Slaughter in a quiet suburb
Yesterday, while putting together awards, a too-long deferred project, I happened to click onto WBZ radio, Boston‘s CBS affiliate. The events in Newtown were just being broadcast. They didn’t know...
View ArticleDON’T DRINK THE KOOL AID – THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE
If you are my age or anywhere near it, you remember the Jonestown Massacre. Even if you are a lot younger than I am, if in 1978 you were old enough to watch TV news, you could hardly forget it. Now...
View ArticleA BIZARRE ANNIVERSARY – THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE, NOVEMBER 18, 1978
If you are old enough, you remember the Jonestown massacre on November 18, 1978. Today’s the 35th anniversary of a tragic event that shocked the world. If you could read a newspaper or watch TV, you...
View ArticleDON’T DRINK THE KOOL AID – THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE
There has been an inexplicable upsurge of interest in this subject. So here’s a piece of weird and rather horrible American history that is rarely mentioned anymore. Perhaps everyone would just as soon...
View ArticlePOSTSCRIPT: THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE
There has been an upsurge of interest in this subject in the past few months, coinciding with the discovery of the remains of some previously unidentified victims at a funeral home in Delaware. So...
View ArticleTHE JONESTOWN MASSACRE – NOVEMBER 18, 1978
Another year, another anniversary. It seems, given recent events, especially timely to remember where hatred leads. Terror, born in hatred and nurtured by evil, doesn’t always come from somewhere else....
View ArticleANOTHER MASS SHOOTING. HO HUM.
IS SHOOTING PEOPLE A FORM OF ATHLETICS? I arose today to reports of yet one more mass shooting. Even bigger than the one in Orlando, there are 50 people dead and hundreds more in the hospital. This...
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