Larry Layton, who posed as a defector, was captured after badly wounding two people inside a plane trying to take off. Politics: Liberal. They were married in 1966 and a year later Larry, who as a Quaker had obtained a draft deferment as a consciencious objector, moved with his new wife to Ukiah in northern California to serve in lieu of military duty as a medical technician at the Mendocino State Hospital. 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. I was feet away from Jones, close enough to hear him trying to convince people to change their minds. Jim Jones led 912 followers in a ritual of murders and suicides. 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Answer (1 of 2): Above: Jonestown Before The Massacre Larry Layton was the only "armed guard" at Jonestown at the time of the massacre to outlive November 18, 1978, when all but a few dozen of the roughly 1,000 residents of Jonestown perished. Deborah Layton is now 45, lives in an elegant house in Piedmont and takes her 12-year-old daughter to play in soccer games. Jim Jones with a group of children living at Jonestown, circa 1978. A bone shot out of my right arm, and a huge hunk of flesh had been blown off my thigh. [27] Lawton says he regrets his time spent in prison, because he missed out on seeing his children grow up; his grandmother died, and his father became afflicted with Alzheimer's disease while he was inside. Mini Biography. He had on a big yellow poncho, and his eyes were set in a sullen glare. Her startling introduction to life there quickly allowed Layton to see the cracks in the facade. We saw an impressive community with dozens of pathways, cabins, a medical center, a little school, and a large pavilion where the members congregated regularly. The outfits were a ridiculous gimmick, and the role was clearly objectifying. In June, she filed an affidavit with the State Department detailing the horrors in Jonestown, but got no response. He said the trial was not the place to examine the deaths of 913 people at the cult's settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. In Jonestown, nobody could have any family attachments. I was even unaffected by the rice weevils and other strange bugs we ingested daily.". Nearly 300 children were administered the poison with no comprehension of what it meant, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. I wanted to be part of something that was doing things for other people, and besides, Peoples Temple offered a community of friends. A few Temple members stood in front of a rusty dump truck waiting to shuttle us to the compound. They were cal culated to make you feel someone has to pay. We accompanied Assemblyman Ryan to shopping centers and campaign events to pass out pamphlets and speak with voters. Meanwhile, Dr. Layton said, A difficult new field of science in molecular biology was opening, and he began to spend more and more time studying it. At 16, Im not sure I understood what a state assemblyman did, but when my parents received a solicitation from Leo Ryans reelection campaign in 1966, I mailed back a note: Im in high school. Instead he proposed a better use of law enforcement resources would be to "help inmates with drug addiction. He. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/17/us/cult-member-cries-over-plea-to-jury.html. As he grew older, Dr. Layton gravitated from Methodism to Quakerism, a faith with roots in the Reformation whose tenets included nonviolence, racial and religious toleration, rigorous selfdiscipline, and love and good works for the needy. In the summer of 1978, Lisa Philips Layton died of cancer in Jonestown, Guyana, three months before the Rev. But Lisa escaped from Hamburg, and in 1938, stunned by the antiSemitism she had seen, she arrived in New York with a determination never to reveal to anyone that she was Jewish. Inquisitive by nature, he was a proponent of experiential legislating, preferring to go out and experience issues firsthand before he decided what to do. To access these PDF files you must have the free Adobe Reader installed. But I refused to spend the rest of my life as a victim of Guyanathere were too many of them. A man followed him and slipped a folded piece of paper into his hand, then disappeared back into the crowd. We split up, as Jones had arranged. 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. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). [10] Afterwards, another jewelry store in Lower Bucks County became suspicious of a person they believed was casing the place for a future robbery. From what Ive seen, he said, there are a lot of people here who think this is the best thing that happened in their whole life. He was interrupted by manically enthusiastic cheering. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Created by: Mike Added: 6 Apr 2021 The motion contends that Mr. Layton should be given a new trial because his previous defense attorneys did not know and thus failed to inform him that he faced a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted on the count of aiding and abetting in Mr. Ryan's murder. Nearly 300 children were administered the poison, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. Children had their own special punishment, Layton writes. Jones wove his way through the camp, repeating that he wasnt upset that they wanted to leave; it was just that they were doing it in the wrong way. He'd work you so hard you didn't have time to complain, and he'd blackmail you; he destroyed marriages and humiliated you.. [42][13], Lawton has made many media appearances. In 1965, after riots shook Watts, an African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Ryan briefly took a job there as a substitute teacher while serving in the state Assembly, and used the experience to shape education policy. Larry, sister Debbie and their mother, Lisa, all joined the temple while it was located in California. He was not paroled from an American prison until 2002. He said that some of the recipients could be innocent. . ", "Every week we're promised death, a relief from this miserable life. Initially discouraged, Larrys family pressed ahead with the petition for early release, collecting another 50 letters in support, including letters from former Temple members and critics, numerous religious leaders, and a former congressman. He attended Berkeley High School and was the editor of a campus newspaper called The Liberal. It was a message that appealed to the dispossessed, which is why it made sense for the Peoples Temple to relocate to San Francisco around 1972. Ever on the alert for malcontents, Jones would order recalcitrant Temple members -- those who questioned his authority -- into "The Box," a stifling underground cubicle the size of a coffin. [7] In grades one through six, Lawton served as an altar boy at St. Francis de Chantal in The Bronx,[8] where he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest. To the tarmac. He genuinely believed that he had some sort of protective shield around him, despite the fact that we werent traveling with any military escort or protection. Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. Charismatic and tall with salt-and-pepper hair, he commanded a room. Debbie stood in line to drink the red liquid that she was told would kill her in a matter of minutes. I wanted to leave my daughter a legacy that wasn't that simple.". Wed have to make multiple trips in the truck. Mrs. Layton got a large share of the proceeds, as well as money from the sale of stock they had owned Jointly; this also was given to the cult. The two store owners were bound while two individuals robbed the store and a third acted as a lookout and the other as the getaway driver. ", Crimes for which children went to the well included "stealing food from the kitchen, expressing homesickness, failing a socialism exam, or even natural childish rebelliousness.". She died of cancer in Guyana three weeks before the death ritual. See also [ edit] Jim Jones The spellbinding preacher had a message that attracted many disaffected people of the 1960's, and soon Carolyn had stirred her husband's sense of social activism and brought him into the group. It was just a matter of time. But it was the testimony of Vern Gosney, one of Larrys shooting victims at the Port Kaituma airstrip, who traveled from Hawaii for the sole purpose of attending the hearing and who delivered the most impassioned plea for Larrys release, that apparently made the difference. A short time later, Larry married his second wife, Karen,whom Dr. Layton would come to know as a loving, sweet person.. None of those red flags made the congressman reconsider. But when Larry Layton was growing up in the 1920's, the land was not worth much. Larry Layton, a former member of the People's Temple, broke into tears today at his trial on charges of conspiring to commit murder as his attorney told jurors not to make him a scapegoat ''for the horror of Jonestown.''. ''Look at the poor diet, the loss of weight, the physical exhaustion, the desperation, the lingering illness and death of his mother and the fear of punishment and humiliation,'' he said. Subsequently, she arranged to leave the settlement on an errand for Mr. Jones and left Guyana on May 13. When the time of their supposed deaths came and went with everybody still alive, Jones announced it had just been a drill to test their loyalty. Larry Layton had gotten onto the truck with us, which struck me as a glaring red flaghe was an entrenched member of the hierarchy, one of the true believers. Excerpt from UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back by Jackie Speier, reprinted under a license arrangement originating with Amazon Publishing. Hours later at the Jonestown emcampment, Jones led the death rite of himself and his followers. The defense attorney urged jurors to consider conditions at Jonestown and their impact on Mr. Layton. In addition, Mr. Layton was convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of Mr. Ryan and the attempted murder of Mr. Dwyer. He went, and pursued the destiny that brought him to trial in San Francisco. He got a job as a student pastor at the Somerset Methodist Church in a poor, predominantly white neighborhood in Indianapolis. The land later became the site of a large Union Carbide plant. 'Being in Peoples Temple wasn't always pleasant, but one had the feeling he was really doing something to advance society. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. An uncle, Dr. James Franck, won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1935. On the plane to Guyana, Nov. 18, 1978. Layton, 35, emerged as the only defendant alive and available for prosecution in the government's attempt to exact justice from the Jonestown horrors. Mr. Layton was convicted here last Dec. 1 of conspiracy in the murder of Mr. Ryan, a California Democrat who had led a group that was investigating conditions at Jonestown and reports that people were being held there against their will. In the summer of 1977, after an expose of Peoples Temple in New West magazine, Jones and his followers fled to Guyana. 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. ''The story of Jonestown is really the story of a world gone mad. While on the phone listening to the allegations that would soon be made public, Jones scribbled a note to his aides: We leave tonight.. Although he had no formal training as a minister and no affiliation with any organized religion, his high-octane enthusiasm and open-armed policy attracted a diverse range of followers. The book describes the events that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana, where over 900 people lost their lives as the result of mass forced suicide, which constituted the largest loss of American civilian life (other than due to natural disasters or during the course of violence with Native Americans) in United States history until the events of It was a mass murder. Education: Attended college in the area of San Francisco, CA. The morning after our arrival, Congressman Ryan, Jim Schollaert and I attended a closed-door briefing by Ambassador John Burke and his staff at the U.S. Embassy. Dick Dwyer, an embassy official, showed us a slideshow of his visit to Jonestown the previous Mayimages in which he and Jim Jones looked unnervingly chummy; images of tables filled with food, of joyful children on a swingset, of bountiful crops and an exuberant church session. Almost 22 hours after the ambush, I heard the groan of a planes enginefinally our escape had arrived. To the stretchers. I grew up with the Bible and the Puritan work ethic, he recalled in an interview. Mr. Jones's cult included, at ohe time or another, six members of the Layton family. Laurence Laird Layton, a distinguished scientist whose later life was devastated by his family's involvement with the Peoples Temple cult, died Wednesday in his Emeryville home. After she left, he discovered that she had given a number of family valuables to the People's Temple. By Robert Lindsey Special to The New York Times. [41], In 2017, he appeared in a middle school in Havelock, North Carolina to explain his prison experiences. There is abundant evidence that Mr. Jones used such tactics to divide families and break up marriages. [22] Fingerprint evidence connected Lawton to the October 1994 Palm Bay heist, and he was charged with that crime as well. Her mother, on discovering that her husband was having an affair with Lisa's English governess, gave Lisa a detailed account of it and threatened to commit suicide. It was the final stop for a group that for nearly 10 years had fascinated and, in the end, horrified the Bay Area. When Deborah came home from school in England in 1971, she brought a boyfriend, George Philip Blakey, a fellow Quaker and the son of a welltodo farming family in Northumberland. 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. [38][5][9] In 2013, the Brevard County Jail re-introduced chain gangs as a pilot project with the goal of deterring crime. Larrys parole came two years earlier than his previously-scheduled release date of April 2004. | AP. All I could think was I am not going to make Grandma live through my funeral. I did not feel confident this was a good idea. 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. [3], Lawton was offered a three-year sentence in exchange for disclosing his accomplices but did not take the deal. In 1996, the family and friends of Larry launched a campaign for a presidential commutation. Sam was certain Jones had something to do with his sons death. Jackie Speier manages a smile as she is wheeled on a stretcher at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Nov. 20, 1978. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. But he ordered them separated before they had consummated the marriage, and Mr. Blakey eventually left California to join the party establishing the cult's Guyana settlement. | Amazon. His father was a research scientist. Layton was brought to trial in Guyana on charges of attempted murder and was acquitted. Jim Jones, and 912 of his followers died by poison and gunfire in mass killings and suicides. Elin Cederroos: Ocean Resort Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. I dont have any money to donate, but Id like to volunteer. That was the last moment I remember with any real clarity before I surrendered my body to the medical staff. I asked to speak to Monica Bagby, one of the names on Dons note. Its leader, the Rev. And it wasn't an isolated incident. Nearly 30 years later, her mother long dead in a rotting jungle outpost in Guyana, her brother doing life in a federal prison and her father so broken that he weeps at the mention of anything connected with Jones-, town, Deborah Layton has, as she put it the other day, "decided it was time to come out of the cobwebbed attic.". She managed to contact her sister in Davis, who wired a ticket to Georgetown, where Layton and other Temple members were staying in a house the Temple owned. After that trip, I remember telling myself that never again would I witness such violence at such close range. Anyone can read what you share. Join me, he assured his followers, and youll get health care, education and a family that would never mistreat you. Her book "Seductive Poison" will be in bookstores in November. But, she said, I had to tell somebody what was happening in Jonestown. Later on, I decided I had to show them. Ryan did not look or behave like your typical politician. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. '', He said that Mr. Layton ''did not kill anybody'' at the airstrip, nor did he ''aid and abet or conspire to kill Leo Ryan.'' Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. [10] In 2012, Lawton self-published Gangster Redemption, an autobiography co-written with Peter Golenbock. But listening to one after the other after the other say the same choreographed thing made me uneasy. But her childhood, she said later, was not a happy one. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Christian Broadcasting Network, and Fox News. [15] The robbers had dropped off jewelry for repairs, and later returned to rob the store. Reassured that they were on their way, we parked ourselves at a few picnic tables in the far corner of the pavilion area. Oh my God: Its true. The cover of a Jonestown promotional booklet from 1978. The defense rested its case without presenting witnesses. (CHRONICLE PHOTO BY SUSANNA FROHMAN), Restaurant chain slated to close site at Bay Area mall, One of the largest movie theaters in SF to close permanently, Grapevine closed indefinitely due to heavy snow and ice, Plan to bring bullet train from LA to Vegas is underway, 'Zero visibility' conditions: All roads to Tahoe are closed, What it looks like inside Coit Towers former apartment, Graupel falls on Disneyland, shocks guests, Avalanche slams into Tahoe apartment building amid blizzard, Hundreds of thousands of workers have abandoned downtown SF, Tahoe's snowfall totals are on track to break records, Report: Matthew McConaughey has a massive Salesforce paycheck, Popular yet divisive fast food chain coming to this Bay Area town. ''Why not pin this on Larry Layton, then close the book and not look at the hard questions of why Leo Ryan and all those Americans died?'' In Jonestown Only one man, Temple member Larry Layton, was tried in the United States for his involvement in the November 18 events. I have no idea how much time passed until I turned my head and opened my eyes. We landed in Georgetown, Guyanas capital, on November 14, 1978. I dove beneath the plane, hiding behind the wheel as bullets thumped against the metal above me. How could I not like the good things they were doing?. The docket for Laytons trial through its various appeals through 1990 is here. Earlier, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello asked Judge Peckham to sentence the 40-year-old defendant to life in prison, serving a minimum of 20 years before being considered for parole. Their accounts led to an expos in New West Magazine planned for publication in summer 1977. "Every week we're ordered to drink some liquid," she writes, culling her memories of the "old tapes (of Jonestown recollections that) are running in my head. 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. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Last spring Deborah decided she had to escape. The first trial ended in a hung jury. [30] The Lake St. Louis police chief praised Larry's message about the consequences of going to prison and said it is not a scared straight program, noting that Lawton said "fear doesn't have a lasting impact. 'I was a fool to leave California, but then I was a fool long before that,' he said. Before the New West issue hit the stands, Jones and hundreds of his followers had left San Francisco for Jonestown, their promised land in Guyana. "They would be taken to the Jonestown well in the dark of night, hung upside down by a rope around their ankles, and dunked into the water again and again while someone hidden inside the well grabbed at them to scare them. Her marriage was ruptured by Mr. Jopes even before it could be consummated. After Jones moved to Jonestown, and with Layton still in California, Layton's sister, a power in the hierarchy of the temple, defected and began to tell of atrocities at the jungle agricultural project. Larry Layton was the only person prosecuted for any of the events in and around Jonestown. Sure enough, I could tell he had. Layton's mother, who came from a wealthy family, divorced her husband and donated $300,000 to Jones' cause. "When I joined Peoples Temple, I was 17 and it was like joining the Peace Corps," she says. Mr. Layton believes that his wife gave Mr. Jones at least $250,000 and possibly more; he said she had some secret accounts of her own that apparently contained money from her father. She looks away for a moment, then brightens and starts to talk about a visit she made to Jonestown only a few months ago, accompanied by a crew from the Arts & Entertainment network, which is making a documentary on Peoples Temple. While asserting that Mr. Jones was ''primarily responsible'' for the killings at the airstrip, Federal District Judge Robert F. Peckham said Mr. Layton would be eligible for parole after five years. They all swore that Jonestown was the one and only place they could ever consider home. Syringes surround one of the vats used to mix up the position drink used in the mass murder at Jonestown. He is bewildered at how it all happened, groping for an explanation of what he called a Greek tragedy.. [15][18], In 1996, there was a robbery of a jeweler in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. 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