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    Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. (May 5, 1925 – November 18, 1978) was an American teacher and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S....
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    five others by Temple members at Port Kaituma, including U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, an act that Jones ordered. Four other Temple members committed murder-suicide...
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  • Supreme Court Leo Ryan (1925–1978), California Congressman killed at Jonestown Leo Varadkar (born 1979), Irish politician and Tánaiste Leo of Tripoli (died...
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  • daughter of former U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan Patricia Ryan (author) (born 1954), American writer Patricia Ryan (actress) (1921–1949), active in old-time...
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    people were being held in Jonestown against their will. U.S. Representative Leo Ryan led a delegation to the commune in November of that year to investigate...
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    Eileen Ryan (née Annucci; October 16, 1927 – October 9, 2022) was an American actress. The wife of actor and director Leo Penn, she was the mother of actors...
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  • meeting at the Jonestown pavilion after the murder of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and others in nearby Port Kaituma. Jones proposed "revolutionary suicide"...
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    James Leo Ryan (born November 19, 1932) is an inactive senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit....
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    settlement, named "Jonestown", as well as the murders of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and members of his visiting delegation at the nearby Port Kaituma airstrip...
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  • Leo Richard Ryan (26 August 1913 – 29 December 1972) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL)...
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    Leo J. Ryan Memorial Park is a recreational city park, located in Foster City, California and run by the city government and local citizens. Originally...
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  • James Leo Ryan, also known as Jimmy or Jim, is an American stage, film, and television actor born in 1975 He is one of three children and an alumnus of...
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  • communal settlement of Jonestown in Guyana. On November 18, 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan, who had been visiting the Peoples Temple as part of a government investigation...
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    Ned Beatty (category Leo Ryan)
    portrayed the father of the bride in Prelude to a Kiss (1992), opposite Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin. In 1993, he appeared in the true story based film Rudy...
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  • Temple in Guyana. On November 18, 1978, he and four others (including Leo Ryan) were killed by gunfire by Temple members at a nearby airstrip in Port...
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  • custody battle triggered a chain of events which led to U.S. Representative Leo Ryan's investigation into the Temple's remote settlement of Jonestown in northern...
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  • Jonestown: Paradise Lost (category Leo Ryan)
    When Congressman Leo Ryan insists on visiting, Jones alternates between reluctant acceptance and refusal. Ultimately, Jones allows Ryan, several journalists...
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    The Leo J. Ryan Memorial Federal Building, also known as the Leo J. Ryan Memorial Federal Archives and Records Center, is a United States federal government...
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    were released after serving a total of eight years each. Representative Leo Ryan was collecting signatures on a petition for Hearst's release several weeks...
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    School produced several notable alumni, including Vicente Fox, Congressman Leo Ryan, Governor Patrick Lucey, actors David Doyle, George Wendt, and Kevin McCarthy...
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  • Krause, the young Washington Post journalist who accompanied Congressman Leo Ryan into Jonestown and was injured at the airstrip, reads his foreword. Layton's...
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  • Leo Ryan Pinder (born 13 September 1974) is a Bahamian lawyer, politician, Member of Parliament and Senator. He has served as Attorney-General and Minister...
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  • Germanicus Caesar in the ITV historical drama series, The Caesars, as Leo Ryan in the Doctor Who story "The Wheel in Space" in 1968, as Ivanhoe in a 1970...
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    the TV Commentator Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979) – Congressman Leo Ryan Sahara (1983) – R.J. Gordon War of the Worlds (2005) – Grandfather (final...
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  • Representative Leo Ryan to undertake a fact-finding mission to the Temple's Jonestown settlement in Guyana, which ultimately led to Ryan's murder and the...
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    "I'm Your Puppet". Shorty Rossi, star of the Animal Planet show Pit Boss. Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman who while an Assemblyman had posed as a prisoner to investigate...
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    had relocated from San Francisco to Guyana. California Representative Leo Ryan was in Jonestown to check on the remote community, and he was killed by...
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  • Jones, and the murdered Congressman is "Lee O'Brien" (Barry) rather than Leo Ryan. In 1977, Reverend James Johnson, the fanatical and paranoid leader of...
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    by Temple members at Port Kaituma, including United States Congressman Leo Ryan, an act that Jones ordered. Four other Temple members died by murder-suicide...
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  • for its co-authors, Senator Harold E. Hughes (D–IA) and Representative Leo Ryan (D–CA). The amendment required the President of the United States to report...
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