The real story is that Rev. Jim Jones (Love the “Rev” part, just like in “Rev” Al Sharpton - charlatan) was a raging Marxist fanatic who used the cover of religion to create his “cult” of the dispossessed, low economic poor, as W.E. B. DuBois once said, “as cannonfodder for the Communist Party” (or in this case, Jonestown).
Remember, Jones’ own people shoot those who wouldn’t drink the Koolaid as well as Rep. Ryan (D-NY), one of the weirdest leftist members of congress at that time. Unfortunately, they missed killing Jones’ two commie lawyers, id. CPUSA member Charles R. Gary (with whom Hillary did her internship on the Black Panther New Haven torture murder trial re Alex Rackley) and Mark Lane, “Rush to Judgement” the disinformation book about the Kennedy Assassination and “Conversations with Americans”, another hoax book about so-called Vietnam veterans who committed atrocities in Vietnam (Leftist journalist Neil Sheehan, to his credit, discredited this book after many months of actual research revealed that most of those who claimed to have committed atrocities in VN were either not there, not in the military, or not in combat units.
Harvey Milk is his own story and the praising film, I believe it was called simply “MILK” and a documentary about him, left out a lot of what Daniel Flynn has written about.
By the way, for my bonifides, I debated Lane on television in 1970 and basically wiped the studio with him because of his lying and then admitting that he never read any of the VN atrocity reports on what the communists were doing there. This even pissed off the liberal moderator who criticized Lane on air for NOT reading the materials I was showing the audience before he criticized them and me.
Game, set, match with the sane viewers despite the reds packed studio audience.
You’ve got to know the whole story about so-called social leaders (Lane, Jones, Milk, Sharpton, even Ralph Abernathy - who later defected from the reds - because their often is a greater “truth” than what the liberal/left media said and wrote about them.
If half the stories I was told about various people, events and organizations were true, I wouldn’t be typing here at FR, I would own it from the sales of my articles and books.
And yes, in some cases, there are photographs and documents (buried away in hopefully un-destroyed files), that might, yet, see the light of day.
Thanks for filling in details. Will wait for the book.