Rep. Speier on Surviving Jonestown and Today's Politics

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 2, 2019

Jackie Speier, U.S. Representative from California (D-14) (San Francisco and the peninsula) and the author of UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage & Fighting Back (Little A, 2018), talks about her personal story as a survivor of the Jonestown massacre in 1978, and today's news and politics as the new Congress is about to begin its new session.

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