It was the final stop for a group that for nearly 10 years had fascinated and, in the end, horrified the Bay Area. Layton's mother, who came from a wealthy family, divorced her husband and donated $300,000 to Jones' cause. Dr. Layton was perplexed by his wife's behavior but began sleeping beside her on the floor. 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. The outfits were a ridiculous gimmick, and the role was clearly objectifying. Dont know why youre here, but were happy to have you, Jones said. 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. "[10], While in prison in 2003, Lawton was sent to solitary confinement for 27 days as punishment. Its hard to know when it became obvious that he was dead, or when I realized that others werent pretending. He preached a social gospel, attracting devotees while promoting a community that did not discriminate or take into account race, background, or previous circumstances. The other, Carolyn, became one of Mr. Jones's mistresses and also his principal fnancial adviser; it is not known whether she is alive. Jones had become increasingly paranoid, convinced that the CIA, the FBI and the media were out to destroy him. [43] He also hosted a local talk radio show. 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. [10], Lawton executed his first robbery when he was 28, an inside job to collect insurance money. Meanwhile, ex-devotees of the Peoples Temple began sharing stories about Jones darker side. Family Tragedy: Hitler's Germany to Jones's Cult, https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/04/archives/family-tragedy-hitlers-germany-to-joness-cult-the-layton-familys.html. To the tarmac. I admired Ryans worthy missions, but questioned if I shared his bottomless capacity to bear witness. [16] Then in October 1994, four individuals robbed a jewelry store in Palm Bay, Florida. Dr. Layton recalls that his wife began to resist his sexual advances and, when he protested, offered to move out. Within minutes, Ryan and four others were shot 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. 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. [15][18], In 1996, there was a robbery of a jeweler in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. 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. 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. The chaos persisted until, abruptly, a silence fell. Nearly 30 years later, her mother long dead in a rotting jungle outpost in Guyana, her brother doing life in a federal prison and her father so broken that he weeps at the mention of anything connected with Jones-, town, Deborah Layton has, as she put it the other day, "decided it was time to come out of the cobwebbed attic.". Tony Tamburello, the defense attorney, told jurors in his closing arguments that the prosecutors had sensationalized the case against Mr. Layton in the three-week trial in Federal District Court. [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. Sam was far from the only person concerned about Jones malicious influence over a loved one. The "Greeting Committee" promptly confiscated all their clothes and belongings and, most important, their passports. 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? 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. But listening to one after the other after the other say the same choreographed thing made me uneasy. Mrs. Layton moved out of their home on Labor Day 1979. [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. 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. 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. The cover of a Jonestown promotional booklet from 1978. But at the time, none of that occurred to me; I was thrilled to be working for a candidate I believed inone who always treated me with respect. All of those people I had been standing beside, speaking to, sharing a cabin with. Her mother, on discovering that her husband was having an affair with Lisa's English governess, gave Lisa a detailed account of it and threatened to commit suicide. Its leader, the Rev. Individually, their insistence would have been hard to question. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Jonestown was the agricultural compound Jones' followers carved out of the Guyanese jungle, 150 miles northwest of the nation's capital, Georgetown. Their accounts led to an expos in New West Magazine planned for publication in summer 1977. It was to be the secret of her life. 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. ", 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.". History. By all accounts, Layton was on a small plane about to leave Jonestown when the plot to kill Ryan was set in motion. Judge Peckham imposed the same five-year parole date on those counts. [13], In May 1994, three males robbed a jewelry store in Daytona Beach, Florida, netting $500,000 (nearly $950,000 in 2022)[14] worth of gold and diamonds. 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. Larry Layton wiki ionformation include family relationships: spouse or partner (wife or husband); siblings; childen/kids; parents life. . The bodies of Jones and 912 cult followers lay sprawled under the tropical trees of the commune, victims of an incredible murder-suicide rite. Lawrence Robert Lawton (born October 3, 1961) is an American ex-convict, author, paralegal, motivational speaker, and YouTuber. It wasnt unusual for Temple members to be awakened at dawn over the loudspeaker and summoned to the pavilion for one of his increasingly unhinged sermons. 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. Almost 22 hours after the ambush, I heard the groan of a planes enginefinally our escape had arrived. So many people wanted to defect that we had to call Georgetown to request an extra plane. Mr. Blakey survived the killings and suicides at Jonestown; he was on a boat owned by the commune at the time of the deaths. 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. 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. Mrs. Layton was convinced the man had been cured by Mr. Jones, who is known to have faked such cures by presenting chicken and cattle entrails as cancerous tissue he claimed to have removed. The docket for Laytons trial through its various appeals through 1990 is here. Her book "Seductive Poison" will be in bookstores in November. After a year or so Dr. Layton and his wife heard from Carolyn's father that the couple had been divorced. [37], Lawton is an advocate for prisoners and their rights, and comments on the justice system. [41], In 2017, he appeared in a middle school in Havelock, North Carolina to explain his prison experiences. Her father, a wealthy banker in Hamburg, and her mother would be marched off at gunpoint to a train bound for a concentration camp. We listened as she offered a detailed and disturbing account of her experience. She said that she knew that to do so would endanger her mother and brother because Mr. Jones kept dissident members in line by holding relatives hostage. Somehow, through the encroaching darkness of my final thoughts, I saw my 87-year-old Grandma Emma. His father, an electrical engineer, died when Larry was 8 and the boy had to move in with his grandfather, a stern Methodist preacher. Her marriage was ruptured by Mr. Jopes even before it could be consummated. In the summer of 1977, after an expose of Peoples Temple in New West magazine, Jones and his followers fled to Guyana. Much later, Layton writes, she would find them "on the bookshelf in Father's house with the many other prescription drugs taken from Temple members.". None of the Temple members showed any interest in receiving correspondence from home. They had passed. 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. Infants cannot commit suicide. Jim could really get to people, Deborah recalled in an interview. They were issued four T-shirts, four pairs of socks, a toothbrush and toothpaste, four pairs of underwear and a bar of soap. In 1978, I went to Guyana on a fact-finding mission. John Ford. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. 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. [23][34], However, the superintendent of student services at Brevard Public Schools declined to use the program, and questioned its effectiveness, claiming that "[w]hile the program is well-organized and well-intentioned, it does not follow the scientific evidence-based research guidelines. I was almost one of them. [28] Often he appears discussing crimes in the media as an expert on robberies. Later on, I decided I had to show them. Ten years later the road came to a dead end in the jungles of Guyana. [7] Lawton attended Intermediate IS 192 and Lehman High School, but did not graduate. 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. 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. Leo Ryan wanted answers. 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. ", Looking back on it 20 years later, she says, "I put everything in denial and locked it down. [22] Fingerprint evidence connected Lawton to the October 1994 Palm Bay heist, and he was charged with that crime as well. 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. "[33] Lawton and the police chief later appeared before United States Congress in recognition of the program. But by the time I showed em, they were all dead.. Jones wove his way through the camp, repeating that he wasnt upset that they wanted to leave; it was just that they were doing it in the wrong way. "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. But, as interviews last week with family members and friends revealed, the Laytons slowly disintegrated under the pressures of family conflict, the disillusionment that gripped much of America during the 1960's, drug use, and the soothing, simplistic appeal of Mr. Jones. Lawton was critical of the move, saying that "[c]hain gangs send a bad message about [the US]." His following grew, and Jones became the leader of one of the first mixed-race churches in Indiana. In Ukiah, Layton's free will was already beginning to slip away, according to his lawyers. That date was later moved back to April 2004, after the board credited him for his time in the Georgetown jail. In 1969, to get her away from the drugs and other attractions in Berkeley, Dr. Layton and his wife decided to send Deborah to a Quaker school, Ackworth, in the countryside of Yorkshire, England. After Larry and Carolyn Layton joined the cult, Larry stopped writing to his parents and would not accept phone calls from them. 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. Born in Crete, Indiana, in 1931, Jim Jones grew up an outcast and underdog, and was fixated on being recognized as someone greater. Education: Attended college in the area of San Francisco, CA. ''The story of Jonestown is really the story of a world gone mad. See also [ edit] Jim Jones It was just a matter of time. And he assigned two of his staff members to come along: Jim Schollaert and me. The letters were presented during the hearing which resulted in a recommendation for Larrys release. I would never have left Jonestown with Congressman Ryan. 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. His father was a research scientist. Deborah said that before her escape she had obtained a bottle of wine and taken it to the commune against Mr. Jones's rules. [25] He received an additional sentence in 2002 for giving false witness. To access these PDF files you must have the free Adobe Reader installed. Her startling introduction to life there quickly allowed Layton to see the cracks in the facade. January 15, 2007. #3 Journalists and Defector Killed Mr. Layton was the only person charged in the United States with criminal acts arising from the events of Nov. 18, 1978, when Mr. Ryan and a group of journalists and relatives of other cult members were ambushed at the Port Kaituma airstrip in the jungle near Jonestown. 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. It was a mass murder. 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.'' The defense rested its case without presenting witnesses. Children had their own special punishment, Layton writes. Returning to the pavilion area, I sought out other anxious-looking members. I knew him well enough to understand what would happen next. Jim Jones, with his omnipresent dark glasses and his sweeping red robe, was the anchor of her newfound life and, like many Temple members, she was mesmerized by him. [10] He was sentenced for racketeering and robbery and spent 11 years in prison before being released in 2007. It was an implausible ending for the fiery preacher, who had curried favor among the fashionable elite of the Democratic Party. Her mother's cancer pain medications were taken away. | California Historical Society. He got a job as a student pastor at the Somerset Methodist Church in a poor, predominantly white neighborhood in Indianapolis. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 Her name was Lisa Philips and she was so beautiful that friends said she looked like Hedy Lamarr. Mrs. Layton saw Mr. Jones strip Larry of two wives. He was born in the mountains of West Virginia, between White Sulphur Springs and Charleston, to a family that had helped settle Virginia 225 years earlier and claimed ancestors datmg from the Mayflower. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. I couldnt immediately identify the deafening sound that filled the air. Subsequently, he said, she urged him to have an affair. As soon as it became clear that we would be bringing more than one or two defectors home with us, the communal faade cracked. 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. My recovery continuedthough that very word is not an accurate description of the aftermath of being shot. We landed in Georgetown, Guyanas capital, on November 14, 1978. But Lisa escaped from Hamburg, and in 1938, stunned by the antiSemitism she had seen, she arrived in New York with a determination never to reveal to anyone that she was Jewish. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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. 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. Mrs. Layton divorced her husband in 1975 and their home on the Berkeley hilltop was sold. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. After he passed legislation improving prison conditions, the inmates showed their gratitude by giving him a chess set they had sculpted from toothpaste and toilet paper. But, she said, I had to tell somebody what was happening in Jonestown. Members of the press and the Concerned Relatives waited behind on the airstrip until the truck could come back for a second load. None of those red flags made the congressman reconsider. Later, after being barred from the university as a Jew, Lisa took training as physical therapist, which was permitted by the Nazis. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Behind his dim glasses, Jones preached love and equality while manipulating his followerstaking their property and having them sign over their paychecks and Social Security. ", 20 Years Later, Jonestown Survivor Confronts Horrors, LAYTON01/B/20OCT98/MN/SLF ---Deborah Layton is a survivor of Jonestown. [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. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Layton, 35, emerged as the only defendant alive and available for prosecution in the government's attempt to exact justice from the Jonestown horrors. "[27] Another time he said: "I had my arms pinned down, and I was beaten and peed on by the guards. Jim Jones had taken my place. After graduating from the University of California campus at Davis in 1968 with a degree in social science, Layton and his wife moved to the Ukiah area and soon met up with the temple. The tumult of the late 60s and early 70s had left masses of people searching for a greater sense of security and purpose. His mother and father were cousins who had lived on adjoining estates, and in earlier generations the family's land, worked by slaves, had been prosperous. Infants cannot commit suicide. Is the Stanley Quencher tumbler worth its TikTok hype? They called it Jonestown. Repeatedly, the defectors mentioned forced participation in mass-suicide rehearsals known as the White Night trials.. 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. 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. [8], In 2019, he made a video with Vanity Fair where he analyzed fictional robberies from films such as The Italian Job and Heat. Larry Layton can be an professional, known for Get away to Grizzly Hill (2000) and Viva . 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