A short time later, Larry married his second wife, Karen,whom Dr. Layton would come to know as a loving, sweet person.. Everybody bolted in different directions. 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. 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. As one of his top aides, I accompanied the delegation, venturing out on the ice floes where the clubbing took place. He is bewildered at how it all happened, groping for an explanation of what he called a Greek tragedy.. [18], Lawton is believed to have hit around 20 to 25 jewelry stores,[11] stealing a self-estimated total of around $1518 million worth of high-value items, including watches, diamonds, and other gems. As a temple member, Mrs. Layton separated from her husband and was said to have contributed $250,000 in family assets to the cult. The bodies of Jones and 912 cult followers lay sprawled under the tropical trees of the commune, victims of an incredible murder-suicide rite. [10] While in prison, Lawton earned a paralegal qualification and became a gang mediator. We accompanied Assemblyman Ryan to shopping centers and campaign events to pass out pamphlets and speak with voters. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. A year later, I applied to college, and he wrote me a letter of recommendation. [6], Lawton was born in North Hempstead, New York on October 3, 1961. Elin Cederroos: Ocean Resort Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. They were issued four T-shirts, four pairs of socks, a toothbrush and toothpaste, four pairs of underwear and a bar of soap. A bone shot out of my right arm, and a huge hunk of flesh had been blown off my thigh. Lawton filed a lawsuit against the prison and staff alleging that they violated his rights. Infants cannot commit suicide. In 1970, as chairman of a committee overseeing prison reform, he assumed a pseudonym and had himself booked, strip-searched and incarcerated for 10 days at Folsom State Prison, revealing his. Perhaps death is better than this.". Their courtship began in the spring of 1941, and theywere married in October. Closing the Book on Case. [39] Other issues he is concerned with include prison conditions as well as post-release debt loads and their influence on unemployed ex-convicts. 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. Onboard, every bump we hit shot an arrow of pain through my body. None of the Temple members showed any interest in receiving correspondence from home. I'm so desperately tired. Reassured that they were on their way, we parked ourselves at a few picnic tables in the far corner of the pavilion area. To the stretchers. The land later became the site of a large Union Carbide plant. 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. 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. Suddenly, my body was crushed by a blow to my side. By Robert Lindsey Special to The New York Times. One of the defectors wed interviewed claimed that Jones dyed them black. In a book written by his brother, Thomas, after Ryan's death, Larry is quoted as saying he believed in the goals of the community, even though life was not always Utopian. So many people wanted to defect that we had to call Georgetown to request an extra plane. "I was driving across the bridge," she says when asked why, after all these years, she wanted to revisit the horrors of Jonestown. ", "I thought, what a waste. In May 1978, she was sent by Jones to Georgetown to chaperone some Temple children on a cultural exchange. Mr. Jones also apparently widened the rift between Larry Layton and his father. As I took down their names, I looked over at Don Harris, who was interviewing Jones. She got on the plane, leaving her mother behind. The next year, his church relocated to Redwood Valley, a small community in northern California. Jim Jones. ''It is not the proper forum for answering questions about Jonestown.'' [10] Afterwards, another jewelry store in Lower Bucks County became suspicious of a person they believed was casing the place for a future robbery. -- the signal that meant an attack was imminent, an excuse for conducting a suicide drill. Hours after the incident, the Rev. [37], Lawton is an advocate for prisoners and their rights, and comments on the justice system. 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. [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]. 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. Later that night, Jones had another suicide exercise. Three witnesses appeared on Larrys behalf before a parole hearing at the federal prison at Lompoc, California, including attorney Frank Bell and Loren Buddress, the former Chief Probation Office for the Northern District of California. The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, a U.S.-based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones.Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 909 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in . [8] Lawton later said that he used a BB gun during the robbery. Ryan and I asked one or two Temple members at a time to come talk to us. After a year or so Dr. Layton and his wife heard from Carolyn's father that the couple had been divorced. Sam was certain Jones had something to do with his sons death. Inquisitive by nature, he was a proponent of experiential legislating, preferring to go out and experience issues firsthand before he decided what to do. 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. 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. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Biography submission guide. The U.S. trial was confined to the question of whether he plotted to kill Ryan and U.S. diplomat Richard Dwyer. Jim Jones led 912 followers in a ritual of murders and suicides. But Dr. Layton denied strongly in a separate interview that he had ever been antiSemitic. Education: Attended college in the area of San Francisco, CA. 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. All I could think was I am not going to make Grandma live through my funeral. 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 grew up in an affluent Berkeley family. And then I realized that confirming one tiny detail could mean that the worst of the testimonies were true. Jim could really get to people, Deborah recalled in an interview. | AP. Initially discouraged, Larrys family pressed ahead with the petition for early release, collecting another 50 letters in support, including letters from former Temple members and critics, numerous religious leaders, and a former congressman. Layton became a senior insider in Jones' entourage. To the tarmac. 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. They reported the car's license plate, which linked the car to Lawton. 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 leader, the Rev. Larry Layton can be an professional, known for Get away to Grizzly Hill (2000) and Viva . 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. Left-right: Jim Schollaert, Jackie Speier and Congressman Leo Ryan. . The defense rested its case without presenting witnesses. By that time, darker elements had seeped into Jones sermons. Congressman Ryan assured me that there was nothing to worry about. Leo Ryan wanted answers. Larry Layton, who posed as a defector, was captured after badly wounding two people inside a plane trying to take off. It felt like a Mack truck had just sped over me. 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.". He was born in the mountains of West Virginia, between White Sulphur Springs and Charleston, to a. He was cracking. In the summer of 1977, after an expose of Peoples Temple in New West magazine, Jones and his followers fled to Guyana. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. He spoke often of apocalypseJones chose Redwood Valley because he believed it was one of a few places in the country that could survive a nuclear holocaustyet insisted the Peoples Temple would exist as a sort of heaven on Earth, with himself in the role of God. Mrs. Layton divorced her husband in 1975 and their home on the Berkeley hilltop was sold. Jones became enamoured with Carolyn Layton and told Larry he wanted her for his own. "[10], Lawton also founded the Reality Check Foundation, which is a 501(C)(3) charity that includes a mentoring program, and an annual golf outing. 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. 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. '', See the article in its original context from. 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 . Their accounts led to an expos in New West Magazine planned for publication in summer 1977. The hospital was not far from the People's Temple community Mr. Jones had established in Redwood Valley. 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. Dont know why youre here, but were happy to have you, Jones said. 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. Over the next decade, Jones moved his congregation and changed its name several times before settling on Peoples Temple around 1964. But the moment I looked down at my own body is locked in my mind. There is a sickening recording of Jones coercing his followers that day. His suggestion that I would learn far more from first-hand experience was in step with the way he approached politics. Monica confirmed that she wanted to leave. Among them were George Moscone, who the Peoples Temple played a significant role in electing mayor in 1975, and Harvey Milk, the pioneering openly gay city supervisor, who went so far as to write a letter to President Jimmy Carter extolling Joness work and rebutting charges that he was abusive. The docket for Laytons trial through its various appeals through 1990 is here. Children had their own special punishment, Layton writes. Later, after being barred from the university as a Jew, Lisa took training as physical therapist, which was permitted by the Nazis. Lisa Layton's youngest son, Larry, is now under arrest in Guyana, accused of murdering Representative Leo J. Ryan and four other persons in the attack that eventually led Mr. Jones to order the mass deaths. The shootings took place on one of the airplanes which were to take the party of Congressman Leo Ryan to Georgetown after his visit to Jonestown. 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. Larry, sister Debbie and their mother, Lisa, all joined the temple while it was located in California. [28], After release he went to Palm Bay, Florida and started LL Research and Consulting and met a business partner. Politically, there was nothing to gainand everything to loseby taking on Jones, and there was no telling what hed do if confronted and challenged. By Katherine Bishop, Special To the New York Times. Her childhood playmates included cousins and friends from some of the bestknown families of Germany's Jewish aristocracy, such as the Berensons and Rothschilds. 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." They joined. 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 gained notoriety for committing a string of jewelry store robberies along the Atlantic Seaboard prior to his arrest in 1996. Jones responded by telling them that if any actions were taken to remove John, the entire Jonestown population would commit suicide. It was the final stop for a group that for nearly 10 years had fascinated and, in the end, horrified the Bay Area. Lawrence Robert Lawton (born October 3, 1961) is an American ex-convict, author, paralegal, motivational speaker, and YouTuber. Mr. Jones repeatedly sent word to her that he could cure her from Guyana, and she waited for his efforts to work. 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. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. In Congress, he joined a March 1978 Greenpeace mission to investigate the slaughter of baby seals in Newfoundland, Canada. "The reason I did well," Layton says now, "is that I'm a little soldier and I follow orders so well.". This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 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. [3], Lawton was offered a three-year sentence in exchange for disclosing his accomplices but did not take the deal. Debbie stood in line to drink the red liquid that she was told would kill her in a matter of minutes. Subsequently, he said, she urged him to have an affair. And he assigned two of his staff members to come along: Jim Schollaert and me. The night before, our delegation watched Jones followers perform a show at their compound. ", 20 Years Later, Jonestown Survivor Confronts Horrors, LAYTON01/B/20OCT98/MN/SLF ---Deborah Layton is a survivor of Jonestown. 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. But by the time I showed em, they were all dead.. 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. 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. He told you precisely what was on his mind, no matter who you were or whether or not you wanted to hear it. Members of the press and the Concerned Relatives waited behind on the airstrip until the truck could come back for a second load. See the article in its original context from. Besides, when had a congressman ever been assassinated on foreign soil while on a congressional delegation trip? Breathing heavily, I pulled myself to my feet, stumbled to the planes baggage compartment and took shelter. White Night!" 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. Ryan wanted to investigate. Deborah and Larry Layton were still with Mr. Jones at that point, having remained as key lieutenants even after his doctrine of good works and selflessness had begun to become an increasingly paranoid selfadulation. 'Being in Peoples Temple wasn't always pleasant, but one had the feeling he was really doing something to advance society. 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.'' 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. 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. At Port Kaituma, while I ushered the defectors onto a plane, a large red tractor-trailer rumbled onto the airstrip. 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. I did not recover my old self; bullets render that impossible. I was an orphan and my grandfather didn't let me forget it; he wanted me to work hard; he didn't want to ruin me with praise; I was supposed to be humble. Original release. Ryan joined us for the trekone of roughly two dozen of us crammed in the bed of the truck, with dozens of would-be defectors left behind, belongings packed, waiting to escape. Politics: Liberal. Under the Federal parole system, a person sentenced to life in prison is not normally considered for parole until 10 years have been served. After over twenty years in prison, Larry Layton was released on parole in 2002, largely due to the testimony of Vernon Gosney, one of the few survivors of the massacre, and the Federal Chief Judge, Robert F. Peckham. [15] The robbers had dropped off jewelry for repairs, and later returned to rob the store. [11] He then began robbing jewelry stores along the Atlantic Coast,[3] using his contacts within the Gambino crime family to fence the stolen merchandise. From her childhood, friends said, Mrs. Layton had carried a deep fear of cancer. Lisa Layton was the next member of the family to join the cult. He said the trial was not the place to examine the deaths of 913 people at the cult's settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. Sure enough, I could tell he had. He is serving a life sentence in the federal prison at Lompoc. ''You've heard graphic details about what happenened on the airstrip,'' he 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. Mini Biography. March 5, 1999. After Larry and Carolyn Layton joined the cult, Larry stopped writing to his parents and would not accept phone calls from them. Layton's mother, who came from a wealthy family, divorced her husband and donated $300,000 to Jones' cause. Twenty years ago this month, Jones and 912 of his followers committed mass suicide at the jungle compound. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Created by: Mike Added: 6 Apr 2021 I barely got a wink of sleep. He was not paroled from an American prison until 2002. His father, an electrical engineer, died when Larry was 8 and the boy had to move in with his grandfather, a stern Methodist preacher. According to trial testimony, as the attack began, Layton pulled a gun inside the plane and wounded two temple defectors. He was born June 30, 1940 in Long Branch NJ to William and Edna (Keller) Layton. ref: Benjy Esteves Jr Mark Consentino 94-95 Larry Layton 94-95 John McKaie 94-95 After that trip, I remember telling myself that never again would I witness such violence at such close range. 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. In Jonestown, nobody could have any family attachments. She died of cancer in Guyana three weeks before the death ritual. Debbie said the couple had gone to court to try to compel the Guyanese government to intervene; Rev. Like all of the tracks in the United States, it closed during the World War II years (1941-1945) and re-opened in 1946. They called it Jonestown. Instead he proposed a better use of law enforcement resources would be to "help inmates with drug addiction. Ryan did not look or behave like your typical politician. 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. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). 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