JONESTOWN MASSACRE FBI FILES

385 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and archived on CD-ROM covering the Jonestown Massacre. On November 18, 1978, Congressman Leo J. Ryan was shot and killed in Guyana, along with four other individuals. Congressman Ryan was visiting Jonestown, Guyana, for the purpose of conducting a Congressional inquiry into the activities of the People's Temple and Reverend Jim Jones. At the time of the shooting, Jim Jones set in motion the mass suicide/murder of 914 followers at Jonestown. The FBI investigated the murder of Congressman Leo J. Ryan under the code name "RYMUR" and in 1986, Lawrence John Layton was found guilty in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, of several federal violations, including Conspiracy to Murder a Congressman.