The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 13th study session on Michael Meiers' Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment. 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 a Racially Restricted Region of 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 orchestrated the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan. Some 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 black loons following a White charlatan to their demise in the jungle. Meiers' work suggests something far more nefarious. Last week, we began the White Knight chapter, and Meiers told us that he knows this case has been widely investigated. Consequently, he would be focused on more neglected aspects of the carnage in Guyana. Gus thinks that when this book was first published more than 30 years ago, readers were probably more informed about the details of Jonestown than those of us reading all this in the 21st century. We learn about Jones' premeditated plotting to poison everyone in the commune. He ordered the poison in advance and strategically reconfigured millions of dollars in secret international accounts. Meiers emphasizes that all of the black participants in Jonestown had to be slaughtered to make certain the details of the experiment were never publicized. #PlanetOfTheApes #TheCOWS15Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943#