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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 3 #ReligionOfWhiteSupremacy #RaciallyRestrictedRegions
Description: The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the third 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 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 Congressman Leo Ryan. A few were shot, but most were poisoned with cyanide, just like "Double-0 Swango." For nearly half a century, this...