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Today was the 30-year anniversary of the Jonestown massacre.
Days before more than 900 member of the Peoples Temple church committed suicide or were murdered in Guyana, former congressman Leo Ryan was killed at Jonestown by sect members. Sen. Jackie Speier, an aide to Ryan in 1978, and was also shot in Jonestown.
Speier, Ryan's daughters, and a few surviving members met in San Mateo today at a ceremony renaming a post office after the late congressman.
A memorial wall was also unveiled this morning at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland.
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From left, Rev. Amos Brown, Jonestown survivor Stanley Clayton, Juana Norwood, and Dr. Jynona Norwood react after the unveiling of a memorial wall as they reach to touch victims names following the 30th Anniversary Jonestown memorial service at the Evergreen cemetery in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. Thirty years after the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, dozens of people touched by the tragedy came together for the annual memorial service and to see the first sections of a memorial wall. Over 900 people lost their lives in the Jonestown tragedy in 1978. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Nice to see a fitting memorial and the renaming of the post office is a nice touch as well.
I was too young in 1978 to understand what happened.
I no longer use the "drinking kool aid" meme any longer.
I was never 100% certain whether the kool aid meme referred to Jim Jones' Bad kool aid or Ken Kesey's Good kool aid. I am pretty sure in most people's minds it's the Bad, even though I never heard it in use until the 90s, by which time both Jonestown and the Magic Bus were the distant past for most people.
Besides, the Clinton and Bush administrations have given us an unlimited supply of fresh ironic memes, so we can put the old ones to rest.
Don't worry- the cult of Obama has successfully carried the Kool-aid meme into the 21st century!