{"id":16535,"date":"2013-03-11T00:54:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T00:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=16535"},"modified":"2022-02-19T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:48:24","slug":"articles_conn-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16535","title":{"rendered":"Articles by David Conn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Conn<\/strong> described himself as an \u201cinvestigator of the Jim Jones Peoples Temple cult for nine years prior to the Guyana mass murder.” Temple members described him differently, as a Treasury Department agent who worked with apostates Deanna and Elmer Mertle to sabotage Temple humanitarian efforts.<\/p>\n

Along with George Klineman and Sherman Butler, Conn co-authored The Cult that Died<\/i><\/a> (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980). He was also the author of Lednorf’s Dilemma<\/a><\/em> (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006); of The Specific Density of Scientists And Their Secret Fears<\/em> (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2012); and of The Pleasure of Fiends: An Orthodox Study of Evil and the Meaning of the Jonestown Cultic Horror<\/em> (Roseville, CA: AlphaGraphics, 2013). <\/p>\n

A 2015 interview with Mr. Conn on The Mind Renewed program is here<\/a>, with notes, references, and acknowledgements here<\/a>. An earlier 2013 interview on TruNews is here<\/a>. A 2012 interview on The Josh Tolley Show<\/em> \u2013 a radio talk show \u2013 is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Conn’s website is www.truthsleuth.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Conn died on December 31, 2021 of Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

Jonestown After Forty Years<\/a> (2018) <\/p>\n

Jonestown: The Cult That Never Went Away<\/a> (2014)<\/p>\n

The Unseen Meaning of Jonestown<\/a> \u00a0(2012)<\/p>\n

Jonestown, Its Portent Has Arrived<\/a> (2008)<\/p>\n

Jonestown: Spawn of the Disciples of Christ<\/a> (2008)<\/p>\n

Excerpt from Lednorf\u2019s Dilemma<\/i><\/a> (2008)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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