{"id":130037,"date":"2025-04-09T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=130037"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T00:28:10","slug":"blakey-letters-of-gift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=130037","title":{"rendered":"Blakey Letters of gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BB-3-aaa<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I, Deborah L. Blakey, hereby declare that I am living communally in response to the New Testament experience of the early Christian Church. I therefore declare that any and all monies and property that I deliver henceforth or have delivered to any of the following named persons, Mrs. Eva Pugh and Mrs. Helen Swinney or their designees, shall be deemed a gift in every respect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Executed on this June day of 28th, 1975, at San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deborah L. Blakey<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BB-3-ooo<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Form letter on acknowledgment of gifts to Peoples Temple<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Date [blank]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I, [blank space] am a member of Peoples Temple Christian Church, also known as Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ. I am fully aware of, and I fully believe in the ideals and standards of this church, and of its pastor, Jim Jones. Because of this belief, and my faith in its humanitarian works, I have donated and given, and will in the future donate and give, certain items and monies to this church to be used as said church or said pastor sees fit. I have given these items and monies freely and willingly, without any pressure of any kind. I have no intention of ever asking for or receiving them back again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the event that I should resign my membership in this church, or that my membership should be terminated in any way whatever, I hereby promise and affirm that I will never\u2028ask for nor expect to receive any of these items or monies back again. They have been given as a gift, and they are no longer my property or the property of my heirs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\">\/s\/ Deborah L. Blakey<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\">Witness [blank space]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BB-3-aaa I, Deborah L. Blakey, hereby declare that I am living communally in response to the New Testament experience of the early Christian Church. I therefore declare that any and all monies and property that I deliver henceforth or have delivered to any of the following named persons, Mrs. Eva Pugh and Mrs. Helen Swinney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":129996,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130037","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130037","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=130037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130038,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130037\/revisions\/130038"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}