Leo Ryan
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Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. was an American politician and teacher. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented California's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 unt
Ryan in 1977
Official Congressional photo from Ryan's first term as Congressman, 1973
Ryan's headstone
Shannon Jo Ryan in 1981
Jim Jones
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James Warren Jones was an American cult leader, preacher, and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestr
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…commutation to the Pardon Attorney. In 1978, reports of widespread abuse and human rights violations in Jonestown at the Peoples Temple, led by cult leader Jim Jones, began to filter out of its Guyana enclaves. Ryan was friends with the father of former Temple member Bob Houston, whose mutilated body was found near…
Jones in 1977
Jones's first church in Indianapolis
William M. Branham (pictured in 1947) helped launch and popularize Jones's ministry in 1956.
Father Divine (pictured in 1938) was a major influence on Jones's ministry.