(Eric Risberg/Associated Press Archives) Speier testifies in November 2017 before the House Administration Committee, which was investigating sexual assault and harassment.
(Brendan Hoffman/Associated Press Archives) Speier, left, embraces by Mimi Silbert of the Delancey Street Foundation before a 2017 event in San Francisco to commemorate Women’s Equality Day. (Brendan Hoffman/Associated Press Archives) Speier joins House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, in 2008 at the mock swearing-in on Capitol Hill. Tom Lantos, who died in February of that year. (Ali Sajjadi/Daily News Archives) Speier participates in a mock swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington in April 2008. Friends and family joined her for the announcement, which was made at Leo Ryan Park in Foster City. (Associated Press Archives) Speier formally announces her candidacy for the House of Representatives to fill Tom Lantos’ seat. The bust was created by Bruce Kueffer of Belmont. (Bob Daugherty/Associated Press Archives) Speier poses with a bronze bust of Ryan in 1979 at her Peninsula home. Speier was wounded during the attack in Guyana. Speier, a legislative assistant to Ryan, is wheeled on a stretcher at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Nov. The photo was taken by reporter Tim Reiterman of the San Francisco Examiner with photographer Greg Robinson’s camera Robinson was killed in the gunfire. (Greg Robinson/San Francisco Examiner via Associated Press) Five people, including Ryan, were killed in a shootout on the Port Kaituma airstrip. More than 900 Americans died in the murder-suicide ritual at Jonestown. Schollaert remained in Georgetown, Guyana, and was not injured. 18, 1978, tragedy Speier survived by playing dead on an airstrip. Ryan, right, with congressional staff member James Schollaert, left and Ryan aide Jackie Speier, travel to Guyana to investigate the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown. Take a photographic look back at Speier’s career:
She then climbed the rungs of American political life as she ran and won races to the California State Assembly and California State Senate and, finally, U.S. The massacre involved more than 900 Americans dying in a murder-suicide ritual at the Peoples Temple agricultural mission in the jungle of Guyana, which Ryan and Speier visited in the hopes of rescuing any Americans who wished to return with them.īetween surviving Jonestown and being elected to Congress, Speier won her first election to represent Bay Area residents to become the youngest-ever member of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors in 1980. Speier was shot more than five times and survived by playing dead while awaiting medical support on an airstrip for 22 hours.
Ryan, who was murdered in 1978 as he and Speier were preparing to depart Guyana as the Jonestown Massacre unfolded. Speier was first elected in 2008 to represent the 12th District, which is entirely within the city limits of San Francisco.īut her illustrious political career began more than 50 years before she became a legislator as an aide to Congressman Leo J. congresswoman who has served residents in most of San Mateo County and part of San Francisco as the representative of California’s 14th District since 2013, announced Tuesday that she would not seek re-election. Photos: Jackie Speier's career, from congressional aide to legislator
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