{"id":128282,"date":"2024-09-21T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T22:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=128282"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:24:38","slug":"articles-by-cole-waterman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=128282","title":{"rendered":"Articles and Research by Cole Waterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128070\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cole2.png.avif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-128070\" src=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cole2.png.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cole2.png.avif 510w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cole2.png-300x300.avif 300w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cole2.png-150x150.avif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cole Waterman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cole Waterman is a crime reporter with MLive in\u00a0Bay City, Michigan. He also describes himself as a history buff who has fostered an interest in Peoples Temple and Jonestown \u201cfor so long I can no longer recall a time when it didn\u2019t occupy my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the articles below, Cole has transcribed several sections of Peoples Temple documents released by the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act. They include <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=127477&amp;action=edit\">FBI Section 113 \u2022 BB-7 \u2022 Terri Buford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=88165&amp;action=edit\">FBI Section 126 \u2022 EE-1 \u2022 Letters to Dad (A-F)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He may be contacted at <a href=\"mailto:colewaterman27@gmail.com\">colewaterman27@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=131936\">Fleming Book Presents Jonestown to Young Adults<\/a> (2025) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/images\/new2.jpg\" alt=\"NEW\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=127900\">Teri Buford\u2019s Complicated Quest for Acceptance<\/a> (2024)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=128015\">Shirlee Miller Fields: From Michigan to Jonestown<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13190\">The Collected Writings of Richard Tropp<\/a> (2025) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/images\/new2.jpg\" alt=\"NEW\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Waterman is a crime reporter with MLive in\u00a0Bay City, Michigan. He also describes himself as a history buff who has fostered an interest in Peoples Temple and Jonestown \u201cfor so long I can no longer recall a time when it didn\u2019t occupy my mind.\u201d In addition to the articles below, Cole has transcribed several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":16576,"menu_order":79,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-128282","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128282","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128282"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131940,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128282\/revisions\/131940"}],"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=128282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}