"A lot of people have seen Mr. Frazer..." (Weird Jonestown parallel)
Many people have noted the similarity between the Jonestown Massacre of 1978 and the movie "Apocalypse Now". Here's a weird "Apocalypse Now" parallel for you. The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana was monitoring ham radio broadcasts coming out of Jonestown on November 18, 1978. They overheard a message in code which made them realize something was wrong in Jonestown. The coded message was this: "A lot of people have seen Mr. Frazier". This cryptic message has been interpreted as a message that the killings and suicides had started. You can listen to the broadcast yourself: https://youtu.be/-Pt8GlOXeU0.
So what's the tie-in with the movie? In "Apocalypse Now", Kurtz has a copy of the book "The Golden Bough" on his desk when he is killed by Willard. In 1890, Scottish anthropologist Sir James George FRAZER wrote "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion" (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion. "Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought."* Coppola himself confirmed this in 1976: (Apocalypse Now is) "the classic myth of the murderer who gets up the river, kills the king, and then himself becomes the king – it's the Fisher King, from The Golden Bough".* To fit this into the timeline of Jonestown, "Apocalypse Now" was finished with principle photography on May 21, 1977 (about the time Jones left San Francisco for Guyana), but the final editing wasn't completed until two years later when it finally premiered on April 1979 (half a year after the Jonestown Massacre). "A lot of people have seen Mr. Frazer". Not sure what this all adds up to, but it sure is strange.
*quotes from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now