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A Thousand Lives
The book provides the first history of Jim Jones' church in Jonestown, using 50,00 pages of newly released documents and nearly 1,000 audiotapes found in the colony after the massacre, as well as hundreds of hours of interviews with survivors, former members of People's Temple, and government sources.
Tags: People's Temple; Jim Jones; Guyana
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World's Untold Stories: 25 Years After Midnight
25 years ago a documentary series traveled to Bhopal, a city which suffered the world’s worst industrial disaster that same day. This series focuses on Bhopal and what has changed and what hasn’t. Also, it looks at the lives of the survivors and many of them have given up their lives to speak out about the disaster. “Their experiences tell a story of survival, determination and hope-as they work to help the victims, and ensure that the world never forgets what happened there”.
Tags: India; chemicals; Union Carbide plant; pesticide; rights group; residents; town; environment; safety; medical; money; assistance
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Blackwater Blood Money & Other Scandals
ABCNews.com's "The Blotter" has tracked the operations of one of the most controversial private security companies operating in Iraq, Blackwater. ABC news focused on the investigation following a deadly shooting in Baghdad that left 17 civilians dead. Reporters in the U.S. and in Baghdad followed the investigation by developing relationships with the victims of the shooting and their families, obtaining exclusive documents and developing knowledgeable sources inside the State Department. The team began their investigation by looking behind-the-scenes at Blackwater's effort in Iraq to make compensation settlements with the survivors and victims' families and capped with reporting that one of the Blackwater guards involved in t he shooting signed a secret plea deal to testify against his five indicted co-workers. In the course or reporting, ABC news also uncovered numerous other unreported controversies surrounding Blackwater's operations. Despite being accused of improper use of force, arms trafficking and overbilling, the State Department renewed Blackwater's $1.2 billion contract earlier this year.
Tags: Iraq War; Blackwater; contracting; arms trafficking; improper use of force; U.S. State Department
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(Dis)Service, Fallen and Forgotten
Families of immigrant service members who were killed were never told that they were eligible for immigration benefits among certain immediate family. The Department of Defense nor U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services were informing the relatives of the benefits.
Tags: survivors; posthumous citizenship; casualty; green card; civil rights;
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Three Commentaries
The Memphis Daily News' Lindsay Jones turns her eyes on many topics in these commentaries. First, she writes about a woman who had brain surgery years ago, and her attempts to cope with the after-effects now she has no insurance coverage. Jones contrasts this with Governor Phil Bredesen's "illness from a suspected tick bite and his trip to the vaunted Mayo Clinic." Also, Jones writes of the midterm Senate race pitting Harold Ford, Jr. against Bob Corker; and also the experience of being a Wal-Mart shopper.
Tags: Harold Ford, Jr.; Bob Corker; Wal-Mart; governor Phil Bredesen; medical insurance; Kim Fields; cancer survivors; pre-existing conditions
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Run Over by Metro
Spivak’s four-month investigation looks into fatalities and serious injuries caused by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, which provides the area's public bus service. Included were profiles of survivors and families of victims, detailing their physical, psychological and financial hardships."
Tags: public transit; metro; bus; safety; First transit
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Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
Brigitte Gabriel is a former news anchor in the Middle East who is now based in Washington, D.C. The founder of American Congress For Truth, Gabriel writes this book as a cautionary tale, using her own experiences to make the point that radical Islam groups will continue to be a threat to the United States and its people.
Tags: Terrorism; Islam; radical Islam; religious extremists; Sept. 11, 2001; political correctness; Middle East
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Katrina Investigations
This series of investigations on the local and federal governments' response to Hurricane Katrina revealed numerous mistakes and inefficiencies at multiple levels. The investigation showed mismanagement of the levees, unused buses that could have been used for evacuation, botched supply shipments, corrupt contracting and port police's failure to rescue survivors.
Tags: Hurricane Katrina; New Orleans; hurricane; levee; FEMA; Mike Brown; police; disaster assistance.
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Prisoner of her Past
Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune looks into his elderly mother's disease, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. While many doctors couldn't put a label on the disease until the 1980's, PTSD has become a major topic of discussion among Holocaust survivors.
Tags: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; elderly; Holocaust victims
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Gulag Nation
This story chronicles the systematic human rights abuses at North Korean prisons, also called gulags. The author spoke with survivors and ex-prison workers who illustrate a horrific story of abuse and torture. Kim Jong Il and his regime deny that the camps exist, and up until very recently most other countries have ignored them.
Tags: torture; prisoners; North Korea; dictator