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Julia Scheeres's Books

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Oct.11.2011
“I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me.”  —Jim Jones, September 6, 1975 In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons...
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Sep.06.2005
Life in Midwest America was far from a pastoral paradise for Julia Scheeres. Her family's move to rural Indiana dropped Julia and her adopted brother David into a nightmare from which they would not emerge until years later. David, a black boy adopted by the Scheeres family at the age of three, became a target for the inbred racist piglets of the rural surroundings, as did...