Meanwhile, ex-devotees of the Peoples Temple began sharing stories about Jones darker side. They recovered and with the help of friends managed to reach Italy, later coming to the United States. [15] The robbers took $480,000 ($910,600.81 in 2022)[17] worth of gold and diamonds making it the biggest robbery in the city's history. After a while, Mrs. Layton began sleeping on the floor of their home in Berkeley and made her husband sell a Cadillac they owned. Sam was certain Jones had something to do with his sons death. He is also charged with conspiring to harm Richard Dwyer, a United States diplomat who was wounded in the ambush. By that time, darker elements had seeped into Jones sermons. Before going to print, the editor of the magazine, who held some esteem for Jones, felt compelled to call him and read aloud the article before it went to press. Syringes surround one of the vats used to mix up the position drink used in the mass murder at Jonestown. Jim Jones, and 912 of his followers died by poison and gunfire in mass killings and suicides. She died of cancer in Guyana three weeks before the death ritual. In 1969, to get her away from the drugs and other attractions in Berkeley, Dr. Layton and his wife decided to send Deborah to a Quaker school, Ackworth, in the countryside of Yorkshire, England. None of those red flags made the congressman reconsider. After spending 18 years in Guyana jails and U.S. federal prisons, Larry Layton, the only man convicted on criminal charges arising from the events of November 18, 1978, was released in April 2002. NBC news correspondent Don Harris was part of our delegation, and was well versed on the accusations against Jones. Mrs. Layton's daughter, Deborah, joined the cult five years ago. In addition, Mr. Layton was convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of Mr. Ryan and the attempted murder of Mr. Dwyer. Hours later at the Jonestown emcampment, Jones led the death rite of himself and his followers. Although some of Joness most zealous followers may have consumed the poison voluntarily, the vast majority were murdered outright and against their will. He treasured it. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Ive shared my Guyana story countless times, but its still a challenge to go back and relive those days. Jim Jones would order more than 900 of his followers to commit suicide. Anyone can read what you share. I was later told that he had been shot 45 times. It felt like a Mack truck had just sped over me. I wanted to leave my daughter a legacy that wasn't that simple.". [10] In 2012, Lawton self-published Gangster Redemption, an autobiography co-written with Peter Golenbock. Over the next decade, Jones moved his congregation and changed its name several times before settling on Peoples Temple around 1964. 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After graduating from the University of California campus at Davis in 1968 with a degree in social science, Layton and his wife moved to the Ukiah area and soon met up with the temple. Children had their own special punishment, Layton writes. Mrs. Layton's former husband, Dr. Laurence Layton, an eminent scientist, was left behind in Berkeley, Calif., having lost a wife and at least $250,000 that she gave to Mr. Jones. My list kept growingwhat started with two names was now more than 40. In 1973, when Larry and Deborah Layton and their spouses were living at the Ukiah temple, an acquaintance of Mrs. Layton thought he had cancer, and her children urged Mrs. Layton to bring him to Ukiah. Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones (left) shakes hands with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (right) after being sworn in to serve on the San Francisco Housing Authority, Nov. 24, 1977. But, she said, I had to tell somebody what was happening in Jonestown. Jones responded by telling them that if any actions were taken to remove John, the entire Jonestown population would commit suicide. Three witnesses appeared on Larrys behalf before a parole hearing at the federal prison at Lompoc, California, including attorney Frank Bell and Loren Buddress, the former Chief Probation Office for the Northern District of California. Before I could even comprehend what was happening, about a dozen men leapt from the tractor, leveled their automatic weapons, and fast approached. Members of the press and the Concerned Relatives waited behind on the airstrip until the truck could come back for a second load. Left-right: Jim Schollaert, Jackie Speier and Congressman Leo Ryan. I barely got a wink of sleep. Jones died from a bullet to the brain. According to trial testimony, as the attack began, Layton pulled a gun inside the plane and wounded two temple defectors. Join me, he assured his followers, and youll get health care, education and a family that would never mistreat you. Her involvement in the cult, he said, was useful activity, taking care of poor people; she said so much that she looked down at wealth and had guilt feelings, and Jim Jones helped her get rid of them. A man followed him and slipped a folded piece of paper into his hand, then disappeared back into the crowd. ''Look at whether their feelings against Jones were spilling over toward Larry Layton. 'Being in Peoples Temple wasn't always pleasant, but one had the feeling he was really doing something to advance society. With the camp surrounded by his armed guards, he told his followers to give the medicinegrape FlavorAid and Kool-Aid laced with cyanide and tranquilizersto the children and the elderly first. [38][5][9] In 2013, the Brevard County Jail re-introduced chain gangs as a pilot project with the goal of deterring crime. The cover of a Jonestown promotional booklet from 1978. Anyone can read what you share. He was to use the skill when the flock made its planned migration to the Guyana settlement, which Jones already had picked out and named Jonestown. I was one of Larry's lead lawyers in his first U.S. trial in 1981, which resulted in an 11 to 1 vote for acquittal on faulty charges of conspiracy to kill the congressman. Layton said the temple started out as a civil rights movement and he compared Jones to Martin Luther King Jr., but 'obviously things turned out differently,' he said. [8][9] The 367-page book covers his early life, his string of crimes, and his post-release career. Nearly 300 children were administered the poison, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. Youll see what a wonderful place it is. He took us on a tour highlighting the most favorable aspects of the commune. 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One, Karen Layton, died in the carnage at Jonestown. It was the final stop for a group that for nearly 10 years had fascinated and, in the end, horrified the Bay Area. His father, an electrical engineer, died when Larry was 8 and the boy had to move in with his grandfather, a stern Methodist preacher. We heard that the church had weapons, and that Jones was paranoid and possibly on drugs. "If I hadn't been sent to Georgetown that day (in May)," Deborah Layton says now, "I would have died in Jonestown. Judge Peckham also set April 21 for a hearing on a motion for a new trial filed by Mr. Layton's new defense attorney, Robert R. Bryan. I had read the articles and listened to hours of testimony. '', See the article in its original context from. Never one to accept second-hand information, he decided to embark on a fact-findingand potentially life-savingtrip. Jones greeted us at the compound. Under the Federal parole system, a person sentenced to life in prison is not normally considered for parole until 10 years have been served. He spoke often of apocalypseJones chose Redwood Valley because he believed it was one of a few places in the country that could survive a nuclear holocaustyet insisted the Peoples Temple would exist as a sort of heaven on Earth, with himself in the role of God. [23][24] Lawton later said he was the biggest jewel thief of the 1980s and 90s operating within the United States of America. Hours after Mr. Ryan and four others were shot to death at the airstrip near Jonestown, which was the headquarters of the cult, the cult's leader, the Rev. They joined. Jim Jones, with his omnipresent dark glasses and his sweeping red robe, was the anchor of her newfound life and, like many Temple members, she was mesmerized by him. Twenty years ago this month, Jones and 912 of his followers committed mass suicide at the jungle compound. The U.S. trial was confined to the question of whether he plotted to kill Ryan and U.S. diplomat Richard Dwyer. Ryan wanted to investigate. In 2009 the Rockledge Florida police used the DVDs as part of a community policing project with the money to buy the DVDs procured through asset forfeiture. I did not recover my old self; bullets render that impossible. But this particular morning, Jones told his followers that they had to kill themselves to keep from being tortured by mercenaries who were preparing an ambush. The "Greeting Committee" promptly confiscated all their clothes and belongings and, most important, their passports. Philip Wogaman, President and Mrs. Clintons pastor in Washington, D.C. made additional pleas for commutation of Larrys sentence. Five bullets had ripped through me, devastating the right side of my body. Leo Ryan assured me that there was nothing to worry about. He was born in the mountains of West Virginia, between White Sulphur Springs and Charleston, to a family that had helped settle Virginia 225 years earlier and claimed ancestors datmg from the Mayflower. Ryan was gunned down by a band of temple members intent on stopping the visitors from leaving and reporting the doings of the cult to the outside world. Onboard, every bump we hit shot an arrow of pain through my body. Everybody bolted in different directions. I spoke with a woman named Edith Parks, the matriarch of three generations of Temple members who wanted out. But Dr. Layton denied strongly in a separate interview that he had ever been antiSemitic. After she left, he discovered that she had given a number of family valuables to the People's Temple. After his campaign received my note, I started volunteering as a Ryan Girl, part of a troop of young women clad in houndstooth bobby hats, miniskirts, black tights, black turtlenecks and bright-white boots. Jones, who demanded that his flock call him Father, was one of the most politically powerful people in San Francisco, wined and dined by such luminaries as Rosalynn Carter, Assemblyman Willie Brown, Mayor George Moscone and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally. In the summer of 1977, after an expose of Peoples Temple in New West magazine, Jones and his followers fled to Guyana. Jackie Speier manages a smile as she is wheeled on a stretcher at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Nov. 20, 1978. The store owner managed to break free and grabbed a .38 caliber pistol and fired five shots at the robbers as they fled. Layton's mother, who came from a wealthy family, divorced her husband and donated $300,000 to Jones' cause. Suddenly, my body was crushed by a blow to my side. ", Looking back on it 20 years later, she says, "I put everything in denial and locked it down. To the stretchers. Mr. Layton was also sentenced to three concurrent terms of 15 years each in related charges of conspiring to kill Mr. Ryan and in the attempted murder of a United States diplomat in the same incident. Sam was far from the only person concerned about Jones malicious influence over a loved one. [7] Lawton attended Intermediate IS 192 and Lehman High School, but did not graduate. ''They were trying to deny the horror of Jonestown and the deception that they underwent,'' Mr. Tamburello said. Months previously, her husband had begun noticing that money and family possessions were dis appearing from the household. Mr. Tamburello accused prosecutors of going too far in describing the ambush on the Ryan party, which went to Guyana to investigate assertions that some members of the cult were being mistreated and were being held in Guyana against their wills. He was cracking. Initially she was allowed to recuperate in a cabin of her own, but later she was moved into a crowded dormitorystyle cabin with other elderly women. By Robert Lindsey Special to The New York Times. After that, she never stopped going back, Dr. Layton said. But the moment I looked down at my own body is locked in my mind. In Congress, he joined a March 1978 Greenpeace mission to investigate the slaughter of baby seals in Newfoundland, Canada. Moments later, Congressman Ryan emerged from a throng of people with a torn and bloodied shirt. The chaos persisted until, abruptly, a silence fell. Ryan joined us for the trekone of roughly two dozen of us crammed in the bed of the truck, with dozens of would-be defectors left behind, belongings packed, waiting to escape. That was the last moment I remember with any real clarity before I surrendered my body to the medical staff. The other, Carolyn, became one of Mr. Jones's mistresses and also his principal fnancial adviser; it is not known whether she is alive. [25], Law enforcement officials and judges have supported the program. Mrs. Layton saw Mr. Jones strip Larry of two wives. By his own admission, Layton came of age in Berkeley, Calif., during the turmoil of student protests and the Vietnam war. This time, it was not a drill. It wasnt unusual for Temple members to be awakened at dawn over the loudspeaker and summoned to the pavilion for one of his increasingly unhinged sermons. Layton grew up in an affluent Berkeley family. Larry Layton, Quaker and pacifist, entered the Peoples Temple in 1968 to join the march to social justice as charted by the temple's mesmerizing leader, the Rev. At the compound, Don wandered off to smoke a cigarette. [30] In 2009, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office spent $4500 on 500 DVDs from the Reality Check program. [44] Lawton has a YouTube channel, and he has made videos analyzing heists in movies and video games such as Grand Theft Auto V; he also plays Prison Architect.[44][45]. Their courtship began in the spring of 1941, and theywere married in October. It did not sit well with me. Jones himself sat onstage in a throne beneath a sign that read: Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The members sang and danced and, by every appearance, were happy. Layton was accused of conspiracy to murder in the November,1978, violence that triggered the mass deaths -- the airstrip attack on Rep. Leo Ryan and his party in which the congressman and four others were killed. Dr. Layton was from a world substantially different from the aristocratic one of his bride. In 1978, I went to Guyana on a fact-finding mission. The news at the time and the history lessons to follow usually fail to mention that a number of Peoples Temple members were shot, several of whom were in the field between the pavilion and the jungle, clearly trying to escape the massacre. And it wasn't an isolated incident. Mr. Jones repeatedly sent word to her that he could cure her from Guyana, and she waited for his efforts to work. It made no sense that he would be trying to leave Jonestown. It was utter pandemonium. She used a telephone in the radio shack to call her sister in California, who arranged to have an airline ticket waiting for her at the airport in Georgetown, Guyana. Congressman Ryan and I were among the first shift of the delegation to climb in for the excruciatingly slow six-mile drive to the commune. Larry Layton can be an professional, known for Get away to Grizzly Hill (2000) and Viva . View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Created by: Mike Added: 6 Apr 2021 Larry Layton, who posed as a defector, was captured after badly wounding two people inside a plane trying to take off. Extradited to the U.S. after a Guyana jury found him not guilty of murder, Larry was tried twice on four charges related to the shootings, including Conspiracy to Kill a Congressman. [10] While in prison, Lawton earned a paralegal qualification and became a gang mediator. Mrs. Layton moved out of their home on Labor Day 1979. Individually, their insistence would have been hard to question. Debbie stood in line to drink the red liquid that she was told would kill her in a matter of minutes. The early release culminated a six-year campaign during which members of his family worked with a core of supporters, first to petition then-President Clinton to commute Larrys sentence, then to convince the Parole Commission to modify its earlier decision on a release date. Behind the wheel of an airplane, I waited for the shooting to stop and said my Act of Contrition, praying for forgiveness and waiting for the lights to go out. By that time, it was obvious that some of his disciples intended to leave. A bone shot out of my right arm, and a huge hunk of flesh had been blown off my thigh. Ryan and I asked one or two Temple members at a time to come talk to us. He was acquitted after presenting a defense of brainwashing. It was to be the secret of her life. I would be in the first group; Congressman Ryan insisted that he stay behind to make certain that every person who wanted to leave made it to Port Kaituma safely. Jim could really get to people, Deborah recalled in an interview. The temple sent Layton to school for training as an X-ray technician. And then I realized that confirming one tiny detail could mean that the worst of the testimonies were true. When people refer to the Jonestown massacre as a mass suicide, I am enraged. Larry Howard Layton, 80, of Green Valley, AZ passed away December 10, 2020 from complications of COVID-19. [3][4] He has acted as a spokesperson for prisoners and prisoner issues,[5] been a vocal advocate for prison reform, and made appearances in the media as an expert on robberies. Nevertheless, in 1991, a parole board ruled that Larry would have to serve 20 years, and set his release date for 2006. [30][33] He was the first ex-con to ever become an honorary police officer. He went, and pursued the destiny that brought him to trial in San Francisco. Life in Jonestown became a drab and exhausting routine of dawn-to-dusk labor in the fields, replete with swarms of voracious mosquitoes that even went after the toughened soles of people's feet. ", "Every week we're promised death, a relief from this miserable life. He'd work you so hard you didn't have time to complain, and he'd blackmail you; he destroyed marriages and humiliated you.. Tom Layton, Larry's older brother, reported to his father that Larry had complained repeatedly of what a awful father the scientist had been. I grew up with the Bible and the Puritan work ethic, he recalled in an interview. In San Francisco, his church was lauded for its social programs, and Jones efforts to feed the poor and fight segregation found receptive ears with progressive politicians. Larry Layton Biography It looks like we don't have any Biography for Larry Layton yet. Rep. Ryan and I arranged to meet her. But, as interviews last week with family members and friends revealed, the Laytons slowly disintegrated under the pressures of family conflict, the disillusionment that gripped much of America during the 1960's, drug use, and the soothing, simplistic appeal of Mr. Jones. "[27] Another time he said: "I had my arms pinned down, and I was beaten and peed on by the guards. 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