{"id":14094,"date":"2013-02-17T21:51:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=14094"},"modified":"2013-10-22T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:38:56","slug":"index-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14094","title":{"rendered":"Peoples Temple Newsletters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1970 to 1972 \u2013 the years of Peoples Temple\u2019s greatest expansions from Redwood Valley into San Francisco and Los Angeles \u2013 the church communicated with its many members with a periodic newsletter. Typed on letter-sized paper \u2013 but with the margins running from edge to edge to permit the greatest number of words \u2013 the newsletters included such information as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>News of Temple activities;<\/li>\n<li>Future appearances by Jim Jones before various congregations;<\/li>\n<li>Reports of healings from the most recent Temple services;<\/li>\n<li>Messages from Jim Jones, including his interpretations of the Bible and his views on reincarnation;<\/li>\n<li>Political developments which Temple members needed to be aware of;<\/li>\n<li>Lists of supporters, with requests to patronize the business supporters of the Temple; and<\/li>\n<li>Requests for donations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The newsletter circulation was about 36,000, according to one edition, and several made appeals for readers to keep in regular contact so that they\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0be dropped from subscription rolls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The documents are reprinted courtesy of the California Historical Society (MS 3800, Box 77, folder 1203)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<b>Peoples Temple newsletter<\/b>, August 1970<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Newsletter1.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14095\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Peoples Temple newsletter<\/b>, October 1970<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Newsletter2.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14096\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Peoples Temple newsletter<\/b>, July 1971<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Newsletter3.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14097\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Peoples Temple newsletter<\/b>, November 1971<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Newsletter4.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14098\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Peoples Temple newsletter<\/b>, February 1972<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Newsletter5.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14099\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":14108,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14094","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14094","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=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46479,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14094\/revisions\/46479"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}