Editing Jonestown (section)

====November 18, 1978====
In the early morning of November 18, eleven Temple members sensed danger enough to walk out of Jonestown and all the way to the town of [[Matthew's Ridge]], in the opposite direction from the Port Kaituma airstrip.<ref name="cnnsurvivor">[http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/12/jonestown.survivors/index.html?iref=newssearch ' Survivors of the Tragedy'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105170703/http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/12/jonestown.survivors/index.html?iref=newssearch|date=5 November 2012}}, CNN</ref><ref name="cnnslavery">[http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/11/12/jonestown.wilson.excerpt/index.html?iref=newssearch 'Slavery of Faith': Survivor recounts escape from Jonestown] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210102703/http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/11/12/jonestown.wilson.excerpt/index.html?iref=newssearch |date=December 10, 2008}}, Leslie Wilson, CNN reprint of excerpt</ref> Those defectors included the wife and son of Joe Wilson, Jonestown's head of security.<ref name="cnnsurvivor"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Knapp |first=Don |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/19/jonestown.anniversary.01 |title=Jonestown massacre memories linger amid rumors of CIA link|publisher=CNN|date=19 November 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010608055211/http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/19/jonestown.anniversary.01/ |archive-date=June 8, 2001}}</ref><ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31941 ''Obituary announcement of Julius Evans (references his escape with family)''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205012808/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31941|date=5 February 2015}}, Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Hall|1987|p=272}}</ref> When journalists and members of the Concerned Relatives arrived in Jonestown later that day, Jones' wife Marceline gave them a tour of the settlement.<ref>{{Harvnb|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=505}}</ref>

That afternoon, the Parks and the Bogue families, along with Christopher O'Neal (who was the boyfriend of one of the Parks' daughters) and Harold Cordell (who was living with Mrs. Bogue), stepped forward and asked to be escorted out of Jonestown by the Ryan delegation.<ref name="cnnsurvivor"/><ref name="raven512">{{Harvnb|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=512}}</ref><ref>Stephenson, Denice. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YrEUGmFQs-0C ''Dear People: Remembering Jonestown''.] Heyday Books, 2005. {{ISBN|1597140023}}.</ref> When Jones' adopted son Johnny attempted to talk Jerry Parks out of leaving, Parks told him, "No way, it's nothing but a communist prison camp."<ref>{{Harvnb|Hall|1987|p=273}}</ref> Jones gave the two families, along with Gosney and Bagby, permission to leave. Before leaving, Gosney was forced to sign a statement stating that he was leaving his four-year-old son behind of his own free will.<ref>{{Harvnb|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=516}}</ref> When Harris handed Gosney's note to Jones during an interview in the pavilion, Jones stated that the defectors were lying and wanted to destroy Jonestown.<ref name="raven515">{{Harvnb|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=515}}</ref>

After a sudden violent rainstorm started, emotional scenes developed between family members.<ref name="raven516">{{Harvnb|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|pp=516–517}}</ref> Al Simon, a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] Temple member, attempted to take two of his children to Ryan to process the requisite paperwork for transfer back to the U.S.<ref name="raven516"/> Simon's wife, Bonnie, summoned over the speakers by Temple staff, loudly denounced her husband.<ref name="raven516"/> Simon pleaded with Bonnie to return to the U.S., but Bonnie rejected his suggestions.<ref name="raven516"/>