Student Paper Section

Over the years, the editors of this report and people on this website’s Speakers Bureau have assisted scores of students in secondary schools, colleges and universities, and graduate programs in their research into different aspects of Peoples Temple history. Beginning this year, we are publishing some of the papers which have come out of that research.

1. Secondary school
   1. How did Jim Jones manage to gain such control over his followers? by Tim Brooks (2007)
   2. The Jonestown Project, by Abbey Gunderson & Jessica Spiro (2008)
   3. “My Journey to Jonestown” by Richard Klatt (2006)
   4. “For The People: The Story of the People’s Temple” by Richard Klatt (2006)
   5. “The Tragedy of 1978” by Raul Kohl (2006)
      
   6. Behind the Conspiracy Theories of Jonestown by Nicole Mekler (2007)
      1. Why do conspiracy theories surround the evidence of the Jonestown massacre?
      2. Methodology
   7. Jim Jones and the History of Peoples Temple by Antoinette Pick-Jones (2007)
      1. Escape to Nowhere
   8. Learning About Jonestown by Rachel Steele (2007)
      1. Tragedy Of 1978: Massacre At Jonestown
      2. Bibliography
   9. Jonestown Project Finishes Third in Florida Competition by Kaitlin Thornburg and Nina Barron (2007)
   10. The Jonestown Massacre, by Matt Williams (2008)
   11. “Forgotten Souls” by Laura Woods (2005)
   12. “Tapes Reveal Jones as Murderer” by Sheila Yohnk
       
       
2. College and graduate school
   1. Jim Jones and His Peoples Temple: Dual Racial Identities, Dual Results, by Brooke Agee (2008)
   2. State of Mind, by Ruth Engler (2008)
   3. Leadership Styles: Martin Luther King vs. Jim Jones, by Tina Parrish (2008)
   4. “We Win When We Go Down” by Stephen C. Robinson (2007)
   5. Culture, Charisma and Peoples Temple by Devin Ross (2007)
   6. Living in a “Socialist Paradise” by Logan Silva (2007)
      1. The Civil Rights Movement in Mendocino County, California
   7. White Nights In Guyana by Ann Kristin Svendsen (2007)