in the weeks before he was murdered in jonestown guyana representative leo ryan was collecting signatures for hearsts release mentioning his own synanon mass death threats comparisons to manson and questions of the hearst case actor john wayne speaking after the jonestown cult deaths said it was odd that people had accepted the fact that jim jones had brainwashed  human beings into mass suicide but would not accept that a group like the symbionese liberation army could have brainwashed a kidnapped teenage girl