Book description
The basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the "definitive account of the Jonestown massacre" (Rolling Stone) -- now available for the first time in paperback.
Tim Reitermanās Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978.
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Raven is the best, most comprehensive, and most thoroughly researched book on Jim Jones, Jonestown, and Peoples Temple. Reiterman is a fine investigative journalist who was part of a group to visit Jonestown, Guyana in November of 1978. The visitors included, among others, eight members of the press; Congressman Leo Ryan and his aide Jackie Speier; and thirteen representatives of the āConcerned Relatives,ā their own name for the group. Every member of the group had defected from the Temple in San Francisco. Only some of these visitorsāReiterman and a few of the other journalists, Ryan and Speier, and a smallā¦
From Judy's list on Jonestown and Peoples Temple.
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