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This is an archive of a number of online articles from newspapers and other sources pertaining to Peoples Temple and Jonestown collected by the Cult Education Institute. Beginning with a couple of entries from the immediate aftermath of the deaths in Jonestown, the archive includes more than 100 articles, mainly from the 21st century, and most focusing on the Temple's final days of existence.

The Cult Education Institute describes itself as "a nonprofit library with archived information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements," with a database of "thousands of files including news reports, peer reviewed papers, court documents, book excerpts and personal testimonies."

In the interest of preserving these important resources for future generations of Jonestown scholars and researchers, the managers of this site downloaded this page in its entirety in 2023.

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New revelations on Jonestown tragedy

Recordings indicate Jim Jones may have died
the day after the massacre

Oakland Tribune/October 31, 2004
By William Brand

Oakland -- One day after the Jonestown mass suicides in 1978 in the jungle of Guyana, Jim Jones and leaders of the ill-fated settlement were still alive and calmly discussed the suicides and the murder of Rep. Leo Ryan, a historian said Saturday. The tape found in Jonestown that the FBI labeled Q-875 appears to have been made many hours later, possibly on Nov. 19... The tape is one of 900...obtained from the FBI under a Freedom of Information Act request.

It was made later because the people on the tape -- apparently including Jones -- talked about what had happened, about the murder of Rep. Ryan and the mass deaths in Jonestown.


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