John Dart,


April 26 1979,  Los Angeles Times, page 9, 299 Bodies From Jonestown Massacre Bound for California,



April 26, 1979,  Los Angeles Times, page B3, 299 Massacre Victims Bound for California,



THE SOUTHLAND
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 15, 1979; 2;


50 Temple Children Buried
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 12, 1979; B11;


Esoteric Cult at Center of Church-State Controversy by Russell Chandler,
RUSSELL CHANDLER; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 6, 1979; B1;


Sect Denies Bribe, by Russell Chandler,
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 6, 1979; SD_A1;


'Missing' File Seized to Protect Curb, Lawyer Says, by Claudia Luther,
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 4, 1979; B24;


Temple Members' Bodies Due in California Today
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 1, 1979; B20;



THE SOUTHLAND
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 15, 1979; B2;


May 17, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B2, Jonestown Body Removal Cost U. S. $4.37 Million,
May 18, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page D3, 50 Cult Bodies Leave Delaware,




Dymally Files $10 Million Suit Over Search by State
CLAUDIA LUTHER; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 31, 1979; B30;



IN CONFLICT
DAVID SHAW; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 4, 1979; B1;


Religious Change Challenges Publishers
JOHN DART; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jul 14, 1979; A31;



OAU to Get Plea on Zimbabwe
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jul 16, 1979; B2;




Alameda Deputies Continue Sick-Out
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Aug 20, 1979; B2;


Fumes Fell 2 S.D. Officers
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Aug 21, 1979; SD2;



Farmers Angered by Vote, Will Boycott S.F.
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Aug 30, 1979; B2;


Riles Says Voucher Plan Would Encourage Education by 'Cults'
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Aug 30, 1979; A24;


Bill to Assist Slain Officials' Kin Advances
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Sep 13, 1979; A26;





October 4, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page CS1, Primed for Crisis, Temple Responds to Viet Refugees, by Dough Smith.


October 11, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Cult Survivors Sue Ryan Estate,




Networks Vs. Audience, Again
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Oct 13, 1979; B3;




Congress Urged to End Funding for A-Weapons
JOHN DART; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Oct 27, 1979; B6;



News in Brief
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 9, 1979; B2;


November 18, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page F5, Jonestown: A Virulent Madness That Still Awaits Exorcism, by James Reston Jr.,

November 18, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page 17, Many Shun Press, by Russell Chandler,

November 24, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B3, 'Mind Control' Tied to Mundane Events,


Newsmakers----
Jennings Parrott; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Dec 6, 1979; B2;


December 7, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page C1, Cleared 299 Defendants,



THE NATION
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Dec 18, 1979; SD2;


Calendar of Events
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Dec 27, 1979; SG8;



December 31, 1979, Los Angeles Times, page B3, Synanon Names Three in $1.25 Million Slander Suit,

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September 4, 1981, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A5, Jury Hears Confession of Layton; Prosecution Rests,

September 15, 1981, Los Angeles Times, page C8, Lawyers Prepare Closing Pleas for Abbreviated Layton Trial,


The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Sep 18, 1981; B2;



The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Sep 22, 1981; B2;


September 28, 1981, Los Angeles Times, page C5, Further Action in Layton Case Unsure,





Reagan's Church May Criticize His Policies
JOHN DART; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Aug 1, 1981; B2;





California Puts Its Willful Youth Behind and Eases Into the 1980s
HERBERT GOLD; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Aug 9, 1981; F1;



August 15, 1981, Los Angeles Times, page SD-23, Accused Ex-Cult Member Says Guyanese Forced Him to Confess, by Philip Hager,

August 18, 1981, Los Angeles Times, page C3, Confession of Cultist Stands,


A Freedom Is Compromised
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jul 24, 1981; C6;


The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 7, 1981; A2;



A Look at the Border--and at Past and Present Lookers
FRANK del OLMO; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 5, 1981; C7;


May 5, 1981, Los Angeles Times, page B20, Parents Seek $1 Million in Slaying of Son in Guyana,


A Power That Isn't
JAMES RESTON Jr; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Apr 21, 1981; C5;



DISTORTIONS CLAIMED
NORMAN KEMPSTER; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Apr 10, 1981; H18;




Church-State Relations Studied by Russell Chandler,
 Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 17, 1981; B3;



Guru's Followers Call Laguna Home
GORDON GRANT; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 9, 1981; OC_A1;


paper weight
BEN REUVEN; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 18, 1981; W8;



January 10, 1981, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Some Parallels to Jones Cult, by William Endicott,


February 21, 1981, Los Angeles Times, page A25, Layton Asks Dismissal of Conspiracy Charges,


March 1, 1981, Los Angeles Times, page C1, 9 Children Taken From Sect Families, by John Dart,


LATE NEWS
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Oct 1, 1981; A1;



Sexual Abuse Cited
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Oct 1, 1981; I7;

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The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Dec 16, 1980; B2;


News in Brief
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Dec 15, 1980; B2;

December 12, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page C1, Accused of Bizarre Rituals, Illegal Immigration, by William Claiborne,



The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 24, 1980; B2;

November 23, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page A26, Cultist to Return to State to Stand Trial in Murder,

The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 19, 1980; B2;


The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 19, 1980; 2;



Victorian Lady Stands Out, Stands Her Ground
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 10, 1980; A3;



Anti-Carter Vote Seen in State Races
WILLIAM ENDICOTT; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 6, 1980; A15;

October 10, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page D6, Cultist to Face Trial in U.S.,


LATE NEWS
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Oct 10, 1980; B1;

THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Oct 8, 1980; B2;



THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Oct 7, 1980; B2;



LATE NEWS A Dow Upswing, Too
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Oct 3, 1980; B1;



News in Brief
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Sep 18, 1980; B2;

April 5, 1980,  Los Angeles Times, page 22, 2 Accused of Plotting to Bribe Dymally, by Nancy Skelton,

April 18, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page H1, Guyana Survivor Disputes TV Version,

Gunshot Traces Found on Son
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 1, 1980; D8;


American Dead Returned to U.S. From Tehran
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 7, 1980; A7;


News in Brief
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 7, 1980; B2;



2 Women Seized as Terrorists
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 7, 1980; SD2;


May 22, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page A2, Cultist Acquitted of 4 Charges in Rep. Ryan Killing,

May 24, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page SD1, by Mark Forster, Cult Ex-Aides Say Dymally Promised Help,

May 24, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page C1, by Mark Forster, Details of Alleged Bribe Scheme Told,

May 24, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A1, Jury Transcripts Reveal Alleged Bribe Scheme, by Mark Forster,

June 11, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A2, Notes May Be Factor in Ryan Death, by Bill Farr,

June 11, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page SD-A2, Ryan Took Notes on Vice Arrest of Jones to Guyana, by Bill Farr,

RELIGION NOTES
JOHN DART; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 14, 1980; B5;


June 17, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page OC-A5, Judge Denies He Erred in Jones' Case, by Bill Farr,

June 23, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page C7, A Death in Guyana Has Meaning for Third World, by James Petras,


THE STATE
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Aug 1, 1980; B2;


January 15, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page A5, U.S. Inquiry of Dymally Dropped, by Kenneth Reich,

News in Brief
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Feb 20, 1980; B2;


February 28, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page B22, Slain Couple Mentioned on Cult Tape, by Russell Chandler,

February 29, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page A2, Mother's Epitaph: 'Damn State Dept.',

March 13, 1980, Los Angeles Times, page A22, 2 Awaiting Trials in Guyana Join Suit for Temple's Property,


Evidence Against Dymally Insufficient, U.S. Decides
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 14, 1980; A3;
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May 26, 1985, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Forensic Expert Widely Consulted, by Scott Kraft,


The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jul 30, 1985; A2;


August 4, 1985, Los Angeles Times, page F1, Once-Notorious '60s Commune Evolves Into Respectability, by David Johnston,

August 7, 1985, Los Angeles Times, page 11, Guyana's President Burnham Dies at 62, by William R. Long,

September 12, 1985, Los Angeles Times, page B2, U.S. to Retry Layton in '78 Death of Rep. Ryan,
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Brown Is No Longer 'Shaking,' Sees Party Gains in Assembly
RICHARD C PADDOCK;JERRY GILLAM; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 5, 1986; 3;

August 30, 1986, Los Angeles Times, page 29, Ex-Jonestown Cult Disciple Denied Jury's Transcripts,

The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 21, 1986; B2;

October 11, 1986, Los Angeles Times, page 32, Second Trial of Former Peoples Temple Member Under Way, by Lonn Johnston, Word Count 641
Former Peoples Temple member Larry Layton went on trial again Friday on federal charges of conspiring to kill a U.S. congressman and diplomat just hours before the mass suicide-murder in Jonestown that took the lives of cult leader Jim Jones and 912 followers

October 26, 1986, Los Angeles Times, page SB1, Despite Controversy, Odds Favor Dymally, by Bob Williams,

November 2, 1986, Los Angeles Times, page V4, Westlake Village Man Honored Posthumously for Fighting Cult,

November 19, 1986, Los Angeles Times, page 29, Layton Called Part of Plot at Jonestown,

November 20, 1986, Los Angeles Times, page B30, Layton Made Scapegoat, Defense Argues,


December 2, 1986, Los Angeles Times, page 16, Jury Finds Layton Guilty in '78 Jonestown Murders, by Mark A. Stein,

December 2, 1986, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Jury Finds Layton Guilty in '78 Jonestown Murders, by Mark A. Stein,

December 14, 1986, Los Angeles Times, page A3, Speier Feels Fate Put Her in Guyana, Assembly, by Leo C. Wolinsky,

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The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jan 26, 1987; A2;

January 26, 1987, Los Angeles Times, The State : Layton Hearing Delayed
U.S. District Judge Robert Peckham in San Francisco postponed sentencing of former People's Temple member Larry Layton until March 3, giving Layton's new lawyer time to prepare for the hearing and for a request that Layton get a new trial. Layton was convicted on Dec. 1 of conspiring to murder California congressman Leo Ryan and a foreign service officer in an ambush that led to the Jonestown massacre in November, 1978. Robert R.

March 4, 1987, Los Angeles Times, page C3, Layton Sentenced to Life in Ryan's Death, by Dan Morain,
Larry Layton was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for his role in conspiring to murder Rep. Leo Ryan in Guyana in 1978. But Layton, saying he wishes he could ease the pain of survivors of the Jonestown massacre, could be freed within five years. U.S. District Judge Robert F. Peckham recommended that parole authorities consider releasing Layton in five years.


The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Mar 13, 1987; C2;

The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Mar 31, 1987; C2;

April 1, 1987, Los Angeles Times / AP, Peoples Temple's Layton Goes Free Pending Appeal
Former Peoples Temple member Larry Layton was released Tuesday on $250,000 bail while he appeals his conviction and life sentence on charges of aiding in the 1978 murder of a congressman. Layton, 41, was freed after his father, Laurence Layton of Emeryville, posted $25,000 in checks with a federal magistrate. The father would have to forfeit the entire $250,000 if his son jumps bail.

April 1, 1987, Los Angeles Times, page C26, Man Pleads Guilty in Traci Lords Porn Case,

April 24, 1987, Los Angeles Times, page 2, Layton, Jones Had Sexual Relationship, Lawyer Says,

May 1, 1987, Los Angeles Times, page C2, The State

June 4, 1987, Los Angeles Times, page B2, Layton Trial Bid Rejected,

Layton Trial Bid Rejected
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 4, 1987; SD2;
Layton Trial Bid Rejected
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 4, 1987; 14;
Layton Trial Bid Rejected
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 4, 1987; OC2;

June 4, 1987, Los Angeles Times, The State : Layton Trial Bid Rejected
Former Peoples Temple member Larry Layton lost his attempt to get a new trial on charges of aiding in the murder of Rep. Leo Ryan (D-San Mateo) and diplomat Richard C. Dwyer in Guyana nine years ago. Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Peckham in San Francisco rejected the claim by Layton's new attorney that the defendant was denied effective legal representation because his trial lawyers failed to learn that he faced a mandatory life sentence if convicted and did not put on an insanity defense.

June 15, 1987,  Associated Press, Judge Revokes Layton's Bail
Calling former Peoples Temple member Larry Layton "a man of desperation" who lied under oath, a federal judge today revoked his bail during the appeal of his conviction for aiding in the 1978 murder of a congressman. Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Peckham ordered Layton held without bail, withdrawing a ruling of late March that freed Layton on $250,000 bail pending appeal. Layton was convicted Dec. 1 of conspiracy and aiding and abetting the November, 1978, murder of Rep.

The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 16, 1987; SD2;
The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 16, 1987; B2;
The State
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Jun 16, 1987; OC2;

June 22, 1987, Los Angeles Times, page B1, Ecclesia--New Life or Another Cult Invasion?, by Lois Timnick,

Jet Fire Leads to Flight Curbs
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 19, 1987; B2;

Travel Fraud Figure Jailed
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 19, 1987; OC2;

Brown's Compelling Duality Unveiled
HILLIARD HARPER; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Nov 24, 1987; SD_D1;

Dianne Feinstein's Not Stepping Down, She's Stepping Out
MARK STEIN; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Dec 21, 1987; B3;
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Activist Attorney Receives Award Named After Him
LYNN OSHAUGHNESSY; Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 15, 1988; B1;

June 5, 1988, Los Angeles Times, What Were They Thinking as They Died in Jonestown,


June 5, 1988, Los Angeles Times, What Were They Thinking as They Died in Jonestown? : Salvation and Suicide An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown by David Chidester (Indiana University Press: $18.95; 190 pp.) by  John Dart, Times religion writer,
On Nov. 18, 1978, at a jungle commune in Guyana called Jonestown, 914 men, women and children died in a mass murder-suicide. Their leader was the Rev. Jim Jones, who had moved most of his Peoples Temple members from California the year before. The deaths occurred shortly after Jones ordered the ambush of a congressman and news reporters about to leave Guyana with 14 dissatisfied members. News of the act stun

June 23, 1988, Los Angeles Times, page C1, Historic-Cultural Monuments, by Richard Simon,


June 23, 1988, Los Angeles Times, page A1, Key to Kitschy, by Richard Simon,


July 17, 1988, Los Angeles Times, page 3, Speier Expects Historic Niche in Assembly as Its First Mother, by Ken Hoover,


August 16, 1988, Los Angeles Times, page 2, Layton Conviction Upheld in Ryan Jonestown Slaying,


August 17, 1988, Los Angeles Times, page B2, S.F. to Pay Blind Woman,


August 17, 1988, Los Angeles Times, The State
The murder-conspiracy conviction of former Peoples Temple cult member Larry Layton in the 1978 death of Rep. Leo Ryan was upheld by a federal appeals court in San Francisco. Layton, 42, is currently at Terminal Island Federal Prison serving a life term for Ryan's killing. Layton was never accused of the actual shooting of Ryan. However, he was considered part of a conspiracy concocted by Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones to get rid of dissenters and silence critics.


November 17, 1988, Los Angeles Times / AP, How Jonestown Snared a Child, by Lisa Levitt Ryckman,
John Victor Stoen died in a South American jungle 10 years ago, the object of a struggle over which he had no control, a victim of an evil he would never understand. The last taste in his mouth was grape drink poisoned with cyanide. The last words from his lips--that anyone lived to recount--were "I don't want to die. I don't want to die." John Victor Stoen was 6 years old. On Nov. 18, 1978, 912 members of the Peoples Temple committed suicide or were murdered at the urging of the Rev.

November 17, 1988, Los Angeles Times, page G1, How Jonestown Snared a Child, by Lisa Ryckman,

November 18, 1988, Los Angeles Times, page B22, Little Remains of Peoples Temple Outpost Where 913 Died : 10 Years Later, Jonestown Is a Site of Silent Desolation, by William R. Long, Times Staff Writer
In 10-year-old photographs, the ground around the Jonestown pavilion is covered with bodies of men, women and children. More than 900 people had received a fatal potion of poison in Jim Jones' grisly ritual of suicide and murder. Today, the infamous spot is covered with a dense mat of green weeds, flanked by a large bougainvillea bush that blooms in a cascade of bright purple. Little remains of the pavilion. Only three of its many support poles still stand to mark the spot.

November 19, 1988, Los Angeles Times, Jonestown Did Little to Hinder New Movements : Formation of Cults Continues in '80s, Researcher Says, by John Dart, Times Religion Writer
A leading chronicler of religious movements in the United States says that the formation of what many call "cults" has continued unabated in the 1980s--despite the wary atmosphere created since the Jonestown mass murder-suicides 10 years ago this week.
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March 19, 1989, Los Angeles Times, page G5, Foes of Assault Rifles Won bv Keeping to the Specifics, by Mary Anne Dolan,


May 25, 1989, Los Angeles Times, page E1, Satan Sleuths, by Dianne Klein,
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March 10, 1990, Los Angeles Times, California In Brief: SAN FRANCISCO : Peoples Temple OKd for Demolition, From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Demolition of the earthquake-damaged Peoples Temple, former headquarters of a sect headed by the Rev. Jim Jones, was approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission over the objections of preservationists. The current owner of the three-story brick building, the Korean Central Presbyterian Church, said it could not afford an estimated $3.5 million to save the 85-year-old structure. City engineers called for demolition of the building after the October earthquake caused a wall to collapse. The Peoples Temple met in the building in the 1960s and early 1970s before moving to Guyana, where Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in a mass murder-suicide.


May 18, 1991, Los Angeles Times, The Truth About 'Tru'
Jay Presson Allen may justifiably feel a sense of satisfaction at what writer Kari Granville calls a "perfect fit of substance to form" in Allen's writing of "Tru" (April 22), but she has overlooked a glaring error in logic. In the dialogue Allen writes "with great facility," Truman Capote says he's collected enough drugs to stage his own Jonestown massacre, which occurred in November, 1978. Since the action passes during Christmas week of 1975, how could even the witty Tru have known about it three years in advance?

November 19, 1991, Los Angeles Times, Made Up Jonestown Story to Aid Group, Man Says
A man who called a news conference Monday in Los Angeles on the 13th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre told reporters that he had falsely claimed to be a survivor of the Guyana tragedy in order to raise "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for the Cult Awareness Network in Chicago.

Gary Scarff said that network personnel encouraged him to tell untrue stories about surviving the blood bath that claimed 914 lives in order to finance their cult deprogramming work.

Cynthia Kisser, executive director of the network, denied Scarff's claims, saying in a telephone interview that when she and her associates began to doubt his increasingly "wild" stories about being at Jonestown, he complained bitterly and left the organization.

Kisser said that Scarff is currently being supported by the Church of Scientology, a group that has been the target of ongoing investigations by the Cult Awareness Network. Scarff said he is not affiliated with Scientology.

March 6, 1993, Los Angeles Times, Time, Logging Begin to Erase Site of Jonestown : Cult: Visitors find that a timber firm's road and encroaching vegetation are taking a toll on the former commune. Some want a memorial to the tragedy, by Tim Reiterman,
The day before a cult siege began in Waco, Tex., a group of Americans coincidentally had ventured into a remote jungle of Guyana to view the overgrown site of another cult tragedy that occurred nearly 15 years ago.

The visitors found the going surprisingly easy, however, because a two-lane dirt road had been carved through the rusted and rotted remains of Jonestown, the one-time Peoples Temple commune.

To the foreign timber company that holds a government lease there, the graded route is a direct way to reach millions of acres of surrounding forests and does no harm.

"There was always a road through Jonestown," said Sandra Seeraj, spokeswoman for Barama Co. Ltd. "It was improved for access. The former Jonestown site has been taken over by secondary vegetation. There is nothing left but a few pieces of equipment."

But to some Guyanese--and others--Jonestown remains a place of symbolic importance. There, Jim Jones and 913 followers, including a number of Guyanese children, died in a ritual of suicide and murder that shocked the world, heightened awareness of cult-like religious groups and embarrassed a struggling Third World nation.

"Lots of people want to forget it," said Gerry Gouveia, the pilot who escorted a group of American business people and consular officials to Jonestown last Saturday. "But I believe that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." After visiting Jonestown, Gouveia wrote a letter urging the Guyanese government to protect the site.

"We were appalled," he said in a phone interview. "The site was bulldozed and razed to accommodate a large road that bisected the entire Jonestown site. Mementos . . . were all forced aside and covered with mounds of earth."

On Tuesday, the issue was taken up at a meeting of the Guyanese Cabinet, and President Cheddi Jagan ordered one of his ministers to halt any operations at Jonestown until the matter could be investigated.

"President Jagan was alarmed this happened," said Moses Nagamootoo, senior minister of information. "The Cabinet reacted with a sense of disappointment and despondency that Jonestown came under the plow. It is more than a piece of land. It is a part of history."

In 1991, Barama Co., a joint venture of South Korean and Malaysian interests, obtained a 4.1-million-acre timber lease from the Guyana government, then headed by Desmond Hoyte. The company plans to ship the logs to a plywood factory that is under construction.

To prepare for logging, the company made road improvements. The grading only skirted the Jonestown site, Seeraj said, noting that she had visited late last year and had to walk some distance to view the remnants. "It's not as though we have bulldozed what was once Jonestown," she said. "What little is left . . . is still there. What's all the fuss if we refurbish a road that already was there?"

After the Jonestown tragedy on Nov. 18, 1978, the settlement had disintegrated slowly. The Guyanese army at first guarded it, hoping that the 3,850-acre farm could be resurrected, but no one wanted to live there. The government carted off useful machinery, and the place was later abandoned to the jungle and scavengers, who dismantled buildings.

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April 23, 1993, Los Angeles Times, Parallel Roads Led to Jonestown, Waco : Cults: Similar forces shaped Jim Jones and David Koresh into the violent, power-mad "messiahs" who doomed their followers to death, by Tim Reieterman,

"Do you want me to pull back the heavens and show you my anger?" --David Koresh under siege

"I don't mind losing my life. What about you? . . . I'd just as soon bring it to a gallant, glorious screaming end."--Jim Jones to his followers

This time it was fire. Last time it was a cyanide potion.

Though separated by nearly 15 years and thousands of miles, Jonestown, Guyana, and Waco, Tex., were the tragic culminations of hauntingly similar events shaped by two eccentric preachers who pretended to be more than mortal.

Jim Jones and David Koresh traveled some of the same roads toward their final destiny, driven by a craving for power and adulation. And in the end, it was gunfire that left them and their followers with no escape.

America's Bible country produced them both. Jones hailed from Indiana. Koresh was born Vernon Howell in Texas.

Each had a troubled childhood. Jones felt himself an outcast in his churchy hometown in the heartland. Koresh, branded as a boy with learning disabilities, dropped out during his first year of high school.

But both found succor and success in religion. As a boy, Jones possessed such a gift for spinning words and reading Scripture that he was put on the pulpit. It is said that Koresh, who was as shy as Jones was brassy, committed the New Testament to memory by his 12th birthday.

As adults, their ventures into the world of organized religion were stormy. Misfits, outsiders looking in, they ultimately sculpted their own churches and their own exalted images.

Aided by faith-healing fakery, Jones proclaimed himself the "Second Coming" and the ultimate humanitarian and socialist. Koresh was "The Lamb of God" and doomsday prophet.

Jones borrowed liberally from the Methodist Social Creed and received an ordination certificate from the Assemblies of God. His own Peoples Temple was sanctioned by the Disciples of Christ denomination, which provided a mantle of legitimacy, though he also lifted some techniques from Father Divine in Philadelphia and the Macumba cult in Brazil.

Koresh was baptized a Seventh-day Adventist in 1979 and two years later was expelled, in part because of his interpretations of the Bible. He then linked up with a splinter group called the Branch Davidians but had to wage a gunfire-punctuated battle to gain control of the sect.

Like other communalists before them, Jones and Koresh gravitated to California and its fertile recruiting territory. An organizational wizard, Jones established temples in Ukiah, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Though Koresh kept his base in Texas, he had at least three houses in Southern California, including one in La Verne, where he lived with 18 women, and he wooed a number of young Hollywood rock musicians to his church band.

On recruiting forays, Jones crisscrossed the nation in buses with hundreds of followers, while Koresh jetted to Hawaii, Canada, Australia and Britain. But both preachers tended to attract religious, well-intentioned people. The Peoples Temple boasted several thousand members at its peak, the Branch Davidians perhaps 150.

In their endless harangues, both men bent the Bible to shake the traditional beliefs of their followers--and to suit their own needs. Growing increasingly grandiose, they professed to be a pipeline to God, then God himself. They became the ultimate word on how to live--and die.

By degrees, they took control of the lives of their people. They determined eating habits. They dictated sexual mores. They persuaded followers to surrender money, property and even their wives. They took mistresses and sired children out of wedlock.

Jones and Koresh became father figures--dispensers of love and discipline. They directed the paddling of errant followers, adults and children alike.

By preaching apocalyptic visions of the future, they promoted a siege mentality within their churches. Jones reinforced this through faked attacks on his life and his ever-present bodyguards. Koresh told people a decade ago that he would die as a martyr.

These two leaders also demanded absolute loyalty. They wanted people who were willing to die--and kill--for them. They armed their followers and packed pistols.

Over time, they also conditioned their flocks to accept suicide. Years before Jones went to Guyana, he conducted a rehearsal: He had Temple members drink grape juice, then told them it was poison and that they would die. Koresh told the children that they could take cyanide or put a gun barrel in their mouth and fire.

While Koresh and his cult appeared to have isolationist tendencies, the Peoples Temple bore hallmarks of a social movement. Jones espoused racial equality and embraced liberal causes.

He built alliances with politicians, such as then-state Assemblyman Willie Brown, then-San Francisco County Sheriff Richard Hongisto and then-San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. As a community leader, Jones was elevated to boards and commissions wherever he went.

However, both he and Koresh came under the scrutiny of the press and government agencies. Anticipating an onslaught of damaging news stories, Jones retreated with nearly 1,000 followers to their agricultural commune in the remote jungle of Guyana and stockpiled a small arsenal.

Koresh hunkered down in his heavily armed Waco compound as a local newspaper and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigated him for possible weapons violations and child molestation.

Amid all this was a semblance of normalcy. The children of Jonestown went to school, danced and watched home videos. The Branch Davidian children knew about the movies "Kindergarten Cop" and "Beauty and the Beast" and about go-carts.
Soon enough the enemies Jones and Koresh had railed about for years came after them, fulfilling their prophesies.
In Jonestown and Waco, gunfire closed off the last avenues of escape. Federal agents were killed and wounded as they raided Koresh's headquarters, leaving him and many followers facing possible prison terms or worse. An inferno engulfed Koresh and more than 80 of his people seven weeks later.
After a fact-finding visit by Rep. Leo Ryan of California on Nov. 18, 1978, Jones knew he was going to be exposed as an abusive tyrant. He sent gunmen to a nearby airstrip and they killed Ryan, San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson, NBC newsmen Don Harris and Bob Brown, and Temple defector Patricia Parks as they boarded a plane to leave.
Later, Jones stood before more than 900 of his followers and announced: "The congressman has been murdered. . . . It's all over."
"What a legacy. What a legacy," he cried. "Don't be afraid to die." Then he ordered vats of cyanide-laced punch brought forward. He convinced his people they had no way out, that death at the hands of government troops would await them.
Both tragedies were widely described as mass suicides, but the Guyana tragedy was as much a mass murder as a suicide. Jones had absolute control. Dozens of adult corpses had needle marks, and eyewitnesses said some people were forcibly injected with poison. The compound was surrounded by guards with guns and crossbows to prevent escape. And nearly 300 children died, some infants who had poison squirted into their mouths.
What happened behind the walls, gunfire and flames of Waco on Monday may never be clear, but it was reported that Koresh tightly controlled his flock--and two dozen children died.
In the aftermath of each tragedy, criticism rained down on government agencies for their handling of both cases. Speculation will no doubt persist about how and whether these tragedies could have been averted.
It was Jones and Koresh, however, who set the stage for the self-destruction of themselves and those they professed to love. And their final scenes harked back to the sign above Jones' throne that began: "Those who do not remember the past . . . "
Reiterman, The Times deputy metro editor for special projects, investigated the Peoples Temple for a year and a half prior to Jonestown as a San Francisco Examiner reporter. He was wounded in the gunfire that killed Ryan and four others. He is the author, with John Jacobs, of "Raven: The Untold Story of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People."

Echoes of Jonestown

A look at the leaders at Jonestown and Waco and the horrors they orchestrated. BACKGROUND

Jonestown November, 1978 The Rev. Jim Jones and members of his People's Temple in Guyana commit mass suicide after followers kill Rep. Leo Ryan of California and four others who had come to check on allegations of member mistreatment.

Waco April, 1993 David Koresh and members of his Branch Davidian cult perish in an inferno at the Texas compound. FBI says fire was set by cult members; survivors say FBI tank started blaze while striking the compound.

HOW THEY COMPARE

Jonestown Waco Name of cult People's Temple Branch Davidians Peak number of members Several thousand Several hundred Killed in murder/suicide 913 86 Children killed 300 24 Years compound operated 1974-'78 Late 1980s-93 Size of compound 300 acres 77 acres Method of death Grape drink laced with Fire; also possible potassium cyanide; gunfire also gunfire

Sources: State Department; Times staff

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November 19, 1993, Los Angeles Times, Jonestown Lives On as a Reminder of Cults' Dangers : Religion: After 15 years of grieving, victims' relatives plan to erect a memorial to the hundreds who died, by Richard C. Paddock,

OAKLAND — This is where the followers of the Peoples Temple are gathered: a mass grave with more than 400 bodies marked only by a single tombstone.

Infants in tiny coffins are buried along with their siblings and parents, aunts and uncles, in a large pit without even a list of their names for others to remember them by.

It is as if society did its best to forget the grotesque tragedy of Jonestown, Guyana, where 913 cult members led by the Rev. Jim Jones died in a final act of mass murder and suicide 15 years ago Thursday.

Now, surviving family members say, the time has come to remember Jonestown and let it serve as a reminder of the danger of religious cults that prey on the vulnerable and the selfless.

To keep alive the memory of the victims, they plan to erect a granite wall that will list everyone who died at Jonestown.

Everyone except Jim Jones.

"Those were our family, our friends and neighbors," said Los Angeles Pastor Jynona Norwood, who lost 27 relatives at Jonestown. "They were a dedicated and loving community of people who believed in and cared what they did. They need to be remembered with dignity because they were deceived by this man."

As they have every year for the last 15 years, survivors and family members gathered at the mass grave Thursday for a simple memorial service.

But this year, with plans for the memorial wall and the fiery destruction of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, there has been a resurgence of interest in the lessons of Jonestown and a renewed willingness among survivors to discuss the horror. The 75 people who attended the service far outnumbered those of previous years.

"The sense of shame that they were part of Jonestown has kept many survivors in hiding," said the Rev. John Moore, who lost two daughters and a grandson in Jonestown. "It has taken 15 years for people who have felt the pain most deeply to become public."

Stephan Jones, the son of Jim Jones, attended the service, explaining, "I'm here to pay my respects."

Also present was Patricia Ryan, the daughter of Bay Area Rep. Leo Ryan, who went to investigate Jonestown and was shot to death by Jim Jones' followers. As president of the Cult Awareness Network, Ryan's daughter has taken up the cause of exposing cults.

"There's a collective American psyche that doesn't want to admit that it happened, let alone that it could happen again," she said. "They want to bury it."

What happened at Jonestown was beyond imagination.

Jones, who had founded the Peoples Temple near Ukiah and later moved to San Francisco, had promised to create a utopia, where people of different races, education and skills could work together for the common good.

His social service programs for the poor and elderly won him praise. He was well-connected with some of the region's prominent political figures, even winning appointment to the San Francisco Housing Authority.

But in the 1970s, with the Peoples Temple coming under growing scrutiny for abusing its members, Jones and many of his followers moved to an isolated settlement they had carved out of the jungle of Guyana.

In 1978, prompted by the concerns of relatives that Jones was holding people there against their will, Ryan traveled to Jonestown to see for himself and to take out anyone who wished to leave.

Ryan was about to board his plane with a handful of defectors when gunmen dispatched by Jones opened fire, killing the congressman, three newsmen and one of the defectors and wounding 11 others.

Back at the compound, Jones announced that the community would soon be under attack and put into effect a plan of mass suicide that his followers had rehearsed many times.

The children were the first to die.

Grape-flavored punch laced with cyanide was squirted into the mouths of infants and given to children to drink. As the small bodies piled up, adults drank the punch or were shot by gunmen who enforced the order of mass suicide.

Only 85 people escaped, including a few who managed to flee into the jungle. Others, like three of Jones' sons, survived because they were not at Jonestown that day.

In the aftermath, members of the Peoples Temple were branded as kooks. Survivors, including those who had remained in California, felt ostracized and could not find work.

Some jurisdictions, including Marin County, even refused to accept the remains of Jonestown victims for burial.

Ultimately, the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland agreed to bury 406 victims whose names were known but whose bodies could not be identified. Many of those interred in the mass grave were children, for whom there were no fingerprints or dental records.

For the survivors, it is important that the victims now be remembered as good people who were drawn to Jones by the ideals that he preached and were manipulated into fulfilling his death wish.

They also want the public to understand that the Peoples Temple was just one of many cults over the centuries that have ended in self-destruction.

When the Branch Davidian compound erupted into flames in April, killing 86 cult members, it underscored for Jonestown survivors how poorly society understands the nature of religious cults.

"The sadness for me is that for all the blood that was shed and for all the lives that were lost, we don't seem to have learned from the Jonestown massacre," said Assemblywoman Jackie Speier (D-Burlingame), who as an aide to Ryan was shot five times during the airport attack.

For some relatives, the passage of time has not even begun to reduce the pain.

Fred Lewis, a retired San Francisco butcher, lost his wife, seven children, and 19 other relatives at Jonestown.

"It's just been turmoil for 15 years," he said. "I wake up through the night screaming and hollering."

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March 28, 1997, Los Angeles Times, Jonestown's Lessons Still Go Unheeded, by Tim Reiterman,
| Tim Reiterman investigated Peoples Temple for 1 1/2 years as a San Francisco Examiner reporter, and one of his stories led Rep. Leo Ryan to conduct a fact-finding mission to Jonestown in November 1978. Ryan was shot to death in an airport ambush there, along with three newsmen and a Temple defector. Reiterman was wounded and later wrote a history of the Temple

It was deja vu: Too many bodies, life snuffed out, arranged neatly in restful repose, showing no obvious signs of violence. In one case, the dead were shielded from the sun by the red-tiled roof of a million-dollar mansion in a wealthy Southern California enclave. In the other, they lay bloated around a tin-roofed pavilion in the jungle of a deeply impoverished South American country.

But the death rituals of Peoples Temple and Heaven's Gate--separated by nearly two decades and thousands of miles--will be linked forever.

Although other mass suicides have jolted the world in recent years, the discovery Wednesday afternoon of 39 bodies in Rancho Santa Fe harks back like no other to the worst such event in modern times: the deaths of the Rev. Jim Jones and 912 followers in Guyana.

These distinctly American tragedies underscore the unspeakable carnage that can flow from the surrender of individual wills to the twisted demands of a doomsday cult. And this week's tragedy--like those in the intervening years--demonstrates that the profound lessons of Jonestown have gone unheeded.

"I think people should have learned something from Jonestown--but they haven't learned a damn thing," said Fred Lewis, who lost 27 relatives, including his wife and seven children.

While much about the cyberspace-based cult remains unknown, initial reports indicate there are not only some striking contrasts to Peoples Temple but also similar dynamics that bound the members to the groups for life--and into death.

On the surface, the Heaven's Gate group appeared monastic and reclusive. The members of the sect wore dark clothing, shaved their heads and interacted only minimally with outsiders while building a computer programming business.

But Peoples Temple bordered on becoming a social movement. With thousands of members in California, Jones sought the limelight, winning public appointments, putting his troops on the streets for demonstrations, wooing politicians from the mayor of San Francisco to future First Lady Rosalynn Carter.

Contrary to widespread belief that cults only attract the ignorant and confused, both organizations appeared to draw a number of highly competent people of various ages and colors. And this enabled them to build successful economic bases.

While members of Heaven's Gate were paid to create World Wide Web sites for clients on the Internet, Temple members held high-profile positions with the district attorney and the local welfare department, ran homes for the elderly and took in foster children.

The Temple wound up with about $10 million in assets, most from members who signed over everything they owned. The resources of Heaven's Gate were sufficient for the group to operate in three states and to lease the 10-bedroom estate in Rancho Santa Fe.

Each group spoke to the outside world using the most effective instrument available. The Temple made promotional films and had its own widely distributed newspaper; Heaven's Gate established its own site in cyberspace.

Using biblical metaphors, the leaders of each of the groups fostered feelings that the members were special--Jones' minions were the Chosen People, Heaven's Gate's were Angels.

And each group believed in life after death. The followers of the computer cult believed that a UFO would whisk them to another place. "The other side," Jones called it.

Both leaders were called "Father." And their followers were subject to controls that went so far as to dictate sexual practices. Heaven's Gate members were required to be celibate; Temple mores were whatever Jones wanted at the time.

Each group harbored a dark side--the concept of mass suicide. In his paranoid rantings, Jones conducted rehearsals in California, and later in Guyana after news media revelations and other pressures forced his retreat to the church's agricultural commune there.

After the Jonestown tragedy, information emerged that many of the victims were murdered. Dozens of adults were forcibly injected or shot, and hundreds of children were killed.

Heaven's Gate at least hinted that members planned to kill themselves to rendezvous, they believed, with a UFO approaching Earth from behind the Hale-Bopp comet.

Whether government agencies were aware of this is unclear. But Dr. Chris Hatcher, a San Francisco psychologist who has worked with former cult members, said anti-cult groups were not cognizant of the danger.

"There's a misperception that this group was on the radar screen of people who are concerned about violent cults," he said. "They were not."

By contrast, law enforcement agencies and the U.S. State Department were long aware of allegations that Jones had threatened mass suicide but apparently did not take the threat seriously. The Federal Communications Commission, which was monitoring Peoples Temple radio transmissions from Guyana, once even recorded a discussion about a mass suicide rehearsal.

"When is the government going to do something to protect people from this sort of tragedy," said Clare Bouquet of Burlingame, who called on government agencies for help before her son Brian perished in Jonestown.

In the computer-filled Rancho Santa Fe house, the 39 apparently perished from overdoses of sleeping pills, their bodies shrouded in purple triangles of cloth. For the most part, the Jonestown inhabitants died from a purple cyanide-laced fruit punch--not far from a sign:

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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November 14, 1998, Los Angeles Times, Remembering Jonestown, by Tim Reiterman,
For 20 years now, in sun, fog and rain, they have come to a grassy hillside overlooking San Francisco Bay to share tears, hugs and their private pain--and to remember the unfathomable events of another Nov. 18. Often seeming outnumbered by reporters, they collect around a small stone monument in Evergreen Cemetery, link hands and pray. Later, in small clutches, they reminisce and trade news about their lives after that day.

November 19, 1998, Los Angeles Times, Mourners Recall Jonestown Tragedy, by Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer,
As mourners assembled Wednesday for the 20th annual services commemorating the Jonestown tragedy, a Los Angeles business executive pledged funds for a long-sought memorial wall to be inscribed with the names and ages of more than 900 victims of the mass murders and suicides in Guyana. Almost 150 people gathered for the three-hour service, including dozens of Jonestown survivors and ex-members. Children of slain Rep. Leo Ryan and the man who had him killed, the Rev

December 16, 1999, Los Angeles Times, Jonestown's Horror Fades but Mystery Remains,

November 19, 2003, Los Angeles Times, Hell's 25-Year Echo: The Jonestown Mass Suicide, by Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
On a grassy slope in Oakland, more than 400 take their final rest, mostly children who were unclaimed or unidentified. And across San Francisco Bay, a U.S. congressman is buried in a national cemetery not far from a park that bears his name. Their lives converged 25 years ago Tuesday in a South American jungle clearing that has come to symbolize the worst that organized religion, cults and madness can reap. "The people of Jonestown were a precious people, family people," the Rev.

April 10, 2005, Los Angeles Times, Out of Jim Jones' shadow, by Don Shirley, Times Staff Writer
A black rag doll. A burgundy choir robe. A bulletproof vest. Denice Stephenson carefully lifts a few of the remnants of Jonestown from their storage boxes. Much of the detritus of that ill-fated, would-be utopia is kept here, in a vault at the headquarters of the California Historical Society. A volunteer archivist, Stephenson places several of the hundreds of handwritten letters and photos on a long table.

October 23, 2006, Los Angeles Times, A return to `Jonestown', by Susan King
Three years ago, Emmy Award-winning documentarian Stanley Nelson ("The Murder of Emmett Till") was listening to radio interviews with surviving members of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple on the 25th anniversary of the mass suicide of more than 900 of its members at Jonestown in Guyana, South America.

October 27, 2006, Los Angeles Times, Making sense of Jonestown, by Kenneth Turan, Times Staff Writer
Why did they do it? In the nearly 30 years since more than 900 people died in what's been called the largest mass suicide-murder in history, the question of why so many otherwise seemingly rational human beings could be persuaded to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in the jungles of Guyana has been one of the most haunting of our time. The riveting documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" comes as close as we are going to get to answering that question.

October 23, 2011, Los Angeles Times, Book review: 'A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown', by Carolyn Kellogg,
A Thousand Lives The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown Julia Scheeres Free Press: 320 pp., $26 Before Julia Scheeres came along, Thom Bogue had not talked publicly about Jonestown. But when he realized that, like him, she had also been a troubled teen sent to a tropical religious camp - which she chronicled in the bestselling memoir "Jesus Land" - he decided to share his experiences. At 15, Tommy was sent from California to Guyana, where he lived for two years under the increasingly bizarre control of the Rev. Jim Jones.

November 17, 2011, Los Angeles Times, Daum: Don't 'drink the Kool-Aid', by Meghan Daum,
Drunk any Kool-Aid lately? Or maybe you accused someone else of doing it? If so, congratulations, you're right in step with one of the nation's most popular idiomatic trends. A snappy, fruit-flavored way of referring to someone who unquestioningly embraces a particular leader or ideology, "drinking the Kool-Aid" has become a staple of self-righteous public discourse. Bill O'Reilly is fond of the expression, as is Washington Times columnist Marybeth Hicks, whose new book "Don't Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid" warns that "frightening percentages of our kids" believe that Christianity is "just plain mean.