{"id":113228,"date":"2022-01-24T16:53:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=113228"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:26:35","slug":"articles-by-joel-c-thomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=113228","title":{"rendered":"Articles by Joel X. Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ffj1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-113231\" src=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ffj1-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Joel X. Thomas has been a life long musician, performer, and recording artist. He is both a composer, sound technician, and audio engineer, as well as a certified scuba instructor. His knowledge of the equipment used in both studio and live performances has found a particular niche in understanding some of the nuances that are inherent in the tapes of Jonestown. He was also a participant in the <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=132428\">November 18 Project<\/a>, a multi-year effort to create comprehensive timelines and detailed reports addressing unresolved questions about Peoples Temple and Jonestown.<\/p>\n<p>He may be reached at <a href=\"mailto:joelxthomas@hotmail.com\">joelxthomas@hotmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=118102\">The Jonestown Express, November 17, 1978: Life on the Eve of Tragedy<\/a> (2022) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=117928\">The Jonestown Radio Tower (It\u2019s not what you think)<\/a> (2022) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=113133\">The Infrastructure of Jonestown\u2019s Recording and Speaker Systems: A Photographic Overview<\/a> (2022) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=113131\">Mystery of Q042 Death Tape Unspooled<\/a> (2022) <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=113189\">The Songs on Q042<\/a> (2022) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=118034\">The Most Recent Jonestown Book Cannot Be the Last<\/a>, a review (2022) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34337\">The Power of Voodoo<\/a> (2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30271\">A Distant Memorial, A Close Connection<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31453\">Q 875, The \u201cNo More Mystery\u201d Tape<\/a> (2008)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel X. Thomas has been a life long musician, performer, and recording artist. He is both a composer, sound technician, and audio engineer, as well as a certified scuba instructor. His knowledge of the equipment used in both studio and live performances has found a particular niche in understanding some of the nuances that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":16576,"menu_order":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113228"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132537,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113228\/revisions\/132537"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}