Yes, I watched it last night. Interesting how so many people were searching for something more in their lives and so easiy bought into Jone's party line. Was amazed there were so many seniors in the cult. I also wasn't aware that Jones was into the whole "healing" scam, even costuming his secretary as a senior citizen in a wheel chair and the healing her and seeing her running around in the church. Kind of sad really.

I was in 8th grade when this horrible tragedy happened, and I remembered many aspects of it, but I hadn't recalled how much political power Jones had; he actually got Rosalyn Carter to campaign for Jimmy Carter in his church, and also got many of California's top Democrats to pay him some fealty, in part because the positive aspects of his church were so socially progressive. The utter tragedy is that alongside this progressiveness were so many cruel, paranoid, destructive aspects, which culminated in the horrific mass suicide and the killings of Congressman Ryan, the camera people, and others at the airfield. You'd have thought people could have seen how totally crazy he was, but I'm convinced after the last six years that many people are willing to ignore reality completely if they're under enough of a spell. Koolaid drinkers indeed, it's very sad to say. I had forgotten how much political influence was wielded by Jim Jones. Surely someone realized how he was abusing members of his cult. The daughter of the late Congressman Ryan was in a cult herself. She joined the Bhagwan Rajneesh cult. That cult was involved in infecting a salad bar with the salmonella bacteria. I don't know if she still subscribes to the cult's beliefs or has come to her senses.