{"id":85264,"date":"2018-12-11T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85264"},"modified":"2022-06-29T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:43:04","slug":"serial-378","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85264","title":{"rendered":"Serial 378"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[<b>Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95858\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85264\">Serial 378<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>0 251947Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8205<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3935<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES, GY (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: PREVIOUSLY REPORTED DEATHS OF PEOLE\u2019S [PEOPLE\u2019S] TEMPLE MEMBERS: BEFORE CODEL RYAN\u2019S VISIT<\/p>\n<p>1) In order to avoid any confusion, we are summarizing below some information about six PT members whose deaths have been reported to the Embassy in the past. These people were all deceased before the shooting at Port Kaituma and the mass murders\/suicides at Jonestown:<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, Vivian Ida<br \/>\nDPOB 1 January 1909, Texas<br \/>\nDPOD 9 September 1978, Jonestown<br \/>\n Cause of death cardiac arrest;<\/p>\n<p>Butler, Chlotile<br \/>\nDPOB 10 March 1900, Georgia<br \/>\nDPOD 10 Juen [June] 1978, Jonestown<br \/>\nCause of death cerebral stroke;<\/p>\n<p>Griffith, Emmett<br \/>\nDPOB  unknown (not to be confused with his son, Emmett Griffith, Jr.,  bearer of passport F021542)<br \/>\nDPOD  5 November 1977, Jonestown<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 03935 252044Z<\/p>\n<p> Cause of death cardiac arrest<\/p>\n<p>Layton, Lisa<br \/>\nDPOB 14 July 1915, Germany<br \/>\nDPOB 30 October 1978, Jonestown<br \/>\nCause of death cardiac arrest \u2013 this death was subject of Georgetown 3876;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, Lela<br \/>\nDPOB 17 July 1897, Canada<br \/>\nDPOD  30 March 1978, Jonestown<br \/>\nCause of death cardiac arrest;<\/p>\n<p>Norris, Plickards<br \/>\nDPOB  31 October 1905, Louisiana<br \/>\nDPOD 6 October 1978, Jonestown<br \/>\nCause of death cardiac arrest<\/p>\n<p>2) All of the above were reportedly buried in a small cemetery at Jonestown.<\/p>\n<p>Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 378 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.] 0 251947Z NOV 78 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8205 UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3935 E.O. 11652: N\/A TAGS: CDES, GY (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE) SUBJECT: PREVIOUSLY REPORTED DEATHS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":85120,"menu_order":66,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85264","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85264","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=85264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115855,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85264\/revisions\/115855"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}