When Deborah came home from school in England in 1971, she brought a boyfriend, George Philip Blakey, a fellow Quaker and the son of a welltodo farming family in Northumberland. Her mother, on discovering that her husband was having an affair with Lisa's English governess, gave Lisa a detailed account of it and threatened to commit suicide. And it wasn't an isolated incident. There was no movement, but I thought the others might also be playing dead. In San Francisco, his church was lauded for its social programs, and Jones efforts to feed the poor and fight segregation found receptive ears with progressive politicians. Elin Cederroos: Ocean Resort Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Mr. Blakey survived the killings and suicides at Jonestown; he was on a boat owned by the commune at the time of the deaths. 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. well, it wasn't there. | AP/San Francisco Examiner. They all swore that Jonestown was the one and only place they could ever consider home. 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The robbers had been there the day before and returned asking about a ring. . Deborah said that before her escape she had obtained a bottle of wine and taken it to the commune against Mr. Jones's rules. The night before, our delegation watched Jones followers perform a show at their compound. That date was later moved back to April 2004, after the board credited him for his time in the Georgetown jail. Jones, who demanded that his flock call him Father, was one of the most politically powerful people in San Francisco, wined and dined by such luminaries as Rosalynn Carter, Assemblyman Willie Brown, Mayor George Moscone and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally. In Jonestown Only one man, Temple member Larry Layton, was tried in the United States for his involvement in the November 18 events. Layton's mother, Lisa, had died of cancer 10 days before the mass suicide. After Jones moved to Jonestown, and with Layton still in California, Layton's sister, a power in the hierarchy of the temple, defected and began to tell of atrocities at the jungle agricultural project. We compiled similar testimonies from other defectors who corroborated Debbies reports of physical and sexual abuse, forced labor and captivity. But I was one of very few women who held senior staff positions in Congress at the time, and I was concerned that if I gave in to my reluctance and let a male colleague go in my place, Id be setting back women in politics. Jones greeted us at the compound. 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. In some way, I think he was a substitute husband and father figure who filled all the needs that I failed to give.. Charismatic and tall with salt-and-pepper hair, he commanded a room. Mini Biography. He was not paroled from an American prison until 2002. [30] The Lake St. Louis police chief praised Larry's message about the consequences of going to prison and said it is not a scared straight program, noting that Lawton said "fear doesn't have a lasting impact. Whatever impelled me to send in the card changed the course of my life. "Every week we're ordered to drink some liquid," she writes, culling her memories of the "old tapes (of Jonestown recollections that) are running in my head. ref: Sparkle Lee Larry Layton 40-36 Tony Lundy 40-36 Lindsey Page 40-35 2020-01-10: Alicia Napoleon Espinosa: L-UD. [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. It did not sit well with me. He was born June 30, 1940 in Long Branch NJ to William and Edna (Keller) Layton. Its leader, the Rev. The bodies of Jones and 912 cult followers lay sprawled under the tropical trees of the commune, victims of an incredible murder-suicide rite. Among them were Sams teenaged granddaughters. The tumult of the late 60s and early 70s had left masses of people searching for a greater sense of security and purpose. Last year, Mrs. Layton became ill, and the diagnosis was what she feared most cancer. With its bell-ringing calls for social justice -- this was in the fractious 1960s and early '70s -- the little-known church near Ukiah catered to the closet revolutionary in Deborah Layton. He said the trial was not the place to examine the deaths of 913 people at the cult's settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. Larry Layton, who posed as a defector, was captured after badly wounding two people inside a plane trying to take off. To the tarmac. From what Ive seen, he said, there are a lot of people here who think this is the best thing that happened in their whole life. He was interrupted by manically enthusiastic cheering. Inquiry by Congressman. Nearly 300 children were administered the poison, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. It was utter pandemonium. In 1996, the family and friends of Larry launched a campaign for a presidential commutation. [37], Lawton is an advocate for prisoners and their rights, and comments on the justice system. My mother had cared a lot for my father, but Jim broke it up.. I couldnt bear the vision of her sitting in front of my casket. Biography Mini Bio (1) Larry Layton is known for Viva (2007) and Escape to Grizzly Mountain (2000). Many hours before the plane came, somehow, word filtered in that after Jones had released his death squad to the airstrip, he had led more than 900 of his flock into his White Night of death. In Jonestown, nobody could have any family attachments. I was almost one of them. The 35-year-old defendant is charged with conspiring to murder Representative Leo J. Ryan, the California Democrat who died Nov. 18, 1978, with three journalists and a temple defector in an ambush at an airstrip near Jonestown. It looked staged. Larrys parole came two years earlier than his previously-scheduled release date of April 2004. Never one to accept second-hand information, he decided to embark on a fact-findingand potentially life-savingtrip. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. And he assigned two of his staff members to come along: Jim Schollaert and me. Judge Peckham imposed the same five-year parole date on those counts. | AP. We heard that the church had weapons, and that Jones was paranoid and possibly on drugs. [8] In 1983, having earned his GED, he left the Coast Guard and began engaging in criminal activity, mostly loan sharking and bookmaking. Mrs. Layton moved out of their home on Labor Day 1979. But Dr. Layton denied strongly in a separate interview that he had ever been antiSemitic. 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.. Increasing numbers of people approached us. History. 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 leader, the Rev. 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. Mr. Jones also apparently widened the rift between Larry Layton and his father. Besides, when had a congressman ever been assassinated on foreign soil while on a congressional delegation trip? His appearance was part of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. Mr. Ryan, three journalists and a cult defector were killed and 11 others were wounded. Excerpt from UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back by Jackie Speier, reprinted under a license arrangement originating with Amazon Publishing. Almost 22 hours after the ambush, I heard the groan of a planes enginefinally our escape had arrived. Later on, I decided I had to show them. 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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. In 1965, after riots shook Watts, an African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Ryan briefly took a job there as a substitute teacher while serving in the state Assembly, and used the experience to shape education policy. the attorney said. But ladies and gentlemen, it is notLarry Layton. Mr. Layton was also convicted of conspiracy in the attempted murder of Richard C. Dwyer, the deputy chief of the United States mission to Guyana, who was among those wounded at the airstrip. I couldnt immediately identify the deafening sound that filled the air. Mr. Jones repeatedly sent word to her that he could cure her from Guyana, and she waited for his efforts to work. We worked quickly to locate and speak to the individuals whose families had contacted our office and had been campaigning for their return. Dont know why youre here, but were happy to have you, Jones said. To go back to the gunshots. [43] He also hosted a local talk radio show. The next year, his church relocated to Redwood Valley, a small community in northern California. What an evil thing that Jim Jones did. ', "O.J. [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. [6], Lawton was born in North Hempstead, New York on October 3, 1961. UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back, write a letter to President Jimmy Carter extolling Joness work, California's road to recovery runs through D.C. Republicans, Why New Jerseys ventilator guidelines may favor younger, whiter patients, Rhode Island ends specific restrictions on New Yorkers by making them national. See the article in its original context from. 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. Traumatizing family rifts erupted on the spot, with mothers and fathers engaged in literal tug-of-wars over their children. In August 1979, he joined the Coast Guard[9] and took part in the Mariel boatlift. 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." They visited her brother in Ukiah, listened to Mr. Jones's teachingswhich in many ways paralleled those of the Quakers and before long even Mr. Blakey's mother had flown from England to join the People's Temple for a short while. The book describes the events that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana, where over 900 people lost their lives as the result of mass forced suicide, which constituted the largest loss of American civilian life (other than due to natural disasters or during the course of violence with Native Americans) in United States history until the events of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones (left) shakes hands with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (right) after being sworn in to serve on the San Francisco Housing Authority, Nov. 24, 1977. A man followed him and slipped a folded piece of paper into his hand, then disappeared back into the crowd. My ribs were broken. Twenty years ago this month, Jones and 912 of his followers committed mass suicide at the jungle compound. "[10], Lawton also founded the Reality Check Foundation, which is a 501(C)(3) charity that includes a mentoring program, and an annual golf outing. Join me, he assured his followers, and youll get health care, education and a family that would never mistreat you. I was an orphan and my grandfather didn't let me forget it; he wanted me to work hard; he didn't want to ruin me with praise; I was supposed to be humble. Larry Layton, a former member of the People's Temple, broke into tears today at his trial on charges of conspiring to commit murder as his attorney told jurors not to make him a scapegoat ''for . As he grew older, Dr. Layton gravitated from Methodism to Quakerism, a faith with roots in the Reformation whose tenets included nonviolence, racial and religious toleration, rigorous selfdiscipline, and love and good works for the needy. Lawton gained notoriety for committing a string of jewelry store robberies along the Atlantic Seaboard prior to his arrest in 1996. The approach continued even after hed moved from Sacramento to Washington, D.C. Her involvement in the cult, he said, was useful activity, taking care of poor people; she said so much that she looked down at wealth and had guilt feelings, and Jim Jones helped her get rid of them. Also there was a strong feeling of community -- people of all races who really cared about each other.'. According to trial testimony, as the attack began, Layton pulled a gun inside the plane and wounded two temple defectors. | AP. The petition for commutation filed with the Pardon Attorney in 1997 included 87 letters of support from former members of Peoples Temple, relatives of people who died in Jonestown, former prisoners and prison officials who knew Larry, scholars of religious studies and new religious movements, and members of the clergy. Their accounts led to an expos in New West Magazine planned for publication in summer 1977. As I was lying seven miles away waiting for medical help, Sam Houstons granddaughters, Patricia and Judy, 14 and 15, were murdered, along with their mother, dozens of other would-be defectors and the rest of the Peoples Temple. The outfits were a ridiculous gimmick, and the role was clearly objectifying. He said that some of the recipients could be innocent. Deborah nursed her mother and tried to conceal that a physician had told her the cancer was fatal. After a year or so Dr. Layton and his wife heard from Carolyn's father that the couple had been divorced. Anyone can read what you share. Laurence Laird Layton, a distinguished scientist whose later life was devastated by his family's involvement with the Peoples Temple cult, died Wednesday in his Emeryville home. 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. [25] He received an additional sentence in 2002 for giving false witness. She mentioned a Bay Area couple, the Stoens, who had defected and were fighting for the return of their young son, John. 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. To the volatile flight home. Answer (1 of 2): Above: Jonestown Before The Massacre Larry Layton was the only "armed guard" at Jonestown at the time of the massacre to outlive November 18, 1978, when all but a few dozen of the roughly 1,000 residents of Jonestown perished. [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. Layton was brought to trial in Guyana on charges of attempted murder and was acquitted. They joined. [8] Lawton later said that he used a BB gun during the robbery. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Created by: Mike Added: 6 Apr 2021 [30] In 2009, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office spent $4500 on 500 DVDs from the Reality Check program. I was kicked. Id come to Guyana as a congressional aide on a fact-finding mission. Repeatedly, the defectors mentioned forced participation in mass-suicide rehearsals known as the White Night trials.. Layton grew up in an affluent Berkeley family. Tom Layton, Larry's older brother, reported to his father that Larry had complained repeatedly of what a awful father the scientist had been. 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. Before I could even comprehend what was happening, about a dozen men leapt from the tractor, leveled their automatic weapons, and fast approached. Her marriage was ruptured by Mr. Jopes even before it could be consummated. 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. '', He said that Mr. Layton ''did not kill anybody'' at the airstrip, nor did he ''aid and abet or conspire to kill Leo Ryan.'' Larry Layton was the only person prosecuted for any of the events in and around Jonestown. Left-right: Jim Schollaert, Jackie Speier and Congressman Leo Ryan. I have no idea how much time passed until I turned my head and opened my eyes. [22] Fingerprint evidence connected Lawton to the October 1994 Palm Bay heist, and he was charged with that crime as well. The land later became the site of a large Union Carbide plant. Larry Layton, a former member of the People's Temple, broke into tears today at his trial on charges of conspiring to commit murder as his attorney told jurors not to make him a scapegoat ''for the horror of Jonestown.''. #3 Journalists and Defector Killed Mr. Layton was the only person charged in the United States with criminal acts arising from the events of Nov. 18, 1978, when Mr. Ryan and a group of journalists and relatives of other cult members were ambushed at the Port Kaituma airstrip in the jungle near Jonestown. Their courtship began in the spring of 1941, and theywere married in October. The "Greeting Committee" promptly confiscated all their clothes and belongings and, most important, their passports. ''Look at whether their feelings against Jones were spilling over toward Larry Layton. 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. The letters were presented during the hearing which resulted in a recommendation for Larrys release. [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. But as Hitler consolidated his power in the 1930's, her parents began to see the Nazi holocaust taking shape and they urged her to go to New York to join relatives there. Debbie stood in line to drink the red liquid that she was told would kill her in a matter of minutes. But Layton, saying he wishes he could ease the pain. We accompanied Assemblyman Ryan to shopping centers and campaign events to pass out pamphlets and speak with voters. Jones himself sat onstage in a throne beneath a sign that read: Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The members sang and danced and, by every appearance, were happy. Initially she was allowed to recuperate in a cabin of her own, but later she was moved into a crowded dormitorystyle cabin with other elderly women. [19][20] One bullet narrowly missed Lawton, but struck his brother. Larry Layton Biography It looks like we don't have any Biography for Larry Layton yet. After her operation, Mrs. Layton moved to Guyana. "I was ready to be overwhelmed by emotion," she says, "but when we got into the area, it just wasn't there. When we touched down in Georgetown, a U.S. Air Force medevac plane was waiting. Dr. Layton was perplexed by his wife's behavior but began sleeping beside her on the floor. Once, Debbie continued, Jones woke up the camp in the early hours of the morning. There is a sickening recording of Jones coercing his followers that day. 'Being in Peoples Temple wasn't always pleasant, but one had the feeling he was really doing something to advance society. [38][5][9] In 2013, the Brevard County Jail re-introduced chain gangs as a pilot project with the goal of deterring crime. Dr. Layton was from a world substantially different from the aristocratic one of his bride. But I refused to spend the rest of my life as a victim of Guyanathere were too many of them. [10] He was sentenced for racketeering and robbery and spent 11 years in prison before being released in 2007. [1][2], In 2007, he started the Reality Check Program to help educate at-risk youths on the consequences of breaking the law. Before the New West issue hit the stands, Jones and hundreds of his followers had left San Francisco for Jonestown, their promised land in Guyana. Don put it in his pocket and took a few more steps before carefully unfolding it. But Lisa escaped from Hamburg, and in 1938, stunned by the antiSemitism she had seen, she arrived in New York with a determination never to reveal to anyone that she was Jewish. [15] The robbers had dropped off jewelry for repairs, and later returned to rob the store. Layton's mother, Lisa, had died of cancer 10 days before the mass suicide. ''I feel a tremendous amount of guilt and remorse for the events that happened,'' he said. The store owner managed to break free and grabbed a .38 caliber pistol and fired five shots at the robbers as they fled. But finally her cancer became so advanced that It was necessary for surgeons to remove a lung. | California Historical Society. Jim Jones. | AP. Much later, Layton writes, she would find them "on the bookshelf in Father's house with the many other prescription drugs taken from Temple members.". 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. [31] The DVDs contained condensed versions of Lawton's program and were 67 minutes long. When people refer to the Jonestown massacre as a mass suicide, I am enraged. I dont have any money to donate, but Id like to volunteer. Larry Layton was the only person prosecuted for any of the events in and around Jonestown. 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. One, Karen Layton, died in the carnage at Jonestown. Jim Jones, with his omnipresent dark glasses and his sweeping red robe, was the anchor of her newfound life and, like many Temple members, she was mesmerized by him. White Night!" [27] Lawton says he regrets his time spent in prison, because he missed out on seeing his children grow up; his grandmother died, and his father became afflicted with Alzheimer's disease while he was inside. Education: Attended college in the area of San Francisco, CA. Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/17/us/cult-member-cries-over-plea-to-jury.html. His family, too, had had great wealth. 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. Later, Jones also became enamoured of the new Mrs. Layton and soon added her, too, to his growing harem of temple members. Five bullets hit me from point-blank range, piercing my right arm, leg, and back. Last May, while serving Mr. Jones as a trusted aide, she escaped from Jonestown and tried in vain to alert the world that he was preparing for a mass suicide in order to establish a place for himself in history. A short time later, Larry married his second wife, Karen,whom Dr. Layton would come to know as a loving, sweet person.. During my freshman year at UC Davis, when I told him about my major, he offered encouragement: If you really want to learn about political science, you should come and intern in my office. I did, and over the years, worked my way up from volunteer to intern to staffer to senior aide, just as he climbed from the state Assembly to the U.S. Congress. Instead he proposed a better use of law enforcement resources would be to "help inmates with drug addiction. Life in Jonestown became a drab and exhausting routine of dawn-to-dusk labor in the fields, replete with swarms of voracious mosquitoes that even went after the toughened soles of people's feet. Within minutes, Ryan and four others were shot dead. "And I thought, if I get hit by a truck, my epitaph will be, 'Jonestown survivor dies on Bay Bridge.' They called it Jonestown. Politically, there was nothing to gainand everything to loseby taking on Jones, and there was no telling what hed do if confronted and challenged. 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. Jones had become increasingly paranoid, convinced that the CIA, the FBI and the media were out to destroy him. While asserting that Mr. Jones was ''primarily responsible'' for the killings at the airstrip, Federal District Judge Robert F. 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