{"id":13927,"date":"2013-02-17T21:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=13927"},"modified":"2013-10-22T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:37:45","slug":"troppletteronlanesplash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13927","title":{"rendered":"Tropp Letter to San Francisco Chronicle on Counter Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Counter Offensive campaign spearheaded by Mark Lane hadn\u2019t accomplished much in the short period of time before the attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13920\">learned<\/a> of Rep. Leo Ryan\u2019s plans to visit Guyana in mid-November 1978. Certainly none of the evidence of the conspiracy that he and members of the Temple expected to reveal had yet come to light. Even the basics of the media campaign were just getting underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0On November 1 \u2013 about two months after Mark Lane\u2019s first contact with Jonestown, and slightly more than a month after announcement of the Counter Offensive \u2013 Richard Tropp wrote to the <i>San Francisco Chronicle<\/i> to complain about the lack of coverage of Mark Lane\u2019s efforts to uncover the conspiracy, and charged that the newspaper\u2019s silence was part of the problem that the Temple had in getting a fair hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0Within two weeks, the <i>Chronicle<\/i> would have one of its reporters accompanying Leo Ryan to Jonestown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<b>Richard Tropp Letter to San Francisco Chronicle<\/b>, RYMUR 89-4286-NN-6-P<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TroppLetterOnLane.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13926\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":13905,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13927","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46470,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13927\/revisions\/46470"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}