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About that Jonestown "candidate"
by John Gorenfeld

An above-average piece, Mr. Hitchens. But when you talk about the "candidate who followed the 'Rev' Jim Jones to a Kool-Aid Resort...this really happened," are you talking about Rep. Leo Ryan (D-CA), the only member of the U.S. House of Representatives to die in the line of duty? He wasn't joining the cult, he was investigating it.

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