Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco, outside Jones' remaining temple, a crowd gathered despite a chilly rain. Some were anguished?and angry?relatives of those who died in Jonestown. Inside the temple, Guy Young, 43, said he had "one son and a son-in-law that I know are alive." Then he sobbed, and another member explained: "His wife, four daughters, son and two grandchildren have been reported dead." Young recovered and added: "I don't regret one moment they were there. That was the most happy and most rewarding days of their lives...
...bickering, the probes, and the fear of hit men stalking their prey will not soon end. Yet the blame for the tragedy at Jonestown must rest primarily on Jim Jones. Even his 19-year-old son Stephan admitted, "I can almost say I hate this man." His father, Stephan said, "claimed he was afraid of nothing, which I know was bull. My father was a very frightened...
...son and adopted other children, ultimately eight in all, including blacks and Koreans. He once heard an affluent black doctor at an adoption agency reject a child because he was "too black." Snapped Jones: "Well, I'll take him then." The mayor appointed him the first full-time director of the Indianapolis human rights commission. Jones became increasingly embittered at the racism he encountered. His wife was spat upon while walking with their black child, and when one of his Korean children was killed in a car accident, he later said, he could find white undertaker to bury...
...mother. "They need much less attention and entertainment than other children their age. They're not anxious about whether other people approve of them. They are moving in the direction of becoming truly mature people who have judgments, peacefulness and care for each other." Says her eleven-year-old son: "For some reasons I'm lucky and for some reasons I'm not. I know lots of things other children don't know. I know how to plant seeds and how to grow a garden. Last spring I read Tolkien and all of James Herriot's books...
BORN. To Michael Bilandic, 55, mayor of Chicago, and Heather Morgan Bilandic, 35: their first child, a son; in Chicago. Name: Michael Morgan...