01-11-2008, 08:43 AM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Real footage of assassins going about their lethal business is extremely rare. NBC cameraman Bob Brown lost his life filming the Jonestown assassins climbing out of the tractor, advancing towards the plane, and killing Congressman Leo Ryan (critic of the CIA), and at least four others. None of these assassins was ever tried. The only individual convicted in relation to these murders was one of Jim Jones' white lieutenants, Larry Layton, for conspiracy to murder and attempted murder. Layton was inside the plane, and was not one of the assassins advancing from the tractor. (Layton was initally acquitted of murder in Guyana after successfully pleading that he'd been "brainwashed".)
The footage for which Bob Brown died, his rushes of the advancing assassins, is very rare and hard to find - even for professional film researchers. However about three grainy seconds can be seen in this YouTube clip at c2:45 and c3:08:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRKWb4LO3w
Some researchers believe that these assassins are "hypno-programmed". Some that they are a professional hit team. Others that they are simply paranoid killers. Whatever the truth, the footage that cost Bob Brown his life is both shocking and unique.
Thank you for this link Jan. It has by far the best video I've seen of the airport attack. This woman--Laurie Efrein Kahalas--
http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/Jonestown_com/home.htm claims it's a clear military formation. I really can't say. It's too fast and I'm hardly an expert. I did read her book "Snake Dance" and it's also hard to know what to make of it; it's written in a very overwraught fashion. About all I was able to take away from it was her conviction that the CIA destroyed Jonestown one way or another, and her mistrust of Mark Lane.