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Sep 28, 2018 · Friday, September 28, 2018. In 1978, Congresswoman Jackie Speier was shot and left for dead in the largest mass murder-suicide in American history. She opened up to ABC7 about the ordeal that...
Nov 15, 2019 · By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News. WASHINGTON, November 4, 2019 — The massacre of 918 women, men, and children in and near Reverend Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978, was the largest single loss of American civilian lives as the result of a deliberate act in history until the September ...
Nov 17, 2021 · Published on November 17, 2021 11:50AM EST. Rep. Jackie Speier. Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Shutterstock. California Rep. Jackie Speier, who was shot five times in an ambush by...
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In 1978, while working as his aide, Speier survived five gunshot wounds when Ryan was assassinated during the Jonestown massacre. Speier served as a member of the California State Senate, representing parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties.
Nov 19, 2018 · PBS NewsHour from Nov 19, 2018. This weekend marked the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre, in which more than 900 followers of Jim Jones were victims of a cult mass murder-suicide in...
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Nov 21, 2018 · Jackie Speier was shot five times during the Jonestown massacre in 1978. She went on to become a U.S. congresswoman. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Read Story Transcript. As she lay...
Nov 18, 2015 · This story was updated on Nov. 20, 2019 | Rep. Jackie Speier knows exactly how it feels to be left for dead. On Nov. 18, 1978, she was shot five times on a remote airstrip in Guyana, South America.
