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Welcome back to "weekends with alex witt." the national archives released documents revealing new details about the clinton white house including files on the role of then first lady hillary clinton. nbcs kristin welker has more. >> reporter: just a day after chelsea clinton claimed the spotlight with a bit baby news -- >> mark and i are very excited that we have our first child awrying later this year. >> reporter: the latest batch of clinton era documents reveal some political irony. back in 1...

If youll be quiet. >> 303 children would die in jonestown that day from toddlers to teens. >> leslie wilsons nephew and her niece. vern gosneys son mark. a third of all the dead were children murdered at jim jones command wracked with convulsions, a painful death. >> i tell you, i dont care how many screams you hear, i dont care how many cries. death is a million times preferable to ten more days of this life. >> what i experienced and saw was absolute chaos and insanity. >> die with a degree of...

>> leslie wilsons nephew and her niece. vern gosneys son mark. a third of all the dead were children murdered at jim jones command, wracked with convulsions, a painful death. >> i tell you, i dont care how many screams you hear, i dont care how many anguished cries. death is a million times preferable to continue more days of this life. >> what i experienced and saw was absolute chaos and insanity. >> die with a degree of dignity. lay down your life with dignity. dont lay down with tears and ago...

>> 303 children would die in jonestown that day from toddlers to teens. leslie wilsons nephew and her niece. vern gosneys son mark. a third of all the dead were children murdered at jim jones command wracked with convulsions, a painful death. >> i tell you, i dont care how many screams you hear, i dont care how many anguished cries, death is a million times more preferable than ten more days of this life. >> what i experienced and saw was absolute chaos and insanity. >> die with a degree of dign...

>> verne gosney came a month after the parks. he brought his 4-year-old son mark. his wife had fallen into a coma during childbirth and never came out. gosney sank into a haze of drugs. >> i did use heroin. i used amphetamines. i used cocaine, marijuana, lsd. >> he came to jonestown to get clean and did. >> their idea of a drug treatment was, you know, work you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and if you mess up, beat your ass. i mean, thats their drug treatment program. >> he soon found jim jones...

Ditches. in jonestown, even his 11-year-old daughter tracy parks got up for work before dawn each day. >> i had to work in the rice fields. you had to use a big machete or the big rake that had the knife at the bottom and you had to cut the grass down. >> one day she went to the infirmary with an earache. >> and they looked in there and pulled out a cockroach the size of my -- half of my thumb, huge. >> tracy parks saw no future in jonestown. >> i knew that in the first month there that im stuck...

Jonestown that day from toddlers to teens. >> leslie wilsons nephew and her niece. vern gosneys son mark. a third of all the dead were children murdered at jim jones command wracked with convulsions, a painful death. >> i tell you, i dont care how many screams you hear, i dont care how many cries. death is a million times preferable to continue more days of this life. >> what i experienced and saw was absolute chaos and insanity. >> die with a degree of dignity. lay down your life with dignity. ...

>> its just a little bitter tasting. theyre not crying out of any pain. >> there are screams of agony. there are screams of terror. you can hear people crying. >> keep your emotions down. keep your emotions down. no, it will not hurt if youll be quiet. if youll be quiet. >> 303 children would die in jonestown that day from toddlers to teens. >> leslie wilsons nephew and her niece. vern gosneys son mark. a third of all the dead were children murdered at jim jones command wracked with convulsions,...

Well, the man behind the multibillion dollar deception that frauded more than 2100 victims out of a lot of money says he feels regret for what he did. were talking about bernie madoff. he spoke exclusively to cnn moneys aaron smith from a federal prison in north carolina. aaron told me about their phone conversation that started off by madoff calling collect. >> his biggest regret, is most definitely the death of his oldest son mark. mark committed suicide on december 11th, 2010, the second anni...

And i didnt have the courage to admit what i had done. cnn moneys aaron smith spoke exclusively with madoff by phone. you have a fascinating glimpse into madoffs day-to-day life. he is in north carolina at a federal prison there. he says he is not sleeping. what is his explanation? >> well, wolf. thank you. one of the first things he mentioned to me when he called me last week and actually called me several times, he basically said that he is haunted by his sons death and feels responsible for t...