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Mass death at Jonestown remembered at annual memorial
Bay Area residents attended the Jonestown tragedy’s 36th anniversary at the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland on Tuesday.
Read MoreJonestown memorial at Oakland cemetery provokes catharsis, closure and controversy
On Sunday at Oakland’s Evergreen Cemetery, dozens of people gathered in the sunshine to remember Jonestown at the unveiling of a memorial for those who died in the Peoples Temple mass suicide in 1978. Bring up Jonestown to people who read and watched the news in 1978, and you may hear a story of disgust, anger and shock. But ask the people who were there for this weekend’s service, and you will hear about love, dedication, agony and finally—after 32 years—closure.
Read MoreMemorial unveiled for the 900 Jonestown dead
by LINNEA EDMEIER Nov. 18 – On a grassy hillside in Oakland, overlooking the bay, survivors and loved ones gathered this morning to unveil memorial stones to honor the lives of more than 900 people who died in the Jonestown tragedy thirty years ago today. In 1978 the news from Guyana was unfathomable. A group…
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