Ex-Advisor to Jim Jones Tapped for D.A.’s Staff
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Tim Stoen, once legal advisor to Jim Jones, who presided over the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana, is to be Humboldt County assistant district attorney. Dist. Atty.-elect Paul Gallegos said Stoen, a prosecutor in Mendocino County, is his choice.
Stoen, 64, was Jones’ legal advisor in the late 1970s when Jones’ Peoples Temple was in San Francisco. Stoen’s 6-year-old son was one of more than 900 people who died in the 1978 mass suicide.
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