Peoples Temple in the News, 2010

…World Outreach Center, in Gainesville, Fla.… That whole scene brought to mind another pastor named JonesJim Jones… Maybe Terry Jones is the spawn, not just of Jim Jones,…

Digital Jonestown: A Syllabus

Jones Movement: RYMUR X-3-f-22a Audio or transcript of Q134 of Jim Jones FBI Interview with woman who knew Jones as a child: RYMUR Serials 332 Sept. 13 Jim Jones: An…

Peoples Temple Was Not a “Cult of Assassins”

…refuting the common assertion that Peoples Temple was somehow “a cult of assassins,” i.e., the mythical package of, “bizarre murder/suicide ritual,” complete with “Jim Jones ordered this, Jim Jones ordered…

Four Years of Utopia, Then Prison!

…lived. Their children went to school in Ukiah, where Jim Jones was teaching. When Jim started having a group of kids over to his house for discussions, they eagerly joined…

Could Peoples Temple Have Survived?

…2010). Simply put, without Jim Jones as the leader, the Temple constituencies would have broken apart. Jim Jones intentionally had a succession plan that was unclear, so that no alternate…

The Modus Operandi of Modern Religious Movements

…merely “stepping into another world” (Jonestown Audiotape Primary Project, Q 042). Unlike Applewhite, however, Jones gave his followers no other choice. Where to from here? Jim Jones himself subscribed to…

All in the Family

…much higher. Jim Jones was a fifth generation Hoosier. His father was James Thurman Jones; his grandfather was John Henry Jones; his great-grandfather was Warren M. Jones; and Edmund Jones

Carolyn Moore: A Father’s Biography

Jim Jones, that his wife Marceline could not satisfy Jim’s sexual needs. The first thought that passed through my mind was, “Oh God, another Elmer Gantry.” Carolyn continued when Jim

A Monumental Problem:
Memorializing the Jonestown Dead

…[50] See jonestownmemorial.com. [51] “Where are the Jonestown Dead Buried?” Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple accessed 16 January 2021. Bibliography Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. Chidester,…