. >> now, do i understand you to say that you both want to leave jonestown on this date, november 18,r seeing this couple with a child between them. >> you bring those kids back here! you bring them back! don't you take my kids! >> you could feel the tension. >> last night someone came and passed me this note. >> people play games, friend. they lie. they lie. what can i do about liars? you people leave us. i just beg you. please leave us. >> instead of just letting that plane take off with minimal damage to his movement, jones snapped. >> good evening. for about the last 30 hours, we here at nbc news have been trying to establish what happened last night at the airstrip at a place called port kaituma. we do have a particular interest in it. two nbc newsmen were shot to death there. >> don harris was killed. bob brown was killed. congressman ryan was shot 45 times. >> every time somebody would fall down wounded, they would walk over and shoot them in the head with a shotgun. >> i was shot five times. i was lying on my side with my head down pretending i was dead. and then all of a sudd

he had established jonestown in guyana. there's going to be a new, revolutionary way of living. lot of people who had gone to visit have not come back. they were living there. families expressed concern to leo ryan. was prepared to go down there and find out. he wanted to and have permission to do so.

gates and more people wanted to jones who had been paranoid he didn't want people waso back and say jonestown a failure. so when they were going to the this to board and these -- wasn't an airport. they were going to an air strip. part of the country which is already a remote country as is because we're south america here. so they're going to the plane and they're getting people someone starts shooting. and three he ryan reporters and wound many others including congresswoman spear laid on the tarmac for 22 help came and jim jones went back with with 900 of is followers they did a mass suicide which is also called a because a lot of these followers had no choice. were drinking cyanide in a juice. did not have much of a here. this did change travel. any delegation had a military partnering with the department of defense on where they're going. leo ryan did going by fairly which was a dangerous area, it couldn't have there would because have been much more precautions when both protect the congressman and media and the staff. "washington journal" continues. we are back with congressman cuellar.

he did not want to people -- people to go back and see jonestown was a failure. this was an airport. they were going to an airstrip outside of jonestown in a remote part of the country, which is already a remote country. we are talking about south america. they are going to the plane, getting people on, and someone starts shooting. they kill leo ryan and three of the reporters and wound many others, including the congresswoman who later on the tarmac for about 22 hours until help came. jim jones went back and with 900 of his followers committed mass suicide, also called mass murder because a lot of his followers had no choice. they were given the option to flavoraid.de in if they did not drink it, they would be shot. they did not have much of a choice. this did change policy on overseas travel. any congressional delegation has a military escort and is partnering with the department of defense. goingeo ryan did by to him -- with himself to a dangerous area, it could not have happened now because there would have been much more protection in place to protect the co