The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 5th 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 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 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, Meiers detailed the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Central Intelligence Agency's Counter Intelligence Programs of the 1960's and 70's aimed at controlling and observing black and non-white people around the world. Meiers details the CIA MK-ULTRA program, where White scientists studied ways to control and modify human thought, speech and actions (to maintain White Power). Meiers connected these illegal operations to the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Powerful White people with global concerns about the System of White Supremacy wanted both King and Kennedy deceased. During this same period, Rev. Jones traveled to Cuba, Brazil and other parts of South America to study black people, non-white religious practices, and possibly other duties for his White bosses. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the global resistance against "colonialism" in places like British Guiana made many White people extremely apprehensive about the future of the global System of White Power and necessitated CIA/White Supremacist counter measures - which may have included men live Rev. Jim Jones. #COINTELPRO #TheCOWS15Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943#