Later, Jones also became enamoured of the new Mrs. Layton and soon added her, too, to his growing harem of temple members. Under the Federal parole system, a person sentenced to life in prison is not normally considered for parole until 10 years have been served. Religion: "Raised as a Quaker." Hobbies and other interests: Theater, music, painting, gardening. In 1978, I went to Guyana on a fact-finding mission. [8] In 1983, having earned his GED, he left the Coast Guard and began engaging in criminal activity, mostly loan sharking and bookmaking. ", "I thought, what a waste. 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. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 Her name was Lisa Philips and she was so beautiful that friends said she looked like Hedy Lamarr. [10] While in prison, Lawton earned a paralegal qualification and became a gang mediator. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Lawrence Robert Lawton (born October 3, 1961) is an American ex-convict, author, paralegal, motivational speaker, and YouTuber. What an evil thing that Jim Jones did. He got a job as a student pastor at the Somerset Methodist Church in a poor, predominantly white neighborhood in Indianapolis. Philip Wogaman, President and Mrs. Clintons pastor in Washington, D.C. made additional pleas for commutation of Larrys sentence. She died of cancer in Guyana three weeks before the death ritual. There were piles of used syringes at the scene. See also [ edit] Jim Jones Judge Peckham imposed the same five-year parole date on those counts. I hope tonight is the last one. The 35-year-old defendant is charged with conspiring to murder Representative Leo J. Ryan, the California Democrat who died Nov. 18, 1978, with three journalists and a temple defector in an ambush at an airstrip near Jonestown. It was the final stop for a group that for nearly 10 years had fascinated and, in the end, horrified the Bay Area. 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. Layton, 35, emerged as the only defendant alive and available for prosecution in the government's attempt to exact justice from the Jonestown horrors. Jones responded by telling them that if any actions were taken to remove John, the entire Jonestown population would commit suicide. [35][36] It also hosts an annual bowling tournament. He went, and pursued the destiny that brought him to trial in San Francisco. Larry Howard Layton, 80, of Green Valley, AZ passed away December 10, 2020 from complications of COVID-19. I have no idea how much time passed until I turned my head and opened my eyes. Lisa Layton's youngest son, Larry, is now under arrest in Guyana, accused of murdering Representative Leo J. Ryan and four other persons in the attack that eventually led Mr. Jones to order the mass deaths. Others, who presumably refused to drink the Kool-Aida flippant, misguided phrase I very much wish could be scrubbed from our lexiconwere injected with cyanide and other poisons. Within a year, a few Jonestown defectors had managed to return to the Bay Areamost notably, Debbie Layton Blakey, whod been Jones trusted aide and worked as the Temples financial secretary. ''You've heard graphic details about what happenened on the airstrip,'' he said. She had an extremely anxious demeanor, and we moved quickly as we went to her cabin to pack. In 1996, the family and friends of Larry launched a campaign for a presidential commutation. With the camp surrounded by his armed guards, he told his followers to give the medicinegrape FlavorAid and Kool-Aid laced with cyanide and tranquilizersto the children and the elderly first. [1][2], In 2007, he started the Reality Check Program to help educate at-risk youths on the consequences of breaking the law. '', See the article in its original context from. In the summer of 1978, Lisa Philips Layton died of cancer in Jonestown, Guyana, three months before the Rev. He preached a social gospel, attracting devotees while promoting a community that did not discriminate or take into account race, background, or previous circumstances. Jonestown was the agricultural compound Jones' followers carved out of the Guyanese jungle, 150 miles northwest of the nation's capital, Georgetown. Leo Ryan wanted answers. 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. Lawton gained notoriety for committing a string of jewelry store robberies along the Atlantic Seaboard prior to his arrest in 1996. 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[38][5][9] In 2013, the Brevard County Jail re-introduced chain gangs as a pilot project with the goal of deterring crime. This was not a mass suicide. The hospital was not far from the People's Temple community Mr. Jones had established in Redwood Valley. He was to use the skill when the flock made its planned migration to the Guyana settlement, which Jones already had picked out and named Jonestown. Youll see what a wonderful place it is. He took us on a tour highlighting the most favorable aspects of the commune. By that time, it was obvious that some of his disciples intended to leave. While on the phone listening to the allegations that would soon be made public, Jones scribbled a note to his aides: We leave tonight.. In Jonestown, nobody could have any family attachments. I would be in the first group; Congressman Ryan insisted that he stay behind to make certain that every person who wanted to leave made it to Port Kaituma safely. They called it Jonestown. | AP/San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Jones's cult included, at ohe time or another, six members of the Layton family. They swallowed poison capsules in a suicide attempt and were removed, unconscious, from the train. In 1970, as chairman of a committee overseeing prison reform, he assumed a pseudonym and had himself booked, strip-searched and incarcerated for 10 days at Folsom State Prison, revealing his. The robbers had been there the day before and returned asking about a ring. [32] By 2010, Lawton had shipped 10,000 DVDs across the country. In 1973, when Larry and Deborah Layton and their spouses were living at the Ukiah temple, an acquaintance of Mrs. Layton thought he had cancer, and her children urged Mrs. Layton to bring him to Ukiah. "And I thought, if I get hit by a truck, my epitaph will be, 'Jonestown survivor dies on Bay Bridge.' Anyone running afoul of Jonestowns security detail was put in a labor camp and forced to clear jungle. . See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Getting Started | Contributor Zone Contribute to This Page Edit page Larry Layton Personal Details Contact Info To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. | AP. bout wiki. After spending 18 years in Guyana jails and U.S. federal prisons, Larry Layton, the only man convicted on criminal charges arising from the events of November 18, 1978, was released in April 2002. They joined. In May 1978, she was sent by Jones to Georgetown to chaperone some Temple children on a cultural exchange. The bodies of Jones and 912 cult followers lay sprawled under the tropical trees of the commune, victims of an incredible murder-suicide rite. Ryan did not look or behave like your typical politician. She is known by many of her relationships - longtime lover of Jim Jones, mother of Jones' child Jim Jon (Kimo) Prokes, sister of Annie Moore, former wife of Larry Layton, former sister-in-law of Debby Layton - as well as the sometimes-mysterious roles she played within the Peoples Temple hierarchy. But listening to one after the other after the other say the same choreographed thing made me uneasy. After that trip, I remember telling myself that never again would I witness such violence at such close range. During my freshman year at UC Davis, when I told him about my major, he offered encouragement: If you really want to learn about political science, you should come and intern in my office. I did, and over the years, worked my way up from volunteer to intern to staffer to senior aide, just as he climbed from the state Assembly to the U.S. Congress. Later that night, Jones had another suicide exercise. I was one of Larry's lead lawyers in his first U.S. trial in 1981, which resulted in an 11 to 1 vote for acquittal on faulty charges of conspiracy to kill the congressman. A self-anointed minister, as a young man he started proselytizing outside a storefront church in Indianapolis, and by 1955, had formed the Wings of Deliverance church. Until she was 20 years old, when she was denied admission to a university in Hamburg, Lisa Philips didn't know what it meant to be Jewish in Germany in 1935. [41], In 2017, he appeared in a middle school in Havelock, North Carolina to explain his prison experiences. 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. Last May, while serving Mr. Jones as a trusted aide, she escaped from Jonestown and tried in vain to alert the world that he was preparing for a mass suicide in order to establish a place for himself in history. Meanwhile, ex-devotees of the Peoples Temple began sharing stories about Jones darker side. The chaos persisted until, abruptly, a silence fell. Larry Layton was convicted in 1986 by a federal jury in San Francisco of conspiring in the 1978 murder of California congressman Leo Ryan and aiding and abetting in the attempted murder of. ', "O.J. ref: Benjy Esteves Jr Mark Consentino 94-95 Larry Layton 94-95 John McKaie 94-95 She got on the plane, leaving her mother behind. He. It was to be the secret of her life. Larry Layton was the only person prosecuted for any of the events in and around Jonestown. They recovered and with the help of friends managed to reach Italy, later coming to the United States. After she left, he discovered that she had given a number of family valuables to the People's Temple. With Joness wild gaze on us, I tape-recorded affidavits of their wishes to return to the United States. After that, she never stopped going back, Dr. Layton said. Chief among my concerns was how cozy Jones appeared to be with members of the embassy: How could any Jonestown resident feel safe reporting an injustice to a U.S. official who is arm in arm with Jim Jones in every image? [8][9] The 367-page book covers his early life, his string of crimes, and his post-release career. And then I realized that confirming one tiny detail could mean that the worst of the testimonies were true. Their accounts led to an expos in New West Magazine planned for publication in summer 1977. Indescribable pain consumed me, leaving room only for a fleeting thought that I should pretend to be dead. 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. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Created by: Mike Added: 6 Apr 2021 "I was driving across the bridge," she says when asked why, after all these years, she wanted to revisit the horrors of Jonestown. We split up, as Jones had arranged. Layton and her mother arrived in Jonestown in December 1977. Layton's mother, who came from a wealthy family, divorced her husband and donated $300,000 to Jones' cause. UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back, write a letter to President Jimmy Carter extolling Joness work, California's road to recovery runs through D.C. Republicans, Why New Jerseys ventilator guidelines may favor younger, whiter patients, Rhode Island ends specific restrictions on New Yorkers by making them national. Rep. Ryan and I arranged to meet her. Nearly 300 children were administered the poison, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. | Amazon. I would never have left Jonestown with Congressman Ryan. | AP. Jim Jones had taken my place. By his own admission, Layton came of age in Berkeley, Calif., during the turmoil of student protests and the Vietnam war. 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. One of the defectors wed interviewed claimed that Jones dyed them black. In the mid and late 1960's, when Berkeley became the scene of frequently tumultuous antiwar demonstrations and other protests, Larry and Deborah Layton joined many of the demonstrations and began experimenting with drugs. When cameras were rolling, he spoke of how he loved them and how there would always be a place for thembut those declarations would be followed by thinly veiled mutters about treason and liars. Layton was accused of conspiracy to murder in the November,1978, violence that triggered the mass deaths -- the airstrip attack on Rep. Leo Ryan and his party in which the congressman and four others were killed. The retrial was delayed for years because of complex appeals over the admissability of certain evidence excluded by Judge Peckham's rulings in the first trial. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. At one point, Congressman Ryan interrupted our tour to make sure that the press and Concerned Relatives had been given the transportation to join us. Don put it in his pocket and took a few more steps before carefully unfolding it. Layton became a senior insider in Jones' entourage. "I was ready to be overwhelmed by emotion," she says, "but when we got into the area, it just wasn't there. The campaign succeeded in making it to the Oval Office, and seemed to be viable up until 20 January 2001, President Clintons last day in office, but Larrys name did not appear on the final list of pardons and commutations. After a few weeks, Layton grew "accustomed to the unusual smells in the food and drink. 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. In the two years since, Jones and most of his followers had left the Bay Area and moved to Jones commune deep in the jungle of Guyana. Jim Jones would order more than 900 of his followers to commit suicide. Layton grew up in an affluent Berkeley family. He is the son of Lawrence L. Layton, a prominent biolgist at the University of California, and was raised in a cultural, intellectual atmosphere. I noticed an elderly woman stuffing pieces of bacon into her pockets; the ample spread was just another showpiece. That same year, Congressman Ryan read a newspaper article about a constituent of his named Sam Houston, whose son had been a member of Jim Jones Peoples Temple and, in 1976, died under suspicious circumstances after having a phone conversation in which he confessed to wanting to leave the group. Left-right: Jim Schollaert, Jackie Speier and Congressman Leo Ryan. ADDRESSES: Home Berkeley, CA. 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. Twelve hours had passed as I lay, teetering on deaths precipice when a light turned on inside me: The simple fact that I knew I was dying was proof that I was, indeed, still alive. Ryan was gunned down by a band of temple members intent on stopping the visitors from leaving and reporting the doings of the cult to the outside world. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Jones greeted us at the compound. By the following year, Jones was making a reputation for himself in. Although his mother was of German-Jewish descent, his family practiced the Quaker faith, and Larry was the family's firmest believer, according to his brother. Mrs. Layton moved out of their home on Labor Day 1979. Layton, Deborah 1953- PERSONAL: Born in 1953, in Tooele, UT; daughter of Laurence Laird and Lisa Layton; married; children: Lauren. At the end of the evening, Rep. Ryan walked onstage and thanked the group. 'Being in Peoples Temple wasn't always pleasant, but one had the feeling he was really doing something to advance society. I never played; I never learned how. An eyewitness who escaped described how people who did not cooperate were injected with poison where they sat, or were held down and injected with poison.. He spent 12 years in prison, and once released, began a career as a motivational speaker, life coach, and author. Her marriage was ruptured by Mr. Jopes even before it could be consummated. Its leader, the Rev. At the compound, Don wandered off to smoke a cigarette. Life in Jonestown became a drab and exhausting routine of dawn-to-dusk labor in the fields, replete with swarms of voracious mosquitoes that even went after the toughened soles of people's feet. I did not recover my old self; bullets render that impossible. ", Looking back on it 20 years later, she says, "I put everything in denial and locked it down. Don hung back for a moment before approaching Congressman Ryan and me at the picnic table and surreptitiously passing along the note. A man followed him and slipped a folded piece of paper into his hand, then disappeared back into the crowd. At the airport, Temple members who found out she was fleeing implored her not to leave. We heard that the church had weapons, and that Jones was paranoid and possibly on drugs. Closing the Book on Case. Leo Ryan assured me that there was nothing to worry about. My list kept growingwhat started with two names was now more than 40. Hours after the incident, the Rev. Excerpt from UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back by Jackie Speier, reprinted under a license arrangement originating with Amazon Publishing. The other, Carolyn, became one of Mr. Jones's mistresses and also his principal fnancial adviser; it is not known whether she is alive. While trying to keep the peace, he had been attacked with a knife. Though driven by the kind of underlying insecurity that so often fuels tyrants, Jones appeared to offer hope, redemption, and an idealistic new life. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/17/us/cult-member-cries-over-plea-to-jury.html. 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. Mr. Layton cried as his attorney described conditions at Jonestown and said that many prosecution witnesses must feel guilty for leaving loved ones behind to die. I was 28, lying on a dusty airplane runway in the Guyanese jungle, and dying. Among them were Sams teenaged granddaughters. I was one of Larry's lead lawyers in his first U.S. trial in 1981, which resulted in an 11 to 1 vote for acquittal on faulty charges of conspiracy to kill the congressman. Is the Stanley Quencher tumbler worth its TikTok hype? Mr. Layton's first trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 26, 1981, when the jury was unable to reach a verdict on any of the counts. 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. Before I could even comprehend what was happening, about a dozen men leapt from the tractor, leveled their automatic weapons, and fast approached. I asked to speak to Monica Bagby, one of the names on Dons note. Extradited to the U.S. after a Guyana jury found him not guilty of murder, Larry was tried twice on four charges related to the shootings, including Conspiracy to Kill a Congressman. 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. Jones became enamoured with Carolyn Layton and told Larry he wanted her for his own. 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. the attorney said. The suit was later dismissed. 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