[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.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I hadn't thought of that, but you make some excellent points there and heaven knows, Carter certainly had a lot of "friends" in that part of the world who with some quid-pro-quo would help him out.

and, yes, I do remember how desolate it was there.