we lost to martin luther king, kennedy,nedy, john malcolm x.. there was a yearning for a new leader to take control. there were a lot of people who size him up as a charlatan right away. correspondence, and one point he is endorsing nixon. when he came to san francisco he was courting liberals. i don't think most of the people in his movement were cynical. i think you were responding to real needs. it does feel very warm and embracing. it is taking care of the basic human needs. the basic human needs that society should take care of. our society does not take care of these needs. so i totally understand what the attractive -- attraction was. being in environments that took care of basic needs. that there was a corruption that set in at the top. intoer jim was getting drugs too much. he saw the drugs becoming a onger and bigger influence his father. by the time he got here to san francisco, there was a bubble mentality. a fortress mentality. there were gay activists to work closely with harvey milk. harvey was cynically using jim jones to get tho