The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the premier study session on Michael Meiers Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? Gus selected this book in spite of numerous book club listeners announcing their hopes that we read a book on this 1970's cult. This infamous mass murder has countless parallels to our recent literary selections - Columbine, Michael Swango, and The Hart murder-suicide. The Rev. Jim Jones, a White man born in Indiana, took a thousand people from California to Guyana, South America. On November 18th, 1978, Jones killed nearly all 1,000 of his mostly black followers and Congressman Leo Ryan. A few dozen were shot, but most were poisoned with cyanide, just like "Double-0 Swango." For nearly half a century, this event has been conventionally understood as a bunch of brainwashed loons following a White charlatan to their demise in the jungle. Meiers work suggests something far more nefarious. The historical context of when Jonestown occurred is extremely important to processing the information in this book. Gus thinks listeners should know there are a couple books theorizing about possible CIA involvement in Jonestown. #COINTELPRO #TheCOWS15Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943# #AnticipatoryDread