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Before flying to Guyana in November 1978, a 28-year-old congressional aide wrote a note for her parents, just in case. "Should anything happen be proud," it said. "I have no regrets." Three days later she was lying behind a plane wheel on a jungle airstrip, pretending to be dead: Her name was Jackie Speier. She worked for Congressman Leo Ryan, who had flown to Jonestown to check on Americans living in Jim Jones's Peoples Temple. Families back home said their relatives were being held there against their will. When Ryan's group tried to fly out with about 15 people who wanted to leave, Jones's men pulled up at the Port Kaituma airstrip and opened fire. Ryan was hit more than 40 times. Speier hid behind a wheel and played dead. A gunman walked up and shot her five times at point-blank range. "The whole right side of my body was blown up." She lay on that airstrip for 22 hours with no medical care. She thought of her grandmother and decided she didn't want her to live through her funeral. That same night more than 900 people died in Jonestown. In the video below, about a year later, she sits down with a local TV reporter. At 0:20 she says doctors had just found another bullet in her arm, and she'd need surgery again in December. Then she jokes: if they find another one, she'll be "manufacturing them." The smile doesn't last. Every investigation that was promised went nowhere. "Not indictment one, not report one." At 1:30 she asks whether a congressman and 900 people "all died in vain." Her last words in the clip: "It leaves me cold." She spent two months in the hospital and had 10 surgeries, guarded around the clock by U.S. Marshals because of threats to her life. 30 years after the ambush, in 2008, she won Leo Ryan's old seat in Congress. This week is 48 years since that airstrip. She played dead, and they shot her anyway. What would you have done?