November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, Cult survivors elude manhunt,

November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A1, Cult survivors elude manhunt,
November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A1, Cult survivors elude manhunt,
November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A10, Jones says father 'obsessed', [Blog]
November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A10, FBI confirms cult probe,
November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A10, Cult doctor's fate unknown, [Blog]
November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A15, Camp doctor, nurses brewed deadly brew, [Blog]
November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A15, Today's topic; Why did they die, [Blog]
November 22, 1978, The Michigan Daily - AP, page A-1, Survivors of cult suicide elude search,
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November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, Cult survivors elude manhunt,

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November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A1, Cult survivors elude manhunt,



Cult survivors elude manhunt,

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) -- Survivors of the Jonestown cult suicide, menaced by flesh-eating piranha fish and other deadly perils of the jungle, eluded searching soldiers in the nearly impenetrable Guyanese wilderness for a third day Tuesday,

Police Commissioner Lloyd A. Barker estimated 200-300 survivors fled into the bush and said some possibly made it to friendly Indian villages. Other sources place the number of survivors at nearly 800.

At the site of the mass suicide, the corpses of 409 members of the American religious sect lay decomposing in the equatorial sun, U.S. military officials were planning to airlift the bodies to the United States.

A State Department spokesman in Washington said Guyana asked that the U.S. government remove all the bodies, despite their state of decomposition. He had said earlier some of the bodies might be buried at the jungle settlement.

"The bodies are starting to swell and some seem ready to burst," said U.S. Embassy official Peter Londoner. About 200 U.S. troopers, awaiting the arrival of a dozen helicopters, were standing by in Georgetown for the evacuation operation.

Estimates of the number of sect members who fled the Jonestown camp Saturday during the ritual of self-destruction by poison ranged from 200 to more than 775. Stephan Jones, son of the Peoples Temple founder, the Rev. Jim Jones, estimated some 500 had gone into the inhospitable rain forest.

Commissioner Barker, whose national police are conducting the search along with Guyanese soldiers, said he believed the figures for the Jonestown population and survivors had been over-estimated. "We think the survivors would be more like 200 to 300," he said.
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November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, Cult doctor's fate unknown,

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November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, Jones says father 'obsessed',

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November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post – AP, FBI confirms cult probe,

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November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A15, Today’s topic; Why did they die,



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November 22, 1978, The Frederick Post - AP, page A15, Camp doctor, nurses brewed deadly brew,

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November 22, 1978, The Michigan Daily - AP, page A-1, Survivors of cult suicide elude search,

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