Leo Ryan Folsom Prison as an inmate. During his time in Congress, Ryan traveled to Newfoundland to investigate the practice of seal hunting. He was also famous for vocal criticism of the lack of Congressional oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and authored the Hughes–Ryan Amendment, passed in 1974. Ryan was shot and killed at an airstrip in Guyana in November 1978 while his party was attempting to escape a dangerous situation. He had traveled to Guyana to investigate claims that people were being held against their will at the Peoples Temple Jonestown settlement. Ryan was killed the same day of
James Leo Ryan (actor) James Leo Ryan (actor) James Leo Ryan , also known as Jimmy or Jim, is an American stage, film, and television actor. He is one of three children and an alumnus of Loy Norrix High School and Denison University. He was recently interviewed for the Inside Acting Podcast. Ryan has appeared as Marlon in the short film "The Ropes", as Yosef in film "Species III", and as a dancer in the 2000 film "Psycho Beach Party". In 2006, he appeared as a paralyzed man in the Hallmark Channel movie "Though None Go with Me", in the short film "Haunted Prison",