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He spoke at Burruss Auditoriun back in @1979


The year after the mass suicide of The People's Temple in Guyana.

Gregory, who I absolutely had on a comedic pedestal alongside Lenny Bruce, spent the evening illuminating the young, impressionable audience on a wide variety of political, racial, and cultural topics. Perhaps his most outlandish was his support for a conspiracy theory accusing the CIA/FBI of murdering the members of The People's Temple then filling their corpses with heroin to smuggle back into the USA. Congressman Ryan was murdered by the CIA on the landing strip in Guyana because he was going to blow the lid off the whole sordid caper. As a 19 year-old, I believed everything he said...until I thought it through the next morning.

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Posted: 08/20/2017 at 12:14AM



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