Difference between revisions of "Jim Jones"
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| + | Harvey Milk provided legitimacy to Jim Jones. Milk spoke at Peoples Temple. Milk praised the Temple in his column in the ''Bay Area Reporter''. He lobbied on Jones’s behalf to President [[Jimmy Carter]], Secretary of [[Health, Education, and Welfare]] Joseph Califano, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and other powerful figures. | ||
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Revision as of 04:01, February 5, 2019
Jim Jones, was the head of the Peoples Temple, a progressive Democrat activist group in San Fransisco in the 1970s.[1] After fleeing the United States with about 1,000 members in 1977 due to several investigations, Jones led the group of socialists in an act of "revolutionary suicide to protest the inhumane conditions of this world." The group feared a fascist takeover of the United States. Days later, a moderate Democrat murdered two prominent Democrats that Jones was instrumental in getting elected, Mayor George Moscone and city councilman Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist.
Jim Jones was an avowed atheist.[2] Jones was frustrated with opposition to communism within the United States which lead him to ask, "How can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church."[3][4]
Socialism
Harvey Milk
Jim Jones promoted gay rights, which appealed to Harvey Milk. Jones provided Milk's campaigns with “volunteers,” a printing press, and publicity through the Peoples Temple newspaper, the Peoples Forum, with a readership of a half million.
Harvey Milk provided legitimacy to Jim Jones. Milk spoke at Peoples Temple. Milk praised the Temple in his column in the Bay Area Reporter. He lobbied on Jones’s behalf to President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph Califano, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and other powerful figures.
Willie Brown
Jerry Brown
Walter Mondale
Rosalyn Carter
References
- ↑ Jim Jones, The Most Admired Democrat of The 1970s, Censored Info, youtube
- ↑ An untitled collection of reminiscences by Jim Jones
- ↑ Wessinger, Catherine (2000), How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate, Seven Bridges Press, ISBN 978-1-889119-24-3
- ↑ Jones, Jim. "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 134". Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University