![]() ![]() Today, a Google search would turn up more than anyone would ever need to learn about a person like Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple. The killing sparked Jones’ final-and fatal-order to his disciples to drink the poisoned Kool-Aid. Yet Congressman Leo Ryan was killed in 1978 doing just that, gunned down on an airport runway in Guyana after visiting Jonestown because there was no other way for him to find out what was going on there. A megalomaniac televangelist named Jim Jones, who got his start in Indianapolis and moved to California in the mid-1960s, convinces more than a thousand people to leave their homes, travel to the South American country of Guyana, and commit mass suicide at his command.Īnd, as someone who works in television and is electronically connected to everyone and everything, I cannot imagine the assassination in a foreign country of a Congressman who was inquiring into a religious organization on behalf of his constituents. It reads like a carefully crafted alternate history-a glimpse into a world I’ve never experienced, where cell phones, the Internet, and airport security don’t exist. ![]() I can’t put down A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres, because I'm amazed that Jonestown even happened. ![]() “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid” is about all that’s left of Jonestown in the daily lexicon. TW Interview by William Gray Shedding New Light on Jonestown ![]()
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