about guns being in jonestown and about mass suicide rehearsals.everyone stood in a line, went up and drank this red, you know, it was kind of a -- tasted like that thing, the drink little children drink but you have to put a lot of sugar in it first. >> kool-aid. >> kool-aid but without sugar. that's what it was. i don't know. it had a horrible taste initially. you kind of think, well, maybe there is something in there. people would file up, get the drink and get on the other side. >> you are telling me this man took 1,100 people and gathered them together. >> well, he does every day. yeah. >> and he said, drink this poison. >> yeah. >> and they drank it? >> that's right. >> you drank it? >> yeah. >> that story was what kind of got a lot of the families of the members, that got them really alarmed. they were concerned about this kind of, well, borderline mad stuff that got people concerned back here. >> we wanted to see for ourselves because we had been receiving conflicting accounts of what life was like in jonestown. >> california congressman le

. >> when i walked out of jonestown i made a promise to those people that were being murdered there that that i would not ever forget what happened or forget their story.

stable political figure that the city needed after all the trauma that went through in the 1970s with jonestown, the people's temple, the assassinations of the mayor and harvey and so on. the city triumphed in end because of the 49ers, and people don't think of sports team of having that mystical power, but i think the 49ers, a team that kind of mirrored san fransisco itself, a very poetic coach, bill walsh, some ways in a gladiator, brought the city together for the first super bowl victory in 1982. the way the city dealt with aids, i think, was very significant. here's a city who went through very fractious times over gay rights, gay liberation, violence directed against gays on the streets here, and the city could have reeled backwards into the abyss at the point. they didn't know how the virus was spread, there was panic beginning to arise in san fransisco and throughout the country. people didn't know whether they could eat in restaurants where gays were working or even go to clothing stores, and once again, though, the city came together though, and, again, because of dianne feinstein's l

. >> andy calling from jonestown pennsylvania. what do you think it means, andes?y left in this country any more. >> good question. yeah. >> because for several reasons first of all, if scott walker with purchase the governor's office through money donated to him, or if mitt romney will be able to purchase the presidency i don't consider that democracy. >> it's not. >> that's exactly what happened. >> isn't it called plutocracy. >> yeah, or just i don't know. high crime. but he, yeah, he bought the governor, koch brothers bought the governor's office for him two years ago, and they bought it back for him last night. >> yeah. there is another saying i question the validity of what we call our democracy. if people can use something like the birther conspiracy theory and get votes from it, you know, i mean i mean, i consider a democracy where the politicians debate the issues. my program is better than your program because of this and, you know, vice versa. >> i know. andy, sadly, those days have kind of come and gone. hey, quickly barbara lee, congressman from califo