Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History (28 page)

29
.
Children of Jonestown,
p. 193; NYT, 12/14/78 (Mootoo testifies to coroner’s jury), 2/18/79 (Chicago Med. Examiner Robt. Stein promised help, none came).

30
.
A Guide to Pathological Evidence for Lawyers and Police Officers,
F. Jaffe (Carswell Press, 1983);
Poisons, Properties, Chemical Identification, Symptoms and Emergency Treatment,
V. Brooks (Van Nostrand, 1958).

31
. Photographs, see fn. 22. “Questions Linger,”
Oakland Times,
12/9/78.

32. “Coroner Says 700 Who Died in Cult were Slain,”
Miami Herald,
12/17/78; NYT, 12/12/78 (injections, upper arm), 11/17/78 (700 were murdered), 12/18/78 (Mootoo shocks American Academy of Forensic Scientist meeting).

33
.
White Night,
pp. 230-1 (shot); WP, 11/21/78 (shot),
Guyana Daily Mirror,
11/23/78 (“bullets in bodies,” Ridley);
NYT,
11/29/78 (“no guns/struggle,” Lloyd Barker), 11/20/78 (“no violence,” Ridley);
NYT,
11/18,19,21/78 (Jim Jones, Annie Moore, Marisa Katsaris shot in head);
WP,
11/21/78 (“forced to die by guards”), also
Washington Star,
11/25/78 (forced).

34
.
Children of Jonestown,
p. 191 and
WP,
11/21/78 (unknown if Jones shot himself);
Strongest Poison,
p. 194 (Gurvich, no nitrate test on hands);
Hold Hands,
p. 260 (gun far from body);
Miami Herald,
12/17/78 (Mootoo suspects murdered);
NYT,
11/26/78 (drug o.d., shot after, U.S. Major Groom), 12/1,7/78 (Guyanese and U.S. pathologists autopsy), 12/10/78 (ballistics tests), 12/20,21/78 (illegal cremation), 12/23/78 (not suicide, Mag. Bacchus, Guyanan Coroner’s Jury).

35
Raven,
p. 576 and
Miami Herald,
12/17/78 (grand jury decision); Strongest Poison, p. 194 (Gurvich, evidence of shooting, over 600 bodies);
NYT,
12/13/78 (grand jury set up), 12/14, 15, 17/78 (Mootoo testimony, tour of site), 12/23/78 (conclusion, “persons unknown,” Katsaris, Moore suicides).

36
.
Hold Hands,
cover photo, and see fn. 22.

37
.
White Night,
p. 231 (Schuler quote),
Children of Jonestown,
p. 197 (unaware);
Strongest Poison,
pp. 182-89 (autopsy problems);
NYT,
11/26/78 and 12/5/78 (no autopsies, reluctant), 11/26/78 (Mootoo’s work unknown).

38
.
Hold Hands,
p. 260, and see fn. 17, 28, 33 or Lloyd Barker: “Cult Defectors Suspect Cover-up,”
LAT,
12/18/78; “Jonestown & the CIA,
Daily World,
6/23/81;
NYT,
12/3,8/78 (Lloyd Barker collusion), 12/7,8,24/78 (Deputy Prime Minister Reid’s role), 12/25/78 (U.S. attempts to discredit coroner’s jury).

39
.
Hold Hands,
p. 229;
SFE,
11/22/78 ($1 million), or see
NYT,
12/8/78 ($2.5 million at site);
WP,
11/28/78 (cash, wallets, gold);
NYT
, 12/12/78 (visit to site by Burnham’s party official).

40
.
Journey to Nowhere,
p. 58, 117 (Ptolemy Reid cover-up), see also fn. 38;
Daily World,
10/23/80 (Cheddi Jagan interview);
Guyana Daily Mirror,
11/28/78 (1/23/79);
NYT,
1/23/79 (“Templegate”);
NYT,
11/20,25/78 (Ridley body counts, 408 to 708), and see fn. 33;
NYT,
11/26,12/16,11,24/78 and 2/11, 5/16/79 (Guyana’s collusion) and 12/3/78 (Burnham).

41
.
White Night,
p. 225 (C-131s),
NYT,
11/24/78 (equipment lists).

42
.
White Night,
p. 228 (identity strip), and
Children of Jonestown,
p. 196 (medical tags);
Hold Hands,
p. 59 (tags visible in photo).

43
.
Hold Hands,
p. 200 and
White Night,
p. 224 (Vietnam “looked like Ton San Nhut”);
White Night,
p. 224 (planes carried 557 caskets).

44
.
Hold Hands,
pp. 200-1 (182 arrive last day);
White Night,
pp. 226, 231 (Maj. Hickman, “six days,” first bodies arrive Dover 11/28);
NYT,
11/24,26/78 (airlift details).

45
.
Hold Hands,
p. 204;
White Night,
pp. 228-31 (description, “These were the worst”).

46
.
Hold Hands,
p. 201 (182 last day, 17 identified);
White Night,
p. 226 (Dover site), 227 (174 identified by Guyanese), 231 (183 in 82 caskets);
NYT,
11/30/78 (Dover, map), 11/21/78 (50 U.S. experts sent), 12/1/78 (46 identified).

47
.
Hold Hands,
p. 204 (Jones cremated), and see fn. 8.

48
.
Hold Hands,
p. 203 (families not permitted to see remains), and personal interviews;
Baltimore Sun,
12/28/78 (only 259 claimed by families);
NYT,
12/22/78, 1/8,24/79, 2/17/79, 3/31/79,4/18/79 (Dover body counts 675 to 547) and 4/26.

49
.
Strongest Poison,
pp. 182-9;
NYT,
12/21/78, and 1/10/79 (New Jersey says cremation illegal, censures six doctors);
NYT,
11/30/79 (Delaware legal problems).

50
. “Medical Examiners Find Failings by Government on Cult Bodies,”
NYT,
12/3/78; Rescue Mission Report, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Special Operations Review (GPO, 1980);
Delta Force,
Charles Beckwith (Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich, 1983).

51
.
White Night,
pp. 228-9 (no autopsies, death certificates in Guyana);
NYT,
12/12/78 (Dr. Sturmer, National Assoc. of Med. Examiners);
NYT,
12/3/78 (other medical examiners complain, “legally dubious method”);
NYT,
12/16/78 (Sturmer again), 12/4/78 (embalmed) and fn 8 (cremations).

52
.
Hold Hands,
p. 203 and
American Funeral Director,
Jan. 1979;
NYT,
12/1,2/78 (FBI fingerprint 911 or 700 and identify 255).

53
.
Children of Jonestown,
p. 197;
Hold Hands,
p. 204;
Strongest Poison,
pp. 182-9;
NYT,
12/3,18/79 (quotes), 12/13,16,17,19/78 (autopsies, complaints), 12/25/78 (“few facts”), and fn 37 (Mootoo’s work unknown).

54
.
Raven,
p. 527;
Hold Hands,
p. 32 (photo), 53-4 and
WP,
11/21/78 (diagram);
NYT,
11/21/78 (illus.).

55
.
White Night,
p. 197,
Raven,
p. 533,
Strongest Poison,
p. 131;
Children of Jonestown,
pp. 168-70;
NYT,
2/20/79 (not guilty plea).

57
.
White Night,
p. 197,
Raven,
p. 525 ff (ambush described);
Hold Hands,
p. 256 (Layton’s “dumb stare”), and
LAT,
11/28/79 (Layton as “robot”);
Journey to Nowhere,
pp. 96-8 (Beikman in court “staring”);
NYT,
12/15/78 (Layton insanity defense), 12/21/78 (Layton “responsible”).

58
.
White Night, p.
197.

59
.
WP,
11/21/78 (Layton’s role, Jones’ quote);
Boston Globe,
“Killers Hunted,” 11/21/78;
SFE,
11/22/78 (7 involved);
NYT,
11/20/78 and 12/18/78 (lists of dead), 11/21/78 and 12/21/78 (Kice named, Joe Wilson gave Ryan gun at ambush), 11/29/78 and 12/9/78 (claim all dead, 8 warrants dropped), 12/21/78 (survivors scared to fly with “others”), 11/22 and 12/20/78 (Stephan Jones, Tim Carter, Michael Prokes arrested or charged with murders), 11/22, 25/78 and 12/15,17/78 (Cobb, Rhodes, Moore, Clayton, named survivors), 12/678 (3 escape to Caracas & Miami before massacre). Who Killed Ryan? 11/22/78 (FBI invest. “conspiracy”), 12/28/78 (Tim Jones takes 5th amendment on Ryan shooting).

60
.
Raven,
p. 573 (elite squad),
Hold Hands,
p. 145;
Newsweek,
12/4/78;
Daily World,
6/23/81 (Holsinger).

61
. “Grim Report,” Kilduff,
SFC,
6/15/78 (guards, abuse);
Newsweek,
12/4/78 (different food, treatment);
LAT,
11/28/78 (Debbie Layton Blakey, “upper middle-class whites”).

62
.
White Night,
p. 139,
Raven,
p. 403 (Cudjoe); and
Raven,
p. 241 (obeyed orders).

63
. Chicago Defender, cited in
Black Panther News,
12/30/78 (UNITA recruits for Africa); “Ryan Murder Suspect Resembles Robot,” Hall,
LAT,
11/26/78 (programmed, NYT, 11/30/78 (survivors had special privileges).

64
.
Hold Hands,
p. 150;
Strongest Poison,
p. 85 (% women); “Questions Linger,”
Oakland Times,
12/9/78 (% Blacks);
NYT,
11/20/78, 12/18/78 (death lists).

65
.
WP,
12/9/78 (FBI claims killers among dead), see fn 13,23 (missing people);
LAT,
11/25/78 (Stanley Clayton, survivor, “hundreds were slain,” “forced to die”);
NYT,
12/6/78 (3 escape), 12/4/78 (Pan Am won’t fly without armed guard), 1/29/79 (“cheers” heard), 12/23/78 (“persons unknown”).

66
. Assassination of Leo J. Ryan, p. 35,
Raven,
pp. 572-3,
Hold Hands,
p. 254 (“hit squad”);
White Night,
p. 224 (rumors at site),
Journey to Nowhere,
p. 148 (“basketball team”);
LAT,
12/18/78,
NYT,
12/1,4/78 (fears in U.S.),
NYT,
12/4/78 (SF police guard Temple, “at a loss”), 12/23/78 (radio orders to kill relatives, Jonestown to San Francisco day of massacre, FBI).

67
.
Raven
(Prokes & Tim Carter), see fn 59, and
NYT,
12/12/78 (Carter arrested with pistols).

68
.
Hold Hands,
p. 30

69
.
NYT,
11/22,23/78 (rumors, “master plan,” Lane), 11/29 and 12/1/78 (FBI says “serious,” Secret Service investigates), 12/11,23/78 (Buford testifies).

70
.
AP,
May 19, 1979 (wrongly attributed to Cong. staff investigator George Berdes).

71
. “Suicide Carnage,”
Baltimore Sun,
11/21/78 (“write the story”);
Hold Hands,
pp. 127, 221, (Lane, Garry lawyers for People’s Temple)’
NYT,
11/23/78 (Garry once called Jonestown “paradise,” says Jones “lost reason”);
NYT,
11/21/78 (picked up in jungle by Guyanese troops).

72
.
Raven,
p. 572 (survivors);
Guyanan Daily Mirror,
11/23/78 (32 captured by Guyanese);
NYT,
11/30, 12/3, 7, 30/78 (reports of returning groups, totaling 30, more remain).

73
.
Raven,
p. 575; “Fateful Prophecy is Fulfilled,”
Newsweek,
3/10/80; “Mills Family Murders: Could it be Jim Jones’ Last Revenge?”
People,
3/17/78.

74
.
Hold Hands,
pp. 130-31, 254 (link of Jones to Moscone and Milk);
The Mayor of Castro Street,
Randy Shilts (St. Martin’s, 1982);
NYT,
1/17, 2/19, 4/24, 5/18, 5/22, 7/4/79 (Dan White arrest, trial, conviction, sentence);
NYT,
5/22/79 (gay riot in response), 5/22/79 (White biography);
NYT,
11/27 (murder), 12/6 (“no link”), 12/18/78 (illegal votes for Moscone); “The Milk/Moscone Case Reviewed,” Paul Krassner,
Nation,
1/14/84.

76
.
Los Angeles Herald,
2/12/84.

77
.
Hold Hands,
pp. 61, 68 (KKK, Jones’ racism),
NYT,
11/26/78 (biography).

78
.
Hold Hands
, pp. 62-3.

79
. Personal interviews, Richmond, Indiana, 1981.
Raven, p.
26 (Jones’ boyhood);
Hidden Terrors,
A.J. Languth (Pantheon, 1978) (Mitrione).