Bill Press: Today's Republican Party cult: Destroy America
To say it was shocking is the understatement of all time. For those of us living in the Bay Area, the news of the Jonestown Massacre was the equivalent of an earthquake, monsoon, and tornado striking at the same time.
A year earlier, Jim Jones, pastor of San Francisco's "People's Temple" and pal of the city's Democratic politicians had lured most members of his congregation to a compound called Jonestown in the jungles of Guyana. On Nov. 18, 1978, after
