Deep inside me, I still have the demons of shame and guilt.". Tom Layton, Larry's older brother, reported to his father that Larry had complained repeatedly of what a awful father the scientist had been. Somehow, through the encroaching darkness of my final thoughts, I saw my 87-year-old Grandma Emma. Meanwhile, ex-devotees of the Peoples Temple began sharing stories about Jones darker side. [3], Lawton was offered a three-year sentence in exchange for disclosing his accomplices but did not take the deal. Later on, I decided I had to show them. [39] Other issues he is concerned with include prison conditions as well as post-release debt loads and their influence on unemployed ex-convicts. I noticed an elderly woman stuffing pieces of bacon into her pockets; the ample spread was just another showpiece. The temple sent Layton to school for training as an X-ray technician. There is abundant evidence that Mr. Jones used such tactics to divide families and break up marriages. Whatever impelled me to send in the card changed the course of my life. Of the more than 900 members of Joness congregation who had moved there, nearly a third were children. The bodies of Jones and 912 cult followers lay sprawled under the tropical trees of the commune, victims of an incredible murder-suicide rite. In 1968, Carolyn Layton became the first member of the family to be enticed by Mr. Jones's diatribes against the rich, the Vietnam War, social injustice and racism. After spending 18 years in Guyana jails and U.S. federal prisons, Larry Layton, the only man convicted on criminal charges arising from the events of November 18, 1978, was released in April 2002. "I was ready to be overwhelmed by emotion," she says, "but when we got into the area, it just wasn't there. Later that night, Jones had another suicide exercise. They visited her brother in Ukiah, listened to Mr. Jones's teachingswhich in many ways paralleled those of the Quakers and before long even Mr. Blakey's mother had flown from England to join the People's Temple for a short while. In fact, I would have been on that truck, with a rifle. The first trial ended in a hung jury. [7] He became known as one of America's biggest jewel thieves and made the FBI's most wanted list in 1996. But listening to one after the other after the other say the same choreographed thing made me uneasy. An eyewitness who escaped described how people who did not cooperate were injected with poison where they sat, or were held down and injected with poison.. He had engineered complete authoritycollecting members Social Security and disability checks, and determining when and how his disciples could communicate with their families. 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Although some of Joness most zealous followers may have consumed the poison voluntarily, the vast majority were murdered outright and against their will. Not long after she left, her parents were rounded up with other Jews and placed on a train to a death camp. Ryan invited members of the press and a few of the Concerned Relatives to join him. By that time, darker elements had seeped into Jones sermons. After Jones moved to Jonestown, and with Layton still in California, Layton's sister, a power in the hierarchy of the temple, defected and began to tell of atrocities at the jungle agricultural project. Earlier, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello asked Judge Peckham to sentence the 40-year-old defendant to life in prison, serving a minimum of 20 years before being considered for parole. After that trip, I remember telling myself that never again would I witness such violence at such close range. Behind the wheel of an airplane, I waited for the shooting to stop and said my Act of Contrition, praying for forgiveness and waiting for the lights to go out. ", Crimes for which children went to the well included "stealing food from the kitchen, expressing homesickness, failing a socialism exam, or even natural childish rebelliousness.". As I was transferred onto a gurney, I was conscious enough to look up and see a big, gleaming white plane with The United States of America written on the side. bout wiki. [13], In May 1994, three males robbed a jewelry store in Daytona Beach, Florida, netting $500,000 (nearly $950,000 in 2022)[14] worth of gold and diamonds. His family, too, had had great wealth. Larry Layton, a former member of the People's Temple cult, was sentenced today to life in prison for aiding and abetting in the murder of Representative Leo J. Ryan at a jungle airstrip in Guyana in November 1978. Layton, Deborah 1953- PERSONAL: Born in 1953, in Tooele, UT; daughter of Laurence Laird and Lisa Layton; married; children: Lauren. Join me, he assured his followers, and youll get health care, education and a family that would never mistreat you. He treasured it. [26] Lawton does not hold a degree in child psychology or criminology. Should they have any doubt of his intentions, they could look to the vibrant community of believers who echoed his sentiments and treated his words as gospel. His suggestion that I would learn far more from first-hand experience was in step with the way he approached politics. None of the Temple members showed any interest in receiving correspondence from home. Dr. Layton had learned of his wife's religious background after they were married, but the couple had agreed not to tell anyone, especially their children. [15][18] Local police believed there was a connection between this robbery and a robbery that took place in May 1994 in Daytona Beach, and contacted the FBI. Then-State Assemblyman Leo J. Ryan behind the bars in a Folsom prison cell in Feb. 1970, where he spent a week living as an inmate to learn needs for reform. [7] In grades one through six, Lawton served as an altar boy at St. Francis de Chantal in The Bronx,[8] where he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest. It was a message that appealed to the dispossessed, which is why it made sense for the Peoples Temple to relocate to San Francisco around 1972. Layton was brought to trial in Guyana on charges of attempted murder and was acquitted. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Initially she was allowed to recuperate in a cabin of her own, but later she was moved into a crowded dormitorystyle cabin with other elderly women. I spoke with a woman named Edith Parks, the matriarch of three generations of Temple members who wanted out. It was to be the secret of her life. '', ''In a sense,'' he said, ''it would be easy to transfer the responsibility of Jones and put it on Larry Layton.'' Much later, Layton writes, she would find them "on the bookshelf in Father's house with the many other prescription drugs taken from Temple members.". It looked staged. In the summer of 1977, after an expose of Peoples Temple in New West magazine, Jones and his followers fled to Guyana. A former high school teacher, he was swept into politics by the idealism of the Kennedy era and elected mayor of South San Francisco before running for state Assembly. -- the signal that meant an attack was imminent, an excuse for conducting a suicide drill. His first encounter with organized crime was through his father, a metal worker who delivered bribes to the New York mafia. Layton joined the temple in the summer of 1968 at Redwood Valley, Calif., near the town of Ukiah, after his wife, Carolyn, became interested in the social philosophy of Jones, preaching from his wooded compound. Lawton gained notoriety for committing a string of jewelry store robberies along the Atlantic Seaboard prior to his arrest in 1996. [26] He was incarcerated in many prisons during his sentence, which included Jesup in Georgia, Riker's Island in New York, Edgefield in South Carolina, and Yazoo City in Mississippi. Over the next decade, Jones moved his congregation and changed its name several times before settling on Peoples Temple around 1964. . Rep. Ryan and I arranged to meet her. Layton and her mother arrived in Jonestown in December 1977. Mr. Layton cried as his attorney described conditions at Jonestown and said that many prosecution witnesses must feel guilty for leaving loved ones behind to die. "They would be taken to the Jonestown well in the dark of night, hung upside down by a rope around their ankles, and dunked into the water again and again while someone hidden inside the well grabbed at them to scare them. Years later, after Lisa Layton Joined the People's Temple, she would tell other members of the cult that her husband had been antiSemitic and was ashamed of her being a Jew. [10] Afterwards, another jewelry store in Lower Bucks County became suspicious of a person they believed was casing the place for a future robbery. The morning after our arrival, Congressman Ryan, Jim Schollaert and I attended a closed-door briefing by Ambassador John Burke and his staff at the U.S. Embassy. He is also charged with conspiring to harm Richard Dwyer, a United States diplomat who was wounded in the ambush. Jones greeted us at the compound. She got on the plane, leaving her mother behind. [1][2], In 2007, he started the Reality Check Program to help educate at-risk youths on the consequences of breaking the law. Twelve hours had passed as I lay, teetering on deaths precipice when a light turned on inside me: The simple fact that I knew I was dying was proof that I was, indeed, still alive. Id come to Guyana as a congressional aide on a fact-finding mission. [10] In 2012, Lawton self-published Gangster Redemption, an autobiography co-written with Peter Golenbock. The shootings took place on one of the airplanes which were to take the party of Congressman Leo Ryan to Georgetown after his visit to Jonestown. As a temple member, Mrs. Layton separated from her husband and was said to have contributed $250,000 in family assets to the cult. We saw an impressive community with dozens of pathways, cabins, a medical center, a little school, and a large pavilion where the members congregated regularly. The article dissected Joness rise, revealing his practices of manipulation, public humiliation and fake faith healings, called out the Temples corrupt financial structure, and included ex-members testimonies of sexual assault and brutal beatings by Jones or at his command. Larrys parole came two years earlier than his previously-scheduled release date of April 2004. We accompanied Assemblyman Ryan to shopping centers and campaign events to pass out pamphlets and speak with voters. Mrs. Layton divorced her husband in 1975 and their home on the Berkeley hilltop was sold. (It was the 60s.) But Lisa escaped from Hamburg, and in 1938, stunned by the antiSemitism she had seen, she arrived in New York with a determination never to reveal to anyone that she was Jewish. While the tathiiy was unique in its deep involvment with Mr. Jones, the story of the Laytons tells a great deal about why and how hundreds of other families became tangled in his persuasive web of religion mixed with social activism. In 2009 the Rockledge Florida police used the DVDs as part of a community policing project with the money to buy the DVDs procured through asset forfeiture. Subsequently, she arranged to leave the settlement on an errand for Mr. Jones and left Guyana on May 13. . Oh my God: Its true. Larry, after graduating from Berkeley High School, enrolled at the University of California at Davis and soon was living with Carolyn Moore, a student whose father was a Protestant minister in Davis. He said that some of the recipients could be innocent. But it was the testimony of Vern Gosney, one of Larrys shooting victims at the Port Kaituma airstrip, who traveled from Hawaii for the sole purpose of attending the hearing and who delivered the most impassioned plea for Larrys release, that apparently made the difference. Politically, there was nothing to gainand everything to loseby taking on Jones, and there was no telling what hed do if confronted and challenged. This time, it was not a drill. They were married in 1966 and a year later Larry, who as a Quaker had obtained a draft deferment as a consciencious objector, moved with his new wife to Ukiah in northern California to serve in lieu of military duty as a medical technician at the Mendocino State Hospital. Five bullets hit me from point-blank range, piercing my right arm, leg, and back. ''Why not pin this on Larry Layton, then close the book and not look at the hard questions of why Leo Ryan and all those Americans died?'' Jones became enamoured with Carolyn Layton and told Larry he wanted her for his own. [8][9] The 367-page book covers his early life, his string of crimes, and his post-release career. UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back, write a letter to President Jimmy Carter extolling Joness work, California's road to recovery runs through D.C. Republicans, Why New Jerseys ventilator guidelines may favor younger, whiter patients, Rhode Island ends specific restrictions on New Yorkers by making them national. The other, Carolyn, became one of Mr. Jones's mistresses and also his principal fnancial adviser; it is not known whether she is alive. Then, as a group of men dug the truck out of the mud, we heard a loud commotion from the pavilion. Biography Mini Bio (1) Larry Layton is known for Viva (2007) and Escape to Grizzly Mountain (2000). All I could think was I am not going to make Grandma live through my funeral. As one of his top aides, I accompanied the delegation, venturing out on the ice floes where the clubbing took place. In a book written by his brother, Thomas, after Ryan's death, Larry is quoted as saying he believed in the goals of the community, even though life was not always Utopian. Youll see what a wonderful place it is. He took us on a tour highlighting the most favorable aspects of the commune. Hurrying out of bed, Layton would race toward Jones "in my mud-caked boots, past the tin-roofed cabins, past the wooden outdoor showers where we're allowed our two-minute wash at the end of our 11-hour days in the field." In a brief and halting speech to the court today, Mr. Layton expressed his regrets to the families of Mr. Ryan and the others who were killed. The approach continued even after hed moved from Sacramento to Washington, D.C. ref: Sparkle Lee Larry Layton 40-36 Tony Lundy 40-36 Lindsey Page 40-35 2020-01-10: Alicia Napoleon Espinosa: L-UD. It was impossible to cope with the pain. Mrs. Layton moved out of their home on Labor Day 1979. Sam was certain Jones had something to do with his sons death. The next year, his church relocated to Redwood Valley, a small community in northern California. Ever on the alert for malcontents, Jones would order recalcitrant Temple members -- those who questioned his authority -- into "The Box," a stifling underground cubicle the size of a coffin. From her childhood, friends said, Mrs. Layton had carried a deep fear of cancer. His mother and father were cousins who had lived on adjoining estates, and in earlier generations the family's land, worked by slaves, had been prosperous. Twenty years ago this month, Jones and 912 of his followers committed mass suicide at the jungle compound. Port Royal Speedway hosts a weekly schedule of local Sprint Car, Late Model, and Pro-Stock dirt track racing, and is nicknamed "The Speed Palace".Several national touring series organizations visit the track during the racing season, including the World of Outlaws . ''Look at the poor diet, the loss of weight, the physical exhaustion, the desperation, the lingering illness and death of his mother and the fear of punishment and humiliation,'' he said. He spoke often of apocalypseJones chose Redwood Valley because he believed it was one of a few places in the country that could survive a nuclear holocaustyet insisted the Peoples Temple would exist as a sort of heaven on Earth, with himself in the role of God. ", Looking back on it 20 years later, she says, "I put everything in denial and locked it down. Larry Layton: Survivor of the Peoples Temple Larry Layton, Quaker and pacifist, entered the Peoples Temple in 1968 to join the march to social justice as charted by the temple's mesmerizing. But at the time, none of that occurred to me; I was thrilled to be working for a candidate I believed inone who always treated me with respect. The hospital was not far from the People's Temple community Mr. Jones had established in Redwood Valley. I grew up with the Bible and the Puritan work ethic, he recalled in an interview. The news at the time and the history lessons to follow usually fail to mention that a number of Peoples Temple members were shot, several of whom were in the field between the pavilion and the jungle, clearly trying to escape the massacre. He was born June 30, 1940 in Long Branch NJ to William and Edna (Keller) Layton. Friends of Larry Layton recall that Mr. Jones took both Carolyn and Karen from him after having the women watch him force Larry to submit to a homosexual act. Their courtship began in the spring of 1941, and theywere married in October. Under the Federal parole system, a person sentenced to life in prison is not normally considered for parole until 10 years have been served. [28] Often he appears discussing crimes in the media as an expert on robberies. Peoples Temple follower Larry Layton, center, stands with police following his arrest in the shooting of two people, including California Congressman Leo Ryan, on a remote Guyana airstrip, Nov. 18, 1978. She looks away for a moment, then brightens and starts to talk about a visit she made to Jonestown only a few months ago, accompanied by a crew from the Arts & Entertainment network, which is making a documentary on Peoples Temple. Her childhood playmates included cousins and friends from some of the bestknown families of Germany's Jewish aristocracy, such as the Berensons and Rothschilds. It was the final stop for a group that for nearly 10 years had fascinated and, in the end, horrified the Bay Area. '', He said that Mr. Layton ''did not kill anybody'' at the airstrip, nor did he ''aid and abet or conspire to kill Leo Ryan.'' As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Infants cannot commit suicide. Until she was 20 years old, when she was denied admission to a university in Hamburg, Lisa Philips didn't know what it meant to be Jewish in Germany in 1935. Ryan did not look or behave like your typical politician. I wanted to be part of something that was doing things for other people, and besides, Peoples Temple offered a community of friends. 2023 Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple, Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple is a, The Campaign to Release Larry Layton from Federal Prison, to petition then-President Clinton to commute Larrys sentence. Family Tragedy: Hitler's Germany to Jones's Cult, https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/04/archives/family-tragedy-hitlers-germany-to-joness-cult-the-layton-familys.html. Five bullets had ripped through me, devastating the right side of my body. The Laytons were a family that seemed to have everything: intelligence, plenty of money, education, a proud family tradition of Quaker nonviolence. The robbers drew what police at the time believed were firearms, and restrained the store owner. By Robert Lindsey Special to The New York Times. [19][20] One bullet narrowly missed Lawton, but struck his brother. Nearly 300 children were administered the poison, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. They called it Jonestown. Layton was accused of conspiracy to murder in the November,1978, violence that triggered the mass deaths -- the airstrip attack on Rep. Leo Ryan and his party in which the congressman and four others were killed. In Jonestown Only one man, Temple member Larry Layton, was tried in the United States for his involvement in the November 18 events. They had passed. After spending 18 years in Guyana jails and U.S. federal prisons, Larry Layton, the only man convicted on criminal charges arising from the events of November 18, 1978, was released in April 2002. The 35-year-old defendant is charged with conspiring to murder Representative Leo J. Ryan, the California Democrat who died Nov. 18, 1978, with three journalists and a temple defector in an ambush at an airstrip near Jonestown. [31] The DVDs contained condensed versions of Lawton's program and were 67 minutes long. Although he had no formal training as a minister and no affiliation with any organized religion, his high-octane enthusiasm and open-armed policy attracted a diverse range of followers. Philip Wogaman, President and Mrs. Clintons pastor in Washington, D.C. made additional pleas for commutation of Larrys sentence. Mini Biography. I did not recover my old self; bullets render that impossible. 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