The Nation - News from Nov. 18, 1985
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A group led by the two daughters of slain Rep. Leo Ryan held a memorial to mark the seventh anniversary of the 1978 murder-suicide of more than 900 residents of the People’s Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana. Ryan and 912 others were victims of the murder-suicides on Nov. 19, 1978, in the South American jungle where the California congressman had gone to inspect conditions at the settlement run by the Rev. Jim Jones.
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