Candidate Jimmy Carter asked his wife [[Rosalynn Carter]] to contact Jim Jones. She held a private dinner with him and had the Peoples Temple leader introduce her at the 1976 grand opening of the San Francisco Democratic Party Headquarters. Some 600 of the 750 listeners were delivered in temple buses an hour and a half before the rally. The organizer, who had called Jones for help, remembered how gratified she’d felt when she first saw the Jones followers spilling off the buses: {{quotebox|“You should have seen it – old ladies on crutches, whole families, little kids, blacks, whites. Made to order."<ref>https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=14026</ref>}} Without Jones, Mrs. Carter might have spoke to a half-empty room. | Candidate Jimmy Carter asked his wife [[Rosalynn Carter]] to contact Jim Jones. She held a private dinner with him and had the Peoples Temple leader introduce her at the 1976 grand opening of the San Francisco Democratic Party Headquarters. Some 600 of the 750 listeners were delivered in temple buses an hour and a half before the rally. The organizer, who had called Jones for help, remembered how gratified she’d felt when she first saw the Jones followers spilling off the buses: {{quotebox|“You should have seen it – old ladies on crutches, whole families, little kids, blacks, whites. Made to order."<ref>https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=14026</ref>}} Without Jones, Mrs. Carter might have spoke to a half-empty room. |