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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 2
Description: The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the second study session on Michael Meiers' Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? Gus selected this book in spite of numerous book club listeners announcing their hopes that we read a book on this 1970's cult. 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...