This is a report on Jim Jones and Jonestown massacre. He's an interesting character. He started as a reverend preaching the social gospel in Indianapolis and acquired a devoted following. He took them to San Francisco, and set up in other towns where there is injustice. He eventually dropped the gospel and kept the social part and took a good pat of his following to Guyana. He was in negotiations with Soviet Russia to accept his group. That didn't work, so he killed just about everyone there. This is where the expression about "drinking the cool-aid" comes from.
It's a sad story but he's an interesting character and you learn something important about the times.
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