Regent Ryan is Killed

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Summary

Smithsonian 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.

Subject

  • Ryan, Leo J
  • Board of Regents
  • Board of Regents
  • United States Congress

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Torch, 12/1978, p. 1

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

November 18, 1978

Topic

Deaths

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