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The Story Is Not the Defectors, It's the People Who Are Staying
There were enough people who wanted to leave that they were going to have to be brought to the airstrip in two trips. Jim's lawyers are telling him, look, having two dozen people out of a thousand wanting to leave, that is not a problem. The sky suddenly, very suddenly, just went black and thunder tore across it. And wind starts ripping through the camp. As torrents of rain began pouring down, heavier than anyone who was there could ever remember having seen in jonestown in the whole year that they'd been there. A temple member and former viet nonvet named don sly grabbed the congressman from behind and said, you're going to die, mother fucker