Website Changes

• The listing of people who died in Guyana on 18 November 1978 (http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/WhoDied/whodied_list.php) now includes more extensive biographical information – and, where available, photographs – for each person. Each name has a link to a new page that lists as much general biographical information as we have. We are always interested in obtaining more (and in correcting the errors we have made), so please feel free to contact us with additional information. You’ll also note that there is space for relatives and friends to submit remembrances, and we encourage you to do so.
  
  The work in uploading all the photos is still ongoing. If you do not see a photo right away, please return at a future date.
  
  

  In the interests of protecting the privacy of the living, we have not extended these new links to include the members of the Jonestown community who survived that day.
  
• Jonestown.com, a site launched in 1998 by Laurie Efrein Kahalas, is now archived in its entirety on this site at http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/Jonestown_com/home.htm. (See story)
  
• New documents have been added to the Primary Sources section of the website. They include:
  1. The Accusation of Human Rights Violations prepared by the Concerned Relatives and released to the public in April 1978, here;
  2. The affidavit written by Debby Layton Blakey in May 1978, located here;
  3. The Peoples Temple codebook for names used in radio communications between the United States and Guyana located here;
  4. Reports from the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on the ownership of weapons located in Jonestown located here; and
  5. The statement to the press written by Michael Prokes shortly before his suicide in March 1979, located here
• The site also features a section of “Observations and Reflections,” a collection of articles from those most immediately affected by the deaths in Jonestown, at http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/PersonalReflections/personal_reflec.htm. We will continue to publish new articles from former Temple members, Jonestown residents and relatives each year in the jonestown report, but we also place those articles in the larger – and growing – permanent collection.
  
• We handle the more detailed and analytical articles by journalists, scholars and historians in a similar manner. We publish the new articles in the jonestown report as we receive them, but they can also be found in the “Articles” section, located at http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Articles/articles.htm.
  
• Finally, we continue to upload more transcripts and summaries of Peoples Temple audiotapes at http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/tapes.htm. The recent additions are indicated in both the “Tapes” and “Summaries” listings. We have also improved the site’s ability to toggle between the transcript and summary of each tape as a way to help the reader put the transcript into perspective and context.