jones is sitting on the bench, and he is just sitting there, a dejected, beaten man. yet, another confrontation awaited jim jones when he sat down with nbc reporter don harris for an interview. last night, someone came and passed me this note. harris gave him vern gosney s note asking for help to go home. that s who we re talking about. he want it is leave his son here. in fact, vern gosney had to agree to leave his young son mark behind before jones would let him go. all decisions around my son i well, you know, will haunt me for the rest of my life. jones raged at harris. people play games, friend. they lie. they lie. what can i do about liars? are you people going to leave us. i just beg you, please leave us. bill, we will bother nobody.
as word spread, tension grew. time was running out on jonestown for all the children and everyone else. yet their last night on earth would end in song. no matter what they take from me they can t take away my dignity jones forced the reporters to leave and go back to the nearby town of port kaituma. ryan and his aide jackie speier spent the night in jonestown. and i was awake a good part of the night thinking, how quickly can we get out of here tomorrow? leslie wilson was thinking the same thing. a small group of black members hoped to walk out that next morning to go on a picnic, so they said. but at first her husband, joe wilson, seen here in yellow, a top security guard for jim jones, told her she could not
yet, another confrontation awaited jim jones when he sat down with nbc reporter don harris for an interview. last night, someone came and passed me this note. harris gave him vern gosney s note asking for help to go home. that s who we re talking about. he wants to leave his son here. in fact, vern gosney had to agree to leave his young son mark behind before jones would let him go. all the decisions around my son, i will haunt me for the rest of my life. jones raged at harris. people play games, friend. they lie. they lie. what can i do about liars? are you people going to leave us, i just beg you. please leave us bill, we will bother nobody.
when i heard that i think verne gosney had passed a note that he wanted to leave, we were just like, oh, my god. as word spread, tension grew. time was running out on jonestown for all the children and everyone else. yet their last night on earth would end in song. no matter what they take from me they can t take away my dignity jones forced the reporters to leave and go back to the nearby town of port kaituma. ryan and his aide jackie speier spent the night in jonestown. and i was awake a good part of the night thinking, how quickly can we get out of here tomorrow? leslie wilson was thinking the same thing. a small group of black members hoped to walk out that next morning to go on a picnic, so they said. but at first her husband, joe wilson, seen here in yellow, a top security guard for jim jones, told her she could not
to a halt. ben s deadly dose, according to his girlfriend, was drinking beer and scotch throughout the day along with an unknown quantity of oxycodone. when his blood alcohol level was tested, it registered 0.04. that s relatively low, less than half the legal limit. here s the implication it may not take much alcohol to tip the balance toward death. ben fell asleep in front of the tv, and, by the next morning, he had stopped breathing. it s almost what makes it even more frightening, that he went to sleep and he had no idea this was going to be his last night on earth. i mean, he had no idea that this was going to be it. it just seems so preventable and so stupid. it just didn t have to happen like this. it didn t have to be, you know, like that. you explained what happened to my friend to me in two sentences.