Peoples Temple was involved in community affairs outside its relatively-isolated headquarters in Redwood Valley in the early 1970s and issued press releases to let the media know about that involvement. Examples include:<\/p>\n
Redwood Valley, California, January 31, 1974,<\/strong> an announcement of $300 to each of several families of people recently slain in San Francisco (RYMUR 89-4286-I-1, pp. 203-204) “PEOPLES TEMPLE HUMAN SERVICE MINISTRY OFFERS $2000 TO MEET DEMANDS FOR PATRICIA HEARST,” February 13, 1974<\/strong>, the Temple’s offer of $2000 to help the family of Patricia Hearst secure her release from the Symbionese Liberation Army, which had kidnapped the newspaper heiress nine days earlier (RYMUR 89-4286-I-1, pp. 206-208) \u201cCARAVAN OF HOPE\u201d CROSSES AMERICA \u2013 PROCLAIMS In addition, Peoples Temple actively promoted itself with a vigorous public relations effort. Examples include:<\/p>\n PEOPLES TEMPLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: AN EXTRAORDINARY MINISTRY OF HUMAN SERVICES INSPIRED BY THE EXAMPLE OF PASTOR JIM JONES,<\/strong> a February 1, 1974 press release describing its programs and listing of endorsements from community leaders (California Historical Society, MS 3800) PEOPLES TEMPLE \u2013 A DYNAMIC CHURCH THAT IS GROWING STEADILY BECAUSE IT TAKES ON THE CHALLENGE OF PUTTING PRINCIPLE INTO PRACTICE<\/strong>, an undated 1974 release demonstrating its “dynamic” works (California Historical Society, MS 3800) [Untitled] November 25, 1974 capsule review<\/strong> of its race relations during the previous year (California Historical Society, MS 3800) Fall 1975, “Temple Brotherhood at Disneyland”<\/strong> a travelogue of its excursion to Disneyland over Labor Day (California Historical Society, MS 3800) September 26, 1976, “Social Ministry for Social Justice”<\/strong>, a profile of Temple leader Jim Jones (California Historical Society, MS 3800) October 3, 1976, photo montage and captions<\/strong> (California Historical Society, MS 3800) Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":14108,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14102","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=14102"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126807,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14102\/revisions\/126807"}],"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=14102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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