Daniel Flynn, “Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days that Shook San Francisco”
Willie Brown was a supporter of Jim Jones, whom he compared to Einstein and Martin Luther King.
<><>Rev Jones was a big hit with San Francisco Democrats,
<><>Dems gave Rev Jones a seat on the city housing commission.
<><>Brown wrote Fidel Castro, urging the Communist dictator to extend an official state visit to Jones,
<><>Brown told Castro Rev Jim was his “close personal friend”
<><>and that Rev Jim was a highly trusted brother in the “struggle for liberation.”
Reality check: Jim Jones is infamous as the leader of the Cali-based People’s Temple religious group, and for the Jonestown Massacre, when he fed his followers poisoned Kool aid leading to the Nov 1978 mass murder-suicide of more than 900 members of the California group he inveigled into joining a commune in the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana.