First Hand Account of Events Leading up to Guyana Mass Deaths: (by Larry Lee Litke, attorney and friend of David Conn at the time) The Downfall of Jim Jones (1980)
Reverend Jim Jones
As detailed in Mr. Litke's account above, David Conn and his Seminole friend George Coker tried to caution the American Indian Movement (AIM) against getting too involved with cult leader Jim Jones.
Unfortunately the contact was reported to Reverend Jones, who misinterpreted federal involvement to mean that the IRS was after him, and that it was time to get out of the country. <More...>
Author David Conn talks about the genesis of his Christian Science Fiction novel LEDNORF'S DILEMMA:
"This book sprang from my thinking and experiences as I confronted the theological confusion of the liberals that paved the way for the rise of the cult leader Jim Jones. LEDNORF'S DILEMMA is a natural consequence of my eight year-long undercover investigation of Jones and his cult.
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"In detailing the scandal behind the Jim Jones-Peoples Temple invasion of California, LEDNORF'S DILEMMA reveals the darkest, behind-the-scenes cover-up at the highest level of a large mainstream denomination. But it also goes deeply into the underlying causes of the new-age church's involvement with San Francisco Bay Area politics and how they led to the Jonestown horror. <More...>
