![]() ![]() ![]() Children and babies had been murdered by their parents. The bodies of more than 900 other people were strewn around a compound of one-story buildings in a jungle clearing, victims and perpetrators of a mass murder-suicide under the instruction of their maniacal leader, Jim Jones. Ryan had indeed been killed, as had three of my colleagues: Greg Robinson, a photographer for The San Francisco Examiner Bob Brown, an NBC cameraman and Don Harris, an NBC correspondent. I was one of the first photographers on the scene. In November 1978, Time magazine sent me to that remote settlement in Guyana to check reports that Representative Leo Ryan, a California Democrat, had been killed there while investigating allegations that a group, a cult really, called the People’s Temple was holding people against their will. Bucha was the latest example of Russia’s barbarity in this war, but one of the first things I thought of was Jonestown. ![]() The following images depict graphic violence.Ī couple of weeks ago I came across the graphic images of bodies littering the landscape in Bucha, Ukraine, a suburb a few miles west of Kyiv. ![]()
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