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0830 Ed Crenshaw drives Herb Newell and Cliff Gieg to Port Kaituma to take the Cudjoe to Kumaka to pick up supplies. Crenshaw says to Herb Newell "by the time we returned the next day, he [Ed] and the others would be dead".

1000 9 PT members slip out of JT into the jungle, including the wife and infant child of JT security chief Joe Wilson.

1100 Journalists and relatives return to JT from Port Kaituma via PT truck. [Mike Carter: 1130]

1200 Edith Parks approaches Don Harris asking to leave.

1300 Dwyer via JT radio orders an extra plane.

1315 Dwyer via JT radio counts defectors: 2 (Gosney, Bagby) plus a family of 7 (Parks)

1400 Tommy Bogue sees Edith Parks defecting, and alerts the Bogue and Simon families. Bogues ask to leave.

Don Harris 45-minute interview with JJ, confronts him with Gosney note.

Rain starts in JT.

1415 Dwyer via JT radio announces 12 more defectors (Bogues and perhaps Simons)

Bonny Simon stops her husband Al from defecting with their three kids, dooming the entire family.

1430 Defectors board dump truck, incl. shooter Larry Layton.

1440 Don Sly attacks Rep. Ryan with a knife.

1450 Shooters Larry Layton and Wes Breidenbach board truck as it leaves, driven by shooter Ed Crenshaw. [Moore: 1515] [Rhodes & Clayton at inquest: 1400] [Raven: 1530-1545]

1500 Rainstorm hits JT.

1530 Defector truck reaches JT gate. Shooter Joe Wilson boards truck.

1530? Prokes: "After [Ryan truck] left Maria Katsaris came rushing up to me telling me that a bunch of settlers [had] gone to get Ryan and the situation is out of control and asked me to go down to her home and wait." Prokes says he was at West House waiting for suitcases to be filled for a period that stretched from before 4pm until after 6pm. He helped Carolyn Layton type the financial letters.

1530 JJ tells Jimmy Jones in Georgetown via radio to "meet Mr. Frazier" (mass suicide). Jimmy dispatches someone (Kohl?) to retrieve the basketball team from a movie theater. [Road to Jonestown]

1600 Marceline PA announcement: everything fine, go home and stay there. Maria Katsaris has Tim Carter tell Georgetown of a (fake) power problem, then takes a radio part to disable it.

1630 Defectors arrive at Kaituma airstrip. [Feinsod] Dump truck drives Dwyer to Port Kaituma.

1645 Cessna and then Twin Otter arrive at Kaituma airstrip. JT tractor-trailer passes through Port Kaituma on its way to the airstrip, and the dump truck follows it, abandoning Dwyer at Port Kaituma.

1700 Laura Kohl says Sharon Amos sends Kohl to fetch PT basketball team from a movie theater.

? Sandy Bradshaw in SF receives last comm from JT: "Hold on a minute. Carolyn wants to tell you something."

1700 Dwyer returns to airstrip in borrowed truck with 3-4 Guyanese, including one with shotgun.

1700 Loudspeakers summon all PT members to the pavilion. [Rhodes & Clayton: 30min after Marceline announced stand-down.] Lane and Garry meet at school near pavilion with JJ, Marceline, Beam, McElvane, Katsaris, Johnny Jones, Harriet Tropp.

1705 Katsaris says something privately to JJ, who dispatches Lane and Garry to be guarded at East House by Don Sly.

1705 Shirley Smith dances crazily on pavilion stage, shouting about being a revolutionary.

1710 Tim Carter approaches JJ pow-wow but JJ angrily brushes him off. Carter overhears Dick Tropp argue to JJ against suicide, and JJ ask Katsaris if there is any way to make the poison taste less bitter.

1710 Airstrip shooting kills Ryan, Harris, Brown, Robinson, Patty Parks. [Raven: 1645-1700] [pilot Astil Paul on Witness:JT: 1750].

1715 Tim Carter approaches JJ and offers to leave JT with his wife and son and go kill Tim Stoen. JJ replies that Carter would have to "take care of" his son first.

1715 Maria Katsaris approaches Tim and Mike Carter near the monkey cage about helping Mike Prokes carry 3 suitcases of money to Soviet embassy.

1715 Airstrip shooters head back to JT, leaving Larry Layton in defectors' custody.

1715 DT01m JJ joins meeting at pavilion 15mins after crowd assembles. JJ: "they are in pursuit right now to kill them". JJ has foreknowledge that Larry Layton and the Red Brigade are both going to attack the departing visitors.

1720 Cessna leaves airstrip with both planes' aircrew and injured Monica Bagby still onboard.

1720 DT05m Christine Miller begins debating suicide. JJ says that it's too late because the hit squad has "started too kill".

1730? Tim Carter delivers his suitcase to Carolyn Layton in West House. Anne Moore there says to ask Maria Katsaris whether John Stoen and Kimo Layton should go to the pavilion.

1800 DT20m Airstrip shooters return as Christine Miller gives up debate. JJ: "Take Dwyer to the East House". JJ apparently assumed that Dwyer was returning to PT, as he had planned. Odell Rhodes says JJ at this point requested the poison vats via loudspeaker, and 10-15 people brought the poison and syringes. Lane sees security team fetch ~20 guns from a guard shack near East House.

1800 DT21m Voice mentions "going to get Ujara". Probably a reference to Don Sly being fetched from guarding lawyers Lane and Garry at East House.

1800 Kohl and basketball team return to Lamaha Gardens to find 20 GDF soldiers checking for problems.

1805 Mark Lane and Charles Garry released from East House by Garry "Poncho" Johnson and "Johnson from L.A.".

1810 First poisoning: Ruletta Paul poisons her child and herself. 

DT21m JJ: "Gather in folks, it's easy." First evidence on DT that poisoning has begun.

DT22m JJ: "It's too late. The congressman has been murdered. Red Brigade showed them justice."

DT26 Maria Katsaris pages Annie McGowan, presumably to get her to sign the financial letters carried by Prokes and the Carters.

1815 DT26 JJ says "Marceline, they've got forty minutes." Is this about finishing all poisoning before the GDF arrives from Matthews Ridge? Or perhaps a deadline for Marceline's sons in Georgetown to begin their revenge and suicide assignments?

1820 Tim Carter in Guyana inquest: "I heard the word 'suicide'. I became afraid and went over to the pavilion to see what was going on. I saw 10-15 bodies on the ground."  Tim Carter years later on TV and in Road To Jonestown: approaches JJ on stage to ask if a vehicle can carry the couriers to the PT gate. JJ says no, and "Son, I'm sorry it had to end this way." Carter notices his wife Gloria holding their son Malcolm as Sharon Cobb squirts poison into his mouth. Goes to them and embraces his dead son and dying wife. Then went to West House to carry suitcases out with brother and Prokes. Telling Carolyn Layton that his son was dead, she replies "we had no other choice".

1830 Maria Katsaris radio call to Sharon Amos in Georgetown. She says in code that a lot of people have died ("visit Mr. Fraser"), and that more will be dying: "they're working on it". Orders revenge killings ("Brownfield") and suicide. Amos says the children "don't have any vehicles" to meet Mr. Fraser, and Katsaris replies in code: K-N-I. [Raven says that "earlier" (between 1800 and 1830?), Stephen heard JJ call on the radio to order revenge killings. No testimony from Rhodes or Clayton that JJ left pavilion to speak on radio?]

1830 GDF soldiers leave Lamaha Gardens. Laura Kohl writes: "Stephen Jones, Sharon Amos, and some others met privately". Stephen begins calling SF to countermand any JT orders. Most Lamaha Gardens PT members walked to a PNC talent show a few blocks away.

DT32 Man mentions "the way the children are laying there now." Still in children phase of poisoning.

1840 DT37 JJ: "Mother, Mother, Mother, please. Lay down your life with your child."  Escaping lawyers Mark Lane and Charles Garry are in the jungle but still in earshot. Ditto for Prokes and the Carter brothers.

1845 DT41 JJ: "Bring [the vat] here so the adults can begin."

1845 Prokes and the Carters reach banana grove 1km away, out of PA earshot, bury some money. Too dark to read letter to Soviet embassy.

1850 DT42 JJ last recording as babies are still crying.

1850 Odell Rhodes helps Phyllis Chaiken look for a stethoscope, then hides under the senior citizens building as "it was just about getting dark", staying there 30mins.

1900 Lane and Garry see Prokes and the Carters on the other side of the road, and hide from them.

1900 Clayton says pavilion crowd was down to 100-200 still alive.

1910 Clayton slips past guard Ray Jones into jungle.

1915 PA announcement for all armed persons (20-25) to go to the radio room. JJ tells the remaining residents to exchange a final embrace. Rhodes leaves hiding spot, runs into jungle towards JT entrance and walks toward Port Kaituma.

1930 Stephen Jones and other basketball teammates confront Tim Stoen at the Pegasus hotel.

2000 Clayton in jungle hears a loud cheer from JT.

2045 Sharon Amos kills herself and her 3 kids.

2100 Lee Ingram calls twice to SF from Georgetown to cancel White Night. (Could any such calls from Ingram or Stephen have been placed while Amos was alive.)

2100 Clayton in jungle hears 5 shots from JT, silencing the pet chimp and some dogs.

2245 Clayton while retrieving passport hears a final shot in JT, and leaves.

2300 Prokes & Carters arrested at Port Kaituma waterfront. Prokes: "We were going to turn ourselves in, but were seized by a guard."

2330 Clayton reaches house of Guyanese Kelly Foran.

2345 Rhodes reaches Port Kaituma constabulary.