I urge everyone to read the link Tone Loc posted and scroll down to the Jonestown peice.
It is a grossly under reported history of how the Democrat politicans and the media in the Northern California and beyond went out of their way to cover for Christian hating, Marxist Jim Jones for petty political gain.
The only local politican and media people who dared to question and investigate Jones were attacked and some killed.
The one early investigative journalist of Jim Jones was Les Kinsolving who is currently keeping Robert Gibbs honest in White House Press conferences. Kinsolving wrote the first expose on the Temple in1972 and the series was shut down due to legal and political pressure from Jones.
The two leftist lawyers for the Temple, Charles Garry (famous Black Panther lawyer) and Mark Lane (leftist lawyer and author) talked their way out of Jonestown the day of the massacre and fled in to the jungle while hundreds of mostly black children were being killed. Jones who was hailed as a civil rights hero and progressive community organizer murdered more African-Americans than those lynched in the south during 20th century.

As we approach the 31st anniversary of the massacre in Jonestown, it is worth exploring all of Rev Jim's supporters such as Gov Jerry Brown, Willie Brown, Mayor Moscone, Harvey Milk, Rosylin Carter and a photo with Walter Mondale. They and more hardcore leftists had good feelings about "progressive community organizer" Jim Jones.