James Earl Jones

Words from a Bear gives a thorough survey of Momaday's most prolific years as a doctorate fellow at Stanford University, his achievement of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1969, and his later works that solidified his place as the founding member of the 'Native American Renaissance' in art and literature, influencing a generation of Native American artists, scholars, and political activists.

Self-appointed messiah Jim Jones takes his own life along with those of 913 members of The People's Temple in their Jonestown Guyana religious commune.