Leigh Fondakowski

Fondakowski is a New York-based playwright, screenwriter, author and director. She was the head writer of The Laramie Project and an Emmy-nominated co-screenwriter for the film adaptation of Laramie with HBO Films. Leigh is the author of the book Stories from Jonestown.

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The Story of the Jonestown Massacre Is About Much More Than Jim Jones. We've Been Fighting to Tell It for Decades

Forty-three years ago, on November 18, 1978, 918 Americans died in a remote jungle in Guyana, South America. One was a U.S. Congressman, three were journalists and 914 were residents of the Peoples Temple agricultural...

By Leigh Fondakowski and Margo Hall
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