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To: meyer; Sabertooth; Dog; JohnathanRGalt; All
re post no. 1487 and November 18...stepping back in history
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"Tragic Truths (25 Years After Jonestown)"
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | November 16, 2003 | Sandi Dolbee

Posted on 11/16/2003 4:40 PM PST by Scenic Sounds

"They left California in search of a Promised Land of socialism, equality and fulfillment – a utopia that they would carve out in a jungle wilderness in South America.

Instead, they found death.

On Nov. 18, 1978, the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana, better known as Jonestown, became the site of one of the worst mass deaths in the history of religious movements. Out of a population of roughly 1,000 in the wilderness near the Venezuelan border, more than 900 men, women and children died, most from a grape-flavored vat of cyanide punch."


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1,512 posted on 11/16/2003 5:37:50 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy
Does anyone else out there have a real uneasy feeling in the pit of their stomach? I can't explain it. Something just doesn't feel right to me. I'm really uneasy about the next 7 days or so. My instincts are usually right.
1,513 posted on 11/16/2003 5:45:15 PM PST by Mossad1967
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