murder and sent to prison for life without parole. his mother, pregnant with him survived the airport ambush the day jonestown died. on a winter night in oakland, california, in 1999, rhodes opened up with an assault rifle from an overpass and killed a policeman on the highway below. we heard a gunshot like boom, boom, boom, boom, more like four or five gunshots, yes, and then we heard a car took off from that area. trouble has been a fellow traveler for many through the years since jonestown. mike prokes, the pr man who helped walk away with the suitcases of cash, called a news conference early in 1979. i refused to let my brothers and sisters and the others in jonestown die in vain. he got up, walked into the bathroom and shot himself to death.
carter said, he put a gun to his head. i knew that i would never get the sounds and the smells and the sights of jonestown out of my mind ever again. the three men walked on that night to port kaituma where they were taken into custody. a day or so later, carter and prokes were put into a helicopter and flown back to jonestown to identify bodies. 909 people lay dead. many face down. often the children lying hidden beneath them. as i walked through the pavilion, i identified what bodies i could. i saw injection marks in people s arms. i saw one in the back of somebody s head.
jones last self-serving words as the tape ends. we didn t commit suicide. we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. jim jones did not drink the cyanide. when almost everyone else was dead, jones was shot in the head. probably by a trusted aide. before the end came, these three men tim carter on the left, his brother on the right, pr man mike prokes in the middle, were allowed to walk away from jonestown with the suitcases holding $500,000 in cash. we dumped the first suitcase in the fields next to the pavilion. they abandoned all three suitcases in the jungle. authorities later recovered them. when the men paused to rest,
policeman on the highway below. we heard a gunshot like boom, boom, boom, boom, more like four or five gunshots, yes, and then we heard a car took off from that area. trouble has been a fellow traveler for many through the years since jonestown. mike prokes, the pr man who helped walk away with the suitcases of cash, called a news conference early in 1979. i refused to let my brothers and sisters and the others in jonestown die in vain. he got up, walked into the bathroom and shot himself to death. these two former church members outspoken critics of jones were shot to death in their home a year later in what police think was a family dispute. in 1984, in los angeles, one child was killed and 11 others
when almost everyone else was dead, jones was shot in the head. probably by a trusted aide. before the end came, these three men tim carter on the left, his brother on the right, pr man mike prokes in the middle, were allowed to walk away from jonestown with the suitcases holding $500,000 in cash. we dumped the first suitcase in the fields next to the pavilion. they abandoned all three suitcases in the jungle. authorities later recovered them. when the men paused to rest, carter said, he put a gun to his head. i knew that i would never get the sounds and the smells and the sights of jonestown out of my mind ever again. the three men walked on that