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===Huey Newton===
===Huey Newton===
:{{See also|Black Panthers}}
:{{See also|Black Panthers}}
In 1973 [[Huey Newton]] published a book called ''Revolutionary Suicide''. It was a tome on the latest hip [[cultural Marxist]] thought. {{quotebox|“The concept of revolutionary suicide is not defeatist or fatalistic. On the contrary, it conveys an awareness of reality in combination with the possibility of hope—reality because the revolutionary must always be prepared to face death, and hope because it symbolizes a resolute determination to bring about change.”}} In Jones reading, Jones failed to distinguish between “revolutionary suicide” and “reactionary suicide”—surrender in response to frustrating conditions—the concept appears so ill-thought through as to make misunderstandings probable.
Newton was a [[narcotic]s addict. Jones and Newton had the same lawyer, Charles Garry.
In January 1977 Jones] visited Huey Newton in [[Havana]], Cuba.<ref>{{cite book | author = Reiterman, Tim, with John Jacobs | title = Raven: The Untold Story of Reverend Jim Jones and His People | publisher = Dutton | year = 1982 | isbn = 978-0-525-24136-2 | page = 284}}</ref>
Newton spoke to Temple members via shortwave expressing support for Jones during one of the Temple's "White Nights".<ref>{{cite book | author = Reiterman and Jacobs | title = Raven: The Untold Story of Reverend Jim Jones and His People | publisher = | year = 1982 | isbn = | page = 369}}</ref>
Newton's cousin, Stanley Clayton, was one of the few residents of Jonestown to escape the area before the 1978 mass murder of 900 Temple members by Jones and his fanatics through [[forced suicide]].<ref name="reiterman369"/>
===Hubert Humphrey===
===Hubert Humphrey===