{"id":33135,"date":"2013-07-25T15:53:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=33135"},"modified":"2021-12-18T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T02:08:22","slug":"artharmon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33135","title":{"rendered":"Ryan and Jones under Media Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Ed. note: Diego Harmon, a musician and artist, has composed a fourth piece of music based upon the events in Jonestown on November 18, 1978, and the two agonists from that day, Rev. Jim Jones and Congressman Leo Ryan. Mr. Harmon\u2019s complete collection of compositions appears\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40262\">here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I composed my latest work to try to reflect the Jonestown vibe with the ending note and image of Congressman Ryan as seen in the NBC News video. Did Ryan really have no business going to Jonestown, as Jim Jones stated? Why\u00a0<em>did<\/em>\u00a0Ryan go? Would the killings have happened if Ryan had not gone to Jonestown?<\/p>\n<p>Jones clearly states he told Ryan not to come, and says, as far as he is concerned, he killed the congressman! It&#8217;s an absolute sure thing that Ryan used the power of cameras to try to spook Jones and Jonestown. Congressman Ryan\u2019s wretched meddling is the epitome of what happens in society all the time! The media can have a profound effect upon people and their decisions, generally causing them to react out of fear rather than love!<\/p>\n<p>We see both Ryan and Jones under the media\u2019s influence. Jones made his preemptive move because, as he states, the media was hell-bent on demonizing him and their community. The media\u2019s power \u2013 built upon its evil and lies \u2013 is one it still has today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Ed. note: Diego Harmon, a musician and artist, has composed a fourth piece of music based upon the events in Jonestown on November 18, 1978, and the two agonists from that day, Rev. Jim Jones and Congressman Leo Ryan. Mr. Harmon\u2019s complete collection of compositions appears\u00a0here.) I composed my latest work to try to reflect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":33247,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33135","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=33135"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112723,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33135\/revisions\/112723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}