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Port Kaituma airstrip shootings (November 18, 1978) | Footage by NBC

Shooting - 3:00 Footage of the Port Kaituma airstrip shootings that left 5 dead, including U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, and 11 others injured, on November 18, 1978. The shooters were members of the Red Brigade of the Peoples Temple cult. This event would immediately precede the Jonestown mass suicide that led to the deaths of over 900 people. ____________________________________ B A C K G R O U N D The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement established by the Peoples Temple, an apostolic socialist cult under the leadership of Jim Jones, in northwestern Guyana. In 1978 reports of widespread abuse and human rights violations in Jonestown at the Peoples Temple, led by cult leader Jim Jones, began to filter out of its Guyana enclaves. In November 1978, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan announced that he would visit Jonestown. He did so as part of a government investigation, with governmental permission and funding. The investigation group was initially to consist only of press and a few members of Ryan's staff, but once the media learned of the trip the entourage ballooned to include, among others, concerned relatives of Temple members. Things initially seemed to go well. At the same time, several people passed notes to the Ryan delegation, saying they wished to leave Jonestown, and the congressman promised he’d see anyone wanting to return home could go. The congressman was one of the last to leave Jonestown, staying behind to talk with anyone who wanted to make a statement or who needed his help. By the late afternoon, however, the situation, along with Jones’ stability, had deteriorated. Convinced Ryan, who was now leaving for the airstrip, was at the vanguard of a government conspiracy to violently shut down his jungle experiment, Jones ordered the "Red Brigade" to kill the congressman and all those attempting to leave. Ryan was shot and killed at the airstrip with four others in the delegation. Hearing this news, Jones commanded his followers to drink cyanide-laced Flavor Aid.