This week the SF Chronicle is marking the anniversary of the “10 Days that Shook SF,” the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, and the Jonestown Massacre. As part of their coverage, my new Congresswoman Jackie Speier tells her horrifying story:

I was curled up behind the wheel of an airplane on a jungle airstrip in Guyana, South America. This isn’t what I expected when I signed on to work for a United States congressman. Our fact-finding trip to investigate the Peoples Temple in Jonestown had gone horribly wrong. I lay as still as I could, pretending to be dead, as an unknown gunman pumped five bullets into me at close range. Pop-pop. Pop. Pop-pop.

Speier’s predecessor, the late Tom Lantos, was a Holocaust survivor.

Having led a relatively pampered life, free of Nazis and gunplay, this can’t bode well for my chances at representing CA-12 in the House.