{"id":126274,"date":"2024-03-06T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=126274"},"modified":"2024-03-06T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:59:00","slug":"carole-pickering-letter-to-lester-kinsolving-12-sep-1972","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=126274","title":{"rendered":"Carole Pickering letter to Lester Kinsolving, <br>12 September 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BB-31-a-144<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR<br \/>\nEDITORIAL ROOMS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Sept. 12, 1972<\/p>\n<p>Dear Les;<\/p>\n<p>Enclosed is another article I discovered after dispatching first one. I&#8217;ve checked and State Board of Psychology Examiners secured legal opinion from Ind. Attorney General which said they had no cause to prosecute because Jones didn&#8217;t use the title &#8220;psychologist&#8221;. State medical people say there handcuffed because no state laws authorizing prosecution against &#8220;faith healers.&#8221; Dr. Reilley, mentioned in the enclosed clipping, said yesterday Stoen and made personal visit to her here after this story appeared, pleading Jones&#8217; cause and asking that psychology board abandon any thoughts of prosecution. She said she&#8217;s had no further word from Stoen, other than a prediction by him \u2013 at the time of his visit \u2013 that it was &#8220;unlikely&#8221; Jones would return to Indianapolis to preach. I&#8217;ll keep in touch \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\/s\/ Carole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BB-31-a-144 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR EDITORIAL ROOMS Sept. 12, 1972 Dear Les; Enclosed is another article I discovered after dispatching first one. I&#8217;ve checked and State Board of Psychology Examiners secured legal opinion from Ind. Attorney General which said they had no cause to prosecute because Jones didn&#8217;t use the title &#8220;psychologist&#8221;. State medical people say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":88315,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-126274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126274","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=126274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126276,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126274\/revisions\/126276"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}