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 [[Department of Health and Human Services|Health, Education, and Welfare]] Joseph Califano, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and other powerful figures. | 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 [[Department of Health and Human Services|Health, Education, and Welfare]] Joseph Califano, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and other powerful figures. |