FROM THE ARCHIVE: Jackie Speier talks about surviving Jonestown massacre in 1978

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
  • 43 years ago this week, Rep. Jackie Speier survived being shot five times as part of the Jonestown massacre in the country of Guyana. Watch her full interview from 1978. abc7ne.ws/2YVlI0I
    #jackiespeier #jonestown #jimjones

Комментарии • 81

  • @darcygraham2430
    @darcygraham2430 Год назад +34

    Intelligent, articulate woman and stateswoman, can't believe, that she, an eyewitness was never called to testify. So glad her life was spared.

  • @Jezbel1466
    @Jezbel1466 2 года назад +34

    Thank you for sharing. It was interesting what she had to say about Tim Carter. Now, every documentary out there Tim Carter is in it, talking negatively about Jim Jones when he was one of Jonestown elites.

    • @David_R922
      @David_R922 2 года назад +15

      I really believed that Tim Carter was a sincere guy and was just a victim under Jim Jones control. It looks like he was a Jones loyalist.

  • @barefooboy17
    @barefooboy17 2 года назад +40

    Jackie is a hero

    • @NewsHistorian
      @NewsHistorian 2 года назад +4

      Despite her indignant stance here what did she do except join in with the Democratic Party that in a large part enabled Jim Jones.

    • @patrickmccarron5059
      @patrickmccarron5059 Год назад

      More like a zero. Another flavor aid drinker. Jim Jones and San Francisco Loony Left made the modern day Democratic Party what it is today. A party of suicide kool aid drinkers that will take our whole country down with them.

    • @shadymercury
      @shadymercury Год назад

      @@NewsHistorian she was THERE, you moron. She, along w/ the late congressman Leo Ryan WENT to Jonestown to see what was going on, & try to help ppl who wanted to leave to get out. she survived something that most of us can only imagine.

    • @paulvoorhies8821
      @paulvoorhies8821 Год назад

      AND, she has SUCH great hair!!

    • @paulvoorhies8821
      @paulvoorhies8821 Год назад

      @@NewsHistorian Come on. She was one of the few who tried to stop it. I don’t think that’s a very fair assessment. I didn’t see a Republican congressman and his investigating down there. Please don’t make the Massacre a partisan issue.

  • @that21yearoldweedsmokingfa85
    @that21yearoldweedsmokingfa85 2 года назад +39

    I ain't gon lie. She's beautiful even by today's standards
    RIP to the 909 tho

  • @Suri-o7w
    @Suri-o7w Год назад +11

    Congresswoman Jackie Spears is just one drop dead gorgeous bombshell of a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN she is so beautiful her beauty literally knocks me off my two feet one beautiful soul indeed WOW she should have been a supermodel😲😍🤩😘

  • @donnabrown4349
    @donnabrown4349 Год назад +8

    Jackie,Thank you for all you have done and still do.

    • @Coco-xw3wp
      @Coco-xw3wp 11 месяцев назад

      Larry Layton didn't kill leo ryan! Larry shot on the airplane and I'm not sure if he killed that mother on the airplane or not. Larry was the fall guy and there was NEVER a attempt to find those 3 gunman who did the killings on the airstrip. Not only that Dwyer was on the airstrip during the killings then somehow made it back to Jonestown safely and we all know he was a double agent working for the Good old C👁‍🗨A! Leo Ryan was Lured to Jonestown to be murdered. Sad world we live in when people try to do the right thing loose their lives while the demons continue to do the devils work on human beings....

  • @LayDeeTee1
    @LayDeeTee1 Год назад +10

    Help me understand…I fail to see how the US Government is at fault for this. Exactly what was the US Government/State Department supposed to do about US Citizens choosing a religion & church to join?…& choosing to move to another country?
    >>My heart goes out to all the family members that lost loved ones in Jonestown & to the few survivors who managed to escape. 😢😔🙏

    • @starblossom1370
      @starblossom1370 10 месяцев назад

      It wasn't nothing they could do.. if the government gets involved with religious groups it becomes a slippery slope.. Now I don't agree with all government issues and institutions but I disagree with them getting the brunt of disapproval for things beyond their control.

    • @TrackTruth
      @TrackTruth 9 месяцев назад +4

      This was a CIA/MKULTRA operation. The medical lab on the facility was air conditioned, and fully stocked with enough pharmaceutical drugs, to medicate the city of Georgetown Guyana for one year. The whole this program was funded by the CIA and all of its financiers. The people there did not commit suicide, but the majority fled into the jungle areas surrounding Jonestown are where gunned down by Guyanese troops among other military forces involved in the killings. The whole program was classified and still is today totally covered up.

    • @williamthomas1
      @williamthomas1 9 месяцев назад

      The department's core activities and purpose include: Protecting and assisting US citizens living or traveling abroad.

    • @starblossom1370
      @starblossom1370 9 месяцев назад +2

      @williamthomas1
      Yes, but when people willingly depart, it's tricky. Add in religion, that's more difficulties. We can't count on the government to protect us from our own stubbornness. And remember, the USA 🇺🇸 doesn't negotiate with terrorists, or meddle in religion, or most of our free will. And if the government would've stepped in, Jones would've bailed out . And the massacre would've still happened. They can't stop people from being in an organization. Based on the recordings I heard from PT, I wouldn't have followed that man out of the country. I understand that not all discern or dissect leaders. This is a cautionary ⚠️ tale to listen for keywords or 🚩before trusting one's life in another's hands.

    • @starblossom1370
      @starblossom1370 9 месяцев назад

      @TrackTruth
      How was the CIA to predict that Jones would become a preacher? And that people were to follow him? And if they had pharmaceuticals then why ambush them? What was the purpose for the CIA?

  • @nickypoundtown9568
    @nickypoundtown9568 2 года назад +30

    She's gorgeous

    • @alfx5432
      @alfx5432 2 года назад +4

      Just going to say the same thing

    • @trapmafia4716
      @trapmafia4716 2 года назад

      Absolutely stunning, why are American women from the US so beautiful?

    • @showmustgoon5311
      @showmustgoon5311 2 года назад +1

      It’s the Armenian in her 😆

    • @trapmafia4716
      @trapmafia4716 2 года назад +1

      @@showmustgoon5311 Oh really, didn't know that

    • @BAYAREA-kd1ig
      @BAYAREA-kd1ig 2 месяца назад

      She really is

  • @irony1881
    @irony1881 Год назад +4

    I hear her loud and clear. My life plans were destroyed by a cult and nothing was ever done to help me

  • @carolturner3840
    @carolturner3840 4 месяца назад +2

    I am glad that she made it out.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @SAM-Asura
    @SAM-Asura Год назад +3

    Her eyes when the interviewer brings up 'the day'! 😢

  • @ADAMSIXTIES
    @ADAMSIXTIES 8 месяцев назад +2

    Mark Lane should have been prosecuted as a Jones accomplice. President Carter said he didn't interfere with Jonestown due to it being a "church", even though Jones promoted atheist Communism. The interviewer asked "will we ever get to the bottom of exactly what happened?" The answer is yes, the whole Jonestown massacre has been thoroughly documented and we know pretty much everything behind it. By the way this was circa Nov. 1979, not 1978, as the interviewer asked how Jackiie is one year later. Jackie said she didn't know there was any threat, but then why did she write a will before going there? There were plenty of warnings about what was happening there, including Debbie Layton's extensive testimony. By the way Jackie went on to serve in Congress taking Ryan's seat and just recently retired.

  • @phillipflemingfleming8790
    @phillipflemingfleming8790 День назад

    I Strongly Admire Her.

  • @ninaxwings
    @ninaxwings Год назад +1

    Jackie you are my effortlessly beautiful warrior congress queen. Please reconsider retirement we need you more than ever ❤

  • @pamstubbs4699
    @pamstubbs4699 Год назад +2

    I was thinking of you ma'm when this horrible tragedy was recognized the other day ..

  • @TrackTruth
    @TrackTruth 9 месяцев назад +3

    Mark Lane was involved in Army Intelligence after WW2 and remained friendly to all intelligence apparatus. Richard Dwyer (DCM) Cia chief of Jonestown operation was there and along with Mark Lane disappeared before the killing took place. The entire staff of the Medical Dispensary were also evac'd out before the killing began.
    This was a CIA/MKULTRA operation. The medical lab on the facility was air conditioned, and fully stocked with enough pharmaceutical drugs, to medicate the nearby city of Georgetown Guyana for one year. The whole this program was funded by the CIA and all of its financiers. The people there did not commit suicide, but the majority fled into the jungle areas surrounding Jonestown and then they where gunned down by Guyanese troops among other military forces involved in the killings. The whole program was classified and still is today totally covered up.

  • @paulvoorhies8821
    @paulvoorhies8821 Год назад +1

    Anybody know when this was recorded? I’m guessing Spring 1979?

    • @mikeward1872
      @mikeward1872 11 месяцев назад +1

      Appears about right

  • @ktime2037
    @ktime2037 Год назад +4

    "A lot politics involved."

  • @hudsonclarkk
    @hudsonclarkk Месяц назад

    the 50 cent of congress fr.

  • @trapmafia4716
    @trapmafia4716 2 года назад +3

    Classic Beautiful American woman. Full broad faces, strong jawed, with large, kind eyes American (and South African) women that are of Dutch descent are some of the most beautiful in the world. Full broad faces and wide jawed, with large eyes

    • @GOOCHIElicker
      @GOOCHIElicker Год назад

      Yes strong mouth and jaw got them DSLs

    • @prv7966
      @prv7966 Год назад +4

      you do realize she is jewish and armenian?

  • @DeplorableLeft
    @DeplorableLeft 2 года назад +5

    Bye 👋 Felicia

    • @pacotoyful
      @pacotoyful 2 года назад +24

      Do you even know the subject? Geez this happened to real people! Have some humanity!

    • @witchingbrew3
      @witchingbrew3 2 года назад +25

      This lady survived a mass murder/suicide and all you can say is Bye Felicia??

    • @grace-mz9fp
      @grace-mz9fp 2 года назад +13

      Your actually expecting an intelligent response from a Trumper.....

    • @scp3.854
      @scp3.854 2 года назад +15

      Bye karen

    • @corrynthiaiam9205
      @corrynthiaiam9205 2 года назад +4

      @@pacotoyful Do it really surprise you how vile "they" are? "They" don't even recognize the similarities between those 2 demagogues(Jim Jones & their "Dear Leader").