What’s New?
This page lists articles, 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.)
Literary Contributions
Danielle Walker, Greetings. (November 2019)
Special Report: New Website Documents Military Response to Jonestown
Articles
Edward Cromarty, Communal Learning in the Socialist Context of Jonestown (November 2019)
Melissa M. Greiser, Understanding Cult Membership: Beyond “Drinking the Kool-Aid” (January 2020)
Michael Sutherland, In the Hands of Jim Jones: Jonestown and Culpability (December 2019)
Commentaries and Opinion
Amy Brown, What Were They Thinking? (November 2019)
Kelly Lavoie, Lines & Strings
Jolene McDonald, Jim Jones Information Blog (2019-2020)
Danielle Walker, Understanding the Note (November 2019)
Janet Shular, My Sistership with Laura (November 2019)
Tim Carter, Farewell to a Friend (December 2019)
Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons, Laura Johnston Kohl: True Survivor (November 2019)
Online Resources
40 Years After Jonestown: A Video Compilation, by Henri Helander (August 2019)
Alternative Considerations – Texte auf Deutsch (November 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)
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)
What is the explanation for the changing body count in Jonestown the first week? (December 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)
Primary Sources
Jim Jones Transcript at Indiana and Butler Universities (January 2020)
Wings of Deliverance Articles of Incorporation (January 2020)
Corporate Seal of Wings of Deliverance (January 2020)
Peoples Temple Solicitation Permit (January 2020)
Ads and news stories about Jim Jones and Peoples Temple from the 1950s (March 2019)
Peoples Temple Acquisition of Church Properties in San Francisco and Los Angeles (January 2020)
Peoples Temple and Carolyn Pickering (December 2019)
Posters Announces Jones Appearance in Chicago (January 2020)
Peoples Temple Promotional Booklet (January 2020)
Endorsements of Peoples Temple After New West (January 2020)
Peoples Temple and Kathy Hunter (January 2020)
Joe Mazor’s Criminal Record (January 2020)
State Department Cables on Leo Ryan’s Trip (January 2020)
Port Kaituma Footage (February 2019)
“I Have Been To Paradise” (March 2019)
The HAM Radio Operator, the OB/GYN, and the Jonestown Doctor (September 2019)
The Poetry of Sandy Bradshaw (March 2019)
Letter to LA District Attorney John Van de Kamp (March 2019)
The Departure of Teri Buford (January 2020)
Rick Cordell Re: JJ, an interview (January 2020)
Early Draft of Temple History and Conspiracies Against It (January 2020)
The State Department Cables on the Stoen Custody Case (February 2020)
Peoples Temple Lists of Jonestown Dead (January 2020)
U.S.-Receiver Agreement on Recovery of Foreign Assets (January 2020)
Col. William Cowan Report on Autopsies to Justice Department, April 24, 1979 (January 2020)
Congressional Tributes to Leo Ryan (January 2020)
John Roberts Memo to Fred Fielding (1983) (January 2020)
Findings, Analysis and Inventory of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Settlement (text) (January 2020)
California Attorney General Report of Investigation of People’s Temple (January 2020)
The NBC Videotapes: Pathway to Oblivion (January 2020)
Joe Holsinger and His Questions on Jonestown (January 2020)
“The Penal Colony” (January 2020)
The Campaign to Release Larry Layton from Federal Prison (January 2020)
The Freedom of Information Act and Jonestown
Signed Releases of Liability [Excerpts from FBI Section 63 – B-1] (January 2020)
Peoples Temple Law Office Memos [Excerpts from FBI Section 67 – B-5] (February 2019)
The Department of State and Peoples Temple (February 2020)
Map of Proposed Leasehold (January 2020)
Timeline for Dr. Leslie Mootoo, November 20, 1978 – November 8, 1979 (November 2018)
Where were the people who died in Guyana buried? (April 2019)
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 156 Jones reads the news (September 25, 1978) (June 2019)
Q 159 Jones reads the news (August 28, 1978) (June 2019)
Q 160 Jones reads the news (July 29, 1978) (June 2019)
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 201 Jones reads the news (August 9, 1978) (June 2019)
Q 203 Jones reads the news (August 16, 1978) (June 2019)
Q 204 Prokes interviews Guyanese who visited JT clinic (January 2019)
Q 205 Jones reads the news (August 3, 1978) (June 2019)
Q 214 Jones reads the news (August 5, 1978) (June 2019)
Q 218 Jones Sermon, San Francisco (1974) (December 2019)
Q 224 Jones leads forum, discusses news (August 8, 1978) (February 2019)
Q 237 Jones reads the news (August 17, 1978) (June 2019)
Q 250 Jones reads the news (July 14, 1978) (June 2019)
Q 274 Jose Simon speaks about life in Jonestown (January 2019)
Q 301 Jones reads news, early April 1978 (December 2019)
Q 305 Jones presents tape of Barbara Walters interview with Castro (December 2019)
Q 324 Jones reads news, July 10 or 11, 1978 (December 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 364 Jones reads news, July 13, 1978 (December 2019)
Q 371 News and commentary (July 12, 1978) (January 2019)
Q 382 Mark Lane speaks to Jonestown (Sept 16, 1978) (February 2019)
Q 390 Jones reads news, May 21, 1978 (December 2019)
Q 568 Planning Commission meets in Jonestown (1974) (February 2019)
Q 603 Tish Leroy reads Jim Jones astrological chart (#1) (December 2019)
Q 604 Tish Leroy reads Jim Jones astrological chart (#2) (December 2019)
Q 756 News and commentary (April 19, 1978) (January 2019)
Q 766 Jones reads the news (late March, 1978) (June 2019)
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 949 Council meeting, Jones criticizes members (1972 or 1973) (December 2019)
Q 991 News and commentary (April 26, 1978) (January 2019)
Q 1030 San Francisco sermon (November 18, 1972) (February 2019)
Q 1031A Jones Sermon, Redwood Valley (1972) (December 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)