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There will
be a memorial service at Evergreen Cemetery beginning at 11 A.M. on
November 18, 2003 marking the 25th anniversary of the deaths in Jonestown,
Guyana. Pastor Jynona Norwood will preside. The cemetery is located
at 6450 Camden Avenue, Oakland, California. For more information,
contact Pastor Norwood at drnorwood@jones-town.org,
or call (310) 419-3930. A panel discussion on "Jonestown 25 Years Later: A Look Back" will be held on Wednesday, November 19 at the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. See "Jonestown 25 Years Later" for more information. Three theatrical readings of Hyacinth Thrash's memoirs, "The Onliest One Alive" will be held in Indianapolis in November. See Indianapolis Theatre Production for more information. Hue Fortson Jr. is hoping to touch base with other survivors at the 25th Anniversary Memorial Service. "'Do, Lord, Remember Me': Peoples Temple and Jonestown 25 Years Later" is an audio-documentary and call-in show airing Tuesday, November 18, 8:00-11:00 p.m. on WBAI-FM 99.5 (the New York tri-state area). It will be simulcast on http://www.wbai.org. The "Sunday
Salon" with Larry Bensky will feature a two-hour program on Peoples
Temple and Jonestown, on Pacifica affiliates KPFA, 94.1 FM in Northern
California, 88.1 FM in Central California, and KPFK, 90.7 FM in Southern
California. The program will air on Sunday morning, 16 November, from
9:00-11:00 a.m. and will begin by re-playing a radio documentary produced
in 1978. On-air guests include Hue Fortson, a former member of Peoples
Temple and a resident of Jonestown; Donnetter Lane, director of the
San Francisco Council of Churches who was responsible for getting
unidentified bodies buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland; and Fielding
McGehee III, editor of the jonestown report. |
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