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For those who were there, Jonestown's a part of each day

Title: For those who were there, Jonestown's a part of each day
Date: Wednesday, 18 November 1998
Publisher: Seattle Times
Author: Tim Reiterman
Main source: community.seattletimes.nwsource.com

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IN THE '70s, Jim Jones moved his Peoples Temple from San Francisco to Guyana to escape what he saw as persecution. In the U.S., the temple had run a free clinic and a drug-rehab program, but reports from Guyana began detailing brutality. Tim Reiterman was there when 913 people died in what we now call "Jonestown." OAKLAND, Calif. - For 20 years now, they have come to a grassy hillside overlooking San Francisco Bay to share tears, hugs and their private ... [Read the rest at community.seattletimes.nwsource.com]