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Cult city Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 days that shook San Francisco

"In November 1978, the Reverend Jim Jones orchestrated the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America's first openly gay elected officials--and a vocal supporter of Jim Jones--is assassinated in San Francisco's City Hall. A...

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Main Author: Flynn, Daniel J. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Wilmington, DE : ISI Books, [2018]
Subjects:
Milk, Harvey.
Jones, Jim, > 1931-1978.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
Cults > California > History > 20th century.
Cults > Guyana > History > 20th century.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 20th century.
San Francisco Bay Area > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • "A struggle against oppression"
  • "Ever westward"
  • "I saw that he had powers"
  • "Harvey Milk is a nut"
  • "To Harvey Milk, a good friend"
  • "I think they stole the election"
  • "It was very freaky"
  • "A leopard never changes its spots"
  • "Grass, gays, and godlessness"
  • "Such greatness I have found at Jim Jones' Peoples' Temple"
  • "He Didn't like betrayal"
  • "Let's get the fuck out of here"
  • "We committed an act of revolutionary suicide"
  • "I hope Dan White's got an alibi"
  • "We do not engage in sanitizing the facts."

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