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Tom Whittle

A veteran investigative journalist and author, Tom Whittle has received numerous awards for reporting and editorial excellence. A graduate of Syracuse University, where he majored in journalism and political science, he has written extensively on human rights, religious freedom and freedom of information.

Unanswered Questions About Jonestown—Part Four: The Buried Agenda of Leo Ryan

To this day, the assailants that closed in on Ryan’s fallen body and riddled it with rifle and shotgun blasts have not been conclusively identified, although as many as a dozen or so “possibles” have been named in connection with the attack. And so, as in the case of Congressman Hinds, the killers of Congressman Ryan escaped accountability from any court of law.

Unanswered Questions About Jonestown—Witnesses Report

Was Jonestown one of the worst massacres of innocent American men, women and children in history? What purpose could the deaths of so many people have served? Could an external force have been responsible? If so, who might it have been?

Unanswered Questions About Jonestown

Dr. Mootoo did not waver in his assessment of what had happened: the vast majority of Jonestown residents were victims of murder, not suicide. The bodies he examined had not died by drinking fruit punch, poisoned or otherwise. Death, he said, came via hypodermic injections.

Unanswered Questions About Jonestown—First in a Series—Who Silenced Joe Holsinger?

In November 1988, the Chicago Tribune featured his comments in an article by Bruce Buursma. Holsinger, Buursma wrote, “has doggedly insisted that a ‘disinformation’ campaign was launched by the U.S. government to conceal the truth about Jonestown.”

John Trudell Rising Above Violence, He Stood for Freedom

John Trudell was a friend of humanity. At great personal cost, he stood against discrimination and injustice in all forms, and firmly for freedom and the inherent rights of all.

STAND Member Reflects on Visit to Iconic Religious Freedom Site

Under cover of a January blizzard, Roger Williams left his wife and children, slipping away to avoid the men sent to arrest and deport him for what Puritan leaders in Massachusetts had called “dangerous” religious beliefs.

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