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.)
The Peoples of Peoples Temple
Patty Cartmell: A Long Overdue Appreciation, by Garry Lambrev (November 2021)
An Interview with Charles Johnson, by Katherine Klapperich (November 2021)
Personal Reflections
Final Witness: The Legacy of Marceline Jones, by Laurie Efrein Kahalas (November 2021)
Jonestown in the Arts
Concept Album Considers Jonestown Tragedy through Tape Archive, by Dominique Cyprès (December 2021)
Articles
Jonestown: An International Story of Diplomacy, Détente, and Neglect, 1973–1978, by Alexander Poster (December 2021)
The Infrastructure of Jonestown’s Recording and Speaker Systems: A Photographic Overview, by Joel X. Thomas (January 2022)
Peoples Temple Meetings with the Soviet Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana, 1978 (December 2021)
French and Spanish versions of the map of the 20,000-acre leasehold for Jonestown in the Northwest District of Guyana, prepared by Renato Urbano (January 2022)
Spreadsheet Offers Downloadable Demographic Tool for Researchers, by Rebecca Moore (July 2021)
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)
Website Additions
Jonestown Survivor, the archive of the website of Laura Johnston Kohl (February 2021)
Online Resources
Archived websites (March 2021)
Frequently Asked Questions
When did Jim Jones first ask the members of Peoples Temple to call him “Father” or “Dad”? (October 2021)
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)
Who is Philip Blakey? Was he a mercenary for the CIA in Angola in 1975? (October 2021)
Primary Sources
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)
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 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 66 • B-4 • Legal (November 2021)
Section 67 • B-5 • Legal (March 2021)
Section 81 • E-2 • Radio Communications (April 2021)
Section 88 • G-1 • Communist Contacts, USSR (December 2021)
Section 88 • G-2 • Communist contacts Korea, Cuba (November 2021)
Section 98 • S-1 • Joseph Mazor (April 2021)
Section 99 • T-1 • Mike Prokes (April 2021)
Section 108 • AA-1 • Leo Ryan (December 2021)
Section 135 • FF-3 • Handwritten Affidavits (March 2021)
Section 138 • FF-9 • Affidavits, Statements, Confessions (March 2021)
Section 139 • GG-1 – GG-3 • Russia, Cuba, Other Countries (December 2021)
Section 143 • HH-6 • History of Jim Jones (December 2021)
Section 143 • HH-9 • Photographs (December 2021)
Tapes
Mystery of Q042 Death Tape Unspooled, by Joel X. Thomas (January 2022)
The Songs on Q042 (January 2022)
“Faith Without Works Is Dead,” an abridged transcript of a Jim Jones sermon delivered in 1956. (December 2021)
The Margaret Singer Tapes, a collection of tapes recorded by the Human Freedom Center and the Concerned Relatives. (October 2021)
The Tapes of Joseph Mazor (April 2021)
The meeting of September 5, 1978 (April 2021)
Transcriçao Q 042, prepared by Renato Urbano (Traduçaco do Portugês Brasileiro) (January 2022)
Q 192 News and commentary (August 1, 1978) (June 2021)
Q 379 Jones reads news, October 8, 1978 (February 2021)
Q 426 Jones reads news, July 22, 1978 (February 2021)
Q 440 News and commentary (July 18, 1978) (June 2021)
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 782 News and commentary (April 1, 1978) (June 2021)
Q 786 Fortson audio letter; Katsaris claims abuse by father (February 2021)
Q 973 San Francisco sermon, Aug 73 (February 2021)
Q 985 Jones presides over community meeting, early Aug 1978 (June 2021)
Q 988 Jonestown Express performs; Jones airs grievances, late winter 1978 (June 2021)
Q 994 Jones berates Jonestown community, late winter 1978 (June 2021)
Q 995 Jones asks JT residents why they wish to return to US (Aug 78) (June 2021)
Q 996 Jones reads news (Apr 78); agriculture meeting (winter 78) (June 2021)
Q 997 News and commentary (May 4 & 5, 1978) (June 2021)
Q 1020 Redwood Valley Sermon (1972); Seattle Sermon (1973) (June 2021)
Q 1026 San Francisco sermon, July 72 (February 2021)