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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C. O. W. S. Michael Meiers' Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? Part 9 #TwinkieDefense
Description: The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 9th study session on Michael Meiers' Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment. This infamous mass murder has countless parallels to our recent literary selections - Columbine, Michael Swango, and The Hart murder-suicide. The Rev. Jim Jones, a White man born in a Racially Restricted Region of Indiana, took a thousand people from California to Guyana, South America. On November 18th, 1978, Jones killed nearly all 1,000 of his mostly black followers and orchestrated the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan. Some were shot, but most were poisoned with cyanide, just like "...