{"id":13838,"date":"2013-02-17T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=13838"},"modified":"2024-02-26T14:56:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T22:56:57","slug":"tostojj","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13838","title":{"rendered":"Tim Stoen Letter to Jim Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day before Grace and Tim Stoen appeared in California Superior Court for a hearing on the custody of John Victor Stoen \u2013 a hearing which resulted in a court order for Jim Jones to turn over the child to Grace \u2013 Tim wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TOStoJJ.pdf\">letter to Jones<\/a>, asking him to recognize Grace&#8217;s deep love for John Victor, pleading for the child&#8217;s safe and immediate return, promising to raise him &#8220;in an interracial and sharing environment consistent with the highest teachings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter asks Jones to take specific actions within the next week \u2013 contacting Jeffrey Haas, Grace&#8217;s lawyer, with a pledge of cooperation by November 22, 1977; delivering John Victor by November 25 \u2013 but does not make reference to the hearing the following day.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also asks Jones to &#8220;reverse the hate campaign&#8221; which has been waged against Grace, but makes no reference to his participation in it before he left Peoples Temple the previous April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Stoen Letter to Jim Jones<\/strong>, RYMUR 89-4286-BB-31-a-44 \u2013 BB-31-a-45 (also at BB-31-b-257 \u2013 b-258)<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TOStoJJ.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=18552\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":13841,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13838","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13838","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13838"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126114,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13838\/revisions\/126114"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}