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 McKay Jr. $1,0000 in 30 days, and was chosen by Indiegogo.com as an example of how to run a successful online funding campaign. McKay's debut short story collection, "Like This", was short-listed for the Giller Prize in 1995 and received the Dartmouth Book Award for fiction in 1996. His first novel, "Twenty-Six", was published in 2003. It became a national bestseller, and won the 2004 Dartmouth Book Award. Leo McKay Jr. Leo McKay Jr. (born June 19, 1964) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer from Stellarton, Nova Scotia. He also is a periodic contributor to "The Globe and Mail". McKay