Published on November 21, 2010 by Admin · no Comments
Jonestown Memorial Ceremony: Jonestown 32nd annual Memorial was held at an Evergreen Cemetery mass grave for Peoples Temple victims, a schism among mourners led to competing ceremonies, one led by a woman who lost 27 family members in the mass s-u-i-c-i-d-e in Guyana, the other by Jim Jones Jr. In 1972, a religious fanatic named Jim Jones set up shop in an abandoned synagogue in the famed Fillmore District of San Francisco. He called it the People's Temple and developed a ministry for the urban citizenry of the Western Addition. The Temple was located at Geary and Fillmore which in 1970 was ground zero of the redevelopment A-2 project which displaced more than 10,000 mostly African American men, women and children. This an area of the city that has since been reserved for the affluent. under the threat that the truth was about to be revealed, on November 18, 1978, Jim Jones ordered everyone of his remaining followers at Jonestown to commit suicide and murder with cyanide-laced red Kool-Aid. nine hundred mostly black men, women and children lost their lives that day and one can only speculate as to why they did it and how did this man get them to do it.
“It’s been 32 years,” said Jones, who lost his parents, his pregnant wife and several other relatives in the mass m-u-r-d-e-r-s and s-u-i-c-i-d-e-s. “I have loved ones and their name is not listed anywhere.”
Norwood, whose family lost 27 relatives in the tragedy, said she would press ahead with her own memorial, even though cemetery management says it is impractical for the site. Asked about the competing plan, she said angrily, “they want the people forgotten, so put their names on the ground.”
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citizenry, family members, jim jones jr, men women, peoples temple, western addition
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