Letters to Jim Jones (L)

…hello for me. Jimmy [Jones], Stephanie [Jones], Ava [Jones], Sandi [Jones], Jim [Jones], Brenda [Cobb], all said hello. Sandi said she will take a picture and send [it] to you….

Edith Roller Journals: April 1976

Jim said need 500 people at least. Jim mentioned many who stayed out today, smelt a little danger. We face serious crisis, point of conspiracy nationwide, to destroy black people….

Racial Thinking and Peoples Temple

…2015. http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27333. –––, “What Was Jim Jones’ Racial Heritage?” Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. Accessed March 15, 2015. http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35365. Moore, Leonard J. Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan…

Edith Roller Journals: August 1976

…her without Jim’s permission. “The Twelve Chairs,” a comedy taking place in Russia, directed by Mel Brooks, was shown. Jim read commendations. He took another offering. Several people were brought…

Letters to Jim Jones (S)

Letter to Jim Jones from Ron Talley, July 1978 EE-2-s-1a 31/7/78 Dad; In the last couple of weeks Christine has been negative around me a few times. It has been…

Donald Trump: a political cult leader?

…a trip to Guyana to investigate the Jonestown cult (also known as Peoples Temple), led by the infamous Jim Jones, after several complaints of abuse were filed. Speier survived five…