Later Life
Garry continued to practice law after the Jonestown incident, his clientele changed and his chance for further national acclaim had passed. His post-Jonestown press conferences of November/December 1978 served as his final public acts. Garry died of a stroke in August 1991, at the age of 82 in Berkeley, California.
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