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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1998
Page
2
Deborah Layton grew up amid secrets in Jonestown and helped expose Jim Jones’s grip before the 1978 mass murder. She details family truths, her escape, and the deadly descent that followed, including the Ryan assassination and the orchestrated final death dance.
After Jonestown, Layton retreated into secrecy and shame finding work in investment banking and building a family before a daughter named Lauren began asking questions. She recalls the struggle to answer and confront the painful history.
On the 20th anniversary of the Jonestown mass deaths in Guyana, the article recalls The Rev. Jim Jones who founded the interracial church in Indiana in the 1950s, expanded to California, and built a political base in San Francisco before fleeing with about 1,000 followers to Guyana in 1977.
A mother recalls blocking writers block after her mother died by suicide ten days before the murder. She painted a vivid, symbolic response with acrylics on benches and a mailbox, doorbell, and more. A midsummer breeze triggered a moment of eerie feeling as she heard a motherly call to say goodbye.
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