drugs, at first. what kind? cocaine. cocaine. in the 80s. started snorting it by a party drug. by five years later? smoked out pretty much. in sacramento, california, in the mid- 80s leslie was arrested trying to cash a stolen check. actually saved my life. getting caught? yes. getting sent to prison? yes. how much time did you serve? only did five months. but it was enough time to clean you up? oh, for sure, for sure. even as she straightened out her life, for years leslie wilson would not tell others she was a jonestown survivor. so i just lived underground. i just dug deep and i lied and i changed my name and i pretended to be this person that i wasn t because i could never talk about my family. people would talk about their high school reunions and most of my friends were dead. today leslie wilson is a grandmother, works with medical insurance claims and has written a book about life and jonestown. but i want people to understand that we weren
i just dug deep and i lied and i changed my name and i pretended to be this person that i wasn t because i could never talk about my family. people would talk about their high school reunions and most of my friends were dead. today leslie wilson is a grandmother, works with medical insurance claims and has written a book about life and jonestown. but i want people to understand that we weren t just names and not that we were human. and that we came back. it was not easy. it was not easy at all. congressional aide jackie speier came back on a stretcher. i was hospitalized for two months. i must have had over ten surgeries. for a time she thought she had lost use of her right arm. how are you? i m jackie speier and i m running for congress. how are you? fine, thank you. very good. she ran for her murdered congressman s seat but lost in a
because i could never talk about my family. people would talk about their high school reunions and most of my friends were dead. today leslie wilson is a grandmother, works with medical insurance claims and has written a book about life and jonestown. but i want people to understand that we weren t just names and not that we were human. and that we came back. it was not easy. it was not easy at all. congressional aide jackie speier came back on a stretcher. i was hospitalized for two months. i must have had over ten surgeries. for a time she thought she had lost use of her right arm. how are you? i m jackie speier and i m running for congress. how are you? very good. she ran for her murdered congressman s seat but lost in a hard-fought primary, and then turned to county and state
wilson would not tell others she was a jonestown survivor. so i just lived underground. i just dug deep and i lied and i changed my name and i pretended to be this person that i wasn t because i could never talk about my family. people would talk about their high school reunions and most of my friends were dead. today leslie wilson is a grandmother, works with medical insurance claims and has written a book about life and jonestown. but i want people to understand that we weren t just names and not that we were human. and that we came back. it was not easy. it was not easy at all. congressional aide jackie speier came back on a stretcher. i was hospitalized for two months. i must have had over ten surgeries. for a time she thought she had lost use of her right arm. how are you? i m jackie speier and i m running for congress. how are you? very good. she ran for her murdered congressman s seat but lost in a
i just dug deep and i lied and i changed my name and i pretended to be this person that i wasn t because i could never talk about my family. people would talk about their high school reunions and most of my friends were dead. today, leslie wilson is a grandmother, works with medical insurance claims, and has written a book about life and jonestown. but i want people to understand that we weren t just names and not that we were human. and that we came back. it was not easy. it was not easy at all. congressional aide jackie speier came back on a stretcher. i was hospitalized for two months. i must have had over ten surgeries. for a time, she thought she had lost use of her right arm. how are you? i m jackie speier and i m running for congress. how are you this morning? fine. thank you. very good. she ran for her murdered congressman s seat but lost in a