[Arizona Carolyn]

Interesting. The longer I'm on FR, the more I realize how hoodwinked I was by the media, even though I read and studied things on my own and was pretty well versed in many subjects.

There is just so much out there to learn and unlearn (like your revelation here) and the greatest thing about FR is bringing together people to teach one another and discussing rather than swallowing the koolaid (sorry, unfortunately, that comment just seemed to fit)...

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

In this particular case, the media was also fooled. Informatin was pretty hard to get, and it was days before the bodies were discovered. Remember, it was a pretty isolated place.

Lots of mischeif could have happened in that time interval.

If anything, any cover up would have been because Jones rubbed elbows with lots of important people, including Ruth Carter Stapleton, the Sister of President Carter, and a well known speaker in the Charismatic movement.

While Stapleton was certainly NOT involved with any wrongdoing connected with Jones and the People's Temple, her slight association with Jones would have caused the Carter Administration a great deal of grief that it did not need at that time...as the events of 1979 would certainly prove.