{"id":109651,"date":"2021-04-12T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=109651"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:34:28","slug":"statement-of-deborah-layton-blakey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=109651","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Deborah Layton Blakey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Georgetown, Guyana<\/p>\n<p>I, Deborah Layton Blakey swear that the following statement is true and correct to the best of my ability:<\/p>\n<p>I have decided to leave the People&#8217;s Temple Organization because I am afraid that Jim Jones will carry out his threat to force all members of the Organization in Guyana to commit suicide if a decision is made in Guyana by the Court here to have John Stoen returned to his mother. I know that plans have been made to carry out this mass suicide by poison that is presently at Jonestown. I also know that plans are made to kill those members who are unwilling to voluntarily commit suicide. I believe that this plan will be carried out. I also believe that the Organization will physically try to prevent any attempt to remove John Stoen from the custody of the Organization. In part for the above I have decided to leave the Peoples Temple.<\/p>\n<p>\/s\/<br \/>\nDEBORAH LAYTON BLAKEY<br \/>\nSworn to this 12th day of May 1978<\/p>\n<p>\/s\/<br \/>\nDANIEL P. WEBER<br \/>\nAMERICAN VICE CONSUL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgetown, Guyana I, Deborah Layton Blakey swear that the following statement is true and correct to the best of my ability: I have decided to leave the People&#8217;s Temple Organization because I am afraid that Jim Jones will carry out his threat to force all members of the Organization in Guyana to commit suicide if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":13072,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-109651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109652,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109651\/revisions\/109652"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}