I’m not going to say more here because it is way off topic and people have been killed. Just get out the newspaper microfiches and read some of the obscure stories coming out of the West Coast at that time.
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Re Deaths in 1978:
Well, Herbert Humphrey, a Pope, Jim Jones, and a Rockefeller died in 1978...
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/died-1978.php