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
Leo L. Laughlin a charitable organization that provides aid to the widows and children of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty. Laughlin married Mary E. Galligan they had five children. His first cousin, James M. Quigley, was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania and Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. While working in Boston, Laughlin resided in Winchester, Massachusetts, across the street from John A. Volpe. In 1978, Laughlin retired to Kennebunk, Maine and Belleair, Florida He died in Belleair, Florida on April 13, 1997. Leo L. Laughlin Leo L. Laughlin (September 10, 1910 – April 13, 1997)