Cult Observer Archives

Charles R. Garry, legal counsel to the Rev. Jim Jones and the People’s Temple, died in October of a stroke at the age of 82. The representative at one time of the Black Panthers and anti-Vietnam protgesters, he visited Jonestown in 1978 and varely escaped the killing and suicide of more than 900 temple members. (Fram "Charles R. Garry, escaped mass suicide," by Katherine Bishop, St. Petersburg Times, August 18, 1991, 7B)