Mr. Jones repeatedly sent word to her that he could cure her from Guyana, and she waited for his efforts to work. Mrs. Layton's daughter, Deborah, joined the cult five years ago. But listening to one after the other after the other say the same choreographed thing made me uneasy. [28], After release he went to Palm Bay, Florida and started LL Research and Consulting and met a business partner. With its bell-ringing calls for social justice -- this was in the fractious 1960s and early '70s -- the little-known church near Ukiah catered to the closet revolutionary in Deborah Layton. Lawrence Robert Lawton (born October 3, 1961) is an American ex-convict, author, paralegal, motivational speaker, and YouTuber. He was born in the mountains of West Virginia, between White Sulphur Springs and Charleston, to a. I couldnt immediately identify the deafening sound that filled the air. Months previously, her husband had begun noticing that money and family possessions were dis appearing from the household. Not a single person we spoke to expressed a desire to leave, not even those whose family members had flown all the way to Guyana. [18], Lawton is believed to have hit around 20 to 25 jewelry stores,[11] stealing a self-estimated total of around $1518 million worth of high-value items, including watches, diamonds, and other gems. I grew up with the Bible and the Puritan work ethic, he recalled in an interview. As I was lying seven miles away waiting for medical help, Sam Houstons granddaughters, Patricia and Judy, 14 and 15, were murdered, along with their mother, dozens of other would-be defectors and the rest of the Peoples Temple. Once, Debbie continued, Jones woke up the camp in the early hours of the morning. March 5, 1999. Jones himself sat onstage in a throne beneath a sign that read: Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The members sang and danced and, by every appearance, were happy. Join me, he assured his followers, and youll get health care, education and a family that would never mistreat you. Nearly 300 children were administered the poison with no comprehension of what it meant, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. And it wasn't an isolated incident. I was feet away from Jones, close enough to hear him trying to convince people to change their minds. Sure enough, I could tell he had. I couldnt bear the vision of her sitting in front of my casket. Life in Jonestown became a drab and exhausting routine of dawn-to-dusk labor in the fields, replete with swarms of voracious mosquitoes that even went after the toughened soles of people's feet. Indescribable pain consumed me, leaving room only for a fleeting thought that I should pretend to be dead. A short time later, Larry married his second wife, Karen,whom Dr. Layton would come to know as a loving, sweet person.. After a year or so Dr. Layton and his wife heard from Carolyn's father that the couple had been divorced. I had read the articles and listened to hours of testimony. 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.". 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. Although his mother was of German-Jewish descent, his family practiced the Quaker faith, and Larry was the family's firmest believer, according to his brother. But ladies and gentlemen, it is notLarry Layton. According to trial testimony, as the attack began, Layton pulled a gun inside the plane and wounded two temple defectors. There was no movement, but I thought the others might also be playing dead. Larry Layton was convicted in 1986 by a federal jury in San Francisco of conspiring in the 1978 murder of California congressman Leo Ryan and aiding and abetting in the attempted murder of Richard Dwyer, a U.S. diplomat wounded in the attack. 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. Ryan did not look or behave like your typical politician. ''It is not the proper forum for answering questions about Jonestown.'' She is known by many of her relationships - longtime lover of Jim Jones, mother of Jones' child Jim Jon (Kimo) Prokes, sister of Annie Moore, former wife of Larry Layton, former sister-in-law of Debby Layton - as well as the sometimes-mysterious roles she played within the Peoples Temple hierarchy. The child talked her out of it. Jonestown was the agricultural compound Jones' followers carved out of the Guyanese jungle, 150 miles northwest of the nation's capital, Georgetown. 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. | AP. He was born June 30, 1940 in Long Branch NJ to William and Edna (Keller) Layton. By that time, it was obvious that some of his disciples intended to leave. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. His father, an electrical engineer, died when Larry was 8 and the boy had to move in with his grandfather, a stern Methodist preacher. I was one of Larry's lead lawyers in his first U.S. trial in 1981, which resulted in an 11 to 1 vote for acquittal on faulty charges of conspiracy to kill the congressman. Congressman Ryan assured me that there was nothing to worry about. He knew that Jones had considerable political clout, with close ties to Democratic leaders in San Francisco, Sacramento, and even with the State Department. Mrs. Layton was convinced the man had been cured by Mr. Jones, who is known to have faked such cures by presenting chicken and cattle entrails as cancerous tissue he claimed to have removed. Nearly 300 children were administered the poison, including a number of infants in the arms of their parents. As I scanned the hundreds of smiling faces, I never could have fathomed that within 24 hours, virtually every one of them would be dead. Lawton gained notoriety for committing a string of jewelry store robberies along the Atlantic Seaboard prior to his arrest in 1996. 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. [25] He received an additional sentence in 2002 for giving false witness. Members of the press and the Concerned Relatives waited behind on the airstrip until the truck could come back for a second load. Mini Biography. [10] He was sentenced for racketeering and robbery and spent 11 years in prison before being released in 2007. They swallowed poison capsules in a suicide attempt and were removed, unconscious, from the train. It was to be the secret of her life. The land later became the site of a large Union Carbide plant. The U.S. trial was confined to the question of whether he plotted to kill Ryan and U.S. diplomat Richard Dwyer. -- the signal that meant an attack was imminent, an excuse for conducting a suicide drill. In 1969, to get her away from the drugs and other attractions in Berkeley, Dr. Layton and his wife decided to send Deborah to a Quaker school, Ackworth, in the countryside of Yorkshire, England. "[10], Lawton also founded the Reality Check Foundation, which is a 501(C)(3) charity that includes a mentoring program, and an annual golf outing. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978. Her father, a wealthy banker in Hamburg, and her mother would be marched off at gunpoint to a train bound for a concentration camp. The robbers had been there the day before and returned asking about a ring. Larry Layton, a former member of the People's Temple, broke into tears today at his trial on charges of conspiring to commit murder as his attorney told jurors not to make him a scapegoat ''for the horror of Jonestown.''. I was almost one of them. 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. But as Hitler consolidated his power in the 1930's, her parents began to see the Nazi holocaust taking shape and they urged her to go to New York to join relatives there. At both trials here the prosecution presented a confession signed by Mr. Layton in Guyana shortly after the killings, saying that he took ''full responsibility'' for the deaths at the airstrip but also saying, ''I don't know why I did it. Dont know why youre here, but were happy to have you, Jones said. Then, as a group of men dug the truck out of the mud, we heard a loud commotion from the pavilion. In 1996, the family and friends of Larry launched a campaign for a presidential commutation. Jim Jones led 912 followers in a ritual of murders and suicides. Returning to the pavilion area, I sought out other anxious-looking members. I asked to speak to Monica Bagby, one of the names on Dons note. 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. At one point, Congressman Ryan interrupted our tour to make sure that the press and Concerned Relatives had been given the transportation to join us. Anyone can read what you share. ', "O.J. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Christian Broadcasting Network, and Fox News. Later that night, Jones had another suicide exercise. After Larry and Carolyn Layton joined the cult, Larry stopped writing to his parents and would not accept phone calls from them. Increasing numbers of people approached us. Deborah Layton is now 45, lives in an elegant house in Piedmont and takes her 12-year-old daughter to play in soccer games. Layton complied, and Jones took Carolyn as his mistress. It felt like a Mack truck had just sped over me. I was an orphan and my grandfather didn't let me forget it; he wanted me to work hard; he didn't want to ruin me with praise; I was supposed to be humble. It was utter pandemonium. 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. We accompanied Assemblyman Ryan to shopping centers and campaign events to pass out pamphlets and speak with voters. [30] In 2009, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office spent $4500 on 500 DVDs from the Reality Check program. What an evil thing that Jim Jones did. But I was one of very few women who held senior staff positions in Congress at the time, and I was concerned that if I gave in to my reluctance and let a male colleague go in my place, Id be setting back women in politics. Over the next decade, Jones moved his congregation and changed its name several times before settling on Peoples Temple around 1964. Don hung back for a moment before approaching Congressman Ryan and me at the picnic table and surreptitiously passing along the note. ", Looking back on it 20 years later, she says, "I put everything in denial and locked it down. [10] While in prison, Lawton earned a paralegal qualification and became a gang mediator. This was not a mass suicide. In the mid and late 1960's, when Berkeley became the scene of frequently tumultuous antiwar demonstrations and other protests, Larry and Deborah Layton joined many of the demonstrations and began experimenting with drugs. | Amazon. Mr. Jones, Deborah said, callously gave Mrs. Layton that news. When the time of their supposed deaths came and went with everybody still alive, Jones announced it had just been a drill to test their loyalty. [29][13] The program is four hours long. We listened as she offered a detailed and disturbing account of her experience. As I took down their names, I looked over at Don Harris, who was interviewing Jones. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. She mentioned a Bay Area couple, the Stoens, who had defected and were fighting for the return of their young son, John. An uncle, Dr. James Franck, won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1935. [27] Lawton says he regrets his time spent in prison, because he missed out on seeing his children grow up; his grandmother died, and his father became afflicted with Alzheimer's disease while he was inside. I knew him well enough to understand what would happen next. They were issued four T-shirts, four pairs of socks, a toothbrush and toothpaste, four pairs of underwear and a bar of soap. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Getting Started | Contributor Zone Contribute to This Page Edit page Larry Layton Personal Details Contact Info Left-right: Jim Schollaert, Jackie Speier and Congressman Leo Ryan. ( 2007-01-15) [1] Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a 2007 documentary television film on the History Channel about the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. We heard that the church had weapons, and that Jones was paranoid and possibly on drugs. well, it wasn't there. I was one of Larry's lead lawyers in his first U.S. trial in 1981, which resulted in an 11 to 1 vote for acquittal on faulty charges of conspiracy to kill the congressman. Mr. Jones, they said, could cure cancer. "If I hadn't been sent to Georgetown that day (in May)," Deborah Layton says now, "I would have died in Jonestown. [38][5][9] In 2013, the Brevard County Jail re-introduced chain gangs as a pilot project with the goal of deterring crime. Her brother, Larry, later became the only person ever charged in connection with the airstrip massacre and, after two trials, was convicted in 1986 of conspiring to murder Ryan. It made no sense that he would be trying to leave Jonestown. She said that she knew that to do so would endanger her mother and brother because Mr. Jones kept dissident members in line by holding relatives hostage. Layton, Deborah 1953- PERSONAL: Born in 1953, in Tooele, UT; daughter of Laurence Laird and Lisa Layton; married; children: Lauren. January 15, 2007. And he assigned two of his staff members to come along: Jim Schollaert and me. The next year, his church relocated to Redwood Valley, a small community in northern California. Instead he proposed a better use of law enforcement resources would be to "help inmates with drug addiction. He was acquitted after presenting a defense of brainwashing. Ten years later the road came to a dead end in the jungles of Guyana. I heard screams and the rapid pounding of gunfire. Answer (1 of 2): Above: Jonestown Before The Massacre Larry Layton was the only "armed guard" at Jonestown at the time of the massacre to outlive November 18, 1978, when all but a few dozen of the roughly 1,000 residents of Jonestown perished. 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. Breathing heavily, I pulled myself to my feet, stumbled to the planes baggage compartment and took shelter. 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. [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. [6][11] In 2010, Lawton filmed the pilot and sizzle reel for Lawton's Law, a reality show based on his work with at-risk youth. [7] Lawton attended Intermediate IS 192 and Lehman High School, but did not graduate. [11] He then began robbing jewelry stores along the Atlantic Coast,[3] using his contacts within the Gambino crime family to fence the stolen merchandise. I hope tonight is the last one. Dr. Layton was from a world substantially different from the aristocratic one of his bride. Layton's mother, who came from a wealthy family, divorced her husband and donated $300,000 to Jones' cause. But, she said, I had to tell somebody what was happening in Jonestown. A self-anointed minister, as a young man he started proselytizing outside a storefront church in Indianapolis, and by 1955, had formed the Wings of Deliverance church. "When I joined Peoples Temple, I was 17 and it was like joining the Peace Corps," she says. Mr. Tamburello accused prosecutors of going too far in describing the ambush on the Ryan party, which went to Guyana to investigate assertions that some members of the cult were being mistreated and were being held in Guyana against their wills. They recovered and with the help of friends managed to reach Italy, later coming to the United States. [23][24] Lawton later said he was the biggest jewel thief of the 1980s and 90s operating within the United States of America. None of the Temple members showed any interest in receiving correspondence from home. Ryan invited members of the press and a few of the Concerned Relatives to join him. I have no idea how much time passed until I turned my head and opened my eyes. Born in Crete, Indiana, in 1931, Jim Jones grew up an outcast and underdog, and was fixated on being recognized as someone greater. He was then returned to the United States and charged under a Federal statute against assassinating members of Congress and internationally protected people. Onboard, every bump we hit shot an arrow of pain through my body. Religion: "Raised as a Quaker." Hobbies and other interests: Theater, music, painting, gardening. See the article in its original context from. 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. 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. Nearly 30 years later, her mother long dead in a rotting jungle outpost in Guyana, her brother doing life in a federal prison and her father so broken that he weeps at the mention of anything connected with Jones-, town, Deborah Layton has, as she put it the other day, "decided it was time to come out of the cobwebbed attic.". [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. Never one to accept second-hand information, he decided to embark on a fact-findingand potentially life-savingtrip. | AP. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. It was just a matter of time. 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. He was found guilty of conspiracy and aiding and abetting in the murder of Ryan and the attempted murder of U.S. embassy official Richard Dwyer and was sentenced to Read More Repeatedly, the defectors mentioned forced participation in mass-suicide rehearsals known as the White Night trials.. While asserting that Mr. Jones was ''primarily responsible'' for the killings at the airstrip, Federal District Judge Robert F. Peckham said Mr. Layton would be eligible for parole after five years. ''Look at whether their feelings against Jones were spilling over toward Larry Layton. After her operation, Mrs. Layton moved to Guyana. ''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?'' Wed have to make multiple trips in the truck. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. "And I thought, if I get hit by a truck, my epitaph will be, 'Jonestown survivor dies on Bay Bridge.' They were cal culated to make you feel someone has to pay. On the plane to Guyana, Nov. 18, 1978. Politics: Liberal. Larry Layton Net Worth is $14 Million. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Jones responded by telling them that if any actions were taken to remove John, the entire Jonestown population would commit suicide. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. The retrial was delayed for years because of complex appeals over the admissability of certain evidence excluded by Judge Peckham's rulings in the first trial. Ryan was gunned down by a band of temple members intent on stopping the visitors from leaving and reporting the doings of the cult to the outside world. This site houses a variety of PDF documents. Jim Jones had taken my place. His appearance was part of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. All of those children. Extradited to the U.S. after a Guyana jury found him not guilty of murder, Larry was tried twice on four charges related to the shootings, including Conspiracy to Kill a Congressman. It was an implausible ending for the fiery preacher, who had curried favor among the fashionable elite of the Democratic Party. Mrs. Layton divorced her husband in 1975 and their home on the Berkeley hilltop was sold. We split up, as Jones had arranged. ref: Sparkle Lee Larry Layton 40-36 Tony Lundy 40-36 Lindsey Page 40-35 2020-01-10: Alicia Napoleon Espinosa: L-UD. Jim Jones, and 912 of his followers died by poison and gunfire in mass killings and suicides. By that time, darker elements had seeped into Jones sermons. They reported the car's license plate, which linked the car to Lawton. Wiki Bio of Larry Layton net worth is updated in 2023. Her mother, on discovering that her husband was having an affair with Lisa's English governess, gave Lisa a detailed account of it and threatened to commit suicide. I would never have left Jonestown with Congressman Ryan. Five bullets had ripped through me, devastating the right side of my body. They had passed. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Biography submission guide. In the summer of 1978, Lisa Philips Layton died of cancer in Jonestown, Guyana, three months before the Rev. Among them were George Moscone, who the Peoples Temple played a significant role in electing mayor in 1975, and Harvey Milk, the pioneering openly gay city supervisor, who went so far as to write a letter to President Jimmy Carter extolling Joness work and rebutting charges that he was abusive. 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 . [26] Lawton does not hold a degree in child psychology or criminology. Dr. Layton was from a world substantially different from the aristocratic one of his bride. Mr. Jones's cult included, at ohe time or another, six members of the Layton family. Her marriage was ruptured by Mr. Jopes even before it could be consummated. Mr. Blakey survived the killings and suicides at Jonestown; he was on a boat owned by the commune at the time of the deaths. All I could think was I am not going to make Grandma live through my funeral. The Laytons were a family that seemed to have everything: intelligence, plenty of money, education, a proud family tradition of Quaker nonviolence. Mr. Layton, who was arrested at the airstrip, was initially tried in Guyana, a small country on the northern coast of South America, on charges of attempted murder against two cult defectors in the airport ambush. Congressman Ryans body was probably 15 feet away. But, as interviews last week with family members and friends revealed, the Laytons slowly disintegrated under the pressures of family conflict, the disillusionment that gripped much of America during the 1960's, drug use, and the soothing, simplistic appeal of Mr. Jones. Mr. Layton was also convicted of conspiracy in the attempted murder of Richard C. Dwyer, the deputy chief of the United States mission to Guyana, who was among those wounded at the airstrip. ", "I thought, what a waste. In 1965, after riots shook Watts, an African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Ryan briefly took a job there as a substitute teacher while serving in the state Assembly, and used the experience to shape education policy. One of the defectors wed interviewed claimed that Jones dyed them black. One, Karen Layton, died in the carnage at Jonestown. Jones became active in local politics, giving money, running food programs and busing Temple members to attend rallies and get out the vote for his favored candidates. Lisa Layton's youngest son, Larry, is now under arrest in Guyana, accused of murdering Representative Leo J. Ryan and four other persons in the attack that eventually led Mr. Jones to order the mass deaths. 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. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. They joined. History. Reassured that they were on their way, we parked ourselves at a few picnic tables in the far corner of the pavilion area. 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