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Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. (May 5, 1925 – November 18, 1978) was an American teacher and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative from California's 11th congressional district from 1973 until his assassination during the Jonestown massacre in 1978. Before that, he served in the California State Assembly ...
What sparked Leo Ryan's interest specifically was a San Fransisco Examiner article about the mutilation and death of Bob Houston, the son of Ryan's friend and a member of the Peoples Temple. Houston's body was found in October 1976, mutilated in a freight train yard; he had reportedly just had a conversation with a family member about leaving ...
Congressman Leo Ryan, who was killed in Jonestown The FBI soon launched an extensive investigation in concert with other agencies, with our jurisdiction based on a congressional assassination law ...
FILE - This Nov. 18, 1978 file photo shows the bodies of five people, including Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., on the airstrip at Port Kaittuma, Guyana, after an ambush by members of the Peoples Temple cult. Dozens of Peoples Temple members in Guyana survived the mass suicides and murders of more than 900 because they had slipped out of Jonestown ...
Jonestown, circa 1978. On Nov. 18, 1978, 35 years ago today, more than 900 people died after drinking poison at a failed utopian settlement in Guyana, in an incident that has come to be known as ...
Rep. Leo Ryan's Daughter Recalls His 1978 Murder. Erin Ryan, daughter of the late Rep. Leo Ryan, spoke with StoryCorps at NPR's Washington headquarters this week. She had dinner with her father ...
But the Leo Ryan murder case didn't end until 1989, so for 10 years there was scrutiny. Eugene Smith was a member of the People's Temple in Jonestown. He survived the mass murder-suicide on ...
