As an aside, we have, in our church, (indianapolis) a lady who used to go to Jim Jones church here. [This was before he left the midwest and went to California - then to Guyana.]
She says his preaching was ok in the early days...
You may not have noticed it, but San Francisco is as far West, in terms of lines of longitude, as Guyana is East of Indianapolis.
This sort of relocation is typical of folks with a peculiar type of schizophrenia ~ the name of which I've forgotten at the moment.
As an aside to your post #1115, and your reference to Jim Jones...my aunt lived in northern California, in Redwood valley, just up the hill from the Jim Jones Church, that he had established in that little town...I was there visiting in the summer of 1977...my aunt never went to his church, but warned my whole family about his church...too many odd things had happened at that compound, which led many in that town, to suspect, that many things were so wrong with that church...my aunt, said going by there late at nite, every so often, one could catch a glimpse of what she called 'armed guards'...and there any number of really odd things going on there...not that is necessarily anything wrong with 'odd' things happening, but still it was an indication to my aunt that all was not as it should be for a church...this was her own opinion, of course, but borne out to be true in light of what happened not all that much later...
I have not been back to Redwood valley for a couple of years now..I think that at one time that church building had been turned into a community center...and Jones did build several buildings in the town center, which he controlled and operated as stores of some sort...today those buildings are still there now and are little stores, like a bakery, and other businesses, tho run by the local people of that town...
While I was down there during the 1989 and 1990, one of Jones followers who did not die in Guyana, set up a political office in Ukiah, 7 miles from the church...he was running for some sort of political office...people there still remembered him, and he lost the election...
Just thought you might like a little further info on Jim Jones...