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- Source: Pain of sect massacre lingers 30 years later, Tim Reiterman, AP via the Austin American-Statesman (Texas, USA)
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Now a news editor for Associated Press, Reiterman, 61, says looking back on the deadly incident that occurred during his days as a San Francisco Examiner reporter is not the same.
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When Ryan visited in 1978, Reiterman was a natural to join the press contingent.
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“Every time I write an anniversary piece, it seems like it gets harder rather than easier,” Reiterman said by phone from San Francisco.
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“This one was different in the sense that most of the people I talked to, more than half, were people I had not spoken to for other pieces,” says Reiterman.
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Reiterman, a former AP reporter, joined the Examiner in 1977 and was working as a police reporter in Oakland when word began to spread about the Peoples Temple in San Francisco.
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Reiterman says he has written such stories on the 10th, 20th and 25th anniversaries of the Nov. 18, 1978 tragedy that ended with 900 dead at the hands of leader Jim Jones.
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Reiterman said one reason he has continued to write about the incident is to make clear that it was not a mass suicide, but a mass killing.
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NEW YORK — Since he was wounded outside Jonestown, Guyana, 30 years ago during an attack by members of the Peoples Temple, Tim Reiterman has written numerous anniversary stories about the incident and mass suicide that followed.
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Afrer the 1978 tragedy, Reiterman stayed at the Examiner until 1989, writing a book in 1982 about the tragedy titled “Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones,” with fellow scribe John Jacobs.
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