{"id":123823,"date":"2023-09-02T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=123823"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:04:56","slug":"x-3-f-26-letter-to-radio-host-from-concerned-relative-neva-sly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=123823","title":{"rendered":"x-3-f-26 \u2022<br>Letter to radio host from Concerned Relative Neva Sly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>x-3-f-26a \u2013 26e<\/p>\n<p>Envelope addressed to Ron Owens, KGO Radio, 277 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA 94103; from 1550 Bay Street, #307, San Francisco, CA 94123<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>11\/28\/77<\/p>\n<p>Re: People&#8217;s Temple<\/p>\n<p>Dear Ron:<\/p>\n<p>I called your show the night Charles Garry was on the show with you.<\/p>\n<p>I said that my 16-year-old son, Mark, is in Guyana illegally. By illegally, I mean he is there without a legal guardian, and without my permission.<\/p>\n<p>I saw Mark a year ago in October, at which time he asked me to let him leave the Temple and stay with me. He didn&#8217;t want to go to Guyana.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, I still felt that I was a traitor, (brainwashing a la Jim Jones), and Mark was still better off in the Temple. Since then, I realized the jeopardy I have put him in, and I have asked that he be returned to me, without success.<\/p>\n<p>I called Mr. Garry&#8217;s office, and Mr. Garry told me that because of the static they were having trouble making telephone contact with Guyana, and that it might be the weather<\/p>\n<p>I have been told that Mark doesn&#8217;t like it in Guyana, and he is giving them a bad time.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, because of the sadistic nature of the discipline, I am worried about him.<\/p>\n<p>Please, Ron, help us! We are desperate with worry.<\/p>\n<p>We are unable to get the Jim Jones legally, because he doesn&#8217;t do the dirty work, his followers do.<\/p>\n<p>Please stay with it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>Neva Jean Sly<br \/>\n1550 Bay Street, #307, San Francisco, CA 94123<br \/>\n(415) 921-8138<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>x-3-f-26a \u2013 26e Envelope addressed to Ron Owens, KGO Radio, 277 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA 94103; from 1550 Bay Street, #307, San Francisco, CA 94123 &#8212;&#8211; 11\/28\/77 Re: People&#8217;s Temple Dear Ron: I called your show the night Charles Garry was on the show with you. I said that my 16-year-old son, Mark, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":88051,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-123823","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123823","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=123823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123824,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123823\/revisions\/123824"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}