{"id":122297,"date":"2023-04-02T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=122297"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:09:52","slug":"jim-jones-affidavit-on-tim-stoen-october-1978","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=122297","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jones Affidavit on Tim Stoen, October 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B-2b-3<\/p>\n<p>[p. 1 \u2013 US Embassy certification of Guyanese Certificate of Registrar]<\/p>\n<p>[p. 2 \u2013 Guyanese Certificate of Registrar affirming signature of Guyanese notary]<\/p>\n<p>p, 3<\/p>\n<p>Country of Guyana<br \/>\nNorthwest District<br \/>\nCity of Jonestown<br \/>\nEmbassy of the USA<\/p>\n<p>Before me, [blank line], Consul of the United States of America, personally appeared James W. Jones, being duly sworn, who deposes and says as follows:<\/p>\n<p>I have been the Pastor of Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ (&#8220;Peoples Temple,&#8221; &#8220;the church&#8221;), and its predecessor organizations, since 1949. I am, and for some years have been, a Minister ordained by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), of which denomination the Peoples Temple is an affiliated church. I have always been an activist, striving to make the Christian goals of equality and brotherhood and social reality through the demonstration of people caring for each other. I thus developed a large interracial church with extensive human service programs.<\/p>\n<p>When Timothy O. Stoen (&#8220;Tim Stoen&#8221;) joined my church in 1969 I was thrilled. Besides the addition of another sincere, committed member, I was overjoyed to have his help because in my rapidly growing church I needed a concerned, dedicated lawyer badley [badly]. I also needed an activist associate minister badly and Tim Stoen rapidly began to fill both roles. I trusted him fully and entrusted him with more responsibility than any other single member of the organization. He was my chief legal advisor and<\/p>\n<p>[Page 2 of affidavit missing]<\/p>\n<p>page 3<\/p>\n<p>its members than any other living person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\/s\/ James W. Jones<br \/>\nJames W. Jones<\/p>\n<p>[Space for signature and seal of notary]<\/p>\n<p>This document was signed by [illegible] at Georgetown, Guyana, in my presence this 11th day of October, 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B-2b-3 [p. 1 \u2013 US Embassy certification of Guyanese Certificate of Registrar] [p. 2 \u2013 Guyanese Certificate of Registrar affirming signature of Guyanese notary] p, 3 Country of Guyana Northwest District City of Jonestown Embassy of the USA Before me, [blank line], Consul of the United States of America, personally appeared James W. Jones, being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":88222,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122297","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122297","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=122297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122299,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122297\/revisions\/122299"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}