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Inside Peoples Temple

The San Francisco Chronicle published a special section earlier this week marking the 30-year anniversary of the cynide-laced-Kool-aid-drinking mass suicide of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple cult in South America. Included is an article written a little over a year before the tragedy that mentions Rosaylnn Carter in the lede and goes on to describe Jim Jones’s powerful presence […]