Reply #73: Re Jonestown [View All]

[grantcart]

When it first happened I was newly resident in Thailand and could barely communicate in Thai. So many people came up and asked me to explain what was happening I was completely at a loss to explain it and ended up just telling people I was Canadian and we could never figure out what those crazy Americans were doing.

Fast forward 30 years and I am travelling as a consultant in San Diego and my Thai wife calls me at night and asks me how I was doing, curious about the tone in her voice she said turn on the TV because the "white people" were killing themselves again and she was worried that I might get some contagious virus lol. It was the 'Heaven's Gates' folks taking off for parts unknown who were coincidentally just up the street from where I was staying.