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#14 - God's Socialist, pt. 4: Sex, Drugs & Revolution

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The Story of Jim Jones, the Human Rights Director

He comes back from cuba to indianapolis, and the mayor of indianapolis creates the position of director of the india human rights commission. He was the only applicant for a part time job that paid over 60 thousand dollars a year. After doing who knows what for six months, on april eleventh, 19 62, he shows up in bellahorizante, brazil. And that's when things actually get very weird. Just as things are getting going, just eight months after being appointed the human rights director for a major american city, he leaves it all behind on the very thin pretext of scouting a safe haven from nuclear war. Within a week his

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