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Jonestown survivor recalls secrets and escape twenty years later
Deborah Layton, a Jonestown survivor, recounts growing up in a house of secrets and her break from Jim Jones. She details joining the Peoples Temple in 1970, witnessing abuse, and escaping in 1978 after learning of an imminent mass death. Her memoir Seductive Poison widens the story of the tragedy and her family’s role.
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Piedmont
Calif
Jonestown
Deborah Layton
Layton
Jim Jones
Larry
Jones
First Peoples Temple
California
Temple
Peoples Temple
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco
Willie Brown
George Moscone
Georgetown
U.S
Guyana
Leo Ryan