Resources: First-Person Accounts
 
 
  • Brailey, Jeff. The Ghosts of November: Memoirs of an Outsider who Witnessed the Carnage at Jonestown, Guyana. San Antonio: J & J Publishers, 1998.
  • Ethan Feinsod. Awake in a Nightmare: Jonestown: The Only Eyewitness Account. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981. (Information provided by Odell Rhodes.)
  • Laurie Efrein Kahalas. Snake Dance : Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown. New York: Red Robin Press, 1998.
  • Klineman, George, Sherman Butler, and David Conn. The Cult that Died: The Tragedy of Jim Jones and the People’s Temple. New York: Putnam’s, 1980.
  • Lane, Mark. The Strongest Poison. New York: Hawthorn, 1980.
  • Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison: A Survivor’s Tale of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple. New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1998.
  • Moore, Rebecca. In Defense of Peoples Temple. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
    • The Jonestown Letters: Correspondence of the Moore Family 1970-1985. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.
  • Thielmann Bonnie and Dean Merril. The Broken God. Elgin, Ill.: David Cook, 1979.
  • Thrash, Catherine (Hyacinth) as told to Marian K. Towne. The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana. Indianapolis: Marian K. Towne, 1995.
  • Kern, Phil and Doug Wead. People’s Temple, People’s Tomb. Plainfield N.J.: Logos International, 1979.
  • Krause, Charles with Laurence M. Stern, Richard Harwood and the staff of the Washington Post. Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account. New York: Berkeley Publishing, 1978.
  • Mills, Jeannie. Six Years with God: Life inside Rev. Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple. New York: A&W Publishers, 1979.
  • Wooden, Ken. The Children of Jonestown. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. (Cites Stanley Clayton extensively.)
  • Wright, Lawrence. “The Sons of Jim Jones.” The New Yorker 69, no. 39 (22 Nov 1993): 66-89.
  • Yee, Min S. and Thomas N. Layton. In My Father’s House. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.


 
June 2005