we left jonestown with not only the media but also. jones had them rehearsing and if you go to my website you can listen to some of the audio. they had reporters answers to questions. fricks' able towards the end of jonestown all the residents ate with this kind of gravy with vegetables but not enough protein. the people who survived lost 30, 40 pounds. it was crazy how much weight. so, and weak and he had been rehearsing in jonestown. that's not good enough. what do we eat here? we have pork, chicken, steak, he really wanted that jonestown was a great utopia to continue and so left with leal rye and he knew they were going to come back and talk to the media but that feature is now of redo we knew everyone and still. he knew the gig was up and what precipitated that? he was able to say after his security guard shot upon ryan some are now implicated in this crime we always said it is one for all all for one and not the guy and the army is going to close in and torture us and so it would be better to take on the potion and for the custod

he would hold these meetings in the central beloved jonestown that-pavilion of jonestown and say we want to live. you have to read the book, but eventually he was able to break them down by depriving them of food, of sleep, by telling them they were surrounded by mercenaries in the jungle who were about to come in and attack and he had his conspirators, his son's go into the jungle and shoot back at the camp to make it seem there really were people in the jungle about to attack them. so the amount of planning and orchestration that went into that final night are astounding to me. the methodical nature of his breaking down there will power, their fight, their psychological resistance to him. so i am going to read to you really briefly about the first time he brings up the idea of a revolutionary suicide. by the way i should say q. we newton, co-founder of the black panthers, wrote an autobiography called revolutionary suicide. what he meant by the term was the oppressed people should not be passive if they are attacked by the police or the oppressive. they should go down fighting instead

. -- in jonestown. they were in the leadership. so for her and her husband, this was kind of a personal effort, and they kept filing lawsuit after lawsuit against the fbi to get these files released. and then, you know, the fbi finally did release the files without an index. so it's, like, a meter that would start on -- a letter that would start on, say -- they released them on three cds, so a letter that started on cd one, page 238 would end on cd three, page 13. so they put all of this information together. and they and myself, we are the only people that have read through these documents in their entirety, and a lot of them are just, you know, very tedious documentation like, you know, purchase orders and, you know, really dry stuff. but then every once in a while you come into something like, you know, this document which is the camp doctor who was in charge of trying to figure out how to kill everyone, right? so on wednesdays the camp doctor stopped delivering babies and suturing wounds and went in

as he was leaving, a group of people from jonestown decided to join him. they wanted out, and so jim jones knew the gig was up once those people left and came back to the states, they were going to tell people about the conditions in jonestown, so what he did is stuck his security guards on the departing party as they waited at the jungle airstrip, and they killed congressman ryan and members of the people that were leaving, so the fbi then goes in, it's a federal investigation, and congressman neil ryan is the first congressman killed in the line of duty of u.s. history. fbi goes into jonestown after clearing the body, and they collect documents as evidence trying to figure out what happened? was there a con conspiracy to kill the congressman? they picked through letters never sent home, diaries, crop reports, meeting notes, collect 50 # ,000 pieces -- 50,000 pieces of paper, and that would be like -- i don't know -- 1503 -- 150 300-page novels. when i started working, it looked like this, heavily redacted, couldn't read anything, and then after i was abo

frls >>> when the plane first banked over jonestown, its looked like a quilt. and we didn't know what we were seeing until someone in the cockpit said, those are bodies. >> die with a degree of dignity, lay down your life with dignity. don't lay down with fears and agony. >> you could actually smell the death in the airplane. the side vent window was open. we could actually smell it. >> don't lay down with tears an agony. it's nothing to death, just stepping over into another plane. >> like strange fallen fruit rotting in the tropical sun, more than 900 americans, men, women, and children in a group called people's temple lay dead in a city they built deep in the jungle of guyana. they had come to create a utopian community called jonestown until they drank the proverbial kool-aid. >> we didn't commit suicide. committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the inhumane conditions of the world. >> they took cyanide-laced fruit punch from their spiritual father, reverend jim jones, and then lay down to die. or so it seemed. >> i don't think it was revolutio

the accident closed traffic for two hours. >>> the 33rd annual jonestown memorial service is underway right now in the east bay to honor the victims and remind the public about all the people killed in that mass suicide in jonestown, guana on november 18th, 1978, christien kafton joins us now. >> reporter: good morning, or good afternoon rather, that service started 20 minutes ago, let's take you inside right now so you can see. as you said family members or some of them are gathering here to remember that tragic day in 1978. the service is underway to remember all people who died there that day. some families had opposed the memorial here because it includes the name of people's temple and jonestown's leader jim jones. despite that it was completed this year, 4 slabs of granite with 1918 names etched into them here. this is where 412 of the unclaimed victims were buried, organizers of the service say today is a day to think about the victims who died, including more than 300 children. >> they never had the opportunity to live their fum god-given destiny because of jim jones, the lune

. >>> 33 years after the jonestown suicide pact, the victims are remembered in the bay area. it's a bit different. coming up. >>> and what b.a.r.t. customers will be seeing on their way work. look now. but you-know-who just showed up with nachos. (taco #2) what? oh. they look so delicious together. what does she have that i don't have? nothing really. just some cilantro. a bigger plate. ohhh looks like some fresh guacamole. i can do guacamole. but you didn't. [crying] shhh. your salsa is running. ancr: tacos love tillamook. voted the world's best medium cheddar cheese. >>> about an hour ago, family and friends gathered in oakland to hold a memorial service for people killed in the jonestown mass suicide 33 years ago at evergreen cemetery, a new memorial dedicated in may to the more than 900 people killed. more than half the victims are buried at that cemetery. on november 18th, 1978, members of the san francisco's people's temple committed suicide in jonestown, gahana, led by jim jones. >>> b.a.r.t. will be getting new odor-resistant seat covers forty new trains, ordering new

he wanted that fantasy, that jonestown was this great utopia to continue. when those defectors left with leo ryan he knew they would come back and talk to the media and talk about how horrible conditions were and they are rehearsing them in suicide droves and he is planning to kill everyone and won't let anybody leave. he knew the gig was up and what precipitated that? he was able to say after his security guards shot the departing party, some people are implicated in this crime and we always said one for all and all for one and the guy in the army is going to close in and torture us. and so it would be better to take this potion and flipped across to the other side. he believed in reincarnation. >> one more question. >> did you speak to the department of justice or other investigators? >> i spoke with an fbi agent who was on the scene downtown after the massacre. he was the lead photographer down there. as far as the department of justice, most of their documentation including internal investigation was released in these files and that is what i worked off

tragedy. 900 people took their lives in jonestown in november, 1978. many were from right here in the bay area. now this will be the first jonestown service since a new memorial was unvailed earlier this year. and it includes the name of the reverend jim jones the founder of the children's temple. many are outraged that the memorial honors the man responsible for the tragedy. >>> six australia shepard mix puppies are recovering after being abandoned at a recycling facility. they found the puppies on wednesday. they were hungry, dehydrated, and infested with flees. they are now offering a $5,000 reward in the case. the agency suspects someone tossed them over the fence. >>> a nicer story. a holiday tradition is coming back to the macy's store for the 25th year san francisco fspa will showcase them. dogs and little cats the stores window. every single one of them including that one can be adopted. last year about 300 dogs and cats featured in the holiday windows found a new home. i will speak softer i'm sorry. $70,000 in donations were raised. >>> embarc

tragedy. 900 people took their over lives in jonestown november 1978. many were from here in the bay area. this will be the first jonestown service since a new memorial was unveiled at evergreen cemetery early this year. this one includes the name of the reverend jim jones. the founder of the people's temple. many family members are angry that this memorial honors the man responsible for the tragedy. >>> sentencing is set for today for a self-help author convicted in the 2009 arizona sweat lodge deaths. prosecutors say james arthur ray should get the maximum sentence, nine years in prison. he led a so-called purification ceremony at a sedona retreat in october 2009, that led to three people's deaths. yesterday ray agreed to pay $57,000 restitution to the families of the victims. the defense lawyers say ray should get probation. >>> san mateo county gang task force is in the mid of a four- day sweep. members are telling us they're trying to track down gang members before they commit more crimes. they're using traffic stops, like this one, in redwood city

this will be the first jonestown service since a new memorial was unvailed at evergreen cemetery earlier this year. it includes the name of the reverend jim jones. the founder of the temple. many family members are outraged that it honors the man responsible for the tragedy. >>> a self-help author that was convicted in the sweat lodge death. prosecutors say james arthur ray should receive the maximum nine years in prison. he lead a so-called purification ceremony in october of 2009 that resulted in three people's death. yesterday ray agreed to pay $57,000 in restitution to the families of his victims. defense attorney says ray should get probation. >>> our time now 5:14. washington, d.c. the congressional super committee that has until next week to reach a deficit cutting deal could be on the brink of collapse. alison burns has the latest. >> reporter: dave, the supercommittee only has until monday night to reach a deal so it can be put in legislative language and congressional budget office can find out how much it's going to cost. the 12-member bipartisan committee is planning on worki

. >>> a memorial for those who died in jonestown in 1978. more than 900 people died in a mass suicide there. they were following the orders of their leader at the time, jim jones of the people's temple. a woman who lost more than two dozen relatives will preside over today's event. it happens at the evergreen cemetery in oakland this morning at 10:00. >>> a new child molestation case at an eastern college this time syracuse university in upstate new york. syracuse police are investigating allegations against this man, bernie fine, who has been an assistant basketball coach at the university for 35 years. two former ball boys who are now adults have told espn that fine who lessed them for years -- molested them for years starting in the late 1970s. this follows the child sexual abuse scandal that broke two weeks ago at penn state and if it's true, it is so sad and so incredible that two penn states known for football and syracuse known for football too but basketball, they have won a couple of national titles with jim boeheim and if this is t

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. >>> family and friends will gather to hold a memorial service for the people killed in the jonestown mass suicide. they will be at evergreen cemetery where a memorial to more than t 900 people killed was dedicated in may. more than half of the victims are buried at that cemetery. on november 18th, 1978 members of the fran's people's temple committed suicide led by reverend jim jones. today's memorial is at 10:00. >>> it is 5:03. p peninsula tem who dead nated a pair of pipe bombs on high school campus aimed at killing his former teachers must now pay. he's ordered to pay the district more than $120,000 in damages and last wages. this august of 2009 the 19-year-old went in with a chain saw, 10-inch samurai sword and ten homemade pipe bomb ls. this is part of a plan to kill his former teachers and as many students as he possiblily could. during his trial he was doiged with schizophrenia. he's currently at napa state hospital. >>> suspected serial killer suspected back in a courtroom this morning. a judge will hear motions filed by the prosecution. in this case he is representing himsel

family and friends will gather this oakland to hold a memorial service for the people killed in the jonestown mass suicide. they will gather at the cemetery at a new memorial dedicated in may to the more than 900 people killed. more than half the victims are buried at the cemetery. member of the people's temple committed suicide. they were led by reverend jim jones. today's memorial is at 10:00. >>> the future of california's school system seems uncertain at this point, especially with budget cuts expected to come in february. but for now it will be business as usual in classrooms. the state is telling school districts to budget as if there will be no cuts. marla tellez is joining us live from san jose toics plain all. good morning, marla. >> jon, good morning. we know balancing our own budget can be tough. imagine if you're a school district facing more state education cuts, you're forced to get creative. take for instance this one here. this is franklin mckinley school district in san jose. it's taking out short-term loans to make it through the school year. this is according to san jose me

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. >> it is a celebration of george and harvey, a way to remember the victims of jones--jonestown. we hope that it will be a celebratory time. >>henry: thank you, mike. the play is called double play. it is a fascinating read. we will take a break and be right back. thought >>ysabel: and officer: was slashed by a female a razor blade, another officer hid in the face during occupy san francisco protests. both officers were treated and released. >>ysabel: about 200 t remain at the encampment at occupy oakland even after two days of receiving eviction notices. craig skalar is live on the scene. >>craig: police came by to deliver notices. it is a notice to evacuate this part, frank ogawa plaza, but also to leave all parks whether it is over at lake barrett or jefferson square or here at fret about plaza. as far as the police are concerned they want this situation and did all over the city. i was talking to a police officer who said the concern is, when they leave here, they could go to other parks and do the same thing. no matter where they may want to go, there is nowhere to go. we ar

the jonestown defense. remember? the leader, the religious leader and all of his followers committed suicide. he has admitted that he may in fact be a pedophile. did you hear how long the delay was before he answered the question? you just got a thumping in your stomach as you were listening to it. he admitted that he showered with these little boys. he's admitted things that prosecutor might have trouble proving and he's already put that up on the board. the prosecutor is 60% of the way to proving this case already just on his statement alone. >> so what does the fact that he chose to do this interview with the press on television, with his lawyer sitting there, does that change anyway what will be admissible, what isn't going to be admissible? >> it changes something in a major way and i haven't seen this happen in a high-profile criminal case ever. i think the attorney now could be called as a witness against him because he has waived the attorney/client privilege. when you allow your attorney to go on television

it's the jonestown defense. remember the leader, the religious leader and all his followers committed suicide. he's admitted that he may, in fact, be a pedophile. did you hear how long the delay was before he answered the question? you just got something in your stomach as you were listening to it. he also, of course, admitted that he showered with these little boys. he's admitted things that the prosecutor might have trouble proving and he's already put that on the board. the prosecutor is 60% of the way to proving this case already just on his statement alone. >> so what does the fact his lawyer sitting there, does that change anyway what will be admissible, what isn't going to be admissible? >> it changes something in a major way and i haven't seen this happen in a high-profile criminal case ever. i think the attorney now could be called as a witness against him because he has waived the attorney/client privilege. when you allow your attorney to go on television and reveal conversations that he has had with y

the jonestown defense. remember? the leader, the religious leader and all of his followers committed suicide. he has admitted that he may in fact be a pedophile. did you hear how long the delay was before he answered the question? you just got a thumping in your stomach as you were listening to it. he admitted that he showered with these little boys. he's admitted things that prosecutor might have trouble proving and he's already put that up on the board. the prosecutor is 60% of the way to proving this case already just on his statement alone. >> so what does the fact that he chose to do this interview with the press on television, with his lawyer sitting there. does that change anyway what will be admissible, what isn't going to be admissible? >> it changes something in a major way and i haven't seen this happen in a high profile criminal case ever. i think the attorney now could be called as a witness against him. because he has waived the attorney-client privilege. when you allow your attorney to go on television