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The following article is from New Dawn No. 53 (March-April 1999)
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Jonestown Dismantling the Disinformation
By LAURIE EFREIN KAHALAS � 1998
Do you know how or why close to a thousand people died at Jonestown, Guyana
on November 18, 1978? Has anyone ever told you a remotely coherent story?
In the following, Laurie Kahalas, a People's Temple survivor, presents us
with an account of the events from an insider's perspective. Her new book,
Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown, is one of the most
significant works on the subject published in the past 20 years.
My name is Laurie Efrein Kahalas, and I was with the Peoples Temple for
eight-and-a-half years. I was living in the Temple building in San
Francisco when tragedy struck, along with a tiny crew left back in the
States for organisational work. While others were wildly shredding
documents, I quietly saved them, squireling away documents and files for a
later, brighter day. There was nothing there that could incriminate us (for
indeed, we were not criminals at all, we were humanitarians); and I
realised I held in my hands the keys to some day exculpate my friends. As
if such a thing could be possible! But I vowed to try.
I am here to humanise the events at Jonestown, or as the Preface of Snake
Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown, says: "To be fully human in
the face of infamy." The world spent so much time demonising Jim Jones,
there was none left to humanise the people of Jonestown, or to comprehend
the terror of their plight.
What was the real story? Were the elements human, political,
circumstantial? Preventable, not preventable? Were there demons, villains,
heroes?
In fairness to researchers, it has been next to impossible to research, in
that Jonestown was one of the worst cases of yellow journalism in the
entire history of the American medi
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The following article is from New Dawn No. 53 (March-April 1999)
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Jonestown Dismantling the Disinformation
By LAURIE EFREIN KAHALAS � 1998
Do you know how or why close to a thousand people died at Jonestown, Guyana
on November 18, 1978? Has anyone ever told you a remotely coherent story?
In the following, Laurie Kahalas, a People's Temple survivor, presents us
with an account of the events from an insider's perspective. Her new book,
Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown, is one of the most
significant works on the subject published in the past 20 years.
My name is Laurie Efrein Kahalas, and I was with the Peoples Temple for
eight-and-a-half years. I was living in the Temple building in San
Francisco when tragedy struck, along with a tiny crew left back in the
States for organisational work. While others were wildly shredding
documents, I quietly saved them, squireling away documents and files for a
later, brighter day. There was nothing there that could incriminate us (for
indeed, we were not criminals at all, we were humanitarians); and I
realised I held in my hands the keys to some day exculpate my friends. As
if such a thing could be possible! But I vowed to try.
I am here to humanise the events at Jonestown, or as the Preface of Snake
Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown, says: "To be fully human in
the face of infamy." The world spent so much time demonising Jim Jones,
there was none left to humanise the people of Jonestown, or to comprehend
the terror of their plight.
What was the real story? Were the elements human, political,
circumstantial? Preventable, not preventable? Were there demons, villains,
heroes?
In fairness to researchers, it has been next to impossible to research, in
that Jonestown was one of the worst cases of yellow journalism in the
entire history of the American media. It all began with the power of the
press.
All "research" goes back to the "original sources," an unseemly amalgam of
three components: 1) Ex-member plants in the group; 2) their non-member
government-based handlers; and 3) the tiniest handful of aggrieved
ex-members who were used as pawns. Of the ex-member group who did not have
the earmarks of being government plants, most lost relatives in the tragedy.
The horrendous mass death at Jonestown burst onto the world press in
November, 1978, complete with gory details and fingers of blame. Although
it was breaking news, all the background, the analyses, the witnesses, the
media heroes, were ready-made for the press; nor was there any other
candidate for blame but Jim Jones. The people at Jonestown were
"brainwashed"; their defenders "apologists"; the only "credible sources"
were the people who had "exposed" Peoples Temple a year and more prior to
the tragedy.
We say we know the crushing power of the press, but no one knows that in
full measure until you experience a Jonestown. So intense and widespread
was the deluge, that it never even occurred to those within the press to
question whether it may have been the very same people so intent upon
destroying the church�s reputation, who had moved to destroy Jonestown
physically.
The most notorious precursor of such methods was the Nazi propaganda
minister Goebbels, who advised laying down a barrage of bad press to
indoctrinate the Germans into exterminating the Jews. "Repeat a lie often
enough and people will believe it." With Peoples Temple, it was rendered
all too easy, for the group had virtually relocated thousands of miles
away, leaving no viable voice to defend the church.
At first, it seemed a great shock, for the church had been "the toast of
the town," for its humanitarian service work. A mere six months before Jim
Jones� exodus to Guyana, a Testimonial Dinner featured plaques of
commendation from the Mayor of San Francisco, the City Council, the State
Senate, and accolades from the Lieutenant Governor, the Police
Commissioner, Assemblyman Willie Brown (now Mayor of San Francisco) and
many others. Yet in the very first smear, in New West, a fledgling Murdoch
publication, a 25-year record of humanitarian service was merely held up,
then dumped in the trash, in favour of "What is going on behind closed doors"?
Although Jonestown was the church�s crown jewel accomplishment, an
acclaimed breakaway from the inner cities of the United States, with their
racism, unemployment, drugs, crimes, substandard housing and more, the
destroyers merely used people who had never even been to Jonestown as
"sources," and began with "Jonestown: Paradise or Prison?" From that time
forward, until the arrival of reporters at the end, no reporter had ever
visited Jonestown, yet horror stories from the most suspect people were all
the mainstream press would print. By the time the reporters arrived, they
had been so manipulated to suspect the worst, they actually wrote that they
thought it "odd" that black and white, young and old, were singing and
swaying together, and that "I wondered if they had been drugged or
hypnotised"! Another reporter broke into a senior women�s residence, saw
bunk beds (for building individual cottages was ongoing for a large
exodus), and concluded "It looked like a slave ship."
Who lay the groundwork for the Congressman and the press to come to
Jonestown? Who led Congressman Ryan into what turned out to be a death
trap? More pointedly, who was it who set that trap for him, and how can we
be sure?
Jonestown Targeted by Agent Provocateurs
It is time to examine the "valiant crusaders" who "exposed" Peoples Temple
in the press and forced the investigatory visit to Jonestown.
Their leaders were a combination of agency plants and provocateurs, as
directed by their non-member government handlers. A year-and-a-half smear
campaign preceded the tragedy, destroying an acclaimed church in absentia,
during which time the Murdoch and Hearst presses blacked out any dissent.
Moreover, no one was who they said they were, and their stated motives were
"cover stories," not fact. The story was not "courageous ex-members who
dared to step forward," but rather the tiniest handful of vindictive
ex-members with suspect personal motives, being used by people with a
far-right-wing political agenda.
The leaders of the parade, Elmer and Deanna Mertle (a/k/a Jeannie and Al
Mills), were right-wing extremists, veterans of the notorious John Birch
Society; and Timothy Stoen, veteran of clandestine spying missions into
East Berlin in the early sixties. The Mertles were murdered in February
1980 in their home in Berkeley, California, by people the police surmised
"they knew," for there were no signs of forced entry or burglary. The
killings of these two, and their daughter Daphene were done very
professionally � dum-dum bullets, "execution style," and leaving no
traceable clues.
Most tellingly, they were murdered a mere five days after announcing they
no longer wanted to speak out against Peoples Temple! Their murders
prevented them from posing a life-long liability... but for whom?
Timothy Stoen, former top attorney for the church, and founder of the
"Concerned Relatives" group, had no relatives in Jonestown, but
aggressively pushed his slander factory to bring Congressman Ryan to
Jonestown on false pretences. He deliberately and knowingly pressed a false
paternity claim to Jim Jones� own child, repeatedly threatening to send in
mercenaries, as recorded in newspaper editorials and State Department logs.
A previous mercenary attack against the community came within a few days
after his attorneys had travelled to Jonestown to serve legal papers, with
the implicit threat: "Release the child or else violence will ensue." To
justify ongoing threats of violence against defenceless families, Stoen
meanwhile persuaded Deborah Layton, an ex-member who swore to many lies, to
claim that she had personally seen "hundreds of guns," although both
Guyanese and American authorities later discovered all of thirty-nine � .22
calibre and none automatic. These people were transparently defenceless.
Within two weeks of the tragedy, Stoen bragged that he would "destroy
Jonestown," and specifically that he was "counting on Jim [Jones] to
overreact." As America viewed on screen through one of its major networks,
ABC, Congressman Ryan addressed the community of Jonestown saying, "I hear
many of you saying that this is the best thing that�s ever happened to
you!", leaving any motive for assassinating him quite thin. It seems quite
unbelievable that a Congressional visit alone, much less a positive one,
could possibly create such an "overreaction." Stoen surely knew that his
"concentration camp" charges could not stick, so to what would Jim Jones
"overreact"? A mere visit? Or an assassination?
It was also Stoen who was later exposed as the one who had continually
tried to pushed a non-violent church onto a terrorist course (called an
"agent provocateur"), it was Stoen who made all the threats against
Jonestown, and it was Stoen who led Congressman Ryan into Jonestown on
false pretenses. More tellingly even, Stoen had secretly been a
far-right-wing zealot all along, and Congressman Leo Ryan was known to be
the most vocal anti-CIA Congressman in the entire United States Congress!
We want to bear this in mind when we ponder what is known about the
assassination.
Stoen, who had been living communally and was now visibly unemployed, spent
huge sums of money on lobbying in Washington, cross-continent travel, and
it was discovered that he had several secret bank accounts in foreign
countries where the church had done no banking at all.
Other key movers and shakers in the ongoing campaign had never been members
at all � not of Peoples Temple, anyway. More like "membership" in the
Treasury Department, Interpol, and some deadringers for ties with both FBI
and CIA. Most notable were two shadowy characters by the names of David
Conn and Joseph Mazor.
David Conn admitted being close friends with the Mertles all the years they
were members, and moreover, of "investigating" the church throughout that
time. He claimed he was concerned about "black people being ripped off."
(Note: In point of fact, Jim Jones was such a careful steward of the
people�s money, Tim Stoen never even made such a charge). Yet he went to
Native American leader Dennis Banks, and tried to blackmail him into
turning against Jim Jones, or be sent back to his death in a South Dakota
prison! So the cover story about caring about minorities was definitely
false! Moreover, Conn had bragged to Banks about his ties to the US
Treasury Department, which works closely with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and two other sources confirmed Conn as a Treasury
Department agent.
Joseph Mazor, who was discovered to be a member of Interpol, housed
adjacent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, was an
admitted felon, who was mysteriously granted a State investigator�s license
fresh out of prison for passing bogus checks � just in time to investigate
Peoples Temple! He admitted orchestrating the smear campaign against the
church, stating that his employers were outsiders, never members of the
church, and he refused to reveal their identities or the source of his
funding. Mazor was later to "claim credit for" the mercenary attack against
Jonestown, and travelled there to announce that the original plan of the
attack had been mass extermination. A community which was already isolated
and defenceless now feared the worst � and just weeks before the
Congressman arrived!
Influential & Powerful Voice for the Oppressed
What were the motives behind the smears in the press? Peoples Temple
Christian Church performed all the work of the church, caring for the poor,
the needy, and the disadvantaged. But we were also interracial. We were
socialist. Our leader had a powerful, influential voice. Although we had
become a political forum for every left-wing leader, advocate, or cause of
the day, we were gaining ground in the mainstream. We were even planning to
re-relocate to the then-Soviet Union during the Cold War. We "had to be
stopped."
Following the tragedy, Joseph Mazor who, like the others, had never
revealed any political motivation for opposing the church, now stated
flatly, "It was considered that Jim Jones would become a major political
force in the Caribbean within five years." It was patently clear that
despite the church�s ongoing non-violence, they feared a new Castro in the
Caribbean. An American Castro, with citizens free to enter and exit the
States at will. Was it possible for the CIA to not be interested in such an
international scenario?
And who else might the CIA have an interest in wanting to "stop"? The CIA�s
main gadfly at that time was one Leo Ryan, the slain Congressman, who had
passed the Hughes/Ryan Bill of 1974, requiring the CIA to report all covert
operations to Congress. Indeed, both Jim Jones and Leo Ryan, both threats
to the CIA, wound up dead? "Coincidence"?
In any case, we were indeed "stopped" from either any proliferation in the
Caribbean, or a move to the then-Soviet Union, in the most tragic manner
possible. Yet all the public was ever told was that Peoples Temple was a
bizarre violent cult with an insane leader. "Bizarre murder/suicide ritual"
was the mantra of the day. Politics was never mentioned.
But it was more. If the story had been exactly as told, it could be left
alone. But it never was. Cover-ups and disinformation were, of necessity,
rampant. This is, indeed, what has most complicated the present-day task of
telling what really happened at Jonestown. The rumour mill has been so
widespread, one has to contend with not just facts, but an ingrained belief
system, that has all the earmarks of itself being a "cult." People who want
to believe that "Jim Jones was CIA," or "Jonestown was a secret CIA mind
control experiment," or "Jonestown was MK Ultra," have been more daunting
to contend with than people who have simply been uninformed.
No one has ever considered that the disinformation pervading the aftermath
of the Jonestown tragedy was perpetuated because Leo Ryan was so known to
his aides to be anti-CIA, that to ward off a direct investigation of the
CIA for assassinating Ryan, they have to concoct Jim Jones must have been
CIA! If even madness has method, here is the simple key to the false and
unverified barrage of accusations about Jonestown being a secret CIA mind
control experiment and the like. Just blame Jim Jones and call it CIA. If
the CIA really did it, no one given that absolutely false clue could ever
trace it to the source. It was deliberately designed by dead-end
specialists to lead nowhere.
This is what has led to the current approach of dismantling the
disinformation. It has not been possible to speak the truth without first
dismantling the fabric of lies spread to date, and clarifying why those
lies have been spread: their origin, their rationale, their intended
purpose. One must first strip away disinformation before having any
capacity to see.
Jonestown NOT a CIA Experiment
I want to dismantle the most rampant disinformation first: the absolute lie
that "Jim Jones was CIA." Jim Jones would have rather had his eyes gouged
out. It was both the measure of, and admittedly, the danger of his
character, that rather than do that, he would die. He was the most
mission-driven individual I have ever met in my entire life.
Jonestown was NOT a mind control experiment in the mould of "MK Ultra." I
personally do not doubt that the CIA might have been glad to use Jonestown
as such had they the chance. I am not attempting, understand, to exonerate
the CIA! Indeed, I see their footprints all over this disaster. But the
mind control experiment story is disinformation 100%.
Jonestown was a beautiful, productive, thriving interracial community,
acclaimed as a "paradise," which was the happiest and most fulfilling life
that most of its largely-inner city residents had ever known. It was a
shining model of how inner city dwellers can thrive and excel on a
worldwide stage. It was described by visitors as "a paradise," "a superior
society," "like coming to another planet," and " a credit to humanity."
The media who were so eager to smear Jonestown had not even visited! When
Congressman Ryan finally did visit, his commentary to the assemblage was
that "I hear many of you saying that this is the best thing that has ever
happened to you. What is being done here is of great significance, even on
a worldwide basis." Obviously, their was no motive for Jonestown residents
to assassinate someone who intended to bring back a good report.
Events Leading Up to the Tragedy
I want to approach the catastrophe in two stages: first the assassination
at the Port Kaituma airstrip, then the deaths at Jonestown.
First, the reader must realise that this matter was never brought to a
court of law. Members of the Jonestown community were convicted of the
assassination in the press, naming Jim Jones as the mastermind who
"ordered" the assassination. This was accomplished not only with no
incriminating evidence, but with considerable exculpatory evidence that was
never considered. These were the many factors:
There were no forensics done on the Congressman; no match-up of bullets
against guns. Indeed, the assassination was reportedly done with dum-dum
bullets, which explode upon impact, rendering them untraceable, and which
were beyond the technical capabilities of anyone at Jonestown to manufacture.
The so-called "eyewitness identifications" were bogus � made by (according
to the Congressional investigators) Jim Cobb, a man who was not only suing
us for millions of dollars at the time, but who did not even know many of
the alleged attackers (they had joined the church after he left), admitted
being "on the other side of the plane when the shooting started," and then
fled for his own life in the other direction! He never even had the
shooters in his line of vision!
There were virtually no autopsies done � all of seven, and of even those,
the bodies were embalmed before being shipped back to the medical team in
the United States! An American doctor lamented that they had not even
verified poisoning in a single case! That it would have been very simple �
just a little blood or urine, but that with all the hundreds of bodies, it
was not done on a single one. Shipments of the dead were nearly not
accepted because there had been no death certificates prepared. No one even
went to collect the bodies until they had been laying out three days in the
tropical sun.
A key piece of evidence did emerge unexpectedly: an on-site film of the
assassination had been taken by Bob Brown, an NBC photojournalist who was
then himself shot. I first saw this film at the first anniversary of the
tragedy in 1979. I was alarmed to see a sophisticated military formation,
identified for me as "a squad diamond", not at all within the capability of
Peoples Temple. The killings looked very professional, and indeed, Bob
Flick, a reporter on site, described the killings as "calm, silent, brutal,
methodical" and that the attack had been "carefully planned and mercilessly
executed."
At the time, I went to the Congressional investigating committee to demand
they blow up the film to confirm that it was not anyone from Jonestown who
killed the Congressman. They refused, deliberately botched my transcript,
and when I tried to mail the information to the 34 Congressmen on the
committee in Washington, only two of my return mailing receipts came back
stamped!
I had neither the clout nor the connections to obtain the film at the time,
but now at the twentieth anniversary, it has resurfaced, as have other
pieces of evidence perhaps considered less dangerous by this late date. I
currently have a source in possession of the film, and confirming military
opinion that this was a "diamond formation," and a thoroughly professional
"hit."
Yet the bias in the United States press continues to the degree that
snippets of that film have been played on several television stations, and
no one even commented that the shooters were all dressed alike � in Army
uniforms! Perhaps the truth, flagrant as it is, may yet surface through the
simple channels of common sense.
Next is that the assassins did not arrive on the Temple truck. They
barrelled on in a second vehicle, as all eyewitnesses confirmed. They were
somehow able to rapidly and skilfully disarm the Guyanese police on site
before opening fire on the Congressman and his party.
What of the charge that "Jim Jones ordered the assassination"? What was
released publicly of "the final tape" made at Jonestown, however severely
spliced and abbreviated it was, is unequivocal on that point again and
again. Indeed, the identity of the killers was completely unknown to Jim
Jones:
1) "I didn�t order the shooting";
2) "I don�t know who shot the Congressman.";
3) "I can�t control these people [who did].";
4) "I waited against all evidence... I tried to prevent all this from
happening.";
5) "I wish I could call it back.";
6) "I never wanted to kill anybody.";
7) "How many are dead?... Oh, God Almighty, God help them..."
A letter written to Congress and the President months earlier, had
predicted exactly what would happen:
"All that has been done is to get people to believe in society... Our
people had been so alienated. All that they can see in this is a set-up, a
classic scenario: first muddy our name... whip up attacks in the press, and
then: by the time you reach the classic ending, the frame-ups, the �kill,�
no one even cares. ...And they think that the press has already done its
job with slander and smears, and so no-one will care about the frame-ups..."
Yet when the moment of truth was upon the people of Jonestown, the chaos
and confusion was so thick, that panic about an invading force had taken
over. Tragically, contingencies had been discussed long since, following
the mercenary attack in September, 1977. This was a community that was
geographically trapped, militarily defenceless, and so remote and isolated,
it did not even have a phone to alert the world or call in help. The great
majority of residents had vowed to never be forced back to the inner cities
of the United States. The previous military attack had happened in broad
daylight, when they were peaceably going about their daily business. Now it
was the wake of the assassination of a Congressman, heading towards the
middle of the night. How much greater the peril! Thus, when Jim Jones told
his assembled community that forces would be closing in for a slaughter, it
seemed all too real.
Moreover, Port Kaituma, the location of the airstrip assassination, was
seven miles from Jonestown, so no one reported the men in Army uniforms had
assassinated the Congressman! But even had they known, that would have
heightened the danger, not diminished it.
In my book, Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown, I lay out
all the possible post-assassination scenarios whose perpetrators must at
all cost cover up. Although I was horrified at the suicides, I am still
haunted to this day, what might have happened had they simply waited out
the night. Life is precious, and any life that could have been saved would
be precious, whatever the overall carnage. But carnage there would have
been. There would have to have been carnage to cover their tracks and
eliminate anyone with an alibi, differing version, or questions about a frame.
As for the people of Jonestown, they would have been thrilled to survive
and live on. They took their own lives not because they were drugged or
brainwashed or robots. They genuinely and legitimately feared a slaughter
from outside forces.
I know what happened will be controversial forever; and I wept, especially
over the loss of children, more times over more years than I can easily
admit. But I loved these people, and what has bruised my heart along with
the deaths, is the injustice of what happened, that the truth was never
told, and that no one has ever spoken on their behalf. They were a role
model for how inner city dwellers could thrive and excel on a worldwide
stage. They were brave, wonderful pioneers, who deserve far better than to
be labelled as "brainwashed," "robots," or even "psychopaths."
Moreover, who will ever dare another Jonestown? Who will break away in
self-empowerment and overcome the many social problems which beset
minorities in the United States? More than those people were killed. They
killed off a hope.
Many people do not care that a thousand people, largely minority and poor,
died in some remote jungle. Yet in pressing this matter in the States, I
have to assume that people care that the assassination of a United States
Congressman was a frame-up, blamed on the wrong people, done to provoke
mass death, and that there are many ways this can be proven. We do have an
unfortunate record in tracking down the truth about assassinations. Witness
John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Bobby Kennedy, and others.
But life has put me here, and I take it as a commitment, even an honour,
that I can speak for my fallen friends. I have never doubted that it is the
right thing to do.
These were people who lived with good cause. From radiant health to
beautiful cottages, to a wonderful community school, burgeoning medical
facilities, fabulous home-grown food, creative, fulfilling employment,
self-empowerment, freedom from all the scourges of poverty, drugs and
crime.... and most especially, to harmony between the races, ages, genders,
economic classes, the people of Jonestown had an incredible life, a "future
life" they treasured. Next to you or me, most of us, and certainly society
as a whole, they lived with good, even valiant cause. That is much of why
they were put in that position "that position" being their backs up against
the wall! Whether the world will ever comprehend how they met their deaths,
it is time to honour the example and sacrifice of their lives.
As for me, I vowed not to live my life as a victim over this, and I am not.
I do not live in shame. And in my heart, if not in the eyes of the world
all these years, my friends who died at Jonestown do not live on in shame
either. Jim Jones? I knew him when he was strong and vibrant, before the
deteriorations of illness. He was the most passionate, committed champion
for racial and economic equality that I have ever seen or known. He was by
nature a pacifist, and only slowly, through extreme trials, did his mettle
snap. Was he unbalanced? Of course! How do you live under such threats, and
the descent of such a doom (not to mention terminal illness!), without
extreme reactions? I am brutally honest in my book about organisational
problems, my own conflicts, and Jim Jones� overbearing, sometimes ruthless
personality. But I know he loved those people, and that his very heart
would burst rather than wilfully inflict that kind of pain.
The final words on "the final tape" were perhaps as redeeming for a
community that was unfailingly peace-loving, as they were tragic:
"They are not taking our lives. We are not taking their lives. We are
laying down our lives in protest against conditions of an inhumane world.
We are a thousand people who don�t like the way the world is."
I don�t much like the way the world is either, though perhaps not in quite
the same way, and certainly not with the same remedy. It does not make me
want to die. It makes me want to live. To create a future where such
travesties as what was done to Jonestown never again happen. Where it is
not only accepted, but nurtured and encouraged, for people to live together
in peace � all races, all religions, all ages, all backgrounds, in harmony
and acceptance of one another. Let us do it, and not have to face a
slaughter for the trying. I don�t want to see any more "Jonestowns of
death." But I would be thrilled to see more communities in this, our
troubled world, with that calibre of life. Let us, Humanity, learn from
experience. Finally. Please.
Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown
By Laurie Efrein Kahalas (410 pages; perfect bound).
SNAKE DANCE is at a 180-degree tilt from the official view. Although
devastated by a "suicide option" for a community with children, the author
courageously reveals the whole, startling truths, so as to prevent future
catastrophes. Laurie Kahalas relates to all aspects with searing honesty:
traumas, conflicts, cult, philosophical perspective, historical context,
the transformative powers of life and death. Written as an autobiography,
this book is gripping, compelling, moving, touching, and heart-wrenchingly
real.
To order "SNAKE DANCE: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown," go to web
site http://www.jonestown.com, which is linked directly into the
publisher�s site. Or phone Trafford Publishing in Canada, on 250-383-6864.
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