Our Father Who Art in Hell: The Life and Death of Jim Jones
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- Synopsis
- On November 18, 1978, an event unique in human history took place. In a remote region of Guyana, an elemental, disintegrating country just above the equator in South America, 913 followers of a captivating American preacher named Reverend Jim Jones joined in a mass suicide, drinking poison (or having it injected into them) and lying down quietly to die together. Their ritual followed the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan, a flashy, iconoclastic California Democrat from the suburbs of San Francisco, where Jim Jones had built his church called the People's Temple ("the Temple") into a large and powerful force in the mid-1970s. Congressman Ryan is the only congressman in American history to be assassinated.
- Copyright:
- 1981
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 338 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780812909630
- Publisher:
- Crown Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 07/08/10
- Copyrighted By:
- James Reston, Jr.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.