1998-11-02 04:00:00 PDT CALIFORNIA -- For a young woman of 17, flinging herself on the world after the cloistered atmosphere of an English boarding school, Peoples Temple seemed daring and exciting. Layton was brought to trial in Guyana on charges of attempted murder and was acquitted. They called it Jonestown. With Joness wild gaze on us, I tape-recorded affidavits of their wishes to return to the United States. [22] Fingerprint evidence connected Lawton to the October 1994 Palm Bay heist, and he was charged with that crime as well. The land later became the site of a large Union Carbide plant. The parole examiner said he was deeply troubled that Larry had remained in prison for so long well in excess of the five years recommended by the sentencing judge and noted Larrys exemplary behavior while in federal custody. If there is such a thing as a spirit or essence of people . Jackie Speier is a congresswoman representing Californias 14th congressional district, which includes San Francisco and the peninsula.Excerpt from UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back by Jackie Speier, reprinted under a license arrangement originating with Amazon Publishing. In 1996, the family and friends of Larry launched a campaign for a presidential commutation. Onboard, every bump we hit shot an arrow of pain through my body. ", "Every week we're promised death, a relief from this miserable life. Over the next decade, Jones moved his congregation and changed its name several times before settling on Peoples Temple around 1964. Mr. Jones also apparently widened the rift between Larry Layton and his father. Jones greeted us at the compound. 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. | California Historical Society. John Ford. [15][18], In 1996, there was a robbery of a jeweler in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. His suggestion that I would learn far more from first-hand experience was in step with the way he approached politics. When people refer to the Jonestown massacre as a mass suicide, I am enraged. Leo Ryan assured me that there was nothing to worry about. [23][24] Lawton later said he was the biggest jewel thief of the 1980s and 90s operating within the United States of America. In fact, I would have been on that truck, with a rifle. We landed in Georgetown, Guyanas capital, on November 14, 1978. The early release culminated a six-year campaign during which members of his family worked with a core of supporters, first to petition then-President Clinton to commute Larrys sentence, then to convince the Parole Commission to modify its earlier decision on a release date. "[27] Another time he said: "I had my arms pinned down, and I was beaten and peed on by the guards. [25] He received an additional sentence in 2002 for giving false witness. They reported the car's license plate, which linked the car to Lawton. After his campaign received my note, I started volunteering as a Ryan Girl, part of a troop of young women clad in houndstooth bobby hats, miniskirts, black tights, black turtlenecks and bright-white boots. It was a mass murder. Infants cannot commit suicide. [43] He also hosted a local talk radio show. By that time, darker elements had seeped into Jones sermons. A former high school teacher, he was swept into politics by the idealism of the Kennedy era and elected mayor of South San Francisco before running for state Assembly. I just needed to hang on. Inquiry by Congressman. The outfits were a ridiculous gimmick, and the role was clearly objectifying. 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. Jackie Speier manages a smile as she is wheeled on a stretcher at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Nov. 20, 1978. He got a job as a student pastor at the Somerset Methodist Church in a poor, predominantly white neighborhood in Indianapolis. Before going to print, the editor of the magazine, who held some esteem for Jones, felt compelled to call him and read aloud the article before it went to press. Five bullets had ripped through me, devastating the right side of my body. When we touched down in Georgetown, a U.S. Air Force medevac plane was waiting. Lawrence Robert Lawton (born October 3, 1961) is an American ex-convict, author, paralegal, motivational speaker, and YouTuber. Peoples Temple follower Larry Layton, center, stands with police following his arrest in the shooting of two people, including California Congressman Leo Ryan, on a remote Guyana airstrip, Nov. 18, 1978. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 Her name was Lisa Philips and she was so beautiful that friends said she looked like Hedy Lamarr. Is the Stanley Quencher tumbler worth its TikTok hype? Larry Layton: Survivor of the Peoples Temple Larry Layton, Quaker and pacifist, entered the Peoples Temple in 1968 to join the march to social justice as charted by the temple's mesmerizing. According to trial testimony, as the attack began, Layton pulled a gun inside the plane and wounded two temple defectors. 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. Asserting that the Government wanted to make Mr. Layton a scapegoat for the Jonestown massacre, he said, ''From the State Department point of view, from the U.S. Embassy point of view, the whole matter would be easily resolved if you blamed Larry Layton.'' Repeatedly, the defectors mentioned forced participation in mass-suicide rehearsals known as the White Night trials.. 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. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/17/us/cult-member-cries-over-plea-to-jury.html. The daughter of Hugo and Anita Philips, Lisa Philips Layton was born in Germany in 1915 into a family that had engaged in banking for at least 200 years. One night, when Mr. Jones was conducting an hourslong lecture to the commune, she arranged to be placed on duty helping to operate a shortwave radio that transmitted Mr. Jones's directives to cult members in San Francisco. Answer (1 of 2): Above: Jonestown Before The Massacre Larry Layton was the only "armed guard" at Jonestown at the time of the massacre to outlive November 18, 1978, when all but a few dozen of the roughly 1,000 residents of Jonestown perished. Sam was far from the only person concerned about Jones malicious influence over a loved one. His appearance was part of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. Indescribable pain consumed me, leaving room only for a fleeting thought that I should pretend to be dead. "[2] He was critical of Brevard County stopping letters to inmates in 2013. 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. He spent 12 years in prison, and once released, began a career as a motivational speaker, life coach, and author. [31] The DVDs contained condensed versions of Lawton's program and were 67 minutes long. 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. We didnt want a group to present a canned response or any individual to look to others for their answers. See the article in its original context from. "[10], While in prison in 2003, Lawton was sent to solitary confinement for 27 days as punishment. Their accounts led to an expos in New West Magazine planned for publication in summer 1977. Leo Ryan wanted answers. The bodies of Jones and 912 cult followers lay sprawled under the tropical trees of the commune, victims of an incredible murder-suicide rite. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Dr. Layton was perplexed by his wife's behavior but began sleeping beside her on the floor. Larry Layton, a former member of the People's Temple, broke into tears today at his trial on charges of conspiring to commit murder as his attorney told jurors not to make him a scapegoat ''for . [6], Lawton was born in North Hempstead, New York on October 3, 1961. 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. The news at the time and the history lessons to follow usually fail to mention that a number of Peoples Temple members were shot, several of whom were in the field between the pavilion and the jungle, clearly trying to escape the massacre. Increasing numbers of people approached us. Judge Peckham imposed the same five-year parole date on those counts. 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. But I was one of very few women who held senior staff positions in Congress at the time, and I was concerned that if I gave in to my reluctance and let a male colleague go in my place, Id be setting back women in politics. Layton was attracted to the Utopian principles of the temple and its multi-racial flock, living and working together under the guidance of Jones, a combination professed faith-healer and leftist political prophet. Mrs. Layton moved out of their home on Labor Day 1979. Then, as a group of men dug the truck out of the mud, we heard a loud commotion from the pavilion. Syringes surround one of the vats used to mix up the position drink used in the mass murder at Jonestown. 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. [40] Lawton has also shown concern over the prevalence of fentanyl-laced heroin, noting that in the past dealers had tried to sell pure heroin without any additives. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Politics: Liberal. All of those people I had been standing beside, speaking to, sharing a cabin with. [10], Lawton executed his first robbery when he was 28, an inside job to collect insurance money. In the weeks leading up to the White House decision on the petition, a number of former congressmen and religious leaders including Rev. A few Temple members stood in front of a rusty dump truck waiting to shuttle us to the compound. Her involvement in the cult, he said, was useful activity, taking care of poor people; she said so much that she looked down at wealth and had guilt feelings, and Jim Jones helped her get rid of them. He was born in the mountains of West Virginia, between White Sulphur Springs and Charleston, to a. "If I hadn't been sent to Georgetown that day (in May)," Deborah Layton says now, "I would have died in Jonestown. Besides, when had a congressman ever been assassinated on foreign soil while on a congressional delegation trip? I hope tonight is the last one. Like all of the tracks in the United States, it closed during the World War II years (1941-1945) and re-opened in 1946. 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. It was utter pandemonium. The letters were presented during the hearing which resulted in a recommendation for Larrys release. Larry Layton can be an professional, known for Get away to Grizzly Hill (2000) and Viva . "And I thought, if I get hit by a truck, my epitaph will be, 'Jonestown survivor dies on Bay Bridge.' He said the trial was not the place to examine the deaths of 913 people at the cult's settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. After that, she never stopped going back, Dr. Layton said. [2] The book is published in Italy, France, Australia, Germany, Thailand and United Kingdom. Years later, after Lisa Layton Joined the People's Temple, she would tell other members of the cult that her husband had been antiSemitic and was ashamed of her being a Jew. Original release. [8][12] At one point, he purchased an Italian pizza restaurant in North Lauderdale, Florida, which he later burned down as part of an insurance fraud. [7] Lawton attended Intermediate IS 192 and Lehman High School, but did not graduate. While trying to keep the peace, he had been attacked with a knife. Layton said the temple started out as a civil rights movement and he compared Jones to Martin Luther King Jr., but 'obviously things turned out differently,' he said. He is also charged with conspiring to harm Richard Dwyer, a United States diplomat who was wounded in the ambush. Her father, a wealthy banker in Hamburg, and her mother would be marched off at gunpoint to a train bound for a concentration camp. ", "I thought, what a waste. "Every week we're ordered to drink some liquid," she writes, culling her memories of the "old tapes (of Jonestown recollections that) are running in my head. In the months leading up to the trip, my boss, Congressman Leo Ryan, had been contacted by worried constituents whose loved ones were members of a San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple, which had fled to South America for the promise of a utopian commune led by their preacher, Jim Jones. [27] Lawton says he regrets his time spent in prison, because he missed out on seeing his children grow up; his grandmother died, and his father became afflicted with Alzheimer's disease while he was inside. Mrs. Layton divorced her husband in 1975 and their home on the Berkeley hilltop was sold. How could I not like the good things they were doing?. 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? [3][4] He has acted as a spokesperson for prisoners and prisoner issues,[5] been a vocal advocate for prison reform, and made appearances in the media as an expert on robberies. Sure enough, I could tell he had. Initially she was allowed to recuperate in a cabin of her own, but later she was moved into a crowded dormitorystyle cabin with other elderly women. Deborah said that before her escape she had obtained a bottle of wine and taken it to the commune against Mr. Jones's rules. This site houses a variety of PDF documents. Her brother, Larry, later became the only person ever charged in connection with the airstrip massacre and, after two . Should they have any doubt of his intentions, they could look to the vibrant community of believers who echoed his sentiments and treated his words as gospel. Bodies lay crumpled on the tarmac around me. I spoke with a woman named Edith Parks, the matriarch of three generations of Temple members who wanted out. Deborah nursed her mother and tried to conceal that a physician had told her the cancer was fatal. Philip Wogaman, President and Mrs. Clintons pastor in Washington, D.C. made additional pleas for commutation of Larrys sentence. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. The defense rested its case without presenting witnesses. Jim could really get to people, Deborah recalled in an interview. While the tathiiy was unique in its deep involvment with Mr. Jones, the story of the Laytons tells a great deal about why and how hundreds of other families became tangled in his persuasive web of religion mixed with social activism. It paints a convincing picture of what it was like to spend seven years in the notorious cult, only to escape a few months before the tragedy that gave Jonestown its infamous place in history as the site of the largest mass suicide in modern times. [10] In 2012, Lawton self-published Gangster Redemption, an autobiography co-written with Peter Golenbock. Education: Attended college in the area of San Francisco, CA. Larry Layton, who had boarded the small Cessna aircraft began open firing on its occupants which wounded several of them before he was disarmed by one of the people inside. He'd work you so hard you didn't have time to complain, and he'd blackmail you; he destroyed marriages and humiliated you.. (It was the 60s.) He said the accusation probably been inspired by Mr. Jones as part of a systematic effort to break up families in the church. [15] The robbers took $480,000 ($910,600.81 in 2022)[17] worth of gold and diamonds making it the biggest robbery in the city's history. The motion contends that Mr. Layton should be given a new trial because his previous defense attorneys did not know and thus failed to inform him that he faced a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted on the count of aiding and abetting in Mr. Ryan's murder. Nearly 300 children were administered the poison, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Be the first to contribute! '', See the article in its original context from. ', "O.J. Later, Jones also became enamoured of the new Mrs. Layton and soon added her, too, to his growing harem of temple members. Its hard to know when it became obvious that he was dead, or when I realized that others werent pretending. While asserting that Mr. Jones was ''primarily responsible'' for the killings at the airstrip, Federal District Judge Robert F. Peckham said Mr. Layton would be eligible for parole after five years. "I was driving across the bridge," she says when asked why, after all these years, she wanted to revisit the horrors of Jonestown. 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. Almost 22 hours after the ambush, I heard the groan of a planes enginefinally our escape had arrived. Its leader, the Rev. At 16, Im not sure I understood what a state assemblyman did, but when my parents received a solicitation from Leo Ryans reelection campaign in 1966, I mailed back a note: Im in high school. Last spring Deborah decided she had to escape. 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. I would never have left Jonestown with Congressman Ryan. Layton, 35, emerged as the only defendant alive and available for prosecution in the government's attempt to exact justice from the Jonestown horrors. From her childhood, friends said, Mrs. Layton had carried a deep fear of cancer. Five bullets hit me from point-blank range, piercing my right arm, leg, and back. Whatever impelled me to send in the card changed the course of my life. Larry's parole came two years earlier than his previously-scheduled release date of April 2004. We heard that the church had weapons, and that Jones was paranoid and possibly on drugs. Jones then gave Layton permission to remarry a woman named Karen Tow. Later on, I decided I had to show them. He was born June 30, 1940 in Long Branch NJ to William and Edna (Keller) Layton. Children had their own special punishment, Layton writes. SAN FRANCISCO Larry Layton was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for his role in conspiring to murder Rep. Leo Ryan in Guyana in 1978. He told you precisely what was on his mind, no matter who you were or whether or not you wanted to hear it. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. A second jury convicted Larry, although four jurors took what the trial judge called an unprecedented step of asking for leniency in Larrys sentencing. 1978 CULT FIGURE GETS LIFE TERM IN CONGRESSMAN'S JUNGLE SLAYING, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/04/us/1978-cult-figure-gets-life-term-in-congressman-s-jungle-slaying.html. Individually, their insistence would have been hard to question. Judge Peckham also set April 21 for a hearing on a motion for a new trial filed by Mr. Layton's new defense attorney, Robert R. Bryan. He was cracking. Jonestown: 13 Things You Should Know About Cult Mas. After she left, he discovered that she had given a number of family valuables to the People's Temple. Her startling introduction to life there quickly allowed Layton to see the cracks in the facade. She managed to contact her sister in Davis, who wired a ticket to Georgetown, where Layton and other Temple members were staying in a house the Temple owned. He genuinely believed that he had some sort of protective shield around him, despite the fact that we werent traveling with any military escort or protection. Join me, he assured his followers, and youll get health care, education and a family that would never mistreat you. [29][13] The program is four hours long. ", Looking back on it 20 years later, she says, "I put everything in denial and locked it down. Mr. Layton, who was arrested at the airstrip, was initially tried in Guyana, a small country on the northern coast of South America, on charges of attempted murder against two cult defectors in the airport ambush. Jim Jones had taken my place. Religion: "Raised as a Quaker." Hobbies and other interests: Theater, music, painting, gardening. '', He said that Mr. Layton ''did not kill anybody'' at the airstrip, nor did he ''aid and abet or conspire to kill Leo Ryan.'' Her book "Seductive Poison" will be in bookstores in November. See also [ edit] Jim Jones I did not recover my old self; bullets render that impossible. Jonestown was the agricultural compound Jones' followers carved out of the Guyanese jungle, 150 miles northwest of the nation's capital, Georgetown. But, she said, I had to tell somebody what was happening in Jonestown. Layton, Deborah 1953- PERSONAL: Born in 1953, in Tooele, UT; daughter of Laurence Laird and Lisa Layton; married; children: Lauren. Also there was a strong feeling of community -- people of all races who really cared about each other.'. (CHRONICLE PHOTO BY SUSANNA FROHMAN), Restaurant chain slated to close site at Bay Area mall, One of the largest movie theaters in SF to close permanently, Grapevine closed indefinitely due to heavy snow and ice, Plan to bring bullet train from LA to Vegas is underway, 'Zero visibility' conditions: All roads to Tahoe are closed, What it looks like inside Coit Towers former apartment, Graupel falls on Disneyland, shocks guests, Avalanche slams into Tahoe apartment building amid blizzard, Hundreds of thousands of workers have abandoned downtown SF, Tahoe's snowfall totals are on track to break records, Report: Matthew McConaughey has a massive Salesforce paycheck, Popular yet divisive fast food chain coming to this Bay Area town. Dont know why youre here, but were happy to have you, Jones said. [16] Then in October 1994, four individuals robbed a jewelry store in Palm Bay, Florida. I barely got a wink of sleep. [6][11] In 2010, Lawton filmed the pilot and sizzle reel for Lawton's Law, a reality show based on his work with at-risk youth. 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. [42][13], Lawton has made many media appearances. Her mother's cancer pain medications were taken away. In Congress, he joined a March 1978 Greenpeace mission to investigate the slaughter of baby seals in Newfoundland, Canada. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Hurrying out of bed, Layton would race toward Jones "in my mud-caked boots, past the tin-roofed cabins, past the wooden outdoor showers where we're allowed our two-minute wash at the end of our 11-hour days in the field." To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Mrs. Layton's former husband, Dr. Laurence Layton, an eminent scientist, was left behind in Berkeley, Calif., having lost a wife and at least $250,000 that she gave to Mr. Jones. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. We accompanied Assemblyman Ryan to shopping centers and campaign events to pass out pamphlets and speak with voters. After a year or so Dr. Layton and his wife heard from Carolyn's father that the couple had been divorced. I was almost one of them. History. At Port Kaituma, while I ushered the defectors onto a plane, a large red tractor-trailer rumbled onto the airstrip. The tumult of the late 60s and early 70s had left masses of people searching for a greater sense of security and purpose. Five months later, on the night of November 18, 1978, Jones sent a gang of gunmen to an airstrip in Port Kaituma, where Representative Leo Ryan of San Mateo and a fact-finding party that had visited Jonestown were preparing to leave. | AP. Larry Layton wiki ionformation include family relationships: spouse or partner (wife or husband); siblings; childen/kids; parents life. The months passed, and suddenly I finished a book and looked up, and no one was here., I walked up and down the street and looked at the stars and, wondered what I had done wrong, I think she felt was not as affectionate as I might have been, he said. Dr. Layton was from a world substantially different from the aristocratic one of his bride. The first trial ended in a hung jury. They had passed. Larrys parole came two years earlier than his previously-scheduled release date of April 2004. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Besides, when had a congressman ever been assassinated on foreign soil while on a congressional delegation trip? And he assigned two of his staff members to come along: Jim Schollaert and me. Charismatic and tall with salt-and-pepper hair, he commanded a room. Laurence Laird Layton, a distinguished scientist whose later life was devastated by his family's involvement with the Peoples Temple cult, died Wednesday in his Emeryville home. Of the more than 900 members of Joness congregation who had moved there, nearly a third were children. Larry Layton, a former member of the People's Temple cult, was sentenced today to life in prison for aiding and abetting in the murder of Representative Leo J. Ryan at a jungle airstrip in Guyana in November 1978. [7] In grades one through six, Lawton served as an altar boy at St. Francis de Chantal in The Bronx,[8] where he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest. 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. They swallowed poison capsules in a suicide attempt and were removed, unconscious, from the train. As I scanned the hundreds of smiling faces, I never could have fathomed that within 24 hours, virtually every one of them would be dead. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978. At both trials here the prosecution presented a confession signed by Mr. Layton in Guyana shortly after the killings, saying that he took ''full responsibility'' for the deaths at the airstrip but also saying, ''I don't know why I did it. [39] Other issues he is concerned with include prison conditions as well as post-release debt loads and their influence on unemployed ex-convicts. Her father, a talented violinist hated his father for making him go into banking rather than music. [1][2], In 2007, he started the Reality Check Program to help educate at-risk youths on the consequences of breaking the law. They joined. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. We compiled similar testimonies from other defectors who corroborated Debbies reports of physical and sexual abuse, forced labor and captivity. It was the final stop for a group that for nearly 10 years had fascinated and, in the end, horrified the Bay Area. At the compound, Don wandered off to smoke a cigarette. Ive shared my Guyana story countless times, but its still a challenge to go back and relive those days. It was to be the secret of her life. In May 1978, she was sent by Jones to Georgetown to chaperone some Temple children on a cultural exchange. ''I submit they were presented to inflame you, to arouse your passions, to prejudice you. To go back to the gunshots. There were piles of used syringes at the scene. ", 20 Years Later, Jonestown Survivor Confronts Horrors, LAYTON01/B/20OCT98/MN/SLF ---Deborah Layton is a survivor of Jonestown. 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