December 20, 1978, Morning Record And Journal / UPI, Jones Ashes Await Commitment to Sea,
December 20, 1978, Morning Record And Journal / UPI, Cult Leader's Son Recants, But Still Charged with Murder,
November 24, 1978, Wilmington Morning Star / AP, page 1-A, U.S. protects cultists fearing for their lives, [Continued page 2-A: U.S.]
November 24, 1978, Wilmington Morning Star (N.Y. Times News Service) page 7, Doctor searches for mother in Guyana cult,
November 24, 1978, Wilmington Morning Star / AP, page 7-A, Bodies of mass suicide begin arriving in U.S.,
October 22, 1986, Associated Press, Peoples Temple Defectors Feared Layton, Witness Testifies, by Bob Egelko,
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November 19, 1978, Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal / AP, U.S. Rep., Newsmen Shot, Feared Dead, [Continued page 6-A] diigo,
November 19, 1978, AP / Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal, page 6A, Shooting,
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December 20, 1978, Morning Record And Journal / UPI, Jones Ashes Await Commitment to Sea,
December 20, 1978, Morning Record And Journal / UPI, Cult Leader's Son Recants, But Still Charged with Murder,
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November 24, 1978, Wilmington Morning Star / AP, page 1-A, U.S. protects cultists fearing for their lives, [Continued page 2-A: U.S.]
November 24, 1978, Associated Press / Wilmington Morning Star, page 2-A, U.S.,
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November 24, 1978, Wilmington Morning Star (N.Y. Times News Service) page 7, Doctor searches for mother in Guyana cult,
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November 24, 1978, Wilmington Morning Star / AP, page 7-A, Bodies of mass suicide begin arriving in U.S.,
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October 22, 1986, Associated Press, Peoples Temple Defectors Feared Layton, Witness Testifies, by Bob Egelko,
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Former Peoples Temple member Larry Layton was met with frightened screams when he boarded a truck full of people trying to flee the Rev. Jim Jones' compound in Guyana, a witness testified Wednesday.
Layton faces murder conspiracy charges in the November 1978 shootings at a Guyana airstrip in which Rep. Leo Ryan, three newsmen and a temple defector were killed and several others wounded.
Testifying at Layton's second trial on the charges, reporter Ron Javers said Layton had boarded the truck which took defectors from the Jonestown compound to the airstrip, saying he, too, wanted to leave.
"They (the defectors) all began to scream and yell, 'No, no, no, he's one of Jones' people, he's got a gun, he's going to kill us,'" Javers told the federal court jury.
Javers, who was working for the San Francisco Chronicle at the time, said he and other newsmen "slammed Larry Layton against the side of the truck and began to question him very intensively, who he was, what he was doing."
He said Layton replied, "I want to get out of Jonestown." Javers said he asked Layton what he thought of Jones, and he answered, "I hate Jim Jones." He said newsmen also gave Layton a pat search but found no gun.
The truck was carrying dissident members of the cult who had been allowed by Jones to leave the South American jungle compound along with Ryan, who was winding up a visit to investigate conditions at Jonestown.
After the truck arrived at the airstrip, a Peoples Temple ambush squad opened fire, killing Ryan and four others. Javers, who was shot in the shoulder, escaped into the jungle.
Shortly afterward, Jones and 912 followers died by poison and gunfire in a murder-suicide ritual at Jonestown.
Prosecutors say Layton had been posing as a defector. At the airstrip, they say, he boarded a small plane separate from the one that was to carry Ryan and shot and wounded two defectors before he was overpowered. Layton had been slipped a gun by another temple member, prosecutors say.
Acquitted in Guyana on attempted murder charges, Layton was charged in the United States with conspiring to murder Ryan and Richard Dwyer, the deputy U.S. chief of mission in Guyana who was among the wounded.
The prosecution contends the shootings resulted from a plot by Jones and others to keep the outside world from learning about conditions at Jonestown. The defense contends Layton knew nothing of any plans to shoot Ryan and Dwyer, but had been deluded by Jones into believing the temple defectors were CIA agents and wanted to kill them.
Layton is the only former temple member to be charged in the U.S. in connection with the shootings. His first trial ended in a hung jury in 1981.
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