Jim Jones knew Congressman Ryan's visit could ruin Jonestown. 'We prefer death to this kind of harassment,' he told officials.
When Jones learned the Congressman was bringing reporters, he was furious. Ever sincein the late summer of 1977, he'd been fending off media inquiries. Before the investigation ran, Jones had been the darling of San Francisco. His integrated church ran a soup kitchen, offered free medical care to the indigent, provided free daycare for single working mothers.
New West magazine investigation into Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. Jones was furious about the magazine article.Jones fled for Guyana before the issue hit newsstands, where he alternately sedated himself into indifference and cursed a blue streak over Jonestown's ham radio. Meanwhile his aides in California organized a mass exodus, rushing to put his followers on planes bound for South America before their relatives could read the expose and try to impede them from going.
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