. >> now do i both understand you to say that you both want to leave jonestown on this date, novemberth 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? are you people going to -- 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 sudden t

. >>> a special ceremony in the east bay in honor of the lives lost in the jonestown massacre. >>> coming up at 6:00 with juliette goodrich, san francisco's biggest public transit expansion is ready for riders tomorrow. and winding trip that >>> he has been released from custody. and they are trying to build a case against 22-year-old nicholas gutierrez. police have accused him of deliberately plowing into and through dozens of l.a. county sheriff cadets on wednesday. as of last night, five were still listed in critical condition. >>> for the 44th year in a row, people came out to oakland to honor the lives lost in jonestown including the 303 children who died. every year since then, people have come to the cemetery to pray where 406 unclaimed bodies of people who died in the massacre were laid to rest. and after all these years, there is still lessons to be learned from what happened nearly half a century ago. >> people need to recognize this can happen again. so it is something that will never go away, lessons are to be learned. >> there were two film crews at the vigil today working on

organizers say there are still lessons to be learned because of what happened in jonestown. stain on america's heart. people still cannot understand why he did it . why it happened why the people couldn't escape. why is congressman leo ryan dead? mateo county congressman leo ryan and three journalists were shot and killed when jones followers opened fire on them. at an airstrip in guyana. congresswoman jackie speier, who was an aide to ryan was shot five times and left for dead. the u. s. attorney general names as special counsel to investigate former president donald trump classified documents in the january 6th riot in washington. have that story coming up. we are finally adopting right, it's your adoption day south based celebrating adoption day, a dozen families happy to finalize an emotional process. (vo) it's a fact! two out of three americans who qualify for medicare do not receive all the benefits they deserve. you could be missing out! now anthem blue cross introduces a free medicare plan checkup to make sure you receive all the benefits you qualify for in 2023. cal

i don't wanna let you go before asking you about the jonestown massacre in which you know you were there for that. what do you want people to know about this summer date. well it's a day that is always very difficult for me. um and it's also very, um hopeful for me, because i did survive being shot five times and i went on to, um commit to serving and. uh the public's interest for 40 years, so i'm very grateful to those who have allowed me to serve in in congress and in the legislature. i know that because i survived. i had an obligation to do something that was meaningful and i hope that i've been able to do that. um, i think what it should a lesson for all of us is that the cult of personality is very damaging and destructive and can be very violent. cult of personality around jim jones took thousands of people, uh to his congregation, and 1000 of them were murdered by him and in jonestown and then took the life of the late congressman leo ryan and the number of, um media person maladies as well. so we, um we have to be vigilant and be able to see fraudsters where they are and call the

literary hall of fame for such best-selling books as go down together the last gunfight, the road to jonestown and waco. today he will tell us about his new book war on the war, the texas rangers and americanization. the disposal officer received a bronze star for his service in the iraq war. he and his family live in buffalo new york and he is the author of the books the long walk and all the way until we kill and die. at the end of the 27th in mythology he wrote the journalism and essays in esquire, wired, vice, "new york times," "washington post," the atlantic and other publications. he will talkmo to us about his most recent book stampede, gold fever, disaster and the klondike. richard began his career in journalism as a longtime staff writer he's written for "vanity fair," new york and many other publications and his work has won the new england award, the national journalism write a word and sigma delta chi. best-selling author of oregon trailt life passage. he's traveled from annecy to be with us today to talk about his book life on the mississippi the best american adventure. though i

kristen: today marks 44 years since the jonestown mass murder suicide led by jim jones. jones established a permanent facility for his people's temple in san francisco possible edition in 1971. he relocated his followers to an agricultural commune in guyana. november 18, 19 78, jones and his followers ingested poison punch. today, people gathered at the mass grade -- grave trim number the victims. a total of 909 people died. one third of them children. larry: strong wind forecast throughout tonight across the north bay. although red flag fire danger is not posted, calfire crews were busy with a fire in sonoma county. just a reminder that the season is not really over. cornell barnard has the story. >> calfire crews dowsing hotspots on this wildfire near foothill ranch road in sonoma county. fire fighters say it is november, but the brush is dry. >> just a reminder. even though we have had recent moisture and cooler temperatures , fires can happen year-round. this is one example of that. >> the cause of the fire is under investigation. wind was starting to pick up in cali

who is the person who tried to find common ground and it was at that dinner, that restaurant in jonestown that michelle and i convinced him to do it but it was an easy sell because i think can have a feel for brian franklin and he was the founder, two things about him that made him good for this. first of all he was the only middle-class and as you said most of them were land owning aristocracy like jefferson, madison or the merchant aristocracies like adams and john hancock families, whatever. we did not really have a middle-class nor in england where it was there a middle-class and then franklin's greatest invention is inventing the concept of the middle class. shopkeeper and being the backbone of american values. >> this whole idea of middle america came out of that. tocqueville et al. that. >> first of all democracy in america is the most quoted and at least read ever. only about seven of us have read it and maybe esther prescott rented at newman but i do think that tocqueville gets something wrong that franklin gets right which is tocqueville said there was a disconnect in the tensio

the literary hall of fame for such books as go down together come the last gunfight, the road to jonestown and waco waco. today he'll tell us about his new book "war on the border" the texas rangers in the american invasion. brian castner is a disposal officer received a bronze star for his service in iraq were. he and his family lived in buffalo new york and he's the author t of the books "the long walk" and all the way to the killing. dock and the redhead. his generals have appeared in "the new a york times" or "washington post" or granite and other publications and he'll talk about his most recent book stampede, gold fever and disaster in the klondike. rinker buck began his career in journalism as a long-time staff writer for the harper turned. he's worked for new york life vac and many other publications. the eugene s. -- and the society of journalists award. buck is the best-selling author of "the oregon trail" and he'll talk about his book life on the mississippi in african-american adventure. although he regrets to inform you he did not survive this's errand traveling down the missi

of fame with such best-selling books as go down together, the last gunfight, manson: the road to jonestown and waco. today he tells us about his war on the border, the texas rangers and an american invasion. brian casper is received a bronze star for his service in the iraqi warthhe and his family lived in new york , he is the author of books the long walk in all the ways you kill and die and the 2017 anthology of the road ahead. his journalism essays have appeared in esquire, wired, vice, new york times, washington post, atlantic and other publications. he'll talk to us about his illustrious book stampede, gold fever and the klondike. richard rook began his career at the brookshire and was a longtime staffer or the harvard current. he's written for vanity fair, new york and many other publications. >> .. although, i regret to inform you did not survive this fool's errand of a safari traveling down the mississippi river, at least that's what everyone said as we went down the river. my technique in the last couple books, ecologically but the oregon trail i'm going to tell you about a team o

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