the jonestown report, Volume 26, October 2024

Artificial Intelligence Illustration of Post-Tragedy Jonestown
  1. Donald Trump, Nuclear Threat: Experiencing His Lethal Twin, by Timothy Oliver Stoen
  2. Special Reports and Investigations
    1. Reconstructing the Jonestown Narrative: The Story of the 1978 Guyana Inquest, by Aliah Mohmand
      1. Timeline of the 1978 Guyana Inquest • Coroner’s inquest into the Jonestown deaths
    2. The First to Break the News of Jonestown: Journalist Mohamed Hamaludin, by Aliah Mohmand
    3. Artificial Intelligence Depictions of Jonestown, by Rebecca Moore
      1. AI Speaks to Shannon Howard on CIA/Jonestown Connections
      2. Documentary Evidence for “Artificial Intelligence Depictions of Jonestown”
      3. Control Data Regarding Jonestown and the CIA
      4. Control Data Regarding 2020 Election
    4. Target: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple: The Tropp Manuscript, by Connor Ashley Clayton
  3. The People of Peoples Temple
    1. Teri Buford’s Complicated Quest for Acceptance, by Cole Waterman
    2. Shirlee Miller Fields: From Michigan to Jonestown, by Cole Waterman
    3. Silence with Friends: A Remembrance of Bobby Stroud, by Jim Murphy
    4. Guy Young: A Testament to the Human Spirit, by Bonnie Yates
    5. Three Letters from Pat Grunnet (Spanish translations), by Jose Arturo Martinez Quintanilla
      1. Carta de Pat Grunnet a su Madre
      2. Carta de Pat Grunnet a Jonathan Kozol
      3. Poemas infantiles del verano de 1977 y del verano de 1978
  4. Articles, the jonestown report 2024
    1. In Search of a Promised Land: Peoples Temple and the Legacy of The Great Migration, by Nico Bell
    2. The People’s Cult, by Gus Breslauer
    3. The Road from Jonestown to MAGA Christian Nationalism, by John Collins
    4. The Politicization of Education in Jonestown, by Edward Cromarty
    5. Articles by Rebecca Moore
      1. A Listing of Cults (2024 Edition)
      2. Taking Sides: On the (Im)Possibility of Participant Observation
      3. Peoples Temple: A Typical Cult?
    6. Black People & the Illusion of Equality in Peoples Temple, by Kiana Parker
    7. Black Messiahs, by Aaron Robertson
    8. The Jews of Jonestown: Jewish members of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple cult, by Alex Winston
  5. Commentaries and Opinion
    1. Two Commentaries by Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood
      1. Embraced Bodies Still Preach
      2. The Monsters in Us
    2. The Temple and the Military: Both As Calls to Service, by Cassandra Manuel
    3. Reflection on the Jonestown Transcription Project, by Melanie Yaeger
  6. Jonestown in the Arts 2024
    1. Books
      1. Paradise Undone Celebrates Anniversary of Publication, by Annie Dawid
        1. Paradise Undone: The Reviews
        2. Paradise Undone: Blogs and Podcasts
      2. The People v. Pooja Sharma: What If…, by Shakti Newman
      3. Writing The Peoples Temple Story for Teenagers, by Candace Fleming
      4. The People of Peoples Temple, by Sarah Rex
        1. An Update
        2. Working with Passion and Purpose: A Reflection
        3. Who Were They?: Sample Profiles
    2. The seventh annual Peoples Temple Podcast Review, by Jason Dikes
    3. Film
      1. New Documentary Series Airs on Hulu, National Geographic, by the 72 Films Team
        1. Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown: A Review, by Annie Dawid
        2. National Geographic Reframes Jonestown Narrative, by Katherine Hill
        3. What More Is Left to Learn? A Review of Cult Massacre, by Aliah Mohmand
        4. Cult Massacre: The Reviews
    4. Musical Notes (2024)
      1. We’re Able (Forty Dialogic Valences), by Joel Roston
  7. Peoples Temple in the News (2024)
  8. Website News
    1. Introducing Our Volunteers (2024 Edition), by Rebecca Moore
      1. Genealogical Research Inspires Sarah Rex into Book Project
      2. Transmissions Podcast Leads Shannon Howard into Deeper Research
    2. Website News: Flickr Updates
    3. FOIA Documents Added to Website (2024 Edition)
  9. Obituaries 2024
    1. Remembering Jim Cobb, by Leslie Wagner-Wilson
    2. Jim Cobb: My Friend and Brother, by Vera Washington
    3. Jim Cobb: The Death of a Gentle Giant, by Fielding M. McGehee III
    4. Neva Sly: Only A Thought Away, by Mickey Touchette
    5. The Family of Neva Jean Hargrave Sly, by Rebecca Moore
    6. Remembrances of Juanell Smart, by Rebecca Moore
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