{"id":13942,"date":"2013-02-17T21:50:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=13942"},"modified":"2024-04-24T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:43:04","slug":"lastwords_tishleroy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13942","title":{"rendered":"Last Words – Tish Leroy"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Nota del editor<\/b>: una traducci\u00f3n al espa\u00f1ol de esta carta se encuentra aqui<\/a>.<\/span>)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of the very few items found on Jim Jones\u2019 body following the deaths in Jonestown was a single sheet of paper on which was written a note of farewell to the Temple leader. Described by the FBI as \u201ca piece of lined notebook paper approximately 6 inches by eight inches,\u201d the note was \u201csaturated with body fluids.\u201d It was dried enough so that it could be handled, but the note itself is stained, and the writing has not reproduced very well.<\/p>\n

The note is signed with a single name \u2013 \u201cTish\u201d \u2013 and is believed to have been written by Tish Leroy, also known as Laetitia Marie Eichler. A 48-year-old white woman with a background in accounting and office administration, Tish Leroy was on the Temple\u2019s Planning Commission and in Jonestown\u2019s Agricultural Office. She also represented Jonestown in a number of meetings with Guyanese government officials. Descriptions of her loyalty to Jones and the Temple he led are echoed in the words of this note.<\/p>\n

The Tish Leroy note<\/a> reads:<\/p>\n

Dad
\nI see no way
\nout \u2013 I agree
\nwith your decision \u2013
\nI fear only that
\nwithout you the
\nworld may not make it
\nto communism \u2013 Tish
\nFor my part \u2013 I
\nam more than
\ntired of this wretched, merciless
\nplanet & the hell
\nit holds for so
\nmany masses of
\nbeautiful people \u2013
\nThank you for the only life Ive known<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note from Tish Leroy<\/a><\/strong>, RYMUR 89-4286-484 p. 8, RYMUR 89-4286-998 p. 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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