![]() Plus God knows how many governmental channels this had to go through before hitting an AM radio station in the States! ![]() (Whatever exact clock time that horrifying news came through, of course, it was, as we will see, still MANY hours prior to the arrival of help. No more than a few hours later (obviously I was glued to the radio all night), the reports escalated to, “It is believed that the people of Jonestown might be taking their own lives.” that night San Francisco time, when I heard an urgent report on the AM radio that Congressman Ryan had been shot while trying to depart Jonestown. So I would fairly say that it was no later than 7:30 p.m. I was just listening to an AM radio station while I was preparing to finish up and join the night’s church service. I did not yet know that the usual nightly contact via ham radio between San Francisco and Jonestown had been inexplicably severed. I was running a bit late because I was getting out a mailer quoting the Congressman at Jonestown, praisingthe community the night before. Novemwas a Saturday night, hence there was a church service at the Peoples Temple in San Francisco, where I was living at the time. ![]() Let me make this explicitly clear from my own first-hand experience: Yet help did not arrive until some TWENTY hours later, according to Jacqueline Speier, the Congressman‘s wounded aide on site. It was even still bright daylight, as confirmed by the NBC film footage. I mean, this was A ONE-HOUR FLIGHT IN from the capital city of Georgetown. Namely, since help was accessible and the need urgent, then why did that NOT happen? We need address it head-on - to boot, with every brute cynical surmise, to comprehend its reverse: namely, Why NOT Bring In Help? Well, turns out not an unnecessary question at all, but a NEEDED one. Filmmakers could learn a lot from how Madison Hamburg focuses on the emotional ripple effects of crime, and the very human toll that loss takes on a family and community." īrian Tallerico of also remarked on the series' personal nature, stating "The greatest accomplishment of 'Murder on Middle Beach' is how connected I felt to this story by its end, concerned about an entire family torn apart because of one brutal day, in March over a decade ago.That should have been a starkly, even insultingly unnecessary question, with the wounded still strewn across the airstrip (indeed, one nearly lost an arm to gangrene due to the delay) more urgently still, with more people dying at Jonestown every minute that passed. It doesn't have a tidy ending, but grief rarely does. Nearing the 10-year anniversary of his mother's murder, Madison fights to gain access to the police files on the case.Īshlie Stevens of Salon remarked that the documentary differed from typical true crime documentaries in its personal story telling, writing "'Murder on Middle Beach' adds to the genre as well. Madison examines his mother and aunt's involvement in the "Gifting Tables" pyramid scheme.īarbara's sister Conway accuses Barbara's daughter Ali of the murder. Episodes No.ĭirector Madison Hamburg visits his hometown of Madison, Connecticut and learns more details about his mother's life, and his parents' divorce. The documentary series began as a student film while Hamburg was in college. ![]() It premiered on November 15, 2020, on HBO. Murder on Middle Beach is a four-part documentary by director Madison Hamburg about the unsolved 2010 murder of his mother Barbara Hamburg. American TV series or program Murder on Middle Beach ![]()
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