Jonestown expert David Conn explains why Boehner’s office missed a huge opportunity If there is one person who is most responsible for the leader of the Jonestown cult not amassing more power within the Democratic Party, it’s David Conn. In the 1970’s Conn knew people inside the cult and attempted to warn church leaders, politicians, […]
As the country focuses on the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, there is another, perhaps even more macabre anniversary taking place. This week marks the 35th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre in Guyana, South America. Nearly one thousand followers of Jim Jones, a Marxist madman who masqueraded as a preacher, were coaxed into drinking […]
In 1978, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) was a legal aid to Rep. Leo Ryan (D-CA), the only U.S. Congressman to be murdered in the line of duty. In 2011, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) almost became the second. Speier barely survived the trip to Jonestown, where an insane preacher had moved his insane Temple, but not […]
