{"id":83703,"date":"2018-10-30T14:17:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=83703"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:05:34","slug":"articles-by-pat-lynch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=83703","title":{"rendered":"Articles by Pat Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Patricia Lynch<\/strong>\u00a0was a producer for NBC who always believed she was pushed aside in deference to Don Harris to accompany Leo Ryan on his trip to Guyana. She also insisted there were hours of tape which the network released in the trip\u2019s aftermath. She <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240710002913\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/18\/business\/media\/patricia-lynch-dead.html\">died<\/a> on February 18, 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30845\">The Death of a Story, the Death of a Cult: Pat Lynch and the Jonestown Tragedy<\/a> (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33141\">Story of Media Involvement in Jonestown Seeks Publication<\/a>\u00a0(2007)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31938\">Documenting a Network\u2019s Role in the Jonestown Tragedy<\/a> (2006)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Lynch\u00a0was a producer for NBC who always believed she was pushed aside in deference to Don Harris to accompany Leo Ryan on his trip to Guyana. She also insisted there were hours of tape which the network released in the trip\u2019s aftermath. She died on February 18, 2021. The Death of a Story, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":16576,"menu_order":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83703","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83703"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134606,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83703\/revisions\/134606"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}