( 2007-01-15) [1] Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a 2007 documentary television film on the History Channel about the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. Anyone can read what you share. In the summer of 1978, Lisa Philips Layton died of cancer in Jonestown, Guyana, three months before the Rev. In the months leading up to the trip, my boss, Congressman Leo Ryan, had been contacted by worried constituents whose loved ones were members of a San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple, which had fled to South America for the promise of a utopian commune led by their preacher, Jim Jones. To the tarmac. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. I would be in the first group; Congressman Ryan insisted that he stay behind to make certain that every person who wanted to leave made it to Port Kaituma safely. He treasured it. 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[40] Lawton has also shown concern over the prevalence of fentanyl-laced heroin, noting that in the past dealers had tried to sell pure heroin without any additives. Is the Stanley Quencher tumbler worth its TikTok hype? My ribs were broken. He had engineered complete authoritycollecting members Social Security and disability checks, and determining when and how his disciples could communicate with their families. By the time I returned, more than 900 people died. But I refused to spend the rest of my life as a victim of Guyanathere were too many of them. Layton complied, and Jones took Carolyn as his mistress. [32] By 2010, Lawton had shipped 10,000 DVDs across the country. "If I hadn't been sent to Georgetown that day (in May)," Deborah Layton says now, "I would have died in Jonestown. She is known by many of her relationships - longtime lover of Jim Jones, mother of Jones' child Jim Jon (Kimo) Prokes, sister of Annie Moore, former wife of Larry Layton, former sister-in-law of Debby Layton - as well as the sometimes-mysterious roles she played within the Peoples Temple hierarchy. But when Larry Layton was growing up in the 1920's, the land was not worth much. Religion: "Raised as a Quaker." Hobbies and other interests: Theater, music, painting, gardening. Increasing numbers of people approached us. Mr. Blakey survived the killings and suicides at Jonestown; he was on a boat owned by the commune at the time of the deaths. But by the time I showed em, they were all dead.. I grew up with the Bible and the Puritan work ethic, he recalled in an interview. While he was never charged with shooting Mr. Ryan, the Government contended that Mr. Layton conspired with Mr. Jones and other cult members to kill the Congressman and others in his group to prevent them from returning to the United States with negative reports about Jonestown. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Congressman Ryan assured me that there was nothing to worry about. [10] While in prison, Lawton earned a paralegal qualification and became a gang mediator. [10][26] While recounting his prison experiences he said: "I saw inmates stabbed and friends die" and "I saw young men raped and pimped out as prostitutes for other inmates. I was even unaffected by the rice weevils and other strange bugs we ingested daily.". Mr. Jones repeatedly sent word to her that he could cure her from Guyana, and she waited for his efforts to work. The outfits were a ridiculous gimmick, and the role was clearly objectifying. 1978 CULT FIGURE GETS LIFE TERM IN CONGRESSMAN'S JUNGLE SLAYING, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/04/us/1978-cult-figure-gets-life-term-in-congressman-s-jungle-slaying.html. [8], In 2019, he made a video with Vanity Fair where he analyzed fictional robberies from films such as The Italian Job and Heat. To the volatile flight home. Five bullets had ripped through me, devastating the right side of my body. Reassured that they were on their way, we parked ourselves at a few picnic tables in the far corner of the pavilion area. Wed have to make multiple trips in the truck. The spellbinding preacher had a message that attracted many disaffected people of the 1960's, and soon Carolyn had stirred her husband's sense of social activism and brought him into the group. [39] Other issues he is concerned with include prison conditions as well as post-release debt loads and their influence on unemployed ex-convicts. He had on a big yellow poncho, and his eyes were set in a sullen glare. His suggestion that I would learn far more from first-hand experience was in step with the way he approached politics. We listened as she offered a detailed and disturbing account of her experience. Mr. Ryan, three journalists and a cult defector were killed and 11 others were wounded. One of the defectors wed interviewed claimed that Jones dyed them black. Mr. Jones also apparently widened the rift between Larry Layton and his father. Larry, after graduating from Berkeley High School, enrolled at the University of California at Davis and soon was living with Carolyn Moore, a student whose father was a Protestant minister in Davis. None of those red flags made the congressman reconsider. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. After he passed legislation improving prison conditions, the inmates showed their gratitude by giving him a chess set they had sculpted from toothpaste and toilet paper. The retrial was delayed for years because of complex appeals over the admissability of certain evidence excluded by Judge Peckham's rulings in the first trial. At 16, Im not sure I understood what a state assemblyman did, but when my parents received a solicitation from Leo Ryans reelection campaign in 1966, I mailed back a note: Im in high school. Sam was far from the only person concerned about Jones malicious influence over a loved one. [7] In grades one through six, Lawton served as an altar boy at St. Francis de Chantal in The Bronx,[8] where he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest. Peoples Temple follower Larry Layton, center, stands with police following his arrest in the shooting of two people, including California Congressman Leo Ryan, on a remote Guyana airstrip, Nov. 18, 1978. Lisa Layton was the next member of the family to join the cult. All I could think was I am not going to make Grandma live through my funeral. Larry Layton was the only person prosecuted for any of the events in and around Jonestown. At the pavilion for breakfast, I did my best to appear unruffled. Monica confirmed that she wanted to leave. The next year, his church relocated to Redwood Valley, a small community in northern California. A bone shot out of my right arm, and a huge hunk of flesh had been blown off my thigh. History. Layton was attracted to the Utopian principles of the temple and its multi-racial flock, living and working together under the guidance of Jones, a combination professed faith-healer and leftist political prophet. He was born in the mountains of West Virginia, between White Sulphur Springs and Charleston, to a. [15][18] Local police believed there was a connection between this robbery and a robbery that took place in May 1994 in Daytona Beach, and contacted the FBI. I hope tonight is the last one. Initially discouraged, Larrys family pressed ahead with the petition for early release, collecting another 50 letters in support, including letters from former Temple members and critics, numerous religious leaders, and a former congressman. The hospital was not far from the People's Temple community Mr. Jones had established in Redwood Valley. Larry Layton wiki ionformation include family relationships: spouse or partner (wife or husband); siblings; childen/kids; parents life. I admired Ryans worthy missions, but questioned if I shared his bottomless capacity to bear witness. At Port Kaituma, while I ushered the defectors onto a plane, a large red tractor-trailer rumbled onto the airstrip. '', See the article in its original context from. But this particular morning, Jones told his followers that they had to kill themselves to keep from being tortured by mercenaries who were preparing an ambush. As I shook his hand, I looked at his sideburns. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Biography submission guide. Congressman Ryan and I were among the first shift of the delegation to climb in for the excruciatingly slow six-mile drive to the commune. [10], Lawton executed his first robbery when he was 28, an inside job to collect insurance money. Family Tragedy: Hitler's Germany to Jones's Cult, https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/04/archives/family-tragedy-hitlers-germany-to-joness-cult-the-layton-familys.html. Chief among my concerns was how cozy Jones appeared to be with members of the embassy: How could any Jonestown resident feel safe reporting an injustice to a U.S. official who is arm in arm with Jim Jones in every image? Sure enough, I could tell he had. I wanted to leave my daughter a legacy that wasn't that simple.". I noticed an elderly woman stuffing pieces of bacon into her pockets; the ample spread was just another showpiece. By his own admission, Layton came of age in Berkeley, Calif., during the turmoil of student protests and the Vietnam war. '', See the article in its original context from. [2] The book is published in Italy, France, Australia, Germany, Thailand and United Kingdom. That same year, Congressman Ryan read a newspaper article about a constituent of his named Sam Houston, whose son had been a member of Jim Jones Peoples Temple and, in 1976, died under suspicious circumstances after having a phone conversation in which he confessed to wanting to leave the group. He is serving a life sentence in the federal prison at Lompoc. On the plane to Guyana, Nov. 18, 1978. His father was a research scientist. Its hard to know when it became obvious that he was dead, or when I realized that others werent pretending. Lawton gained notoriety for committing a string of jewelry store robberies along the Atlantic Seaboard prior to his arrest in 1996. The early release culminated a six-year campaign during which members of his family worked with a core of supporters, first to petition then-President Clinton to commute Larrys sentence, then to convince the Parole Commission to modify its earlier decision on a release date. They were issued four T-shirts, four pairs of socks, a toothbrush and toothpaste, four pairs of underwear and a bar of soap. Mr. Layton was convicted here last Dec. 1 of conspiracy in the murder of Mr. Ryan, a California Democrat who had led a group that was investigating conditions at Jonestown and reports that people were being held there against their will. There were piles of used syringes at the scene. [6][11] In 2010, Lawton filmed the pilot and sizzle reel for Lawton's Law, a reality show based on his work with at-risk youth. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). ''This is a criminal case against Larry Layton,'' he said. She had an extremely anxious demeanor, and we moved quickly as we went to her cabin to pack. She carne back from that meeting in a state of shock, as if she had seen a ghost, her husband recalled. After his campaign received my note, I started volunteering as a Ryan Girl, part of a troop of young women clad in houndstooth bobby hats, miniskirts, black tights, black turtlenecks and bright-white boots. [30][33] He was the first ex-con to ever become an honorary police officer. Hours later at the Jonestown emcampment, Jones led the death rite of himself and his followers. Layton, Deborah 1953- PERSONAL: Born in 1953, in Tooele, UT; daughter of Laurence Laird and Lisa Layton; married; children: Lauren. Clearing away those cobwebs meant writing a book -- it's called "Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple." It was impossible to cope with the pain. An eyewitness who escaped described how people who did not cooperate were injected with poison where they sat, or were held down and injected with poison.. Larry Layton: Survivor of the Peoples Temple Larry Layton, Quaker and pacifist, entered the Peoples Temple in 1968 to join the march to social justice as charted by the temple's mesmerizing. We landed in Georgetown, Guyanas capital, on November 14, 1978. In Jonestown, nobody could have any family attachments. To the stretchers. Her mother's cancer pain medications were taken away. Oh my God: Its true. Among them were Sams teenaged granddaughters. Layton, 35, emerged as the only defendant alive and available for prosecution in the government's attempt to exact justice from the Jonestown horrors. Congressman Ryans body was probably 15 feet away. "[2] He was critical of Brevard County stopping letters to inmates in 2013. Subsequently, she arranged to leave the settlement on an errand for Mr. Jones and left Guyana on May 13. I felt my stomach knot. The store owner managed to break free and grabbed a .38 caliber pistol and fired five shots at the robbers as they fled. A former high school teacher, he was swept into politics by the idealism of the Kennedy era and elected mayor of South San Francisco before running for state Assembly. Jim Jones with a group of children living at Jonestown, circa 1978. She was entrusted with flights to Europe and Panama to open Temple bank accounts, where Jones stashed the millions he was taking from Temple members who freely gave him their life savings, their homes and just about everything else. [8][12] At one point, he purchased an Italian pizza restaurant in North Lauderdale, Florida, which he later burned down as part of an insurance fraud. [18], Lawton is believed to have hit around 20 to 25 jewelry stores,[11] stealing a self-estimated total of around $1518 million worth of high-value items, including watches, diamonds, and other gems. Deborah watched at close hand her brother's mental deterioration under Mr. Jones's oppressiveness: Larry had been very hung upon Carolyn, he loved her, and Jim took her away from him and gave him Karen, but then he took Karen away, too. Lawton was critical of the move, saying that "[c]hain gangs send a bad message about [the US]." As I scanned the hundreds of smiling faces, I never could have fathomed that within 24 hours, virtually every one of them would be dead. But, she said, I had to tell somebody what was happening in Jonestown. . [41], In 2017, he appeared in a middle school in Havelock, North Carolina to explain his prison experiences. Nevertheless, in 1991, a parole board ruled that Larry would have to serve 20 years, and set his release date for 2006. An uncle, Dr. James Franck, won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1935. I was one of Larry's lead lawyers in his first U.S. trial in 1981, which resulted in an 11 to 1 vote for acquittal on faulty charges of conspiracy to kill the congressman. Don hung back for a moment before approaching Congressman Ryan and me at the picnic table and surreptitiously passing along the note. Besides, when had a congressman ever been assassinated on foreign soil while on a congressional delegation trip? Although some of Joness most zealous followers may have consumed the poison voluntarily, the vast majority were murdered outright and against their will. They were married in 1966 and a year later Larry, who as a Quaker had obtained a draft deferment as a consciencious objector, moved with his new wife to Ukiah in northern California to serve in lieu of military duty as a medical technician at the Mendocino State Hospital. Five bullets hit me from point-blank range, piercing my right arm, leg, and back. [8][9] The 367-page book covers his early life, his string of crimes, and his post-release career. Almost immediately, Jones ordered Layton to Jonestown. Breathing heavily, I pulled myself to my feet, stumbled to the planes baggage compartment and took shelter. [31] The DVDs contained condensed versions of Lawton's program and were 67 minutes long. Jim Jones. Hurrying out of bed, Layton would race toward Jones "in my mud-caked boots, past the tin-roofed cabins, past the wooden outdoor showers where we're allowed our two-minute wash at the end of our 11-hour days in the field." It was nothing of the kind. It was a message that appealed to the dispossessed, which is why it made sense for the Peoples Temple to relocate to San Francisco around 1972. The bodies of Jones and 912 cult followers lay sprawled under the tropical trees of the commune, victims of an incredible murder-suicide rite. Jones became active in local politics, giving money, running food programs and busing Temple members to attend rallies and get out the vote for his favored candidates. In 1969, to get her away from the drugs and other attractions in Berkeley, Dr. Layton and his wife decided to send Deborah to a Quaker school, Ackworth, in the countryside of Yorkshire, England. The morning after our arrival, Congressman Ryan, Jim Schollaert and I attended a closed-door briefing by Ambassador John Burke and his staff at the U.S. Embassy. Mini Biography. Repeatedly, the defectors mentioned forced participation in mass-suicide rehearsals known as the White Night trials.. The hundreds of elderly were told that if they attempted escape, they would be left to die prolonged deaths alone in the depths of the jungle. A growing body of constituents known as the Concerned Relatives wrote Congressman Ryan with increasing alarm about their daughters or sons who had accompanied the charismatic demagogue to Guyana. Until she was 20 years old, when she was denied admission to a university in Hamburg, Lisa Philips didn't know what it meant to be Jewish in Germany in 1935. Rep. Ryan and I arranged to meet her. There is abundant evidence that Mr. Jones used such tactics to divide families and break up marriages. Earlier, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello asked Judge Peckham to sentence the 40-year-old defendant to life in prison, serving a minimum of 20 years before being considered for parole. The robbers had been there the day before and returned asking about a ring. Not long after she left, her parents were rounded up with other Jews and placed on a train to a death camp. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Within minutes, Ryan and four others were shot dead. Don put it in his pocket and took a few more steps before carefully unfolding it. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. [38][5][9] In 2013, the Brevard County Jail re-introduced chain gangs as a pilot project with the goal of deterring crime. In 2009 the Rockledge Florida police used the DVDs as part of a community policing project with the money to buy the DVDs procured through asset forfeiture. Whatever impelled me to send in the card changed the course of my life. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. But, as interviews last week with family members and friends revealed, the Laytons slowly disintegrated under the pressures of family conflict, the disillusionment that gripped much of America during the 1960's, drug use, and the soothing, simplistic appeal of Mr. Jones. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Created by: Mike Added: 6 Apr 2021 Behind the wheel of an airplane, I waited for the shooting to stop and said my Act of Contrition, praying for forgiveness and waiting for the lights to go out. [15] The robbers took $480,000 ($910,600.81 in 2022)[17] worth of gold and diamonds making it the biggest robbery in the city's history. We saw an impressive community with dozens of pathways, cabins, a medical center, a little school, and a large pavilion where the members congregated regularly. ''It is not the proper forum for answering questions about Jonestown.'' ", She blithely ignored the warning signs -- the fake "cancer healings" and the increasingly hostile confrontations, when Jones would scream at members of his flock for faintly perceived faults or have them paddled harshly with the "board of education.". This site houses a variety of PDF documents. We didnt want a group to present a canned response or any individual to look to others for their answers. And it wasn't an isolated incident. "And I thought, if I get hit by a truck, my epitaph will be, 'Jonestown survivor dies on Bay Bridge.' 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