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Posted By Jayson 1 year ago in ReligionDark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the lawmaker's mission deep in the jungle of Guyana.
With a small entourage, Rep. Leo Ryan had come to investigate the remote settlement built by a California-based church.
While he was there, more than a dozen people had stepped forward: We want to return to the United States, they told him.
Suddenly a powerful wind tore through the central pavilion, riffling pages of my notebook, and the skies dumped torrents. People scrambled for cover as I interviewed the founder of Peoples Temple.
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