What’s New?
This page lists tapes, documents and resources which have been added to this website within the past 15 months. Previous pages with substantive revisions are listed 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.)
The People of Peoples Temple
Susie Lee Collins: My Story of Her Story, by Kurt Hoffman (March 2019)
Somewhere Out There: My Memories of Teri, Scott, and Alfred Smart, by Carla Moyer Hotz (March 2019)
A Difficult Fit: Eighth-Grade Memories of Susan Jane Noxon, by Richard Morrow (March 2019)
Haunted By a Panicky Phone Call From a Peoples Temple Member, by Elayne Savage, PhD (November 2018)
Personal Reflections
“People Critical of Guyana”: A Contemplation, by Sherwin Harris (March 2019)
Reflections on the 40th Anniversary
The Resurrection of Jonestown, by Jeff Hood (November 2018)
Moving Past Dread and Rage, by Tom Kinsolving (November 2018)
Giving Voice to the Voiceless, an address by Laura Johnston Kohl (November 2018)
Literary Contributions
Delicatessen, by Michael Tyrell (March 2019)
Articles
Evil Dead: The Problematic Story of the Jonestown Corpses, by Ted Malcolmson (February 2019)
Articles by Rebecca Moore
Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories (November 2018)
Before the tragedy at Jonestown, the people of Peoples Temple had a dream (November 2018)
Revisiting Jonestown: An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults – A Review (September 2018)
Jonestown and the Study of NRMs: How Survivors and Artists Are Reshaping the Narrative of Jonestown (May 2018) (originally published 2014)
The C-word: what are we saying when we talk about cults?, by Laura Elizabeth Woollett (November 2018)
A Cumulative Index of Resources on Father Divine and Jim Jones, compiled by E. Black (February 2018)
Commentary & Opinion
Lines and Strings, by Kelly Lavoie (May 2019)
Jonestown in the Arts
Cult City: A Review Essay, by Heather Shearer (March 2019)
News from the Archives
CHS Processes Major Collection of Temple Publications Department (March 2019)
Articles from the California Historical Society (March 2019)
Articles from San Diego State University Special Collections (March 2019)
Teri Buford O’Shea: Surviving Betrayal, by Fielding M. McGehee III (December 2018)
Who Died
Where were the people who died in Guyana buried? (April 2019)
A contextual note, by Don Beck (May 2019)
Frequently Asked Questions
What was Lamaha Gardens? Who lived there? (March 2019)
What are the facts about the cyanide in Jonestown? (March 2019)
Was it Kool-Aid? (February 2019)
Was there a Peoples Temple hit list? (February 2019)
Why do photographs show some bodies – including that of Jones – moved from their positions when they were first discovered? (February 2019)
What pathologists investigated the deaths that occurred in Jonestown, Georgetown, and Port Kaituma? (February 2019)
What was the testimony of Guyana pathologist Dr. Leslie Mootoo? (February 2019)
Did Jim Jones have tattoos? (February 2019)
What is Apostolic Socialism? (February 2019)
Did Jim Jones ever make commercial recordings of his sermons? (February 2019)
Did people have Bibles in Jonestown? (February 2018)
Primary Sources
Ads and news stories about Jim Jones and Peoples Temple from the 1950s (March 2019)
Port Kaituma Footage (February 2019)
“I Have Been To Paradise” (March 2019)
The Poetry of Sandy Bradshaw (March 2019)
“A select group would have to kill the majority” (February 2018)
Letter to LA District Attorney John Van de Kamp (March 2019)
Resolution of Peoples Temple to Block Rep. Ryan from Entering Jonestown (February 2018)
The Contents of Robin Tschetter’s Briefcase (February 2018)
Autopsies in Guyana (February 2018)
The Diary of Mark Lane (February 2018)
U.S. Sues Peoples Temple for Costs of Repatriation and Identification (February 2018)
“A Witness to Tragedy and Resurrection” (February 2018)
John Moore Letter to The Christian Century (February 2018)
Identification of Jonestown Bodies (February 2018)
FBI Report on Peoples Temple Assets Abroad (February 2018)
GAO Investigations of Foster Care Children (February 2018)
Findings, Analysis and Inventory of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Settlement (February 2018)
“The Black Hole of Guyana,” by John Judge (February 2018)
The Freedom of Information Act and Jonestown
Peoples Temple Law Office Memos [Excerpts from FBI Section 67 – B-5] (February 2019)
FBI Report on Port Kaituma Shootings [RYMUR Section 24 – Serial 1681] (February 2018)
An Update on the Demographics of Jonestown (February 2018)
Speakers & Resources
Podcasts on Jonestown (February 2018)
Judge, John. “The Black Hole of Guyana.” (February 2018)
Tapes
Scriptural Index to the Sermons of Jim Jones (February 2019)
Annotated Sermons of Jim Jones (February 2019)
Q 153 Jones reads article on Trilateral Commission influence (1978) (January 2019)
Q 155 Jones reads news (Oct. 30, 78) (January 2018)
Q 172 Performance of Jonestown Express (Oct 1978) (January 2019)
Q 176 Jones reads the news (October 20, 1978) (February 2019)
Q 198 Jones reads the news (August 12, 1978) (February 2019)
Q 204 Prokes interviews Guyanese who visited JT clinic (January 2019)
Q 224 Jones leads forum, discusses news (August 8, 1978) (February 2019)
Q 274 Jose Simon speaks about life in Jonestown (January 2019)
Q 337 Interview of Donald Freed (Duplicate of 291) (August 1978) (January 2019)
Q 341 Jones warns defectors, JT runaways of punishments (May 1978) (January 2019)
Q 371 News and commentary (July 12, 1978) (January 2019)
Q 382 Mark Lane speaks to Jonestown (Sept 16, 1978) (February 2019)
Q 417 Jones reads article about Huey Newton (January 2018)
Q 568 Planning Commission meets in Jonestown (1974) (February 2019)
Q 573 Meetings of Jonestown pioneers (January 2018)
Q 705 Jones preaches at Sacred Heart, Georgetown (January 2018)
Q 756 News and commentary (April 19, 1978) (January 2019)
Q 868 Radio conversation among PT members (January 2018)
Q 885 Temple member offers resignation from church (January 2019)
Q 923 Healing service in Los Angeles (undated) (February 2019)
Q 945 Philadelphia sermon (February 7, 1977) (February 2019)
Q 964 San Francisco sermon (1973) (January 2018)
Q 971 San Francisco sermon (September 1973) (January 2018)
Q 989 Jones reads news (April 1978) (January 2018)
Q 991 News and commentary (April 26, 1978) (January 2019)
Q 1014 San Francisco sermon (Oct 1973) (January 2018)
Q 1015 San Francisco sermon (July 1973) (January 2018)
Q 1030 San Francisco sermon (November 18, 1972) (February 2019)
Q 1054-2 Portions of two sermons, Redwood Valley, LA (1972) (February 2019)
Q 1054-4 Portions of sermons, SF, Seattle (Fall 1972) (February 2019)