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
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) Naval Shipyard. Commander J. W. Hayes took over command of "Joseph P. Kennedy Jr." from Captain J. V. Peters on 14 July; the next day, a 2-month period of refresher training commenced as the ship set sail for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The US manned space program was one of "Joseph P. Kennedy Jr."s more recent commitments; leaving Newport on 27 November 1965, the ship took station southeast of Bermuda as part of the afloat recovery team for "Gemini 6" and "Gemini 7" on a 14-day orbital and rendezvous mission in space. The shots a success and her duty done, "Joseph