And The Truth Shall Set You Free?

…accepting? Jim Jones also used to say, “The means justify the end.” Although I believed it at the time, I don’t think that was truth, but perhaps to some it…

Barbara Moore: A Remembrance

…circumstance, every place, every condition.” ***** Our first encounter with Jim Jones was negative, for it was then that we learned of Carolyn’s and Jim’s relationship. During the following years…

A Life, Turned Around

…be another Jonestown. Perhaps I should say, I hope there will never be another Jim Jones, because, after all, Jonestown itself was a place that could have been extraordinary. It…

A Temple Member’s Odyssey

Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. Those are the superficial details of my life before Peoples Temple. For me, these other parts of my upbringing were far more significant: My mother…

B-1-Affidavits on 8 Revolutionaries

…are illegible.] —– d-5a & 5b =already online at https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=109018, at FF-9-B-30 —– d-6 =already online at https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=109018, at FF-9-B-38 & 40 —– d-7 =already online at https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=109018, at FF-9-B-34…

Remembering Jim Cobb

…attending community college in Santa Rosa together with other students who – like Jim – would eventually become disenchanted with Jim Jones and leave. Jim Cobb was tall, but not…

A Distasteful Task

…to have entered upon such murderous activity without instruction from Jim Jones. Another troubling aspect of Laurie’s argument excusing Jim from any foreknowledge of the event is her own experience…

The Peoples Temple Planning Commission

…In Jonestown, Jim had started having meetings of a different group called the “steering committee”. According to Edith Roller’s journals, they really did plan for the future of Jonestown. That…