{"id":130606,"date":"2025-06-06T15:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=130606"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:36:02","slug":"holmes-letter-to-amb-burke-on-olivers-october","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=130606","title":{"rendered":"Holmes Letter to Amb. Burke on Olivers, October 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BB-10-f<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Letterhead of Homes and Warden, Attorneys at law, San Francisco]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">October 20, 1977<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guyana Embassy<br \/>\nAmbassador E. Ann [Laurence Mann]<br \/>\n2490 Tracy Pl. N.W.<br \/>\nWashington, D.C. 20008<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Re: Howard F. Oliver and Beverly Oliver v. Peoples Temple<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Mr. Ambassador:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By way of introduction, I spoke to you a month ago concerning the children of Howard Oliver and Beverly Oliver in Guyana with the Peoples Temple. Also, my law partner, Donald Warden, discussed this matter with you in Washington a few weeks ago. The Olivers gave the Peoples Temple a power of attorney over their son, William Sheldon Oliver. They have now formally revoked this power of attorney and are demanding the return of both of their children (William Sheldon Oliver and Bruce Howard Oliver).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have enclosed a copy of the revocation made to the Peoples Temple in San Francisco and their attorney Charles Garry. I will keep the Embassy informed as to the status of this matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sincerely,<br \/>\n\/s\/ Roger C. Holmes<br \/>\nRoger C. Holmes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BB-10-f [Letterhead of Homes and Warden, Attorneys at law, San Francisco] October 20, 1977 Guyana Embassy Ambassador E. Ann [Laurence Mann] 2490 Tracy Pl. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008 Re: Howard F. Oliver and Beverly Oliver v. Peoples Temple Dear Mr. Ambassador: By way of introduction, I spoke to you a month ago concerning the children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":88366,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130606","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130606","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130607,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130606\/revisions\/130607"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}