{"id":18184,"date":"2013-04-15T01:56:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T01:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=18181"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:56:53","slug":"resources_gov","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=18184","title":{"rendered":"Government Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cInformation Meeting on the Cult Phenomenon in the U.S.\u201d Transcript of Proceedings, U.S. Senate, February 5, 1979, 96th Congress, 1st Session.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy: Report of a Staff Investigative Group to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives<\/i>, House Document No. 96-223, May 15, 1979, 96th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/07-13-housereport.pdf\">PDF of Text of Report<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13663\">Table of contents<\/a> \u2013 with classified sections highlighted<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13674\">Analysis and recommendations<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/House-report-death-list.pdf\">House report list of people who died in Jonestown<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The complete 782-page report, including hundreds of pages of photocopied news articles, is <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/RyanAssassinationHouseRpt1979-1.pdf\">here<\/a>. It is also available through <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240708225058\/https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=mdp.39015036047713;view=1up;seq=6\">The University of Michigan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240709030102\/https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=pur1.32754077268963;view=1up;seq=5\">Purdue University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>The Death of Representative Leo J. Ryan, People\u2019s Temple, and Jonestown: Understanding a Tragedy<\/i>. Hearing by Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, May 15, 1979, 96th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/07-13-househearing79.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13673\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Review of the Implementation of Recommendations Relating to the Death of Representative Leo J. Ryan<\/i>. Hearings by House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Operations hearings, February 20 and March 4, 1980, 96th Congress, 2nd Session. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980.<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/07-13-hearings80.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13658\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Placement of Foster Care Children With Members of the Peoples Temple<\/i>, General Accounting Office Preliminary Report, May 31, 1979<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/109518\">GAO Portal<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GAO-Report-May-1979.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=78525\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Guyana Tragedy Points to a Need for Better Care and Protection of Guardianship Children<\/i>, General Accounting Office Report, December 30<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/HRD-81-7\">GAO Portal<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GAO-Report-December-1980.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=78531\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>The Performance of the Department of State and the American Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana in the People\u2019s Temple Case\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13664\"> The Crimmins Report<\/a>)<\/i>, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., May, 1979. Obtained from California Historical Society, MS 3802, Moore Family Papers.<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/07-14-crimmins.pdf\">PDF <\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13659\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cInvestigative Report on Peoples Temple.\u201d Department of Social Services, State of California, Sacramento, Calif., November, 1979.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cReport of Investigation of Peoples Temple.\u201d Office of the Attorney General, State of California, Sacramento, Calif., April, 1980.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cCult Awareness Week,\u201d House Joint Resolution 390, 100th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C., 1988.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":18183,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18184","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=18184"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134302,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18184\/revisions\/134302"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}