orkok Krause

• • ?yriiiitheiii* GRORGETORtN, GUYazte—VirhenlRei::,

J. Ryan's -party, first reached Jonestown, :were ere ell struck tbekileat'wentafr.

Lures so far tion and b the Of blacks Whites - Yount anci`Pia—si . ingly 'People- who, .we , were tol had willinglY • chosen . to live so : far from home. ':- . • , .; • ,• - Marceline Jones, the Rev:, Jim Janes' wife, met --utfall we left the Jonestown tittinp truck that had brOught

' froiethe'hirt'-lcaittunli

airstrip, where our plane had landed several hours before and where Ryan Would be killed along with four others the next after. noon t-

Marcie,-: as everybie called her, invited to the paVilion, where Jones awaited .us and where he Would lead his' followers in a, mass , suicide lees than.24:.hours later. was so plittre'.' end ao peaceftil the night, at least On:the surface; that *Was possible to "km* that this caref ti4 vated little World would soon Strayed by a man gone mad. '

Marcie told It11,-:•;!that Stipp pork anct 'greens, frtift'tartt;and 'cat,

fee—was ready..:4A-Would be told,,proudly by our hosts that everything we -ate had been raised in jonestown, thii 'quasireligious,. socialist agricultural 'uommune-- carved . out of Guyana's remote raittforest.. •

As we walke pavilion, residents of the commun etied 'us individually and escorted They engaged us in con- versation; asithig about •our trip, telling us how glad they were we would havee chance to see that JonestOwn'tiee. not the concen. tration camp its detractors had made it ot4 to be. •

Most of the commune . residents, those who were not part of the welcoming party,„ were eating dinner in a nearby din! 'g area, washing clothes in the .opetotir communal laundry or baking bread.'

See JONESTOWN, All, Cel. 1 Guyana*

SY Frank Johnston—The Washington Post A masked medic in Jonestown looks at a trunk filled with 800 American passports.

JONESTOWN, From Al Children gathered around swings

and benches near the pavilion and .Jonestown appeared to be just what its brochures' said it was: a eaceful place where people of all races and ages could live in peace without the violence and hate they had known in the ghetto and without the material-

, stic anxieties of their native United

Jonestown was an experiment ' in socialism, we were told, where .money, power and elitism had been eliminated. The hundreds of seniors, as the aged *ere ,called, got the best medical attention and their lives had new meaning.

For the young blacks among the more than 800 residents, .Jonestown -offered an escape from the drugs and ;crime in which we were told many of them had been involved before com-ing to Guyana. And for the middle -class, college-educated whites—who' seemed to hold the top leadership pos-ltions—Jonestown seemed to be a logi-cal extension of the civil rights and antiwar battles they had fought over the past decade. It was the socialist -society that they wanted for their na-tive country, but that they realized was impossible, at'least for now.

Although we had been told that -Aimee we got -to Jonestown we would

be free to wander and talk to anyone we wished, we began to feel we were being guided.

First to the pavilion, then to sit down with one of our new "friends," then to meet the leader himself, who sat at the head of our table complain-ing about a 103 degree fever he said he had suffered from that day. We then went to eat dinner and to watch an elaborate and highly professional two hours of entertainment provided by the Jonestown band and -various amateur singers in the commune.

Ryan sat meanwhile to the side of the pavilion interviewing persons he had requested to see. "Concerned rel-atives" who came with us on the plane were meeting with their sisters, sons, nieces or parents. Some of the conver-sations were strained. Others ani-mated. But nobody had yet told any-one that he or she wanted to leave Jonestown.

After dinner and during the show, I walked over to Ryan to ask him if he had learned anything. He said no, not very much yet, but pointed to a ,tall, middle-aged white man with a crew cut who, along 'with all of the more than 700 Jonestown residents in the pavilion that night, moved to the soul music played so loudly that it was dif-

, ficult to hear, to talk, to ask questions —onto have.them answered.

Ryan said there was something very unnatural about the middle-aged and older people, black and white, stand-ing, clapping and jiving to music that

why iiave iippeisieu w we young, out not to the. old.

It was an observation I would not forget. It Was the first real sign that maybe these people had been either programmed or somehow forced to act in a way that conformed to an im-age Jones wanted to project.

I also wouldn't forget the man ■ whom the congressman 'pointed oat.

His name, I later learned, was. Tom, . Klee Sr., and he would be shooting at me and the others at the airstrip the , next afternoon. • :

As I walked around the pavilion, I noticed that most people scattered as soon as I came near. I also noted that

By Pries Johnston—The Washington Post ,. ..• - ., ., . - . . . ... . / ,

Bodies lie near the tub containing the cyanide that was used to poison hundreds.

someone would always come along and, be friendly. "Hi, how are you doing? Don't you want to listen to the music?"

Sure," I said, "but I can hear it from here. I'm curious •to see your fa-cilities."

The usual response was that there would be a tour the next day, that peeple. probably Were' asleep irr the ' cabins. Or some other reason was given why I really shouldn't wander around on my own.

I decided to return to the table where Jones was talking to- some of the other reporters who had come along. Mark 'Lane and Charles Garry,.... Jonestown's two lawyers, *ere-there, as were several young, people who I would later learn were Jones' pri1 ci. pal lieutenants.

"People here are happy for the first time in their lives," Jones was saying.• "When can this dialogue (between Jonestown and its detractors) stop so we can all live in peace? I don't want to tear these people up."

"We can do a good Job for Guyana and for the United States if they would just leave us alone," he said.

' He was asked if his Peoples Temple was a religious movement and he looked to Lane and Garry for a mo-ment before answering.

"Yes, very much," he said. But then he said he was a Marxist, too, "in the ,sense that I believe in living together, sharing work, goods and services."

I was sitting right next to Jones and I remembered something Grace Stoen, a former Peoples Temple mem-ber by whom Jones claimed to have fathered a son, had told Mey She told me Jones, for all his 'insistence that he was a caring, unselfish man, was in fact incredibly vain and power hun-gry

"Just look ' at his sideburns," she said. "He fills them with eye liner." I was curious.

It was true. , Suddenly, as I' Was s at tones'

sideburns, -his demeanor turned. I didn't hear the question he had Just been asked, but the answer, I thought, was revealing: "Threat, threat, threat of extinction!"_ he raged...ttI wish _ wasn't born, at times. I understand hate, love and hate. They are very close." - 4,4

"They caq have me," he said. "In many ways I feel like I'm dying. I've never felt this way before."

Someone asked, Jones about the beatings that reportedly 'took place at Jonestown, about the black box that residents were said to be placed in for days at a time when 'they did some

;thing ;one's didn't like, about the end-less. sermons he preached that kept - his people, even the ,aget4 tIP ,until. 2 or 3 in the morning even though they had to rise again at - 6 a.m. to' begin . work. • ' • . • This prompted another 'rage- and .I •: almost' felt sorry for the man, He obviously sick physically and some of what ho said seemed incoherent. .at.

•,i;••) ,-"IAlit*Itot• believe P in "violence!" "Violence corrupts. And then ,,they..• say I want power. What kind of power • do I have walking down the path talk- • ••• my to little old aeniorar "I hate power," he ,e0litinued, „his rage growing. "I hate money. The only thing I wish now that I was never born. All I --want is peace. I'm not worried about my image.- If we could 'Art stop it,, stop this fighting. But if we don't, I don't' know what's going to happen to 1,260 lives here." • The music had ended. 'The inter-'• view., had ended. Except,; ,Ryan's • aides, .Lane,. Garry and a re-pretentative of the GuYanegie govern-, .meat, the rest of us were soon on !our way back to POrt Kiitunm, Where, '- Jones had arranged for '.ua, to sleep on the floor of a disCotheque. It was the last place Don Harris and Bob. Brown 'of NBC and Greg Robinson, a photographer for ihe 'San Francisco Examiner, would sleep; :they would die the next afternoon. That night, we were sitting around having a drink when .a local Mei sane to the discotheque. :lie sougbt., .out and , told • , us „gene ;things{ one of Which Was particularly Interesting. He" said heltneviler sure that there was at ;lewd '-one..-'8thi'in Joiteiville„an automatic rifle,, that had registered with the Guyanese . :government..-: , : •

Don. Harris asked Jones . about the gun in .an interview that he :taped when weerettumed to Jonestown the nett:: Morning. , — ?-4,.••.hOld.-faeed Jones • thun-

• dere.d., "It seems like we are :defeated : by liesi" ,

Jones said Dire' d . thilie Wits a conspiracy :against 'him and. 'against the Peoples Temple, a conspiracy that he ,blamed: for a number of law, suits that he "ed.:prevented him front re- turtling . to the .United .States. • ! • .I. 'is .!somehOdy: had z.lihOt tine dead,"; Ile ,SaId !"Proir, sub- stituting"ainedia Smear for aseissizia-034.7 Suddenly, . the : word. 4-atna *et ;my • • tamale*, hid. decidekt,ta; an People Were.lzgathe. Teneirst, for the fted-Alme,. was 'apparent that It 'Cotdd •;be..1 Circumstances Were presaing . '.in. Facta,were beginning ..?etit ,..overeene Jone? denials as fast as he could

of the ghetto, alienation, the fear of industrialized society. ' -"I must have failed somehow, "I4ant to hug. them before they leave," he said its events were quick 1Y moving theyond his control; More people wanted to go. I will let them. But they will try to destroy us. They'll try- They always lie when they leave." People were crying. Families were divided, with some members wanting to go 'hut others not—or fearing they couldn't. Al on peeked up his 'three kids and Wanted to leave. As we, were walking back to the dump truck for the final trip to Port Kaituma air-strip, Simon's wife began screaming, "No, no no!" Someone whispered to her 'Don't worry, we're going' to take care of everything.' — Ryan returned to 'the pavilion to, see• about the custody problem. We went I to the truck. A few minutes later, as we waited, we heard a com-motion. The newsman ran to the pa-vilion, but were stopped by mean-looking security men.

Harris, was allowed in as our rep-resentative. He came back to ,say that someone had tried to kill Ryan.

Suddenly; the congressman emerged and walked towards the •truck. :His clothes were covered with, blood. The other man had been cut byllis own knife as Lana.land *others—wreittled with him to save 'Ryan's:tale. Ryan was OK. But the 'violence had started. It was about 3 p.m. Saturday. Within 3% , hours, three gunmen would attack us as we tried to board Chartered aircraft and then, in a final aCt,p f:daikration, Jones would order the Mass. suicide Weblile had' be hearsed so Matiy .timekbefore. Steven Jones, 19, who was in Georgetown when the suicides took place, said, yesterday that his father had gone "crazy . and that JoneatOwn had reflected his paranoia. Stiti Jones said his father'S'dream of, a Socialist unity was,still valid, that it had proved • that socialism could, work. Asked if Jonestown had not been an experiment in fascism — with its' armed guard and other means of pre-venting people from leaving rather 'than an experiment in socialism, Jones replied: "My 'father was the fattest 'Jonestown was and still could be beautiful:' • .„

••••

matte mew. von .neurns was wirowing questions at Jones, hard questions ,that - erelitlywere mitidng *Yen harder toy ranawer. - ••;;•••'-' "The more that pave; the' ,less re-riPonsibility' we have," Jones was say-ing after, denying that anyone wanted to leave the idyllic life Jonestown Of, fered. i "Who 'in r-thei'' hell '4wants people?" ' • " :

-• 'Harris returned to the question Of ' guns at Jonestoivn. "This is rub-. „ iaht~I'mkdefeated," Jones sald,:elettr--near the-breaking Point. "I might as well die. The guns have never been used to intimidate people. , Anyone is free to come and go. "The only thing I feel is that/every time they go, they lie. What I thought was keeping them here was the fear

States to ielia all the bOdieti froii Jiitie*. teWn And ieffGeYalle. The U.S. mission here .

nish. ,t1het:!, plane. ware401 '- 'tWlecuitinize identifying bodies ail -testOiimortitien for 04132..1.

net' . ',VA.'. tit* Oki i -

olee. !P1 1.1:11iternationiridtiPort.,..iiear here: :There. ack.

'Tr4101

uncertainty, .ehOzt :whether .1 the• ilelleoPters :'llreedY• here coutd forri. the:

bediestt.oeiZeneetpwil to the planes. • •."without 4431*. •

.hlea4nrhae .10

'GUYANA, From -Al 1 :

Jim Jones, who then. died of gunshot wounds. Many accompanying Rep. Leo J. Ryan

(D-Calif.) on the fact-finding mission to Jonestown that ended in the murder of Ryan and four in his party followed by the mass suicide, believe they saw 800, to 900 people living in the commune. Its leaders Claimed the population was closed.to 1,000.

Yesterday, only a few Jonestown residents • who escaped the 'mass suicide emerged front •

hiding in the rain forest, and speculation grew about what may have' happened to the others.

Leaders of a group of relatives of Peoples temple" mmebers,. who long have charged publicly. that their - kin were being ptrisoned and abused by Jones and his fol. iowers in San Francisco and Jonestown,

''theorized bere that Jones`, lieutenants hiid ' gradually. Milk/ 'Off many 'Jonestown rest- t

debts who were too old to work. • That theory, however, would, not explain the difference betWeen the 800 or so people 1 seen by reporters in Jonestown' only last.. week and the more than 400 bodies counted after the forced suicide Saturday night, ..

..• Another theory is that while Jones directed the Poisoning of .the 400 residenti gathered in the middle of Jonestown," some of his.

• lieutenants led or chased" masses of .other •-; residents.into the forest and shot them there.. ,

This theory is. buttressed somewhat by the disappearance of at least one cult gunman, and by the disdoverY of an arsenal of ons and ammunition in Jonestown. In ad-dition lawyers Mark Lane and Charles Garry heard screaming and shooting in the under-

....brush as they fled into the forest. tlroni Jonestown when the killings began.

. - Guyanese police are working on a third -theory. They reportedly believe that . when • Jones ordered everyone in the compound to gather. and drink the poison, hundreds of ssidents of buildings • on the coprund rieiiiiheirlia-hitrtht/alestrtrehie have been shot and killed by Jonestown guards. -• ,

Others, including many elderly people be- lieved to , among_ the. missing, .inay. have succumbed to the elements. And many more, according to this theory, may be wandering in the forest, lost or still afraid 'to come out.

Police are searching the many traili that wind through the forest ,leading to small mining camps, agricultural settlements and

.villages Of . indigenOus Indians,. looking for . iurvivors or any word of their passing.

• The thick forest is made up of tightly packed trees and dense Underbrush‘ that 'make it easy to lose one's way. Although

. , •

Port Kaituma is only five miles from Jones-town in one direction, the • outpost of Mat-thew's Ridge is 20 miles - away In a slightly different direction, the rest of the forest around Jonestown is uninhabited except foy widely scattered miners and Indiana—, It IS also' filled with water, swamps and &epics' insects: . , • • , ,

In addition the Guyanese have been able to mobilize and bransport to Jonestown only a limited search party of 100 to 200 officers.

There were reports yesterday-that about 20 survivors have turned tip at various out-posts -and are, being biought here for medi-cal treatment and questioning.

Four young men were seen at the central police station here late yesterday afternoon. One was recognized by a San Francisco, television reporter as a member of the Peoples Temple and he. told the reporter, before being taken away by police, that he.... •

was "glad to be out of there." Police would not identify any of the four or allow them to be interviewed. " - • ,

Police are trying to determine rhether criminal *charges should be brought against • anyone still alive in connection with the forced mass suicide or the .ambush shortly before of Ryan and the 30 item:ale who ac-

companied him to . a nearby landing strip

• at the end of his visit to Jonestown. . • .-

The ...police have in custody three top lieutenants of Jtm. Jones.. One of the three, Larry Layton, Was identified by, witnesses,

able: 'to -tofir" eito bodies badly' Mated.

badly. One U.S0iiiiiititry the`scene said that if the

movedlii hada( .1 i. d.r=1;

the Ieiniato ued... rambler *Nei& hun-

&ed. etebleti.....Tetiar 'Wed te, 0 dist PPeared:wheit e others r

took *son Under. Ordere1: ni their

Associated P

ress

Steven

Jones, son

of cult lead

er Jim oJn

es, tells reporters h

is father w

as "a m

an p

ossessed."

Including Washington P

ost reporter Charles

Krau

se wh

o was at th

e scene, as on

e of the

gun

men

wh

o fired au

tomatic w

eapon

s at R

yan an

d h

is party of aid

es, new

smen

and

d

efectors from Jon

entow

n on

the airstrip

fiv

e miles a

wa

y a

t Po

rt Ka

itum

a. It w

as

not d

iscussed

wh

ere and

wh

en L

ayton w

as arrested.

Th

e other tw

o un

der 'arrest, M

ike P

rokes

and

Tim

Carter, w

ere taken

into cu

stody in

P

ort Kaitum

a, not far from Jonestow

n. They

and Layton have been identified by defectors

from Jon

estown

as bein

g amon

g the lieu

ten-

ants of Jon

es they feared

the M

ost. Th

ere also are rep

orts from several sou

rces 'that

each of th

e three m

en w

as foun

d b

y police

with

larg

e am

ou

nts o

f mo

ney

in h

is pos-

session. -

Th

e police also h

ave un

der h

ouse arrest

46 peop

le, Tem

ple ch

urch

leaders an

d m

em-

bers who w

ere in the sect's Georgtow

n head-quarters at the tim

e of the murders and m

ass su

icide in

Jonestow

n.' T

heir h

ouse on

the

edge of th

e city is surrou

nd

ed b

y Gu

yanese

troops. T

hese 46 persons include 19-year-old Steve Jon

es, the on

ly survivin

g natu

ral child

of Jim

Jones; S

teve's adop

ted b

rother, Jim

Jon

es, Jr., and

the m

emb

ers of the Jon

es-tow

n b

asketb

all team. T

he team

, of wh

ich

Stev

e Jon

es is a mem

ber, h

ad p

layed th

e G

uyan

ese nation

al bask

etball team

Frid

ay n

ight, w

hile R

yan w

as in Jon

estown

.

_ - —

Defectors from

Jonestow

n w

ho left w

ith

Ryan

's group

Satu

rday h

ave told rep

orters th

at mem

bers of th

e bask

etball team

were

trained

sharp

shooters w

ho p

racticed w

ith

weap

ons at Jon

estown

. T

he d

efectors also said th

ere Was a p

lan,

in th

e event a m

ass suicid

e was ord

ered at

•Jon

estown

, for Peop

les Tem

ple gu

nm

en to

travel to the U

nited

States an

d k

ill critics;

of th

e cult w

ho w

ere regard

ed a

s its en-

emies. T

here also w

ere to be m

ass sulu

des

at the G

eorgetown

head

qu

arters and

the

Peop

les Tem

ple ch

urch

in S

an F

iancisco.

Kn

ow

ledge o

f all th

is was v

igoro

usly

d

enied

yesterday b

y Steve Jon

es at a press

con

ference th

e Gu

yan

ese au

thorities a

l-loW

ed h

im an

d a h

and

ful of oth

eri from th

e P

eoples T

emp

le Geb

rgetown

head

qu

arters to h

old in

a police 'm

eeting room

here.

Jones p

ortrayed h

is father as 'a d

eranged

m

an

wh

o h

ad

surro

un

ded

him

self with

m

entally u

nstab

le lieuten

ants w

ho ru

ined

w

hat h

ad b

een a su

ccessful exp

erimen

t in

"I w

ill never d

end

un

ce the fact th

at I am

a so

cialist,"

Stev

e Jo

nes • said

. "W

e had

w

orked

hard

bu

ildin

g a beau

tiful th

ing . . .

all races living togeth

er. We n

ever dream

ed

that th

is wou

ld h

app

en."

H

e said h

is father h

ad b

ecame extrem

ely paranoid and lived in a dream

world, acting

outfan

tasies from V

arious b

ooks h

e .ead.

"H

e claimed

he w

as afraid

of noth

ing,

which

was b

ull; h

e was afraid

of ev

ery-

thing," Steve Jones said of his father. "H

e \ claim

ed he had no egto, - whie.h w

as the total opposite; he had the biggest ego of anyone I ever saw

. "I n

ow

can alm

ost say

I hate th

is man

because he has destroyed everything I lived and w

orked for." S

teve Jones portrayed himself as a fre-

qu

ent op

pon

ent of h

is father on

ideological issues at Jonestow

n. He said he had taken

over from his father the day-to-day running

of farm

ing an

d co

nstru

ction in

. the co

m-

mune. H

e hinted that h

e had

hop

ed to tak

e over pow

er completely before his father did

something rash.

"But I'm

only 19," Steve Jones said. "What

should I have done, left Jonestown and all

the p

eop

le I lov

e there? H

ow

wo

uld

that

change things?" H

e acknowledged that Jonestow

n resi-dents w

ere coerced into staying there, were

not always housed and fed as w

ell as they ' should have been, and som

ethimes w

ere pun-ished violently. B

ut he : denied knowing any-

thing about the weapons and

, amm

unition and the $1.5 m

illion in cash, personal checks and U

.S. S

ocial Security checks found by

'police who have searched Jonestow

n since the m

ass suicide. "T

hat makes m

e more angry," the tall, gaunt

young man said. "T

hat money could have been

used. to improve things." Sitting alongside Steve Jones, Paula Adams,

a soft-spoken woman who had been'a secretary and administrator [at Jonestotvn before falling

'into disfavor with Jim Jones, tearfully, told `11OW-Jim Jones had kept her young child hostage 'at Johestown to prevent her from leaving. So' instead, the said, she had moved Into the Georgetown head rs house.„

For nearly four years, e, said, she had worked as a trusted aid to Jones; had helped

`negotiate the Jonestown 1 of 3,000 acres UtGuyanese lAnd from the goviernment here, and had, sat in on mile with Jonas and,- Gtitirse government: . . = rectottly,14be said, slbe6'discovered she , WAa. "no. longer. trusted Use I questioned

fo things;". &site Of relatives to vielt residenti

and cheek conditions there: -. When asked by a reporter if she knelewhat

had hamienedAtO :her child th Jonestown, she began crying and, unable speak, ;shook hg. head to indicate that she not know, 'Steve Jones concluded referring to the

killInga in JouietUwn end• Phaiddng. fOr.the' reporters and. Guyanese uo oe in attendance: •

don't • want to be . with what happened." •

Indianapolis to Guyana:

A Jim

Jones Chronolog

Here is a ch

ronology of even

ts in

the life of the-Rev. Jim

Jones, head of the P

eoples Tem

ple. 1953—

Jim Jones, a 22-year-old unor-

dain

ed m

inister, op

ens a sm

all inter-

denominational church in Indianapo-

lis, selling m

onk

eys to raise mon

ey for a church.

1961—Jon

es, an ad

vocate of civil righ

ts, is nam

ed d

irector of the In

di-

anapolis Hum

an Rights C

omm

ission. 1961.1963—

Jones spends two years

as a mission

ary in B

elo Horizan

te, B

razil. He p

ays a brief visit to G

u-

yana. 1963—

Jones returns to his Indianap-olis ch

urch

, now

called T

he P

eoples

Tem

ple Full G

ospel Church, affiliated

with the D

isciples of Christ.

1964—Jones is ordained as a D

isci-ples of C

hrist minister.

1965—Jon

es moves w

ith ab

out 100

follo

wers to

Red

wo

od

Va

lley, 1

00

m

iles north

of San

Fran

cisco, claim-

ing th

at the seclu

ded

area will b

e safe in the event of a nuclear w

ar. 1966-1969--Jon

es pu

rchases

a church and other property.

1971—P

eoples T

emp

le pu

rchases

the A

lbert P

ike M

emorial T

emp

le in

San Francisco and a second church in

Los A

ngeles. 1973—

A ch

urch

party of 20 visits

Guyana. 1974—

Jones negotiates a lease with

the G

uyan

ese governm

ent coverin

g 27,000 acres in the jungle.

1975—Jon

es becom

es involved

in

San

Fran

cisco politics, w

inn

ing th

e frien

dsh

ip of several m

ajor political

figures for h

is sup

port of th

eir cam-

paigns. 1

97

6—

Ma

yo

r Geo

rge M

osco

ne

nam

es Jones, to th

e San

Fran

cisco H

ousing Authority and Jones' law

yer, T

im S

toen, is h

ired b

y District A

ttor-ney Joseph F

reitas. 1

977—

Artick

s critical o

f Jon

es, based on interview

s with form

er Peo-

ples Tem

ple mem

bers, appear in New

W

est magazin

e and

in local n

ewsp

a-p

ers. Th

ey ch

arge th

at J

on

es ha

s h

oarded

$5 million

in p

roperty an

d

cash and is beating mem

bers and tak-ing advantage of the elderly. Jones re-sign

s from th

e Hou

sing A

uth

ority by

shortw

ave radio from

Jonestow

n in

G

uyana. N

ov. 7, 1978—R

ep. Leo J. R

yan (D-

Calif.) an

nou

nces h

e plan

s to visit. Jon

estow

n to

investig

ate ch

arg

es m

ade by constituents. N

ov. 13, 1978—R

yan and his group visit Jon

estown

, are entertain

ed an

d

invited

to *stay overnigh

t. Th

e next

day, while w

aiting for transport out of th

e area with

a nu

mb

er of mem

berit

wh

o asked

for help

in leavin

g Jones-

town, R

yan and four oth

ers are slain'

and

a dozen

others are in

jured

in a

barrage of gunfire. A short tim

e later, som

e 400 Peop

les Tem

ple m

emb

ers com

mit suicide by drinking a blend of

soft drink and cyanide. Jones', body is found w

ith a' b

ullet w

oun

d ip

the

head.

01978, the San Francisco E

xaminer

Jim Jones being film

ed by NB

C's B

ob Brow

n, who w

as later killed.

orkirigtp :, 4iusll ProbeBegun4y R

yan •

town

this year to look

into ch

arges of ' fare Secretary Josep

h A

. Califan

o, and

disp

atched

three, large H

H53

hers on

the 20-h

our fligh

t from; lgin

A

ir Force B

ase in F

lorida to' jon

es-

town to su

pp

lies and

equ

np

men

t to

Arm

y and

Air F

orce work

ers at the

settlement.

Th

e military eon

tngen

t was given

a d

ual m

ission—

find

ing an

d treatin

g su

rvivors and

iden

tifying an

d in

terr-in

g the d

ead.

By T

. R. R

eid W

ashington Post stam

mer'

Th

e Hou

se ' Intern

ational R

elations '

Com

mittee yesterd

ay laun

ched

an in

- , vestigation

into "

all aspects"

of the ,

mu

rders an

d su

icides at Jon

estown

, G

uyan

a, inclu

din

g the S

tate Dep

art-m

ent's h

and

ling of com

plain

ts abou

t%

the U

.S. religiou

s comm

un

ity there. •

Ch

airman

Clem

ent J. Z

ablock

i (3- W

M) p

ledged

, in effect, to com

plete ;-

the vestigation

begu

n tw

o years ago by a m

mittee m

ember L

eo J. Ryan (13-

Cal ), w

ho w

as mu

rdered

by mem

- th

e Peop

les Tem

ple 'S

aturd

ay at tle clo

se of a

visit to

Jon

estow

n,

thecu

lt's comm

un

e in G

uyan

a. • lock

i said th

e investigation

, to b

e mn

du

eted b

y the com

mittee

staff u

ntit th

e 96th C

ongress con

venes in

Jam

iky, w

ill review com

plain

ts that

the .?,merican em

bassy in Georgetow

n respbnded inadequately to com

plaints fron

t; relatives of temp

le mem

bers

aboie forced

labor an

d tortu

re at the

fotulyear-old

settlemen

t B

ristZab

locki said

that in

qu

iry will

be

one facet of th

e comm

ittee's p

robe. "

Th

is investigation

is not in

-tended to point fingers," he. said. "W

e w

an

d to

review

all a

spects o

f this,

fro th

e time th

e cam

p d

ow

n th

ere

S

DepartM

ent officials 'Yester-

U.S

. emb

assy officers to Gu

- h

ad m

ade several trip

s to Jones-

,

abuse but found no evidence to sub-, f Sens. Warren G

: Magnuson (D

-Wash.),

stantiate the report&,

„ Henry M

. Jackson 0-Wash.) and M

ike

Follow

ing R

yan's m

urd

er and

the G

ravel (3-Alask

a). m

urd

er or suicid

e of more th

an 400 of s„ N

one of th

e five had

any reeord

ror

the cu

lt's followers S

aturd

ay, relativeKt 'recollection

of such

correspon

den

ce

of cultists an

d form

er mem

bers h

ave ■: w

hen contacted yesterday. -

portrayed

Jonestow

n as an

armed

A

lud

f-dozen

other p

olitical figures

camp

in w

hich

residen

ts were

, threat%

; pick

ed at ran

dom

from th

e list of 30

ened

with

death

if MO

resisted th

es nam

es said th

eir files show

ed n

o car- h

arsh regim

en d

ecreed, b

y f°"

resp

ond

ence to or ab

out Jon

es. On

e Jim

Jones _ , _

4..'"

perso

n o

n th

e list wh

o h

ad

written

T

he F

BI said it w

ill un

dertak

e a' Jones w

as Rosalyn

n C

arter. In 1977,

separate in

vestigation of R

yan's m

ile- she sen

t a polite, n

oncom

mital rep

ly

der, in

clud

ing th

e possib

ility'of a con- to a letter Jon

es had

sent h

er sp

iracy, un

der a statu

te .-that • m

akm

Th

e Gu

yanese em

bassy h

ere said it

killin

g a mem

ber of C

ongress a fed

, does n

ot have th

e actual letters from

eral offense.

, - w

hich

the list of referen

ces was com

-

Th

e FB

I's San

Fran

cisco office said • p

iled, an

d th

us can

not ju

dge th

eir su-

it is investigating rumors that P

eoples •• •:, thenticity.

Tem

ple m

emb

ers plan

ned

to kid

naP

' Th

e Social S

ecurity A

dm

inistration

or kill oth

er federal officials.

said yesterd

ay, it had

investig

ated

A n

ew m

ystery surrou

nd

ing th

e Jonestow

n early th

is year after receiv-

Rev.. Jones' church surfaced "IV

IOndaY

: ing reports that recipients there were

when the G

Uyanese goV

ernment M

ad assig

nin

g eit S

ocia

l Secu

rity p

en-

e

th

Continental A

irlines A

dds D.C

. Service C

ontinental Airlines w

ill begin non-stop

service on its n

ewly aw

arded

route betw

een Washington and H

ous-ton

on Jan

. 2, with

discou

nts of u

p to

25 percent, the Los A

ngeles-based air-line announced yesterday.

Con

tinen

tal will offer tw

o flights to

Houston International from

Dulles In-

pu

blic ex

cerpts o

f letters 'from

39 slo

bs- to P

eoples Tem

ple. tern

ational A

irport, an

d tw

o flights

prominent A

mericans praising' Jones

and

the tem

ple. T

he G

uyan

ese govern. • T

hat in

vestigation fou

nd

no evi- b

ack each

day.

mea

t' said

it had

' relied o

n th

ese den

te of a

form

al co

ntra

ct assig

nin

g

Discounts off the regular coach fare

"letters of referencew w

hen

agriid

pen

sion

ben

efits to th

e chu

rch, a

of 2

0 o

r 25 p

ercent d

epen

din

g o

n th

e

spok

esman

said, an

d th

e prob

e was_ of w

eek, w

ill be offered

with

no

to let Jones starr h

is:OW

-acre settle' termin

ated. S

ocial- Secu

rity reep

entsrestrictio

ns fo

r a certa

in n

um

ber o

f

meat.

. ,

- can

han

d over 'each

check

to.others if, seats on

each flight, Continental said

Th

e excerp

ts referred to

letters they

wsh

, bu

t 'can

not m

ak

e a fo

rmal in

ad

ditio

n to

the a

dvan

ce-pu

rchase

from,fam

ong oth

ers, Vice P

residen

t assignm

ent of 'th

eir pen

son b

enefifs.

Super Saver fares with their discounts .

Mon

ditle; H

ealth,. E

du

cation an

d W

el-, . Th

e Defen

se .Dep

artimen

t yesterday of u

p to 40 p

ercent.

Relatives Wait T.

To Know Fate. Of LovedOnes

Associated Press The letter reached Rosa Polk from

her sister: "A gorgeous place . . . just love it here." It was dated Nov: 7.

The "gorgeous place" was jonek town, Guyana—where, last weekend, some 400 persons died in mass suicide evidently led by their cult`tt founder, the Rev. Jim Jones. •

The note arrived in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday—and only added to Rosti-Polk's agony. '

"I just want to see if she is one ok; the living 'or one of the dead," Mri. , Polk said.

That is a mystery haunting bun:- dreds of American families, with rela-tives who belonged to Jones' Peoples Temple and had followed him to hhi' agricultural commune in Guyana.

Those families are among the Ada tams of the tragedy. Here are .soma • glimpses of what they are t

Samantha Tucker Of Tulsa, whose , mother, Mary Rogers, was with the group, was told by the State Depart-ment before last weekend that her mother was alive. But the two women hadn't spoken in four months.

- "They couldn't talk on the phone," Mrs. Tucker said. "They couldn't hardly write or send messages. All their mail, all their passports and all their money was kept by him (Jones ." The mass suicide, she said, "wasn't any surprise. I know they were sup-posed to commit suicide if anything ever happened to him."

Flora Scott, 60, of. Muskogee, Okla., doesn't understand why her daughter, Doris Lewis,' 38, of, San .Francisco, joined the group and took seven child- • ren to Guyana. "I've been to some of the meetings but I didn't think too' ' much of Jim Jones. I thought he was ; just brainwashing the people and tak-. ing their, money," Mrs. Scott said.

.Daisy Chaffin of Springfield, Ohio, -; speaks of her own six-month stay at the Peoples Temple in San Francisco : as she awaits news of her daughter, ;, Patricia Chaffin Parks, 44, son-in-law Jerry Parks, 46, and two of their three children. "There were good things at the temple," she says. "A hospital and r. food for the poor." Jones, she said, "seemed like a nice fellow, always

having breakfasts and dinners for the poor . . . But he made fun of God, I think. I kind of ignored it, but then I decided I didn't need Jimmy Jones and his temple. I think he was trying"; to make them think he was Jesus.", Some reports have said a temple member killed Saturday was Patricia Parks, but Mrs. Chaffin says the age ,* given-18--indicates that ,Patricia's daughter. Brenda, 18, may have been ; confused with her.

The Rev. John Moore, pastor of the 1. First Methodist Church in Reno, Nev., Wonders about the fates of two daugh-ters; Ann Moore, 24, and Carolyn Lay- LI ton, 33, former ,wife of LarrY Layton, who was arrested after Sturday's air-port shootings. "Larry was such a mild, lovable, passive darling.. It's hard to believe he could be involved

this, said 'Motiore's wife,Barbara. "It's one of the Mysteries of life." The minister and his •.wife visited Jones-town last .May. "We were favorably .* impressed with the way they had cleared so much land, -and with the ; child care and-health services," Moore ; said. "Everyone seemed to be id good spirits." .' ' ' •

In Detroit, the Rev. Robert B. ;, Hicks, 78,, hoped •, his two daughters and two grandsons were safe and won-dered what had happened to change Jones since Hicks had shared the plat-ferm with him three years ago, when "he had an attitude and a spirit that was beyond reProach." His wife. Mary agreed, but said she hadn't heard ' from her daughter Shirley in six months, and only had a three-minute • phone conversation with her daughter Martha about two months, ago.'. That .1 call alarmed Hicks, because Martha • only talked about "clouds, eggs and the weather," answering no other questions. "It was a peculiar converse-- t tion at the time," his wife noted. "But 1,̀ we thought nothing about interpreting it until we heard about the trouble?'

By Prank Johnston—

The W

ashington Post

Tim

Carter, third from

left, Is held by the Guys na m

ilitary in connection with R

ep. Ryan's death.

..4

• BY Bi

BERKELEY, Cillif4Ithoitgh the Peoples ,TempleinlCieems: to have heen obliterated 'the deaths; of lta. . , dreds of members in Gwent( over the Weekend, .foriner members 'and 'Oahe, Bay Area law enforcement agencies are not convinced that the possibility of violence no longer exists.- • • Only hours 'after the mate suieide-

- murder of „temple members in Jones- • town, PuEtntinliggeturdaY„an =VW- i mous calleelnieatened to kill Will Holsinger, One of the late Rep: Leo J. 1 Rgan's (D-Calif.) staff members who participated in investigating the tem-ple and Whose . father, Joseph, was Ryan's administrative assistant. FBI' agents investigating the poseibility of a U.S.-based conspiracy behind Ryan's murder also are .investlgating' the threat,againet.WID Holsinger, • 4 'YAIW-Are4 X0idenhs with family, alealllansin,ibm 'Olt 0 well as some-former temPlehhembers have been as-

' signed policeIci iiiiitect against - • ble new yiolnee. • •

Berkeley Police haVi'heell guarding former meinbere-of ' the 'tereple WhO run a halfway house; the Human Free. dein Center;, On a round-the.clock ba- sis forjormer aultists. Although the number of guards has been reduced,

' officer Dick Betgei "Wietill hate people on dutythere, and Will for as bag as necessary

San Francisco police have' been' as-signed to protect former temple, menh-bers and their farailies, in the wake Of ,reports thit -4 "hit list" was kept 'by the temple's leader,, the Rev, Jim Jones. According to former members, those on the list were to be killed in the event that something happened to Jones or the Peoples Temple.

"There have been requests for pro-tection from many .people following the shootings in Guyana, although you will understand we're not at liberty to tell you who' from," said Sgt. • Gerald McNaughton,, a spokesman for the San Francisco; police. 'We are evaluating each request' as they come in and providing police protection where it seems really necessary."

Despite the heavy security, some former cult members, remain, fearful. Jim and „Teresa ...Cobb, and Wanda Johnson called a press conference at the Human Freedom Center yesterday to say they believed Jones' mar-still • be alive= that the body found

Guyana Mat be' 'a' double for him: • "Nobody here is going to believe

that Jim 'Tones is .dead Until Ave :see fingerprints, X-rays or some other physical evidence' that the man found dead in Guyana. IS, IA fact,JIm Jones,"

4 r. center' spokeswoman . Polly Morton said. . . . . . „"..I can te ouat,we.kioW'of one fernier. teinplelitember Who has In.the • pest been foreed.to.-,dyel his hair . and Wear. makeup:, in public in. order, to

• • Pass tiejlin Jones: Toes tire,possibll-' ity of a double is very. real."

.FBI '.sourcessaidnophyslcai evi-dine& -his • been' :'released 'Confirming that the body -in • question Is that of .tones.'. eep st .

ReTthe atmosphere of fear and • ' suspicion, things remainettqUint'Yee.' terday at the Peoples Temple building in San Francisco. ,,Qhlookers contin-ued to -hold an uteventtil vigil. in trent'

• of the building, While 'police watched, '• no members appeared • to make Mate-

.Meanwhlle, Ryan's body was'flown to the Bay ,iAret. Family; and-staff

memhert are toiittehit tini" this morning. I ; • • :4

Parrot Retin 'lied 'to .1 MIAMI (UPI)—The' case of the

Tight-lipped. 'Dade county Public ' , Safety Department officers' restored

the bird to its' perch at the Crandon Park Children's Zoci Monday, three months after it disappeared. The offi-cers refused to say, where they found the rare yellow-headed parrot, and no charges were filed in connection with its disappeartice. • -

Zoo director Robert Yokel decided that the parrot, somewhat thinner but , otherwise apparently unharmed, will have to spend two weeks in quaran-tine. Then she can resume her place in the zoo and her starring role in the Skipper Chuck television show. -

In Los A

ngeles the AssO

ciated Press

reporter2, -tbat D

r. Carlton

Good

let, ,T

olue. doctor, said earlier W

eek th

at 'he lad

flown

to Sou

th A

merica •

Ib•Osiunine 'Jones in A

ugust and bi-4isted that his patient enter a hospital, but Jones w

as reluctant to. •:

Goodlet refused to discus* the ape-'

cifics of Jones' case, but writer D

on-ald

Freed

, wh

o spen

t a week

at the

,Gu

yana com

pou

nd

in A

ugu

st,7 Said :Jon

es told h

im h

e was d

ying: of

-i"cancer or cancer-like" disease. F

reed said Jones may have,oubcon-

:sciously lin

ked

his fate w

ith th

at of ;his settlem

ent, projecting pessimism

: throughout the enclave and contribut-ing to a siege m

entality. G

oodlet agreed th

at J

on

es was

"d

istressed"

abou

t the Illn

ess. "H

e . knew

so much depended on his good

health

," th

e ph

ysician . said

.. "T

he

wh

ole idea [of th

e settlem,t] w

as built around his avallability"iF

• •

• G

ale -Ribinsdra sits by calk. et etioni:new

spaper photographer Greg .R

obiason; .. •

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