November 23, 1978, Milwaukee Sentinel, page 1, Sect Member Charged in Massacre at Airstrip [Continued page 7]
November 23, 1978, Milwaukee Sentinel / AP, page 9, Cults Thirst for Donations Insatiable,
November 24, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 1, Cult death count may reach 800,
November 27, 1978, Milwaukee Journal, Part II, AP-UPI Photos: page 6, Survivors, Bodies Return,
December 8, 1978, The Montreal Gazette / UPI, page 7, Jonestown survivors facing another ordeal,
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Not only were the deaths in Jonestown 80-90 percent black and female, an age bias also shows itself. But then again, old people aren't good at dribbling and hoops.
AP / Cult survivor Paul McCann, escorted by federal agent at airport.
Robert Stroud, 20,
November 27, 1978, Milwaukee Journal, Part II, page 6, AP-UPI Photos: Survivors, Bodies Return,
A member of the Peoples Temple community in Jonestown, Miguel De Pina, 84, was escorted to a commercial airliner at Georgetown's International Airport Sunday by his grandson, Michael Woodward, a Long Beach, Calif., policeman. De Pina, who was in a Georgetown hospital at the time of the slayings, is the first surviving member of the sect to return to the United States. Woodward went to Georgetown to see his grandfather home safely.
Lower: Jonestown took overy of over 900 bodies from the mass murder-suicide.
Upper right: Guyanese police assisted Hyacinth Thrush, 76, of San Francisco, from the Park Hotel in Georgetown to the airport for a return flight home, The elderly woman had been in a Georgetown hospital at the time of the Jonestown tragedy.
UPI Photo; The housing area of Jonestown was cleared of all bodies over the weekend
UPI Photo; Hyacinthe Thrush, 76, one of the few survivors of the Jonestown tragedy
A US soldier rested against a stack of coffins at the Georgetown airport in Guyana this weekend. The plastic in the foreground covers the last of the bodies flown out of the Jonestown settlement for shipment to the United States.
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November 23, 1978, Milwaukee Sentinel / AP, page 9, Cults Thirst for Donations Insatiable,
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November 23, 1978, Milwaukee Sentinel, page 1, Sect Member Charged in Massacre at Airstrip [Continued page 7]
December 8, 1978, The Montreal Gazette / UPI, page 7, Jonestown survivors facing another ordeal,
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Not only were the deaths in Jonestown 80-90 percent black and female, an age bias also shows itself. But then again, old people aren't good at dribbling and hoops.
AP / Cult survivor Paul McCann, escorted by federal agent at airport.
Robert Stroud, 20,
John Raphael Cobb, 18,
Thomas Beikman, 21,
Clifford Geig, 18,
Paul McCann,
December 8, 1978, The Montreal Gazette - UPI, page 7, Jonestown survivors facing another ordeal,
NEW YORK -- (UPI) -- For survivors of Rev. Jim Jones' last cyanide-laced test of loyalty in Guyana, returning home is an ordeal of government interrogations and building new lives.
"The only consolation I have is that my mother really cares about me. It's the only thing that keeps me going," a visibly shaken Robert Stroud said yesterday as he left a modest airport hotel to fly home to his mother in Idaho.
For half of his 20 years, Stroud had been a People's Temple follower. He was in Georgetown for treatment of a leg problem when his wife died in the mass suicide-murder at Jones' steamy jungle commune Nov. 18.
For nine hours after his arrival in New York Wednesday, Secret Service and FBI agents questioned him "extensively and intensively" -- especially about Jones' alleged communal security force, he said.
"They didn't slap us around, but some lady yelled at me, he said. "She told me that I would have to spend the rest of my life in jail."
Stroud and 10 others face hours more questioning today before a San Francisco federal grand jury investigating the slaying of California Congressman Leo Ryan.
"I have nothing to hide," cult member Paul McCann told FBI agents who met the group at Kennedy airport.
Because they are penniless, the New York City Department of Social Services using normal HEW repatriation program funds -- provided them with plane fare.
Among those being questioned will be 21-year-old Thomas Beikman, whose father is jailed in Georgetown for allegedly slashing the throat of a People's Temple follower and her three young children.
Beikman's mother and brother died in Jonestown while he was in Georgetown for treatment of an injury. Since birth, he has been a member of Jones' cult. He has never known another way of life.
"I'm very happy to be back home even though it's quite an ordeal," he said. "But now I've got to get a new lease on life."
The survivors chronicled the deterioration of Jones during his last months.
"I was satisfied with Jonestown because we were missionaries building something good," said Beikman. "...Until the last months, that is. Then Jim got sick. He was slurring his words and it is possible that [he] was taking drugs. He was very snappy with us."
John Raphael Cobb, an 18-year-old member of the commune's basketball team, agreed, saying Jones "went bad at the end."
"He was a generous and sweet person, but maybe in the last six months, he was changing. He got pretty sick. His decisions weren't the best at times.
"Nobody took his practice suicide rituals seriously. He did it to test people," Cobb recalled, then put his hand to his head and chocked back tears.
He lost eight relatives in Jonestown, including his mother and sister.
"It ended in death, but the beginning was a pleasure," remembered 18-year-old Clifford Geig, who flew home to his father in Nevada.
"I lost 900 friends, a brother and three cousins...I am bitter because it was horrible. Jonestown was a nice place but Jim Jones wreaked it -- he killed everybody"
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December 8, 1978, The Montreal Gazette - UPI, page 7, Jonestown survivors facing another ordeal,
NEW YORK -- (UPI) -- For survivors of Rev. Jim Jones' last cyanide-laced test of loyalty in Guyana, returning home is an ordeal of government interrogations and building new lives.
"The only consolation I have is that my mother really cares about me. It's the only thing that keeps me going," a visibly shaken Robert Stroud said yesterday as he left a modest airport hotel to fly home to his mother in Idaho.
For half of his 20 years, Stroud had been a People's Temple follower. He was in Georgetown for treatment of a leg problem when his wife died in the mass suicide-murder at Jones' steamy jungle commune Nov. 18.
For nine hours after his arrival in New York Wednesday, Secret Service and FBI agents questioned him "extensively and intensively" -- especially about Jones' alleged communal security force, he said.
"They didn't slap us around, but some lady yelled at me, he said. "She told me that I would have to spend the rest of my life in jail."
Stroud and 10 others face hours more questioning today before a San Francisco federal grand jury investigating the slaying of California Congressman Leo Ryan.
"I have nothing to hide," cult member Paul McCann told FBI agents who met the group at Kennedy airport.
Because they are penniless, the New York City Department of Social Services using normal HEW repatriation program funds -- provided them with plane fare.
Among those being questioned will be 21-year-old Thomas Beikman, whose father is jailed in Georgetown for allegedly slashing the throat of a People's Temple follower and her three young children.
Beikman's mother and brother died in Jonestown while he was in Georgetown for treatment of an injury. Since birth, he has been a member of Jones' cult. He has never known another way of life.
"I'm very happy to be back home even though it's quite an ordeal," he said. "But now I've got to get a new lease on life."
The survivors chronicled the deterioration of Jones during his last months.
"I was satisfied with Jonestown because we were missionaries building something good," said Beikman. "...Until the last months, that is. Then Jim got sick. He was slurring his words and it is possible that [he] was taking drugs. He was very snappy with us."
John Raphael Cobb, an 18-year-old member of the commune's basketball team, agreed, saying Jones "went bad at the end."
"He was a generous and sweet person, but maybe in the last six months, he was changing. He got pretty sick. His decisions weren't the best at times.
"Nobody took his practice suicide rituals seriously. He did it to test people," Cobb recalled, then put his hand to his head and chocked back tears.
He lost eight relatives in Jonestown, including his mother and sister.
"It ended in death, but the beginning was a pleasure," remembered 18-year-old Clifford Geig, who flew home to his father in Nevada.
"I lost 900 friends, a brother and three cousins...I am bitter because it was horrible. Jonestown was a nice place but Jim Jones wreaked it -- he killed everybody"
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November 27, 1978, Milwaukee Journal, Part II, page 6, AP-UPI Photos: Survivors, Bodies Return,
A member of the Peoples Temple community in Jonestown, Miguel De Pina, 84, was escorted to a commercial airliner at Georgetown's International Airport Sunday by his grandson, Michael Woodward, a Long Beach, Calif., policeman. De Pina, who was in a Georgetown hospital at the time of the slayings, is the first surviving member of the sect to return to the United States. Woodward went to Georgetown to see his grandfather home safely.
Lower: Jonestown took overy of over 900 bodies from the mass murder-suicide.
Upper right: Guyanese police assisted Hyacinth Thrush, 76, of San Francisco, from the Park Hotel in Georgetown to the airport for a return flight home, The elderly woman had been in a Georgetown hospital at the time of the Jonestown tragedy.
UPI Photo; The housing area of Jonestown was cleared of all bodies over the weekend
UPI Photo; Hyacinthe Thrush, 76, one of the few survivors of the Jonestown tragedy
A US soldier rested against a stack of coffins at the Georgetown airport in Guyana this weekend. The plastic in the foreground covers the last of the bodies flown out of the Jonestown settlement for shipment to the United States.
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November 23, 1978, Milwaukee Sentinel / AP, page 9, Cults Thirst for Donations Insatiable,
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November 23, 1978, Milwaukee Sentinel, page 1, Sect Member Charged in Massacre at Airstrip [Continued page 7]
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November 24, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 1, Cult death count may reach 800,
November 24, 1978, The Southeast Missourian, page 1, Cult death count may reach 800,
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