This page lists articles, tapes, documents and resources which have been added to this website within the past 15 months. Previous pages with substantive revisions are noted in italics. (Note: This does not include entries from the jonestown report, an annual publication featuring articles, remembrances, personal reflections, and artistic interpretations of Peoples Temple.)
Jonestown in the News
Tours Launched to Visit Jonestown Site (January 2025)
Special Reports and Investigations
Artificial Intelligence and Jonestown
Artificial Intelligence Depictions of Jonestown: The Story Continues, by Rebecca Moore (July 2025)
AI Offers Friendship to Jonestown Researcher, by Danielle Redifer (July 2025)
AI Creates New Jonestown Fictions, by Casey Strain (July 2025)
Articles
“You Don’t Tell God He’s Got a Drug Problem”: Addiction’s Role in Peoples Temple, by Brittni Criglow (August 2025)
Chronicling the History of the Pioneers in Jonestown, by Danielle Redifer (May 2025)
The Song of the Suicides: An Author’s Note, by Salvador Hernáez Alonso (May 2025)
La canción de los suicidas, a Spanish translation by Salvador Hernáez Alonso (May 2025)
Massenpsychologie in der Praxis?, an article in German by Helmig Ferdinand (May 2025)
Las Cartas de Despedida de Teri Buford, a Spanish translation of The Departure Letters of Teri Buford for Jose Arturo Martinez Quintanilla (January 2025)
JoeSam. Spelled his Name with a Period, by Rebecca Moore (January 2025)
Visiting Jonestown, Peoples Temple, by Chris Weber (2019; republished December 2024)
Leo Ryan’s Heroism at Jonestown, by Mark Stricherz (November 2024)
“If you don’t love children, you don’t understand socialism”: The Children of Peoples Temple, by Alexandra Leah Prince (November 2024)
The People of Jonestown
Escaping Jonestown: The Life of Thom Bogue, by Donna M.Z. Hoover (August 2025)
Dick Tropp: The Frog in the Pot?, by Rich Weiner (August 2025)
Ruth Coleman: The Voice I Had to Find, by Karen Middleton (June 2025)
The Touchettes in Indianapolis: A Life Before the Temple, by Danielle Redifer (April 2025)
Erma Miriam Winfrey: Memories of a Sweet and Beautiful Soul (March 2025)
Speakers & Resources
Peoples Temple on Social Media, compiled by Joel Roston (March 2025)
Commentary and Opinion
The Process of Destruction: Reflecting on 2020, by Nicole Bissett (July 2025)
Jim Jones still has most of us fooled; Jonestown Massacre was murder, by Josh Edwards (November 2024)
Jonestown Research
Peoples Temple and North Korea, by Nick Miller (May 2025)
Primary Sources
The Collected Writings of Richard Tropp (September 2025)
Target: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (June 2025)
Steven Katsaris v. Jim Jones (June 2025)
Jim Cobb v. Peoples Temple (June 2025)
The Conspiracy Book (May 2025)
The Letters of Erma Winfrey (March 2025)
FBI Report on Ryan Assassination (November 2024)
The Freedom of Information Act and Jonestown
Central Intelligence Agency (June 2025)
FBI Sections
Section 46 • A-4 • Financial (June 2025)
Section 48 • A-6 – A–12 • Financial (May 2025)
Section 63 • B-1 • Legal (January 2025)
Section 77 • C-12 • Administrative Functions (January 2025)
Section 78 • D-1 • Guyana Contacts (April 2025)
Section 91 • J-1 • Medical Records (July 2025)
Section 91 • J-2 • Medical Records (July 2025)
Section 91 • J-3 • Medical Records (July 2025)
Section 92 • K-1 Pt 1 • Informant tapes & photos (August 2024)
Section 93 • K-1 Pt 2 • Informant tapes & photos (August 2024)
Section 94 • K-1 Pt 3 • Informant tapes & photos (August 2024)
Section 104 • X-4 • Miscellaneous (May 2025)
Section 111 • BB-3 • Debbie Blakey (April 2025)
Section 112 • BB-5 • Jean Brown (July 2025)
Section 112 • BB-6 • Sandy Bradshaw (April 2025)
Section 127 • EE-1 • Letters to Dad (G-J) (August 2025)
Section 128 • EE-1 • Letters to Dad (K-M) (July 2025)
Section 131 • EE-3 • Self-Evaluation (July 2025)
FBI Section 143 • HH-7, 8 • Telephone Contacts, History (May 2025)
Section 144 • II • Concerned Relatives (August 2024)
FBI Section 146 • KK-1 – KK-5 • Legal, Corporate, Insurance (July 2025)
FBI Section 150 • OO-1 • Medical – Drug Inventory (September 2025)
Section 159 • RR-1-2 • Banks-Lynetta Jones, Carolyn Layton (November 2024)
Section 159 • RR-3-7 • Misc. Banks (November 2024)