![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, as Talbot notes, it would soon take a darker turn.įor example, Talbot writes that Jim Jones Senior secured women for then-candidate George Moscone for sexual acts. So it seemed a natural fit when Jim Jones – an idealistic minister who preached racial quality and social justice – brought the Temple to San Francisco in the early seventies and acquired a church on Fillmore Street for its services. ![]() It was also when a young, charismatic minister named Cecil Williams took over Glide Memorial Church. Talbot does an excellent job portraying San Francisco in the late sixties, how people rose up and created places for teenagers/young adults to go to, how the drug clinic in the Haight helped people get clean, and how Huckleberry House became the first runaway shelter in the country. After reading the book, I am reminded of the lyric by Grateful Dead frontman – and Bay Area native – Jerry Garcia: “What a long strange trip it’s been.” Included in the trip of course, is Peoples Temple and Jim Jones in the 1970’s. That’s why I was excited to read David Talbot’s Season of the Witch which chronicles San Francisco from the Summer of Love to 1982 when the 49ers won their first Super Bowl. I’ve lived in the Bay Area almost all my life, yet I’m always finding out that there’s still so much I don’t know about where I live. ![]()
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