Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette ... Leo Ryan and four others by temple members on a nearby airstrip on Nov. 18, 1978, then with the mass murders and suicides of hundreds, a horror ...

On Nov. 18, 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan of California and four others were killed on an airstrip in Jonestown, Guyana, by ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 18, 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan of ...

After the airstrip shooting, Jones summoned his congregation to the compound’s open-air pavilion, telling them that soldiers would soon be “parachuting” into Jonestown to kill everyone.

Not 24 hours earlier, Jones had dispatched gunmen to an airstrip to assassinate Congressman ... reports of coercion and sex ...