Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, whose life was forever altered by the 1978 Jonestown massacre, told The San Francisco Examiner on Monday she is opposed to plans to include Jim Jones’ name on a memorial to the victims.
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A battle has erupted on how to memorialize the more than 900 people who died in the mass suicide ordered by the late Rev. Jim Jones, whose Peoples Temple was headquartered in The City before it moved to Guyana to establish a utopian town.
At the heart of this fight is whether Jones’ name should be included on a memorial to the tragedy.
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