1978: The Jonestown Massacre




Not Your Century show

Summary: Rep. Leo Ryan, D-San Mateo, and four others are killed and his legal aide, Jackie Speier, is among those injured in a shooting at an airstrip in Guyana, a prelude to more than 900 members of the formerly San Francisco-based People's Temple dying in the jungle.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices