Thirty Years After Jonestown
Indiana University has educated many remarkable people in its time. There are, however, as with any big school one or two alumni we are less than proud of. One of those for IU is Jim Jones, the leader of the infamous Jonestown massacre, which occurred thirty years ago today. A dark period in our history, you might want to take a look at the remembrance of reporter and survivor Tim Reiterman, which ran in the Herald-Times yesterday ($).
Posted by Cindy Dabney | November 18th, 2008
December 7th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Before Jim Jones led 900 people to their deaths in a cult massacre 30 years ago today, he was just a young Indianapolis pastor who preached a Gospel that appealed to people like Gene and June Cordell. The Cordells, who
December 9th, 2008 at 12:45 am
In the 30 years since Clifford Grieg has seen his brother alive, he has never talked publicly about what happened. Until now. The Boise cabinet maker survived the Jonestown massacre — the murders and mass suicides that killed