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Leo Ryan was a Democratic politician who served in the California State Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives. He was assassinated in 1978 while investigating the Peoples Temple cult in Guyana, where 909 members died in a mass suicide.
Jun 21, 2022 · Leo Ryan was a California politician who investigated the Peoples Temple cult in Guyana and was killed by its members in 1978. He went undercover to expose human rights violations and may have triggered the mass suicide of Jonestown residents.
Oct 2, 2020 · Learn how Congressman Leo Ryan, a maverick fact finder, decided to go to Jonestown, Guyana, to investigate the allegations of abuse and mistreatment by Rev. Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. Discover how his trip ended in tragedy and how he was killed by Jones' followers.
Nov 18, 2013 · Leo Ryan was a liberal legislator from northern California who had become famous for what his supporters called fact-finding missions and his detractors called publicity stunts. As a California...
Leo Ryan was a maverick politician who used fact-finding missions to expose social issues. He was killed in 1978 while trying to leave Jonestown, the cult compound in Guyana led by Jim Jones.
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Jan 14, 2011 · Her father, Rep. Leo Ryan, was killed in Guyana in 1978. The California congressman had traveled to the Jonestown compound of the Peoples Temple cult to investigate Jim Jones' religious...
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As the visitors prepared to return to the U.S., Peoples Temple gunmen ambushed them on a jungle airstrip, killing the congressman, Leo Ryan; three newsmen; and a church defector. The shooting triggered the mass murders and suicides in Jonestown of more than 900 people orchestrated by the Rev. Jim Jones.
