Extra Credit Questions

[Joe Di Cola]

(01-22-2013 06:38 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I was looking for Leo Ryan and the Jonestown investigation. I just finished reading A Thousand Lives, and it scared the hell out of me to think that a thousand people could follow such a nut case to their deaths.

Joe, the author gives Ryan's death as an assassination. Why do you disagree?

Laurie,

I didn't realize that it was characterized that way by the author. I guess I was not sure that he was "targeted" as seems to be the case with assassination; thanks for sharing the insight from the book.

Joe