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[dramatic music]

♪♪

[air raid siren wailing]

[Jim Jones on loudspeaker]
Attention, attention.

Every member of the community

must come to the pavilion
immediately.

We may have an invasion.

[dramatic music]

[Laura Johnston Kohl]
Jim said, "They're coming
for our children.

"They're coming for
our children,

and so we need
to stand strong."

[Tim Carter]
We were all lined up
with shovels,

and pick axes and whatever
other tools were there.

We were gonna fight.

[dramatic music]

[light music]

♪♪

[Jim Jones]
You don't know what
you're missing down here.

These are potato chips
made from plantain

and they're more delicious,
they're a combination

of a potato chip
and a French fry.

And radishes.
Mm, mm, mm.

Here are the people
at the table

eating an afternoon snack.

♪♪

It's another sunny day.
It's interesting,

when I walk out,
every time I walk out,

as the people can verify,
the rain will stop.

So that's been amazing.
[others shouting]

[Stephan Jones]
I think there were many
different reasons

people went to Jonestown.

It had a lot to do
with peer pressure.

For many,
they were probably hopeful.

You know, we can be
a happy community again.

You all happy?
You here?

You happy, Tom?Yes.

Everybody's happy
down here,

you can see that
that's an obvious fact.

The story was,
we were going to paradise.

The grand utopia.

But we were trying to feed
over 900 people down there.

It was a battle
we wouldn't win.

And probably, Dad saw that.

So the drama just escalated,

which only weakened all of us
and frightened all of us.

And, frankly, drew us more
into his own sickness.

[Gosney]
As time grew on,

the difference in Jim Jones
was very marked.

[Stephan Jones]
I think dad was feeling lost
in Jonestown.

He could no longer
parade about

and convince himself
of how grand he is.

His drug use just at that point
was off the charts.

[Guinn]
He's passed out half the time
in his cabin.

He blows up physically,
he's terribly bloated.

So, instead of seeing, you know,
their god-like leader,

it's just a fat, sweaty man.

He loses
any claim to divinity

because they're too close
to him now.

There's no place
for him to go hide.

[Gosney]
The punishments did get
much more severe.

They had this hole
that they put people in.

This item called the box.

[suspenseful music]

People were put in there
for punishment purposes.

A person would be blindfolded

and they would be told eels
and leeches were in there.

[Malone]
Wha-- wait.

[Malone]
Dad?
[Jim Jones]
Put your hand in there.

[people muttering]

[Gosney]
You couldn't trust anyone
with any information.

Children turned in
their parents,

so if anyone asked you,

"Oh, how do you like
Jonestown?"

I love it, it's great.

Hello, family.

Greetings, from a truly
promised land

pre-- prepared by Father.

Hello, family,
thank Father I have a chance

to talk to you
and, uh...

[laughter]

[Gosney]
The mail was definitely
censored.

I didn't get all the letters
that were sent to me.

If you were to write,

basically your letter
consisted of,

"So glad I'm here.

"Oh, Jim Jones is
a wonderful leader

and we're building
a utopia."

That was what you could write.

It became extremely
repressive.

Somewhat like
a concentration camp.

[Guinn]
People say,

"Well how could they stay?"

And a big reason is
they don't have their passports,

they don't have money
to get home.

[all singing]

A huge reason is that

they remain dedicated
to the cause.

And if they do
try to get away,

there's the jungle.

Jim Jones has 'em.

[all singing]

♪ We're a happy family,
yes we are ♪

♪ All day long
we sing a song ♪

♪ Father loves us
everyone ♪

♪ We're a happy family,
yes we are ♪

♪ We're a happy family,
yes we are ♪

♪ All day long
we sing a song ♪

[singing fades]

[suspenseful music]

While the people inside
this Ukiah home

say they fear for the lives
of their friends and family

far away in that
Peoples Temple in Guyana.

That Reverend Jim Jones works
in some very unexpected ways.

But they say that talking
about it is worth it.

Well, yeah, they try
to give you

the impression that--
that, uh,

you know, that everything
you hear is not the truth

and-- and that everything
is beautiful down there.

Somehow, Jim Jones has
an ability to--

to control their--
their minds,

and-- and as long as
those minds are controlled,

I--I'm afraid there--

there's a potential for--
for some danger.

[Kilduff]
The Concerned Relatives
was the label

for the unhappy ex-members
as well as parents,

who wanted access to
the Temple's members in Guyana.

This is not a commune,
this is not a church,

this is just insanity.

[Kilduff]
They were having no luck

getting through to
their family members.

They were turned away,
their letters were sent back

with, uh, simplistic,
kind of, "go away" messages.

These folks were very bothered
by that treatment.

I really feel,

and anybody
can question me,

I'll submit myself
to tests,

I'll talk to psychiatrists,
whatever.

But I believe
I was brainwashed.

[Grace Stoen]
We met with the press.

I said, you know,
I was there for six years,

I said, I know what Jim
is capable of.

[driving beat]

♪♪

My son, John, obviously
was being turned against me

and that's when I decided
to fight for my son.

[Guinn]
The courts are called into play

as Grace Stoen sues
Jim Jones

to get custody
of John Victor back.

And in fact,
an arrest order,

if he didn't comply,
was being issued.

[suspenseful music]

[Dr. Mary Magaa]
Jim Jones and the leadership

do not want to let go

of John Victor Stoen
because symbolically,

he represents the ability
of anybody Stateside

to get any child
from Jonestown

and bring them back
to America.

[Guinn]
The Guyanese court order
precipitated

what the settlers
later called the six-day siege.

[air raid siren wailing]

Jim said, they're coming
for our children,

and so we need
to stand strong.

[Carter]
We were being told
that the Guyanese Army

was coming in,
and we were gonna-- to fight.

Because, you know,
if you take one of us,

you have to take all of us
kind of thing.

[indistinct chatter]

[Wilson]
I'm sitting there thinking,

"I wonder how
I'm gonna die today."

Are they gonna come
with machine guns,

and I'ma get shot?

I wonder what a bullet
feels like.

[indistinct shouting]

At 20.

I didn't think
I was gonna see 21.

[Jones and crowd whooping]

[air raid siren wailing]

[Wilson]
Jim told us that we were under
attack by the Guyanese army.

And we were up all night,
like a human chain

with our machetes,
there's guns, there's peop--

the security is out.

We'd stand there and then after
a while Jim would say,

"Well, they're not gonna
come tonight."

[dramatic music]

[Wilson]
And then he sends us to bed.

And then the next night,
it could happen again.

It was six days of being told
that you're under attack.

And you might die
at any moment.

We weren't getting any rest.

People were exhausted.

This is the psyche,
this is what--

this is what
he's doing to us,

he's constantly preparing us

to where we're thinking about
our own deaths.

[Magaa]
Jim Jones started talking about
revolutionary suicide.

And that if they couldn't
stay together

because of their enemies,
then they would die together

in order to show loyalty
to one another.

[Carter]
He was standing on the steps
to the radio room,

and the people that
were still there,

you know, 400 or so,

he actually said,
"Let's take a vote.

How many people here want to
commit revolutionary suicide?"

Three people raised
their hand.

Three.

And I saw the look of, kind of,
disappointment on his--

in his eyes,
but also a strategic look.

Kind of like, hmm, what am I
gonna have to do?

I'll never forget that.

[dramatic music]

[Wilson]
The whole thing was that
we were under attack

by the Guyanese government.
And then, years later,

we find out that it was really
over the custody battle.

[male reporter]
So what are you
gonna do?

[Stoen]
So what am I
gonna do now?

Well, I-- you know,
I've been fighting

this legal case
for two years,

trying to get John,

and I'll just keep on
trying and trying.

I'm getting John Stoen
out of there,

no matter what
I have to do.

[somber music]

[Rep. Jackie Speier]
This was 1978.

I was
a legislative counsel

to a member of Congress
in San Francisco.

The Concerned Relatives
started writing

to members of Congress,

Congressman Ryan
being one of them.

I think the issues
in this campaign

are pretty much
what they are

anyplace else
in the country.

They're concerned
about their jobs,

they're concerned about
the war in Vietnam...

[Guinn]
Leo Ryan had a reputation

as a man who was willing
to investigate.

When he was warned that
there was abuse of prisoners,

he got himself anonymously
put in prison for a week.

When the fate of baby seals
was brought to his attention,

he went up to defend
the seals

by throwing his body
in front of one of them.

[dramatic music]

[Ryan]
The first thing
we have to do,

is to get in touch
with Jonestown.

[Speier]
Congressman Ryan had this
uncanny ability

to look beneath,

and he listened
to these defectors.

Many of them were interviewed,

and it became
very apparent to him

that there was
something wrong.

I'm trying to find out
what the facts are

as an absolutely

non-committed person.
I have...

So he decided that
he wanted to do

a congressional
delegation trip

to Guyana and visit
the Peoples Temple there.

[Speier]
In preparation for the trip,

I remember sitting
in my office listening

to audio tapes of interviews
from defectors

and having
this ominous feeling.

I did have a premonition
about the trip.

[suspenseful music]

[indistinct chatter]

[Stoen]
You know, I did try to warn
Congressman Ryan.

I don't think anybody
heard us

and/or,
they didn't believe us.

You say there's a lot of this
and you can't believe that.

I'm telling you
that you have never met up

with a man like Jim Jones.

[engines roaring]

[indistinct chatter]

[male reporter]
Tuesday, November 14th.

Congressman Leo Ryan
and his party

of people related
to cult members, reporters,

and cameramen left
the United States

for Georgetown, Guyana,
hoping to get to Jonestown.

[Guinn]
When Leo Ryan
and the Concerned Relatives

and the media arrive
in Georgetown,

they have
a couple tough days.

Ryan is trying to get permission
to enter Jonestown.

Jones says no.

[male reporter]
Harris heard some ominous
things about Jonestown

in an interview with
a former leader

of the cult
who had defected.

[Don Harris]
If your mother...

and your sisters
and brother

wanted to leave Jonestown,
wouldn't they just leave?

They can't.Why not?

Like, you, uh...
they're in a jungle.

With guards.
With guns.

[scoffs]
They can't.

[crickets chirping]

[Carter]
I was in the radio room
on Thursday night.

The phone rang,
and it was Jones.

And he said,
"So what do you think?"

And I said, "They were
expecting to be turned away.

I think we should let
the congressman in."

He said, "This-- this is
a [bleep] way to live."

And the conversation
went on

and all of a sudden
he just [vocalizing].

And he went into 20 minutes
of non sequitur sentences,

slurring half the time.
I was terrified.

I mean, I thought,

"Oh, my God, the leader
has lost his mind.

Literally, lost his mind."

[man] Did you check...Go over there and see
how much...

[man 2]
Everybody, everybody.

[Stoen]
Congressman Ryan approached
our group and said,

"Okay, we have two planes."

Um, we have
this many seats.

The Concerned Relatives
groups

started kind of fighting
over the seats.

And I just stepped back,
and I said,

"I'm not fighting
for a seat on the airplane."

I was told later,
people said that

if I had shown up on that
airstrip on the way in,

they would've killed everybody
right then and there.

Nobody would've ever
even got into Jonestown.

There was so much hatred
for me.

[male reporter]
Friday November 17th,

Congressman Ryan and his party
headed for Jonestown

not certain whether
they would get there

or what they would find.

[Gosney]
We were told that Leo Ryan
was coming

because he was a s--
part of the CIA.

We were drilled and drilled

and drilled and drilled
and drilled.

People were rehearsed

and so it was
a huge, huge, huge deal.

[Guinn]
When settlers in Jonestown
hear from Jones

that there are gonna
be people coming,

there are people who start
to see

this might be
the time that we leave Guyana.

When a congressman comes,
surely, you know,

nobody's gonna screw
with a congressman, you know.

You could leave with him,
you might be safe.

[Wilson]
I remember thinking I didn't
know how I was gonna leave,

but I made that commitment
to myself, and my son.

I said, "Jakari will not spend
another birthday here."

Diane Louie,
a very close friend of mine,

said her boyfriend,
Richard Clark,

had started to find a way out
the moment

he arrived in Jonestown.

And I told her
that I wanted to go.

[Gosney]
I wanted to leave
with Congressman Ryan.

I immediately thought,

"This is my chance to get
out of here."

So I was walking down the path
and Monica Bagby just says,

"Let's get the [bleep]
outta here."

And so from then on,

we tried to talk
to one another,

to bolster one another.

I'm probably the one
who needed the bolstering.

Yes, I mean,
it sounds crazy, but yes,

we have a right to leave,
yes, you know,

it's okay that we leave.

I wrote the note,
you know,

"Help us get
out of Jonestown"...

and that was my plan.

To hand him the note and ask for
his assistance to leave.

And it was very much like
a prison escape.

"You're not walking outta here."
That was what Jim said.

"You are not
leaving here walking.

You can be dead in a box,
but you're not leaving here."

[Gosney]
The consequences of conspiring
to leave was death... period.

[suspenseful music]

[Ryan]
I'm Congressman Ryan,

I'm from the United States
government and we're here to...

inquire into the,
uh, health and the welfare

of the American citizens
who are here.

[plane passing]

[Wilson]
I heard a plane overhead
on November 17th.

That was Friday.

A twin-engine plane,
and then the alarm sounded.

[air raid siren wailing]

And so I'm excited
and I'm scared.

[Speier]
First we went on a tour
of the commune.

And it was impressive.

I mean, you are in the deepest,
thickest jungle,

and yet they had carved out
a viable community.

[girl singing]

[girl]
Can you go like this?
Make a choo-choo train.

Make a choo-choo train.

[Speier]
Virtually every person we
talked to said the same thing.

I love it here,
I never want to go home.

You're happy here?I-- I'm very happy here.

It's the best place
I've ever been.

[male reporter]
You wanna stay? Definitely.

I certainly do.

Some people have said
that they couldn't leave

if they wanted to.
Do you think you could?

Yeah, if-- if I really
wanted to, I'm-- I'm free to go.

If I was really--
If I really wanted to,
I'd be free to go.

♪ Yeah, get up off your feet
and dance, dance ♪

♪ Get up off your feet
and dance, dance... ♪

[Gosney]
They had entertainment
that night.

Jim Jones was showing
the congressman,

this is our people.

[cheers and applause]

Everything was riding,
that night,

on Congressman Ryan's
acceptance of us.

So the atmosphere
was extremely tense.

[Speier]
There's a huge show
being put on for the benefit

of the community, but obviously,
for us as well.

[Carter]
The entertainment
is going on.

Ryan was invited to get up
and talk to everybody.

I'm very glad to be here.
This is a congressional inquiry.

I think that all of you know

that I'm here to find out
more about--

uh, questions have been raised
about your operation here.

But I can tell you right now,
whatever the comments are,

there are some people here
who believe that this

is the best thing
that ever happened to them
in their whole lives.

[cheers and applause]

[ominous music]

[Carter]
And the place just exploded
in applause,

not rehearsed as been printed
many, many times.

It was, it was loud.

My brother told me afterwards
that it was the loudest

that he'd ever heard Jonestown.

[cheers and applause continue]

♪♪

[Speier]
But it was manic.

There was
an artificiality to it,

and it didn't just go on
for 30 seconds.

It went on for minutes
and minutes.

[cheering continues]

♪♪

What I hear is this
incredible tension being broken

by this...
way overenthusiastic clapping.

[cheering continues]

It was during the performance
that I thought,

"This is my chance
to get out of here."

The stakes were very high.

It was like an all or nothing,

do or die,
this is gonna work or else...

Reporter Don Harris was
kinda doing a circle

around the crowd
in the inside,

so he made it possible
for me to pass the note.

♪♪

And I put the note in the--
kinda the curve of his elbow...

...but the note fell out
on the ground.

♪♪

And this little kid, uh,
he was-- was ten or something,

he started yelling,
"He passed a note!
He passed a note!"

And I picked it up and I said,
"I think you dropped something."

I hand it back to him,
and, um, um, he walked on.

I'm exposing myself totally,

and I am in pure terror.

♪♪

[Speier]
Don Harris approaches us.

And he hands
Congressman Ryan a note.

And the note had Vern Gosney
and Monica Bagby's name on it.

And it indicated they wanted
to get out of there.

So my heart sank.

I thought,
"Oh, this is it.

"It's really true.

People are being held here
against their will."

[dramatic music]

[Wilson]
We hear Vern Gosney has passed
a note to somebody,

saying he wanted to leave.

Diane comes and she says,
"We're leaving tomorrow."

That was the plan.

[ominous music]

[Gosney]
After the performance,

Congressman Ryan came
and spoke with me,

and he said, "You are
the first one to ask to leave,

you'll have the first seats
on the plane."

And I told him,
"You're in extreme danger.

You need to leave now."

♪♪

He said, "Well, we can't."

He didn't have
any transportation to leave.

He couldn't leave
if he wanted to.

♪♪

[thunder rumbling]

[rain pattering]

[Speier]
I remember lying
on this top bunk

and listening
to a torrential downpour

that night on this roof.

[thunder rumbling]

It was staccato sound.

And I-I don't know that I got
a wink of sleep that night.

I was just thinking, "How are we
gonna get out of here safely?"

[dramatic music]

[ominous music]

♪♪

[Harris]
We're just a news team.

We don't care one way
or the other.

You're convinced
that Jim Jones
is a good man?

Definitely, yeah.Yes, I should say so.

Yes, I mean,
I'm 27 years old,

black, free,
and I make my own choices,

and I definitely think Jim Jones
is a beautiful-- more--

he's got more character
than I ever seen out of anyone.

And I respect him
very, very much.

♪♪

[Wilson]
On November 18th,
it was determined

that we were gonna leave.

My husband Joe and I
have separated.

I have Jakari.

But that day, Joe shows up,
and I'm holding our son.

He says,
"Where are you going?"

I said, "We're going
on a picnic."

And he goes, "A picnic?"

And I'm thinking,
"This is the stupidest excuse

"you could ever come up with.

Okay, we blew it.
It's over."

Then he just said, "Well, today
is not a good day, don't go."

[chuckling]
That's what he said.

Now I'm panicking
a little bit.

We have to hustle.

♪♪

Richard says,
"It's 30-something miles

and we got to walk it."

And so, we left.

♪♪

And we just started
walking down the road.

♪♪

I have Jakari tied to a sheet
on my back.

And I'm so scared.

I am so unbelievably scared,
it's hard to breath.

I feel like my heart's
in my throat.

I'm trying to keep
from panicking.

And I'm just waiting
for the bullet.

♪♪

[Gosney]
I met with Congressman Ryan
and Jackie Speiers.

Congressman Ryan said,
"You have a congressional shield

"of-- of protection around you.

Nothing can happen to you,"

and I just thought,
"You're insane."

[somber music]

♪♪

So then I went to say good-bye
to my son.

And Edith, his caretaker,
was in the middle

between these two guards.

And then I saw my son.

I remember him
sitting with me,

and just being like
a typical four-year-old

who can't sit still,
and just squirming

and crawling all around,
and then he went back to Edith.

It's a moment
that I've went over...

a million times in my mind.

A million times
in my mind.

But I didn't know
what was gonna happen.

♪♪

So, this is when Jones finally
showed up at the pavilion.

And I was standing off
to the side

when he was being interviewed
by Don Harris of NBC.

Harris showed him the note
from Vern or Monica,

saying they wanted to leave.

[Harris]
Last night, someone came
and passed me this note.

Well, that's who
we're talking about.

He wants to leave
his son here.

If Jonestown is such
a bad place,

why does he want
to leave his son here?

[Harris]
Doesn't it concern you,
though, that--

that this man,
for whatever reason,

one of the people
in your group was--
People--

People play games,
friend.

They lie.

If it's so damn bad,

why is he leaving
his son here?

Can you give me
a good reason for that?I'll ask him.

I'd take my son--
I'd take my son with me.

♪♪

[Carter]
But you could see
that he was not right.

I mean, uh, I couldn't see
how not right he was,

but you could see
he was not right.

♪♪

[Gosney]
The mood in that pavilion
was starting to be chaos.

And I realized at that moment

that there was other people
that wanted to leave.

Leo, come on.

♪♪

[Gosney]
I was quite shocked
because those two families

came with Jim Jones
from Indiana.

Miss, Miss...

I mean this.
Thank you.
Thank you.

Yeah, I know there is.
I know there--

[Carter]
People that had been
with Jim for decades

came up and said,
"We wanna go."

And all of a sudden,
the whole mood changed.

[Speier]
I remember there was
this screaming match going on.

[man]
Hold on a second.
One second.

[Speier]
A couple with a child
was pulling on the child.

One parent had one arm pulling,
she wanted to go,

and the other one
wanted to stay.

[Speier]
And I'm thinking,
"Oh, my God, this is..."

The intensity of emotion
had just skyrocketed.

[Carter]
I had tears
rolling down my face.

It was just--
it was so incredibly emotional.

But Jones' demeanor changed.

I could see the anger
growing on his face.

In terms of people leaving,
it had gone from 7 or 8,

to now 13 or 14,
and now another 9.

We're up over 20 people.

♪♪

[Speier]
It was decided
as the group of people

who wanted to leave grew...

that Congressman Ryan
would stay behind,

and we would have
two airlifts.

And I would take
the first group out.

♪♪

And all of a sudden,

Larry Layton jumps
onto the truck.

♪♪

[Gosney]
Dale Parks came and said,

"Larry Layton
is coming with us.

"You've gotta watch him.
He's a plant.

"He's not-- he's not
a sincere person

who wants to leave.
We've gotta watch him."

And so we all went,
got on the truck.

We're getting ready to leave,

and I remember talking
to Don Harris,

and we were feeling relieved,

like we were getting out
of this powder keg.

[thunder rumbling,
wind whooshing]

[Carter]
All of a sudden the wind,
I mean, literally,

out of nowhere,
the wind picked up

to, like, 35,
40 miles an hour.

The sky turned black,

and just this
torrential downpour happened.

♪♪

What I felt,
and I felt it physically,

was evil blow into Jonestown.

♪♪

It's like
a supernatural force

swept in and took over
the place.

The reason this was
so important

is because the truck
couldn't leave.

[engine revving]

♪♪

[Gosney]
They kept running the motor
and running the motor

and couldn't get out
of the mud.

But what was going through
my mind is,

"You're not getting
out of here.

You're not gonna leave."

♪♪

[Speier]
And then there was this eruption
from the pavilion.

[Carter]
Congressman Ryan is back
in the pavilion.

He's across from me.
He's talking to me.

And I noticed a man
named Don Sly

walking up behind
Congressman Ryan.

He's shaking like a leaf.

And it looks like
he's actually crying.

And I thought to myself,

"Somebody else is leaving,"
you know?

"Oh, well, he's leaving too."

And all of a sudden,
a knife comes out and he says,

"All right, mother[bleep],
you're gonna die."

♪♪

[dramatic music]

The knife comes out and he says,
"All right, mother[bleep],
you're gonna die."

♪♪

We all jumped on him
and we got the knife away.

♪♪

Congressman Ryan
is sitting down

and you can see blood
on the congressman's shirt.

He was obviously shaken up.

Somebody just tried
to kill him.

Personally, what I felt was,

"Oh, my God,
the leader is a murderer.

I've been playing peace and love
and he's a [bleep] murderer."

♪♪

I felt completely naive.

By this time,
Jones is sitting there.

And he's like this
and he starts...

[chewing loudly, sucking teeth]

"I've never felt Jonestown
so peaceful."

♪♪

And I got chills
all over my body.

'Cause Jonestown
had never been more in pain

or more agony.

It felt, literally, to me
like Jonestown

was disintegrating
in front of my eyes.

♪♪

[Speier]
Out walks Congressman Ryan...

and he's got blood stains
on his shirt.

He gets into the cab
of the truck

and the truck takes off
for the airstrip.

[airplane engine whirring]

I thought, "Oh, my gosh,
we are so lucky.

I mean, we've just dodged
a bullet."

♪♪

There was an attempt
on Ryan's life,

we've got these defectors,

I'm still unsure about why
Larry Layton's on this truck,

but we'll sort it out
when we get to the airstrip.

For myself,
the feeling on that truck

was terror, foreboding.

♪♪

I don't think there was
a lot of talking going on.

♪♪

[Guinn]
It's six miles
to Port Kaituma.

The roads are narrow.
Thee roads are muddy.

It's gonna take a little while
to get there.

They're gone maybe 10 minutes
when a tractor...

pulls out of Jonestown
after them,

and there's a number
of men on it--

six, seven, eight--
all armed.

And they disappear too.

♪♪

[Carter]
At this point in time
in the pavilion,

I'm kind of afraid
'cause I helped save
the congressman's life.

So I started kind of easing
my way out of the pavilion.

I walked back to the cottages,
and I felt, literally,

like there was a target
on my back.

It felt like I had
a sniper's scope on my back.

[exhales]

[voice breaking]
This was so hard.

I get back to the cottages
and Gloria's there with Malcolm.

And she was laying down
on the bed.

And Malcolm was playing
on the floor with his toys.

And I said, "Do you know
what's happening up there?"

And she shook her head, "Yes,"

and we just started
holding each other,

and I said, "I'm afraid
we're all gonna die."

[ominous music]

♪♪

[Guinn]
At Port Kaituma,

Ryan, because there's
so many people coming,

has called ahead asking
that an extra plane come,

that there would be two planes
instead of one.

♪♪

They're still sorting
that out

when Leo Ryan
is going to go ahead

and give an interview
to the TV crew on the tarmac.

Did he say anything
when he came up?
Yeah.

He said something about, uh,
rob and choke and kill

and, uh-- or knife.
I don't-- I don't know.

But the obvi--
What he said was,

he intended to kill me.

[Speier]
Congressman Ryan is talking
to some members of the press.

I start to board passengers
onto planes.

And I'm boarding
the smaller plane first.

[Gosney]
Myself and Larry Layton were
assigned to the small plane.

[Speier]
Congressman Ryan,
at this point, has come over,

and I says, "You know,
I don't trust Larry Layton.

I don't want to be
on the same plane."

One of the press people
is there

and I said,
"Would you just frisk him?"

He frisks him.

Doesn't find the gun.

[vehicle approaching]

[Guinn]
All of a sudden, in comes
the tractor from Jonestown.

They're starting to think,
"Uh-oh, there's trouble."

And all of a sudden,
there was this noise.

[gunshots]

[Gosney]
I looked out the window
and said,

"They're killing everybody.
They're killing everybody."

[gunshots]

[gunfire echoing]