{"id":123637,"date":"2023-08-02T17:04:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T00:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=123637"},"modified":"2023-08-02T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T00:04:53","slug":"ff-10-accounts-of-attacks-on-peoples-temple-and-jim-jones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=123637","title":{"rendered":"FF-10 \u2013 Accounts of attacks on Peoples Temple and Jim Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

FF-10-A-24<\/p>\n

Rick Cordell told me “around that time” some have gotten Dad & poured hydrochloric acid in his mouth.<\/p>\n

Tish [Leroy]<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

FF-10-A-25<\/p>\n

Some incidents \u2013<\/p>\n

\u2013 Car nearly ran Dad down in Maryland on a trip on a racist gasoline stop \u2013 1973 or \u201874 I think<\/p>\n

\u2013 When we got word Hiway Patrol was going to check our buses for people sleeping underneath buses<\/p>\n

\u2013 numerous agencies that were sent to LAPT and SFPT \u2013<\/p>\n

\u2013 LAPD flew over LAPT with flashing lights nearly nightly \u2013 LA security would know better<\/p>\n

\u2013 Poisoning\u00a0 of Dad \u2013 many times in SF \u2013 water poison, sent to Lab<\/p>\n

\u2013 Poisoning of Mother and Jean Brown recently<\/p>\n

\u2013 Arrest of people who came as witnesses to Chris Lewis’ trial<\/p>\n

\u2013 in RV \u2013 fire chief said he’d like to hear PT call fire alarm so he could add kerosene or gasoline to fire \u2013 told to some PT member\u2019s relative \u2013 I can’t remember who \u2013<\/p>\n

Laura J. [Johnston]<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

FF-10-A-26<\/p>\n

UN\u00a0 will not support Thai guerillas<\/p>\n

Afro-Asia-Russian organization supports people of Nicaragua<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

FF-10-A-27<\/p>\n

They wouldn’t let us in large Catholic Church for Angela Davis rally (People\u2019s Cathedral?)<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

FF-10-A-28 \u2013 A-29<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The police incident when our black sister had a heart attack & ambulance called<\/li>\n
  2. Poisoning of turkey on Thanksgiving in LA<\/li>\n
  3. When Dad was fired on & shot down in Redwood Valley parking lot.<\/li>\n
  4. Countless numbers of times security in tower was fired on from across r\/r [railroad] tracks \u2013 on weekends \u2013 Police were called.<\/li>\n
  5. Shooting of dogs at Touchette residence in Redwood Valley \u2013 Police were called.<\/li>\n
  6. Number of times buses broke down that only miracle protections prevented entire bus loads should have died. Marvin Swinney & JR & Schmitty Purifoy were the main mechanics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-30<\/p>\n

    Dad \u2013 I got a phone call stating you’d been shot. Novella Sneed almost had a heart attack. They called Mabel Johnson but didn’t call Rose.<\/p>\n

    N.S. Darnes<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-31<\/p>\n

    Dated 9-4-78<\/p>\n

    Dad<\/p>\n

    I remember when your Bus window was broke out on the Diver [Driver’s] side and the Diver went out and he was surrounded by police in the police were all around us. We were come [coming] from LA to go to SF.<\/p>\n

    Betty Jean Gill<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-32<\/p>\n

    Incident<\/p>\n

    The brick thrown out the window of Bus 7 on the highway.<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-33<\/p>\n

    Ask Mary Ann [Casanova] in GT [Georgetown] she might know I think it was about around June July August<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-34<\/p>\n

    Dad,<\/p>\n

    In SF a man called us as an MGM Hollywood producer to lure you into a set-up.<\/p>\n

    Jane M. [Mutschmann]<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-35 \u2013 A-36<\/p>\n

    I was told when I first joined Peoples Temple by a brother of a Mendocino Sheriff Dept Officer that there was a “complete file” on Jim Jones & that he was a Communist.<\/p>\n

    Penny [Kerns]<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-37<\/p>\n

    Marthea [Hicks] & Penny following the photographer from New Times [likely New West] \u2013 and his taking pictures of our buses \u2013 our seniors \u2013 his asking us \u2013 “Jim Jones tell you to do this?”<\/p>\n

    Penny<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-38<\/p>\n

    Has it ever been established that Stoen and Dave Wise were friends? I always suspected David. Clara Johnson<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-39<\/p>\n

    [illegible]<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-40<\/p>\n

    Penny<\/p>\n

    Came over at the library at 7:20 while Dad was talking about the news and people were taking the news down and said [paper torn off]<\/p>\n

    —-<\/p>\n

    FF-10-A-41 \u2013 A-42<\/p>\n

    From Penny<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Welfare Department coming after Jim Randolph in Ukiah & you saved him.<\/li>\n
    2. Your being shot in the chest in the Parking lot.<\/li>\n
    3. Your being shot in the head in Redwood Valley.<\/li>\n
    4. Dean De Vries telling Dan (the Baptist Preacher) that we would blow up the SF Examiner.<\/li>\n
    5. LA on Thanksgiving when our food was poisoned.<\/li>\n
    6. In Redwood Valley, you sent a mortar shell would go off at 1 AM. You said we would hear 2 blasts & to turn off the lights. Then you went out in the dark & found the blind girl & brought her in \u2013 Jeff you said that in 7 minutes the phone would ring & no one would be on the line when it was answered.<\/li>\n
    7. The conspiracy by the “8” to buy guns.<\/li>\n
    8. Sheriff Bartholomew threatening me with arrest when I taped all those people in Ukiah who said good things about Peoples Temple.<\/li>\n
    9. School teachers in Ukiah questioning our children.<\/li>\n
    10. The snake brought to the LA Temple.<\/li>\n
    11. The Lights went in Philadelphia & the man who came disguised & with gun on him.<\/li>\n
    12. The Highway Patrol was called on Highway 5 and said they had a report we had a “body” under the bus (It was Carol McCoy, asleep.)<\/li>\n
    13. Mob scene in Santa Rosa.<\/li>\n
    14. Threats to PT in SF from Nazis.<\/li>\n
    15. Penny catching agents.<\/li>\n
    16. Also another CIA agent came to another service that Penny caught from San Diego \u2013 name Raymond B. Dye<\/u>. He’s a professor at one of the Universities & the stepson of Penny’s great aunt (Mary B. Dye).<\/li>\n
    17. Penny reported reputedly the hole in the Church \u2013 Harry Williams promised he would fix it \u2013 he swore<\/u> he would & he didn’t. It seems that the arsonists came through the hole.<\/li>\n
    18. Men waited on the hill in a car to kill Rick Cordell \u2013 You got this through revelation & saved his life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      —-<\/p>\n

      FF-10-A-43 \u2013 A-44<\/p>\n

      Penny<\/p>\n

      J.R. Purifoy messed up the construction work in LA & also didn’t<\/u> come to work most of the time.<\/p>\n

      The young woman from LA whose husband had raped her right after she had surgery & he tried to do us in. She was kept disguised.<\/p>\n

      Birdie Arnold stealing Mother Laternal\u2019s [LaTourneau] money<\/p>\n

      The man from Ukiah who told John Biddulph\u2019s mother that “That dirty bastard Jim Jones ought to be killed.” He owned a junkyard. (He was with another man.)<\/p>\n

      The white-haired man that took pictures of Sharon Amos’ house on Oak Street & also of the LA Temple. He was seen numerous times. A “Mystery” man.<\/p>\n

      Ross Case & his conspiracy against Dad with Jones Church in Ukiah.<\/p>\n

      David Wise taped [tapped] the phones \u2013 tried to tape Clara Johnson in front of me \u2013 Tried to get me arrested. Climbed the wall of my house & came in the window \u2013<\/p>\n

      —-<\/p>\n

      FF-10-A-45<\/p>\n

      Dad:<\/p>\n

      The first time Kinsolving came to the RWV Temple \u2013 Jack Arnold and Wayne Pietila were showing their guns. I tried to get them to put them away when I first saw Kinsolving but they would not do it until after he had seen them. Stoen<\/u> and A.J. [Archie Ijames] went to speak to him (Kinsolving)<\/p>\n

      Ron Talley<\/p>\n

      —-<\/p>\n

      FF-10-A-46<\/p>\n

      What about when Dad heal a women and the police tried to put her in the ambulance in LA Temple and the police took Dad, Mother, Johnny and some others to jail. Later Dad went<\/p>\n

      Also there was a young girl shot in the back Dad saved her. Also Paul Flowers was shot in the head in SF.<\/p>\n

      Don’t forget the snake that came in the Temple Dad picked up on our way back to SF. Someone threw a rock or bottle through one of our buses. Mike Prokes was driving the bus, and a Mrs. Williams was [illegible word] in the back while we was on a trip. On our trip one time the water was cut off. Something happened in Bakersfield when one of our boys got off the bus, some other boys jumped him. There was a trip we was on where a man run into the back of the bus and the police wanted to put him in jail. Don’t remember when it was.<\/p>\n

      David Chaikin<\/p>\n

      —-<\/p>\n

      FF-10-A-60<\/p>\n

      4\/10\/78<\/p>\n

      From: Carol Kerns<\/p>\n

      To: Gene Chaikin<\/p>\n

      In Philadelphia both Joan Pursley and I were answering phones downstairs in the Blue Horizon.<\/p>\n

      We received a death threat over the phone saying “we\u2019re going to get Jim Jones tonight \u2013 repeated \u2013 going to get him tonight” was a middle-aged white male voice. Later had trouble at Blue Horizon.<\/p>\n

      Carol Warren [Kerns]<\/p>\n

      —-<\/p>\n

      FF-10-A-61<\/p>\n

      [illegible]<\/p>\n

      —-<\/p>\n

      FF-10-A-62<\/p>\n

      Dad:<\/p>\n

      I remember once me and Anita Ijames were going somewhere and I saw a man walk past security to the back of the SF Temple. You were standing on the balcony. The man was white. I told Anita what I saw. He had a black bag and took a camera out, he was all the way inside the gate. I walked up to him and asked him what he was doing and who was he, he refused to tell. He said he was taking a picture of the palm tree in the back of the Temple when actually he was trying to get a picture of you. We chased him out of the parking lot. He disappeared.<\/p>\n

      Ollie Smith<\/p>\n

      —-<\/p>\n

      FF-10-A-63<\/p>\n

      [illegible]<\/p>\n

      —-<\/p>\n

      FF-10-A-64<\/p>\n

      Affidavits Jim Wants<\/u><\/p>\n

      Bessie Proby<\/u> [illegible word, could be “certainly” or “interesting”]<\/p>\n

      Jean (a woman) started eating turkey, started [illegible word]. From Philly.<\/p>\n

      Michael Simon<\/p>\n

      Back [illegible word] security & Chuck Kirkendall \u2013 3 AM \u2013 made several trips to Ruz\u2019s Truck & stole several thousand dollars of tools \u2013 caught him stealing. (No p\/o inside). He ran across the street to park to apartments. We stopped as we got to the park. Trying to provoke us to hit him. Thought he had caught all of us off guard.<\/p>\n

      Bomb Incident<\/p>\n

      Joe Wilson\/Ronnie James \u2013 assault, Santa Rosa, while driving bus<\/p>\n

      Jane Mutschmann<\/p>\n

      Jack Beam re Purifoy rigging electricity, putting in fixtures (fence\/or something) Jim said not to use Purifoy name.<\/p>\n

      Kay Nelson re Name of person who died of botchilism [botulism] poisoning at LAPT after eating turkey on Thanksgiving<\/p>\n

      Bruce Turner re Personally catching 5 whites who were in a car outside PT. He ran & stopped car and got names.<\/p>\n

      Bus 7 incident<\/p>\n

      Brick thrown in window nearly hit Jim’s eye. Get eyewitness.<\/p>\n

      —-<\/p>\n

      FF-10-A-65 \u2013 A-66<\/p>\n

      Harriet<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. 1977 A man was taking pictures of our kids from our Divisadero commune \u2013 someone got his van’s plate and we traced it down to Palm Springs \u2013 a couple who had a college aged son. The woman was in Real Estate they had their names on the plates of the car. (We traced this down the same time as we did the man in Santa Monica with a dummy Corp.) I think they were German. The KL may have been tripping out as we had just seen “Marathon Man.” We may still have all the info. \u2013 Christine \u2013 Patty \u2013 Karen \u2013 Patricia \u2013<\/li>\n
      2. My car got stolen while Gene Chaikin was driving it. It had a big trash bag full of mailing list letters (returns), the entire outline of the break-in of the Mertles \u2013 in my handwriting, I think, wigs etc. The stuff was found by Mary Black in an abandoned garage across from Ben Franklin School months later.<\/li>\n
      3. When David Wise returned he was put in charge of organizing the break-in of the Mertles \u2013 it was so disorganized and had such poor follow-thru that I took it over. Kay Henderson was also involved.<\/li>\n
      4. Chris Lewis was also involved as a security person in the Conn case \u2013 insignificant I’m sure<\/li>\n
      5. David W. Was involved in wiretapping the Muslims I think.<\/li>\n
      6. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        FF-10-A-24 Rick Cordell told me “around that time” some have gotten Dad & poured hydrochloric acid in his mouth. Tish [Leroy] —- FF-10-A-25 Some incidents \u2013 \u2013 Car nearly ran Dad down in Maryland on a trip on a racist gasoline stop \u2013 1973 or \u201874 I think \u2013 When we got word Hiway Patrol […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":109000,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-123637","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123637","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=123637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123638,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123637\/revisions\/123638"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}