An Anniversary to Remember [Updated]

Rep. Jackie Speier remembers those dark days in November 1978 in this article she wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Jim Jones, Jr. also recalls those times. His health today is not good:

Recently Jones was diagnosed with kidney failure. He will need dialysis and a transplant. He says the way he looks on it, 30 years ago he "had the opportunity to miss death" and now he attempts to live each day fully, volunteering at school and church activities and working on "how I can impact my world. I have been blessed by the grace of God."

He lives in the Bay Area and has a wife and three sons.
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Here is more vintage news footage of the massacre:



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From "Jonestown Archives" on YouTube is this two-part report from NBC at the time.

Part One:



Part Two:




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