Tim Reiterman is a prizewinning journalist who extensively covered Jonestown for the San Francisco Examiner. He was wounded in the Guyanese jungle airstrip attack that killed a U.S. congressman, plus three reporters, and a Peoples Temple defector. A longtime writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, Reiterman worked for the past eight years as Northern California News Editor for the Associated Press and now heads AP’s global environmental reporting team. Reiterman originally published Raven in 1982. His collaborator John Jacobs was a widely respected journalist who died in 2000
“The definitive account of the Jonestown massacre; Reiterman was
among a group of journalists, concerned relatives and congressional
aides to accompany Congressman Leo Ryan on the ill-fated journey to
Guyana to survey Jonestown.” –Rolling Stone
“The seminal book on the story of Jonestown.” –Associated Press
“Unquestionably emerges as the most valuable book on Jonestown to
date…Every piece of the puzzle is here.”—David Evanier, National
Review
“An extraordinary inquiry into the individual pathology of Jim
Jones…To assemble this portrait obviously required staggering
research. The writing is sensitive and lucid. The result is a
document which will illumine a dark corner of our era.”—Daniel
Schorr
“After reading Raven, there should be no more questions…A tour de
force on the Rev. James Jones and the events that led his 900
disciples to drink poisoned punch on Nov. 18, 1978.” —Charlie
Frush, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“This stands as the definitive history …carefully compiled and
completely horrifying.” —Marshall Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle
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