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.)
Artists’ Contributions
Father Knows Best, by Jack Arnold Beam (October 2020)
I Can’t Pretend Anymore, by Jack Arnold Beam (December 2020)
Poetry by Linda Kime
Terror in Jonestown (March 2021)
The Jonestown Odes (May 2021)
Ida Albudy: A Biographical Sketch (December 2020)
Brian Bouquet: A Biographical Sketch, by John Gilderbloom (December 2020)
Lois Breidenbach: A Son’s Memories, by Harlan Breidenbach (December 2020)
Wesley Breidenbach: My Younger Brother, by Harlan Breidenbach (December 2020)
My Wife Gloria, My Son Malcolm, My Life, by Tim Carter (February 2021)
An Embrace of Terry Carter Jones, by Tim Carter (February 2021)
Patty Cartmell: A Biographical Sketch, by Kathy (Tropp) Barbour (December 2020)
Missing You, Mary Lou, by Tim Carter (March 2021)
Rhonda Denise Fortson: Pouring Everything Into Life, by Hue Fortson (January 2021)
Peter Holmes: A Biographical Sketch, by Kathy (Tropp) Barbour (December 2020)
Anita Ijames Kelley: A Biographical Sketch, by Laura Johnston Kohl (December 2020)
Tony Linton Lacy: A Remembrance, by Susan (Flint) Rajkumar (December 2020)
The Questions of Annie Moore, by Nancy Anderson Campbell (2021)
Carol Stahl: A Sweet, Calm Presence, by Laura Johnston Kohl (December 2020)
Janet Tupper: A Biographical Sketch, by Kathy (Tropp) Barbour (December 2020)
Personal Reflections
Please Don’t Say The “C” Word, by Vernon Gosney (Written 2009; published May 2021)
Listening to the skeptical side, by Doug Lashley (December 2020)
Jonestown Survivor, the archive of the website of Laura Johnston Kohl (February 2021)
Vernon Gosney: A mercurial temperament, a deep generosity, by Fielding M. McGehee III (February 2021)
To A Friend I Never Met, by Mike Selk (April 2021)
Jonestown in the Arts
InTOXICating Followership: A Review, by Rebecca Moore (April 2021)
Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple examined in new play ‘White Nights, Black Paradise’, by Wanda Sabir (December 2020)
Silent Command 94: Hurry, My Children: A Jonestown and Peoples Temple Audio History, a podcast by Mike Appelstein, with a discussion of the program and listing of sources here. (December 2020)
Paranoid Planet, a podcast that explores “several historical, philosophical, artistic, psychological, and scientific themes related to conspiracies and the study of knowledge,” presented two episodes on “The Cultic Culture Club” about Peoples Temple at Episode 3.4a and Episode 3.4b. (March 2021)
The Worldview Clash Clash launched the first of of a six-part series that looks at “the Peoples Temple Movement from a biblical Worldview” in Spring 2021. (March 2021)
Articles
Amateur Radio and the People’s Temple Net, by Johann William Rush, CQ Amateur Radio Magazine (1979) [Reprinted with permission from CQ Amateur Radio magazine, August 1979. Copyright CQ Communications, Inc.]
“Unanswered Questions about Jonestown,” Chapter 11 of the study, The Cult Awareness Network: Anatomy of a Hate Group, by Tom Whittle (February 2021)
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“How Orwell’s 1984 Has Influenced Rev. Jim Jones to Dominate and Then Destroy His Followers: With Extensions to Current Political Leaders,” by Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo (December 2020)
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Commentary and Opinion
An Apology to Peoples Temple, by Amanda Davis (May 2021)
Conspiracies sell…but who’s buying?, by Henri Helander (December 2020)
The Writings of Jolene McDonald
Online Resources
Archived websites (March 2021)
Archived articles (May 2020)
Frequently Asked Questions
What was the Six-Day Siege? (December 2020)
Who else – other than members of Peoples Temple – survived November 18? (December 2020)
Who was Richard Dwyer? Where was he on November 18? Was he CIA? (December 2020)
How did Sharon Amos and her children die? What happened to the others in the Lamaha Gardens bathroom? (December 2020)
Who was Paula Adams? What was her relationship to Laurence Mann? Were their deaths connected to Peoples Temple? (March 2021)
Primary Sources
Writings of Lynetta Jones in Jonestown (July 2020)
Concerned Relatives Petitions (April 2021)
The Defection of Deborah Layton Blakey (April 2021)
Making Plans to Die (February 2021)
Peoples Temple and Joseph Mazor (April 2021)
Affidavits on the Paternity of John Victor Stoen (June 2020)
Guyana Court Records on John Victor Stoen (June 2020)
The Stoens, the U.S. Embassy, the State Department, and Congress (June 2020)
State Department Reactions and Responses
- Situation Reports (March 2021)
- State Department Press Briefings (March 2021)
- Procedures and Instructions for Guyana Working Group (March 2021)
- State Department Monitors Press Coverage of Jonestown Tragedy (April 2021)
Richard McCoy Memos to the Files, December 1978 (April 2021)
A Jonestown Inventory (April 2021)
Findings, Analysis and Inventory of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Settlement (text) (November 2020)
The NBC Videotapes: Pathway to Oblivion (November 2020)
The U.S. Government and Delaware (April 2021)
O’Connor Report to Emergency Relief Committee (April 2021)
The Murders of Al and Jeannie Mills (May 2020)
The Jailhouse Letters of Chuck Beikman (April 2021)
Ryan v. United States (February 2021)
The Freedom of Information Act and Jonestown
The NOIWON Notation (November 2020)
Section 67 • B-5 • Legal (March 2021)
Section 98 • S-1 • Joseph Mazor (April 2021)
Section 99 • T-1 • Mike Prokes (April 2021)
Section 99 • U-1 • John Victor Stoen (June 2020)
Section 99 • V-1 • Timothy Stoen (June 2020)
Section 135 • FF-3 • Handwritten Affidavits (March 2021)
Section 137 • FF-5 – FF-8 • Statements (July 2020)
Section 138 • FF-9 • Affidavits, Statements, Confessions (March 2021)
“Bulky” folders released by FBI (May 2020)
Peoples Temple Radio, the archive of the website of Josef Dieckman (March 2021)
The Music of Peoples Temple (February 2021)
Transmissions from Jonestown: He’s Able, a podcast by Shannon Howard (March 2021)
Tapes
The Tapes of Joseph Mazor (April 2021)
The meeting of September 5, 1978 (April 2021)
Q 225 Jones reads news of August 7, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 229 Jones reads news of August 15, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 244 Jones reads news of August 8, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 254 Jones reads news of August 17, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 257 Jones reads news of September 22, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 263 Jones reads news of July 14, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 281 Jones reads news of August 14, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 282 Jones reads news of September 23, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 311 Jones reads news of July 19, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 379 Jones reads news, October 8, 1978 (February 2021)
Q 426 Jones reads news, July 22, 1978 (February 2021)
Q 433 Jones reads news of July 27, 1978 (May 2020)
Q 442 Jonestown Express performs, September 29, 1978 (February 2021)
Q 583 Jones & Prokes discuss Guyana PR campaign, Jan 75 (February 2021)
Q 656 Sharon Amos speaks with defector Jeanette Kerns, fall 74 (February 2021)
Q 774 Ben Bowers explains decision to leave Temple, May 77 (February 2021)
Q 777 Jack Beam gives bio statement on Jim Jones (February 2021)
Q 786 Fortson audio letter; Katsaris claims abuse by father (February 2021)
Q 973 San Francisco sermon, Aug 73 (February 2021)
Q 1020 San Francisco sermon, July 72 (February 2021)