FF-12-A-51
Affidavit
Port Kaituma
North West District
Republic of Guyana
South America
We, John Jones, Stephan Jones, Charles Touchette, and Thomas Kice, being duly sworn, declare:
That on or about eleven thirty p.m., Monday, September 5, 1977 we were in the room of James W. Jones at Peoples Temple Agricultural project, talking with said James Jones. We were discussing the project. James Jones was standing by a dressing table, with his back facing an open window. At that time, about 11:30 PM, we all heard a kind of swishing or whizzing sound, and a bullet pierced the wall facing James Jones, missing his head by inches. We all got down on the floor immediately, and in the confusion, someone turned out the light. We crawled out the door, and down the hallway leading from James Jones’ cabin.
The swishing or whizzing sound most definitely traveled in a direction from somewhere outside, through the open window, to the wall.
Dated September 13, 1977
/s/ John Jones
/s/ Stephan G. Jones
/s/ Thomas Kice
/s/ Charles Touchette