I very well remember that day. I tried to understand why so many people could believe Jim Jones.

One of the most memorable things for me is the picture of all those folks on the ground. They had consumed their cyanide lace beverage and just walked out of the pavilion and died.

I can not understand why they followed him to their death.
Below is a story of the other side. It was a local story and I have been following it since that time.

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Congressman Leo Ryan

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Speier entered politics by serving as a congressional staffer for Congressman Leo Ryan. Speier was part of his November 1978 fact-finding mission organized to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by the Reverend Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers, almost all of whom were American citizens who had moved to Jonestown, Guyana, with Jones in 1977 and 1978.[5] Speier was one of two members of the mission who made wills before traveling to Jonestown.[11] Several Peoples Temple members ambushed the investigative team and others boarding the plane to leave Jonestown on November 18. Five people died, including Congressman Ryan. While trying to shield herself from rifle and shotgun fire behind small airplane wheels with the other members of the team, Speier was shot five times and waited 22 hours before help arrived.[12] That same day, over 900 of the remaining members of the Peoples Temple died in Jonestown and Georgetown in a mass suicide.

DH worked in her district and met her a few times and he says she is really nice.
BTW, we don't live in her district, so we can not vote for her.