{"id":35346,"date":"2013-06-15T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T16:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=35346"},"modified":"2023-11-22T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T23:29:15","slug":"portkaituma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=35346","title":{"rendered":"Who was killed at the Port Kaituma airstrip on November 18? Who was wounded? Who were identified as the assailants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five people died in the Port Kaituma airstrip shootings. They were: Congressman Leo Ryan; photographer Greg Robinson of <em>The San Francisco Examiner<\/em>; cameraman Bob Brown and reporter Don Harris from NBC; and Temple defector Patricia Parks.<\/p>\n<p>The most seriously wounded were Ryan\u2019s Legislative Counsel Jackie Speier, Temple defectors Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby; Anthony Katsaris of the Concerned Relatives; and NBC soundman Steve Sung.<\/p>\n<p>Those who sustained less serious wounds included Tim Reiterman of <em>The San Francisco Examiner;<\/em>\u00a0Ron Javers of <em>The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>; Beverly Oliver of Concerned Relatives; and Richard Dwyer, the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>While identification of the Temple assailants on the runway may never be known for certain, the names that the FBI listed in its indictment were: Wesley Karl Breidenbach; Ronnie Dennis; Stanley Gieg; Eddie James Hallmon; Ronald De Val James; Earnest Jones; Robert Kice, Thomas Kice; Anthony Simon; Ron Talley; Albert Touchette; and Joseph Wilson. All of these men \u2013 as well as Donald Sly, who attacked Congressman Ryan with a knife earlier that day in Jonestown and who was also listed as a defendant in the FBI\u2019s investigation \u2013 died in Jonestown.<\/p>\n<p>Only one assailant \u2013 Larry Layton, who posed as a defector and accompanied the Ryan party to the airstrip, boarded an aircraft with a loaded pistol, and shot and wounded Gosney and Bagby before being subdued \u2013 survived. Although he was acquitted of attempted murder in a Guyanese court, he was later convicted in U.S. federal court on conspiracy charges stemming from the shootings and served 18 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-second excerpt from the NBC tape of the shooting appears <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13941\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people died in the Port Kaituma airstrip shootings. They were: Congressman Leo Ryan; photographer Greg Robinson of The San Francisco Examiner; cameraman Bob Brown and reporter Don Harris from NBC; and Temple defector Patricia Parks. The most seriously wounded were Ryan\u2019s Legislative Counsel Jackie Speier, Temple defectors Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby; Anthony Katsaris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":35361,"menu_order":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35346","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35346","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=35346"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125254,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35346\/revisions\/125254"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}