Silver Lake to Suicide: Rare Photos and Letters from Jonestown Victims

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Kimberly Gomez

The briefcase that belonged to elderly Silver Lake residents Herbert and Freda Alexander contained press clippings, photos and their daughter Phyllis' letters from Jonestown.

Correspondence found in a concealed suitcase details one family's connection to the most infamous religious mass suicide in American history. Read Barry Isaacson's "From Silver Lake to Suicide: One Family's Secret History of the Jonestown Massacre."

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