brian: what happened to larry layton, one of the people's temple members after you were shot? rep.peier: he was placed on the smaller plane. he had a gun on him, started to shoot some of the defectors on the plane, they were injured. his gun was wrestled from his hands and was somehow pushed out of the plane. the plane took off. i'm on this airstrip thinking my parents are never going to know what happened because we were in such a desolate place. what i did not know was within minutes the pilot that was able to take off in that smaller plane was recording on his radio what was going on on the ground. brian: who did this shooting in the first place besides layton when they came off that truck that came to where the landing was? rep. speier: i don't know which members of the people's temple they were, but they did the shooting, they then got back on that tractor-trailer and went back to the people's temple commune where i presume most of them died as well. brian: were they all americans? rep. speier: yes. brian: let me go to this book. we are just one chapter in this book. why did y

and then larry layton, one of the hierarchy in the peoples temple, all of a sudden is saying he is aector, but he had been one of the most public about his support of the peoples temple, and there was no way i wanted him on the same plane. i said to congressman ryan, i do not want him on the same plane. he said put him on the smaller plane. i asked one of the reporters if he would frisk him. because he had this big yellow poncho on. he frisked him. unfortunately, he did not identify that he had a gun. i'm loading passengers onto the larger plane at this point. the first plane has been loaded. unbeknownst to us, a tractor-trailer from people's temple had followed behind us from a distance, had arrived on the airstrip, and as i was trying to coax a small child out of the plane, who had just scampered onto it, the gun shots rang out. i at first did not know what was happening, because my back was to the tractor-trailer. they started jumping off the tractor-trailer and started shooting. people scattered. i started to run. congressman ryan was hit. fell. and then i fled under the plane an