Rep. Jackie Speier on surviving Jonestown, retirement : "When you look death in the eye, you are not afraid anymore"
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After spending over a decade in Congress, Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, will be retiring. She is one of 55 lawmakers who decided not to run for re-election.
But Speier's road to Washington began in 1978 on a deserted airstrip in Guyana where she lay wounded after being shot five times.
Speier was then a 28-year-old congressional staffer on a fact-finding mission with her boss, California Rep. Leo Ryan, at the People's Temple compound of cult leader Jim Jones.
On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single moment captured by an Army photographer became the most enduring image of America's greatest military operation.