November 22, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 1, 3 arrested in Guyana slayings, [Continued Page 6: Guyana]
November 24, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 1, Cult death count may reach 800,
November 24, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 1, Last flight home,
November 24, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 4, Opinion, Death in Guyana,
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November 21, 1978, Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO, page 7, Last Photo of Ryan,
This photograph of Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., in the hooch at Port Kaituma with the blood of his assailant on his shirt, is believed to be the next to last frame San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson made before he Ryan and three others were killed in an ambush in Guyana. Ryan had been attacked in Jonestown (1978 Copyright, San Francisco Examiner.)
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November 24, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 1, Cult death count may reach 800,
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November 24, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 4, Opinion, Death in Guyana,
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November 22, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 1, 3 arrested in Guyana slayings, [Continued Page 6: Guyana]
Mrs. Johnson said. Jones "set aside money, that if the assassination squads did not accomplish their mission, the Mafia was to be contacted and contracts were to be taken on our lives"
The FBI in San Francisco confirmed that its agents were investigating rumors that members of the Peoples Temple in California planned to kidnap or assassinate high-ranking U.S. officials and others to avenge Jones.
In New York a spokesman for Bantam Books Inc. said it would issue its 64th "instant" book the week of Dec. 3 entitled, "The Suicide Cult: The Untold Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana."
Police Commissioner Lloyd A. Barker said the teams searching for the fleeing cultists had gone to friendli Indian villages in the area, but there was no report from them yet. The Gayana government also asked the United States for helicopters with loudspeakers to fly over the jungle and broadcast that it was safe to come out.
Barker said about 40 surviving members of the colony had been found in the area, but the U.S. Embassy said it had been informed of only 14. Stephen Jones, the 19-year-old son of the leader of the cult, reported he and 44 others escaped the suicide.
Jones, a former San Francisco city official who led members of his cult to Guyana four years ago, ordered the mass suicide after a group of his followers killed Ryan and three U.S. newsmen with him on an investigation of charges that Jonestown settlers were abused and kept against their will. A woman attempting to flee the colony also was killed in the attack.
Forty U.S. specialists were flown Tuesday to Jonestown to begin sealing the rotting remains of the suicides in bags for the trip back to the United States.
The Guyanan information ministry made public a partial list of the dead, but there were many apparent errors in spelling and it contained no hometowns.
The U.S. government authorized the Guyana government to begin mass burials of the suicides because of the deterioration of the bodies in the tropical heat. But the Guyana government requested that the U.S. government remove the bodies of all the victims
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