![]() Prior to writing her memoir, Layton worked on the trading floor of an investment banking firm in San Francisco. giving testimony before State Department officials requesting help for the 900 people held against their will in Jim Jones’ encampment in Guyana. Six months later and just four days before the tragedy, Deborah was in Washington D.C. Four weeks after a harrowing narrow escape, Deborah’s affidavit became front page news across the country. As a trusted aide to Jim Jones, she became embroiled in the upper-level workings of the Peoples Temple, both in California and Guyana. It was at this point that her life dramatically changed. Upon her return from England, at just eighteen years old, she joined the Peoples Temple and moved into their campus dormitory in Northern California. ![]() After a rebellious two years in the Berkeley school system, she was sent by her parents to a Quaker boarding school in England to finish high school. Deborah Layton grew up in Berkeley during the turbulent 1960’s. ![]()
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