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(81,265 posts)Democrat from Northern CA. She was the late Congressman Leo Ryan's assistant, and accompanied him to Guyana when he was investigating Jim Jones and the so-called "People's Temple" scam. Things went WAY wrong that day. Gunfire erupted as Leo Ryan and his delegation were trying to take off from the little local airport. Ryan was shot and killed. Jackie Speier was shot and wounded. I think she had to have her hand almost completely reconstructed. She had the damnedest-looking cast on that arm for the longest time. I remember working with Bob Flick, an NBC producer not too long after that. He and his sound man, Steve Sung, were also shot and wounded. Their cameraman, Bob Brown, was shot and killed, as was their reporter, Don Harris. San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson and defecting Temple member Patricia Parks were also killed.
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