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Yes Mr jones. Why has not your husband returned to the United States to respond to any of these charges over the past. The other reason was that his presence we as an organization felt. But at this point in time. His presence in Guyana was very important

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in order to secure the building of the community there. He is very conscientious about seeing that his people get the kind of care that they need, whether it be medical, food, education and the organization decided that if our people were going there and many people were

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going there that his presence was necessary in order to his leadership was necessary. The 1200 Americans who have fled to the jungles of Guyana in search of human rights and an opportunity to live full dignified and enriching lives opportunities which were not available to them in

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the ghettos of this country. And I think that's a very powerful statement and it's not a statement which I make, but it is a statement which they are making with their their lives there in Guyana. They're told that this person wants to leave the american embassy

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and the first consul who I believe is related to the Central Intelligence Agency goes there with a car, has an individual meeting with the individual involved and says and they've repeated this to me both the embassy and the people involved. Here's a car. There's no one

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to stop you if you like. Come in the car we will drive you back. We have a plane waiting. We'll fly you to Georgetown. There's a ticket and we'll pay for your flight right back to your home and no one can stop us. Do you want

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to go? And they say no, I don't want to go. Do you know if any temple members are dead at jonestown? Right. We have a report that a Larry Layton was killed by the co pilot. Do you have any information on that? Okay? You want to

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try again? Okay. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Um mhm, wow, I guess. Mm hmm. Mhm. Yeah. Right, that's okay, correct. Work. Right. Mhm, mm hmm, mm hmm. We now have good word ed. We received

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word from the United States ambassador directly from him to 30 Georgetown time. That tim was on his way in the us Air Force jet headed for the States. This this is the medic plane and it will be uh touching down in the United States uh sometime

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in the next 12 hours. What do you know of his condition? We only know one thing that he, he was wounded. However, he did walk on the plane. The extent of his injuries, we do not know and we have not talked with him and we're waiting

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for his call but with with very, very thankful uh that he uh is on the plane and headed for home. Have you talked to anybody who has talked to him? No, I have not talked to anyone that has talked to him, but I did talk to

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the uh the ambassador and he said that he had talked to the doctor who had talked to him. And uh, that was very, very sketchy. And the main point was that he was in the hands of the United States Army Air Force medic team. It must

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have been an awfully long night for the both of it was the longest night of our lives. But we're glad it's over and we're so grateful for the news were we wish were good news for everybody involved. For all of us in san Francisco journalism, the

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massacre in Guiana hits hard. I share the joy of Reitman's family that tim is safe. The most examiner readers, the name Reitman was merely a byline for me. He's not only an outstanding colleague, but good personal friend In San Francisco Eduardo Channel five Eyewitness News. Okay,

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mm hmm. Remember people's temple denounced the violence that has taken place at the airport cartoon near jonestown Guyana, we are nonviolent people reverend Jim jones has always deplored violence. And whatever the circumstances of the incident, it is not the kind of action. Anyone within the temple

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would ever precipitate neither the temple members in san Francisco nor in Los Angeles nor in Georgetown have had any contact at all with the Northwest region. The jonestown residents shortwave radio communications have been out since saturday morning. We also holy deny the charge of intention to

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commit mass suicide charges sensational and cut me untrue. We don't get him out. I know what you'd like to do, but if you do, you're dead sucker. You better watch. They shoot me. Really? Yeah, that's what I want to get in. Do me what you did

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to them, other people over there. He says he didn't brainwash you. Yeah, I got a family over there. Got a mother over there. What have you heard? I've heard from the place they wanted to hear from him? Never heard from him. You want to be a

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member. You have to give up everything and do just what he wants done. What did she, what did she do? Picked up cans, cooked, sold pies and everything else You couldn't give every dime. She got to jim jones. She was contending because she thought that it

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was, she was, it was a religious thing. How do you get off the bed? Come on out. Mm hmm. I do. Well, not looking at him. Yeah, Yeah. Yeah.