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 wants to leave his son here. if jonestown is such a bad place, why does he want 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 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 going to leave us? i just beg you. please leave us. we will bother nobody.
hard fought primary and turned to state politics and served almost two decades in the california legislature. early in 2008, the leo ryan seat opened up again. this time jackie speier won in a runaway race. so help you god? i do. congratulations. you are now a member. and was sworn in after 30 years as a freshman congresswoman. for almost everyone who did survive, escape from jonestown was not a single day s journey. it has taken decades. it never goes away. tracy parks tried to hide in a bottle. i just drank because that s how i hid my pain as a teenager. but nothing could chase away the feelings of chronic fatigue, constant stress and memories that came back at night. all the nightmares are i end up back there. i m trying to get out. i m trying to run through the jungle, and i know that i might not make it through the jungle.
an nbc news camera team accompanied congressman ryan. you re watching their footage. i can tell you right now that the few conversations i ve had with some of the folks here already this evening that whatever the comments are, there are some people here who believe that this is the best thing that ever happened in their own life. the cheering lasted more than a minute. desperate to leave, verne gosney mistook nbc reporter don harris in the blue for a ryan aide. i tucked a note in his elbow as he walked by and the note dropped to the ground, and i picked it up and gave it back to him and told him you dropped something, and a small boy then shouted, you know, he passed a note, he passed a note. it said, help us get out of jonestown. when i heard that i think verne gosney had passed a note that he wanted to leave, we were
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.
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