Tag: jonestown
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history/mystery: nazis, nixon, milk & jonestown, cia, conspiracy & more
former nazi is ‘a great american,’ say oregon neighborsfrom west linn tidings: The federal government is charging that Peter Egner is a Nazi war criminal. His friends in West Linn cannot believe it. It came as a shock to them last week when the Department of Justice issued an announcement that it is requesting that…
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‘final report: jonestown’
from national geographic: “Jonestown” looks at the tragic deaths of 913 men, women and children who lived in a religious compound in the jungles of Guyana, South America. The program investigates leader Jim Jones and his message of brotherhood and social justice. From his Indiana roots, to California, and then, to Guyana, “Jonestown” seeks to…
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another look at jonestown
from washington post: Why did the followers of cult leader Jim Jones commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana? In Stanley Nelson’s “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple,” the award-winning filmmaker looks at the events leading up to Nov. 18, 1978, when more than 900 Peoples Temple members drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid and died en…