My Classmate Who Died at Jonestown Haunts Me

She not only drank the Kool-Aid. She brewed and served it

Photo courtesy: John V Moore/The Jonestown Institute.

Here’s my memory of Thanksgiving weekend, 1978

My fiancée and I were staying at my widowed mother’s house in Belmont, California where I’d spent my first 20 years. The family gathering proceeded with its usual overabundance, despite the…