[GeronL]

Even Wikipedia admits he was a commie who used religious guise to lead people away from God.

[cripplecreek]

Yup he brought social justice to the people.

[Broker]

Jonestown massacre forever coined the expression “they drank the kool-aid!”

[kbennkc]

I find it strange those who gave him legitimacy in California and nationwide such as Rosalyn Carter have avoided any criticism.

Mrs. Carter

Governor Moonbeam Brown

[headsonpikes]

Please, people - you’re all so judgmental...a communist is just a liberal in a hurry!

[Milhous]

At one session [President Reagan] fingered a jelly bean, joked:

"They tell me the purple ones are poison," then nonchalantly popped it into his mouth ... (link)

[Jack Hydrazine]

Obama’s mother met and talked with Jim Jones one time many moons ago.

[randog]

And in Jonestown Jim was going to be the man. Only when God was killed could men return to the garden and the sun and the rain arrive overhead again.

Too bad for Jim & Co. that he forgot to kill the snake when he got back to the garden.

[yarddog]

I saw a movie many years ago about Jim Jones. They showed his Father as being a KKK member. Really strange.

[KC_Lion]

Yet Again I encourage all FReepers to watch the History Channel Show Jonestown: Paradise Lost while it is not as Good as Saddam and the Third Reich it does contain important information that few people are aware of.

[Amberdawn]

I remember being a young child and seeing the video of this mass suicide on t.v. as I sat down to dinner. It disturbed me to no end and made me lose my appetite. Horrible.

[editor-surveyor]

The “church” that Jones used to attend, in Lafayette, California, still has communist pastors, and are proud of it.