Oversight: Jonestown

By CQ Roll Call

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What's Oversight: Jonestown about?

U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan was killed in the line of duty during a fact-finding trip to Guyana when he tried to rescue residents of Jonestown who wanted to break free. Ryan was one of the few government officials at the time to try and stop what would become the tragedy known as Jonestown. Over 40 years later, CQ Roll Call's new podcast Oversight delves into questions about the inquiries, or lack thereof, that occurred during and post-Jonestown in what was the largest mass killing of Americans before September 11th.

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Epilogue: Shattered Lives

12.23.2019

Betrayal — it's the tie that binds everyone who was touched by Jim Jones' evil ways. In this final episode of Oversight: Jonestown, we take you into the lives of survivors and victims' families who were shunned, humiliated and then ...

Oversight: Jonestown episodes:

12.23.2019 Epilogue: Shattered Lives Betrayal — it's the tie that binds everyone who was touched by Jim Jones' evil ways. In this final episode of Oversight: Jonestown, we take you into the lives of survivors and victims' families who were shunned, humiliated and then ...
12.16.2019 Who's to Blame? Listen as we detail how nearly every government agency that came into contact with Jim Jones dodged responsibility for the tragedy. We bring you the facts of how investigation and oversight at all levels failed the American public and the ...
12.09.2019 Final Warnings In the waning months of Jonestown, the only primary American officials in touch with the Rev. Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple were U.S. diplomats at the tiny embassy in Georgetown, Guyana. We tell you about a 6-year-old boy who ...
12.02.2019 The Cover Up In this episode, we reveal how the FBI refused to investigate Jim Jones, how the San Francisco district attorney was involved with the Peoples Temple and how a mole was working for both Jones and the DA.
11.25.2019 Descent Into Madness Oversight: Jonestown takes a step back to the mid-1970s, a time of tumult, to explain how the Rev. Jim Jones went from Midwest preacher to messiah to maniac. It's the story of how he became a master of exploitation. He ...
11.18.2019 24 Hours In this first episode of Oversight: Jonestown, we take you deep into the Guyanese jungle, behind the harrowing scenes of the last 24 hours of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Collective. We have new information and a new understanding of how ...
10.24.2019 Introducing Oversight: Jonestown More than 900 Americans died in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978. Some committed suicide. More were murdered. In Oversight, CQ Roll Call’s new podcast, we ask new questions about Jonestown, shining a new light on the corruption, international intrigue, ...