{"id":114434,"date":"2022-05-20T16:51:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114434"},"modified":"2023-11-16T08:35:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:35:41","slug":"rodney-williams-letter-to-burnham-supporting-pt-8-77","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114434","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Williams letter to Burnham supporting, PT 8\/77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LL-5-c<\/p>\n<p>[Handwriting: \u201cOriginal mailed 8\/12\/77\u201d, \u201ccopy\u201d written twice]<\/p>\n<p>850 Bryant Street, Room 421<br \/>\nSan Francisco, CA 94103<\/p>\n<p>August 11, 1977<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister L.F.S. Burnham<br \/>\nOffice of the Prime Minister<br \/>\nBrickdam<br \/>\nGeorgetown, Guyana<\/p>\n<p>Dear Prime Minister Burnham:<\/p>\n<p>This letter is in reference to Rev. Jim Jones whom I have known for about two years. Prior to that time I knew of his work in the San Francisco Community.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Jones has been very supportive of local programs designed to rehabilitate ex-offenders. As the past Director of the Police Community Relations Unit of the San Francisco Police Department, I personally know that members of his organization were instrumental in abating one of San Francisco&#8217;s most serious social problems existing in the Fillmore District of our City.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\n[signature]<br \/>\nRodney E. Williams<\/p>\n<p>REW:vn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL-5-c [Handwriting: \u201cOriginal mailed 8\/12\/77\u201d, \u201ccopy\u201d written twice] 850 Bryant Street, Room 421 San Francisco, CA 94103 August 11, 1977 Prime Minister L.F.S. Burnham Office of the Prime Minister Brickdam Georgetown, Guyana Dear Prime Minister Burnham: This letter is in reference to Rev. Jim Jones whom I have known for about two years. Prior to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":88356,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114434","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125142,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114434\/revisions\/125142"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}