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In November 1978, Speier, then a 28-year-old legal aide to Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.), accompanied the maverick lawmaker, a handful of reporters and concerned family members into the jungles of Guyana to investigate the People's Temple cult. Cult members attacked and killed Ryan and several members of the entourage.

Speier was shot five times and left for dead, and more than 900 cult members committed mass suicide at the urging of their leader, Jim Jones.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21558/jackie-speier-jonestown/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21105/peoples-temple http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21105/peoples-temple#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:06:13 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21105/peoples-temple http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21105/peoples-temple/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19580/rob-jones-grandson-of-peoples-temple-founder-jim-jones-writing-fresh-chapter-to-family-history http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19580/rob-jones-grandson-of-peoples-temple-founder-jim-jones-writing-fresh-chapter-to-family-history#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:53:58 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19580/rob-jones-grandson-of-peoples-temple-founder-jim-jones-writing-fresh-chapter-to-family-history http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19580/rob-jones-grandson-of-peoples-temple-founder-jim-jones-writing-fresh-chapter-to-family-history/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17911/jonestown-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17911/jonestown-3#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:45:43 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17911/jonestown-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17911/jonestown-3/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17910/peoples-temple-jim-jones http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17910/peoples-temple-jim-jones#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:12:50 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17910/peoples-temple-jim-jones http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17910/peoples-temple-jim-jones/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17677/jonestown-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17677/jonestown-2#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:39:43 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17677/jonestown-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17677/jonestown-2/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17657/jonestown-revisited http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17657/jonestown-revisited#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:25:00 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17657/jonestown-revisited http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17657/jonestown-revisited/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17652/jonestown http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17652/jonestown#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:11:01 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17652/jonestown http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17652/jonestown/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17157/clocking-a-cult%e2%80%99s-final-days-in-jonestown http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17157/clocking-a-cult%e2%80%99s-final-days-in-jonestown#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:53:38 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17157/clocking-a-cult%e2%80%99s-final-days-in-jonestown http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17157/clocking-a-cult%e2%80%99s-final-days-in-jonestown/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16613/anderson-cooper-inside-jonestown http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16613/anderson-cooper-inside-jonestown#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:41:50 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16613/anderson-cooper-inside-jonestown http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16613/anderson-cooper-inside-jonestown/feed