November 27, 1978, The Daily Iowan - UPI, page 1, Jonestown clean-up ends,

November 27, 1978, The Daily Iowan - UPI, page 1, Jonestown clean-up ends,

An Air Force C-141 jet transport left Georgetown early Sunday carrying the last 183 Jonestown bodies in 83 aluminum airtight boxes to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the job of identifying the remains has only begun.

“That means there were a helluva lot of children in the last shipment,” one U.S. officer said. <ost of the children’s bodies in Jonestown were found last because they were hidden under their parents’ bodies.

Army Capt. John Moscatelli said the U.S. troops handled 914 bodies---909 victims of the mass suicide in Jonestown; a cult member and her three children allegedly killed in Georgetown by another cult member; and the remains of a cult defector shot dead in the Port Kaituma massacre that triggered the mass suicide.

He said 913 bodies were sent to Dover---one of the Jonestown victims was a Guyanese named Jim Gill---but authorities in Dover said they received only 912 bodies. The final toll will not be certain until the remains are reexamined.

Left in Georgetown were 87 cult members---39 who survived the Jonestown suicides by escaping into the jungle; 45 others, under house arrest, who were in Georgetown during the suicides; and three jailed by Guyanan police.