The defense attorney urged jurors to consider conditions at Jonestown and their impact on Mr. Layton. While he was never charged with shooting Mr. Ryan, the Government contended that Mr. Layton conspired with Mr. Jones and other cult members to kill the Congressman and others in his group to prevent them from returning to the United States with negative reports about Jonestown. [41], In 2017, he appeared in a middle school in Havelock, North Carolina to explain his prison experiences. Jones, who demanded that his flock call him Father, was one of the most politically powerful people in San Francisco, wined and dined by such luminaries as Rosalynn Carter, Assemblyman Willie Brown, Mayor George Moscone and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally. Onboard, every bump we hit shot an arrow of pain through my body. | California Historical Society. Please help us get out of Jonestown. Soon after, Don was approached by another member, who claimed that many Temple members desperately wanted to leave but were too terrified to come forward. Jones became active in local politics, giving money, running food programs and busing Temple members to attend rallies and get out the vote for his favored candidates. At the end of the evening, Rep. Ryan walked onstage and thanked the group. Not long after she left, her parents were rounded up with other Jews and placed on a train to a death camp. A man followed him and slipped a folded piece of paper into his hand, then disappeared back into the crowd. 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. "When I joined Peoples Temple, I was 17 and it was like joining the Peace Corps," she says. ''Look at the poor diet, the loss of weight, the physical exhaustion, the desperation, the lingering illness and death of his mother and the fear of punishment and humiliation,'' he said. While on the phone listening to the allegations that would soon be made public, Jones scribbled a note to his aides: We leave tonight.. "I felt we were doing something that had meaning. White Night!" But her childhood, she said later, was not a happy one. Many hours before the plane came, somehow, word filtered in that after Jones had released his death squad to the airstrip, he had led more than 900 of his flock into his White Night of death. Deep inside me, I still have the demons of shame and guilt.". [44] Lawton has a YouTube channel, and he has made videos analyzing heists in movies and video games such as Grand Theft Auto V; he also plays Prison Architect.[44][45]. He got a job as a student pastor at the Somerset Methodist Church in a poor, predominantly white neighborhood in Indianapolis. But finally her cancer became so advanced that It was necessary for surgeons to remove a lung. Id come to Guyana as a congressional aide on a fact-finding mission. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 Her name was Lisa Philips and she was so beautiful that friends said she looked like Hedy Lamarr. 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. [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. 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. [10] He also founded the Reality Check program which aims to show teens the consequences of a criminal life. [28] Often he appears discussing crimes in the media as an expert on robberies. He knew that Jones had considerable political clout, with close ties to Democratic leaders in San Francisco, Sacramento, and even with the State Department. 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. I never played; I never learned how. He is the son of Lawrence L. Layton, a prominent biolgist at the University of California, and was raised in a cultural, intellectual atmosphere. She had an extremely anxious demeanor, and we moved quickly as we went to her cabin to pack. Port Royal Speedway hosts a weekly schedule of local Sprint Car, Late Model, and Pro-Stock dirt track racing, and is nicknamed "The Speed Palace".Several national touring series organizations visit the track during the racing season, including the World of Outlaws . Layton grew up in an affluent Berkeley family. 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 Richard Dwyer, a U.S. diplomat wounded in the attack. Besides, when had a congressman ever been assassinated on foreign soil while on a congressional delegation trip? After that, she never stopped going back, Dr. Layton said. Increasing numbers of people approached us. ", "I thought, what a waste. It was the final stop for a group that for nearly 10 years had fascinated and, in the end, horrified the Bay Area. They swallowed poison capsules in a suicide attempt and were removed, unconscious, from the train. By that time, it was obvious that some of his disciples intended to leave. The hundreds of elderly were told that if they attempted escape, they would be left to die prolonged deaths alone in the depths of the jungle. 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. My list kept growingwhat started with two names was now more than 40. [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. Nearly 300 children were administered the poison, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. How could I not like the good things they were doing?. To the stretchers. 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. [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. 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. Closing the Book on Case. Bodies lay crumpled on the tarmac around me. [15][18] Local police believed there was a connection between this robbery and a robbery that took place in May 1994 in Daytona Beach, and contacted the FBI. "The reason I did well," Layton says now, "is that I'm a little soldier and I follow orders so well.". Mrs. Layton's daughter, Deborah, joined the cult five years ago. [3], Lawton was offered a three-year sentence in exchange for disclosing his accomplices but did not take the deal. Jones himself sat onstage in a throne beneath a sign that read: Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The members sang and danced and, by every appearance, were happy. But Dr. Layton denied strongly in a separate interview that he had ever been antiSemitic. His following grew, and Jones became the leader of one of the first mixed-race churches in Indiana. Dr. Layton was from a world substantially different from the aristocratic one of his bride. But it was the testimony of Vern Gosney, one of Larrys shooting victims at the Port Kaituma airstrip, who traveled from Hawaii for the sole purpose of attending the hearing and who delivered the most impassioned plea for Larrys release, that apparently made the difference. We listened as she offered a detailed and disturbing account of her experience. They were cal culated to make you feel someone has to pay. | AP. She was entrusted with flights to Europe and Panama to open Temple bank accounts, where Jones stashed the millions he was taking from Temple members who freely gave him their life savings, their homes and just about everything else. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. He was born June 30, 1940 in Long Branch NJ to William and Edna (Keller) Layton. "And I thought, if I get hit by a truck, my epitaph will be, 'Jonestown survivor dies on Bay Bridge.' 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. 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. When people refer to the Jonestown massacre as a mass suicide, I am enraged. It was impossible to cope with the pain. Larry Layton was the only person prosecuted for any of the events in and around Jonestown. I knew him well enough to understand what would happen next. 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. 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. Jones responded by telling them that if any actions were taken to remove John, the entire Jonestown population would commit suicide. 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. What an evil thing that Jim Jones did. 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? "[33] Lawton and the police chief later appeared before United States Congress in recognition of the program. I grew up with the Bible and the Puritan work ethic, he recalled in an interview. Larry Layton Net Worth is $14 Million. Later, Jones also became enamoured of the new Mrs. Layton and soon added her, too, to his growing harem of temple members. 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. [10] Afterwards, another jewelry store in Lower Bucks County became suspicious of a person they believed was casing the place for a future robbery. She looks away for a moment, then brightens and starts to talk about a visit she made to Jonestown only a few months ago, accompanied by a crew from the Arts & Entertainment network, which is making a documentary on Peoples Temple. [38][5][9] In 2013, the Brevard County Jail re-introduced chain gangs as a pilot project with the goal of deterring crime. She died of cancer in Guyana three weeks before the death ritual. Larry's parole came two years earlier than his previously-scheduled release date of April 2004. With Joness wild gaze on us, I tape-recorded affidavits of their wishes to return to the United States. '', ''In a sense,'' he said, ''it would be easy to transfer the responsibility of Jones and put it on Larry Layton.'' We split up, as Jones had arranged. All of those children. He was found guilty of conspiracy and aiding and abetting in the murder of Ryan and the attempted murder of U.S. embassy official Richard Dwyer and was sentenced to Read More Suddenly, my body was crushed by a blow to my side. As I shook his hand, I looked at his sideburns. Sam was certain Jones had something to do with his sons death. American author, Youtuber and jewel thief, "Police hunt clues in Cannes jewelry heist; ex-jewel thief says it was a pro job", "Florida sheriff reintroduces chain gang", "Ex-jewel thief says of Kim K's purloined baubles: 'They're gone. . 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. Besides, when had a congressman ever been assassinated on foreign soil while on a congressional delegation trip? 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. Jones greeted us at the compound. In Ukiah, Layton's free will was already beginning to slip away, according to his lawyers. Jones had become increasingly paranoid, convinced that the CIA, the FBI and the media were out to destroy him. Larry, sister Debbie and their mother, Lisa, all joined the temple while it was located in California. Deborah said that before her escape she had obtained a bottle of wine and taken it to the commune against Mr. Jones's rules. Their courtship began in the spring of 1941, and theywere married in October. The next year, his church relocated to Redwood Valley, a small community in northern California. But the moment I looked down at my own body is locked in my mind. He had on a big yellow poncho, and his eyes were set in a sullen glare. Five bullets hit me from point-blank range, piercing my right arm, leg, and back. 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. As one of his top aides, I accompanied the delegation, venturing out on the ice floes where the clubbing took place. I heard screams and the rapid pounding of gunfire. Layton's mother, Lisa, had died of cancer 10 days before the mass suicide. Layton, Deborah 1953- PERSONAL: Born in 1953, in Tooele, UT; daughter of Laurence Laird and Lisa Layton; married; children: Lauren. 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By that time, darker elements had seeped into Jones sermons. [28], After release he went to Palm Bay, Florida and started LL Research and Consulting and met a business partner. Like all of the tracks in the United States, it closed during the World War II years (1941-1945) and re-opened in 1946. the attorney said. 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. We landed in Georgetown, Guyanas capital, on November 14, 1978. In May 1978, she was sent by Jones to Georgetown to chaperone some Temple children on a cultural exchange. Before the New West issue hit the stands, Jones and hundreds of his followers had left San Francisco for Jonestown, their promised land in Guyana. I did not feel confident this was a good idea. 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. 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. ref: Sparkle Lee Larry Layton 40-36 Tony Lundy 40-36 Lindsey Page 40-35 2020-01-10: Alicia Napoleon Espinosa: L-UD. He. But he ordered them separated before they had consummated the marriage, and Mr. Blakey eventually left California to join the party establishing the cult's Guyana settlement. 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. Layton complied, and Jones took Carolyn as his mistress. I was later told that he had been shot 45 times. Moments later, Congressman Ryan emerged from a throng of people with a torn and bloodied shirt. From what Ive seen, he said, there are a lot of people here who think this is the best thing that happened in their whole life. He was interrupted by manically enthusiastic cheering. Ten years later the road came to a dead end in the jungles of Guyana. The robbers had been there the day before and returned asking about a ring. Mrs. Layton divorced her husband in 1975 and their home on the Berkeley hilltop was sold. 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.. Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby, it read. All of those people I had been standing beside, speaking to, sharing a cabin with. Her startling introduction to life there quickly allowed Layton to see the cracks in the facade. The cover of a Jonestown promotional booklet from 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. An uncle, Dr. James Franck, won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1935. Layton was brought to trial in Guyana on charges of attempted murder and was acquitted. After she left, he discovered that she had given a number of family valuables to the People's Temple. There was no movement, but I thought the others might also be playing dead. Hours after Mr. Ryan and four others were shot to death at the airstrip near Jonestown, which was the headquarters of the cult, the cult's leader, the Rev. Inquisitive by nature, he was a proponent of experiential legislating, preferring to go out and experience issues firsthand before he decided what to do. As I took down their names, I looked over at Don Harris, who was interviewing Jones. Inquiry by Congressman. Mr . https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/17/us/cult-member-cries-over-plea-to-jury.html. Mrs. Layton moved out of their home on Labor Day 1979. Their daughter, after working briefly as a physical therapist in New York, went for graduate study as a therapist to Pennsylvania State University, where her uncle, Dr. Franck, was teaching. Mr. Ryan, three journalists and a cult defector were killed and 11 others were wounded. [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. We worked quickly to locate and speak to the individuals whose families had contacted our office and had been campaigning for their return. [15][18], In 1996, there was a robbery of a jeweler in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. It was just a matter of time. Mr. Layton was also convicted of conspiracy in the attempted murder of Richard C. Dwyer, the deputy chief of the United States mission to Guyana, who was among those wounded at the airstrip. He preached a social gospel, attracting devotees while promoting a community that did not discriminate or take into account race, background, or previous circumstances. Subsequently, she arranged to leave the settlement on an errand for Mr. Jones and left Guyana on May 13. Mrs. Layton saw Mr. Jones strip Larry of two wives. A bone shot out of my right arm, and a huge hunk of flesh had been blown off my thigh. At the compound, Don wandered off to smoke a cigarette. With its bell-ringing calls for social justice -- this was in the fractious 1960s and early '70s -- the little-known church near Ukiah catered to the closet revolutionary in Deborah Layton. ''It is not the proper forum for answering questions about Jonestown.'' Friends of Larry Layton recall that Mr. Jones took both Carolyn and Karen from him after having the women watch him force Larry to submit to a homosexual act. Dr. Layton had learned of his wife's religious background after they were married, but the couple had agreed not to tell anyone, especially their children. Be the first to contribute! I dont have any money to donate, but Id like to volunteer. In 1972, Mr. Jones married Deborah Layton and Philip Blakey. He said the accusation probably been inspired by Mr. Jones as part of a systematic effort to break up families in the church. [43] He also hosted a local talk radio show. It was to be the secret of her life. Larry Layton Biography It looks like we don't have any Biography for Larry Layton yet. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Religion: "Raised as a Quaker." Hobbies and other interests: Theater, music, painting, gardening. Lawton filed a lawsuit against the prison and staff alleging that they violated his rights. 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. [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. 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. They all swore that Jonestown was the one and only place they could ever consider home. 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.'' This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Larry Howard Layton, 80, of Green Valley, AZ passed away December 10, 2020 from complications of COVID-19. His first encounter with organized crime was through his father, a metal worker who delivered bribes to the New York mafia. Jim could really get to people, Deborah recalled in an interview. [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 hope tonight is the last one. In Congress, he joined a March 1978 Greenpeace mission to investigate the slaughter of baby seals in Newfoundland, Canada. On November 17, we landed at the tiny airstrip at Port Kaituma. In the summer of 1978, Lisa Philips Layton died of cancer in Jonestown, Guyana, three months before the Rev. After a few weeks, Layton grew "accustomed to the unusual smells in the food and drink. As he grew older, Dr. Layton gravitated from Methodism to Quakerism, a faith with roots in the Reformation whose tenets included nonviolence, racial and religious toleration, rigorous selfdiscipline, and love and good works for the needy. After a year or so Dr. Layton and his wife heard from Carolyn's father that the couple had been divorced. ''Why not pin this on Larry Layton, then close the book and not look at the hard questions of why Leo Ryan and all those Americans died?'' Education: Attended college in the area of San Francisco, CA. He was not paroled from an American prison until 2002. Later on, I decided I had to show them. In a cabin with about six women from the Temple, I took a top bunk, sweating as a downpour opened up outside. 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. 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. After Larry and Carolyn Layton joined the cult, Larry stopped writing to his parents and would not accept phone calls from them. [32] By 2010, Lawton had shipped 10,000 DVDs across the country. 'I was a fool to leave California, but then I was a fool long before that,' he said. ", Crimes for which children went to the well included "stealing food from the kitchen, expressing homesickness, failing a socialism exam, or even natural childish rebelliousness.". The train blown off my thigh leave California, but id like to volunteer list kept growingwhat with... 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