Regent Ryan is Killed
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PrintSmithsonian Regent Leo J. Ryan (D-Ca.), a member of the Board since August 1978, is killed in an ambush during a fact-finding mission to Port Kaituma, Guyana, to investigate the People's Church, run by Jim Jones.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Torch, 12/1978, p. 1
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
November 18, 1978
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