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…

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,…

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

Q688 Transcript

…hall from Lynetta’s [Lynetta Jones, Jim Jones’ mother] room. Chaikin: All the way back to the rear, that’s Lynetta’s room. (Unintelligible) And uh, this particular day in– First of all,…

Peoples Temple in the News, 2012

…Warren Jeffs’ Church compound sparks fears that paedophile Mormon’s followers are planning ‘Jim Jones-style’ mass suicide by Daily Mail, 11 Feb 2012 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099649/Warren-Jeffs-stadium-Is-Latter-Day-Saints-leader-planning-Jim-Jones-style-mass-suicide.html “Photos of a stadium being built on…

Foreign Language Videos

…De Jonestown Donde Nada Era Lo Que Parecía (15:49) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afj1w6BuavA Biografía Jim Jones (46:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4JEhqM7pDQ Biografía Jim Jones 01/03 (28:43) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZuNtMO-HlM Jim Jones 02/03 (6:46) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92mrbc-wT_w Jim Jones 03/03 (6:46)…

Edith Roller Journals: November 1977

…hostile person, had for Jim, his consultation with the leadership, their joint decision that Jim should satisfy Grace’s wishes, to which Marcy had consented. The baby John resulted. Marcy said…

Migration and Emigration

…Family. According to Dr. Rebecca Moore’s 2017 Update on the Demographics of Jonestown: Jim Jones was connected to 7.8 percent of the total population of Jonestown by family ties (n…