American survivor disagrees with tourist plan for Jonestown

Jackie Speier
Jackie Speier

Former US Congresswoman Jackie Speier who survived an attack in 1978 that killed congressman Leo Ryan prior to the mass suicide in Jonestown disagrees with the plan to turn the north west area into a tourist attraction.

In an interview yesterday with ABC News affiliate, KGO in San Francisco, Speier said “I think it’s a bad idea. I don’t think it’s appropriate to aggrandize that kind of cult activity.”

The tour would take visitors into the jungles of northern Guyana where around 900 persons died in the mass suicide.