{"id":17029,"date":"2013-03-09T21:57:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=16934"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:21:42","slug":"splash_davidwise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17029","title":{"rendered":"Reflections and Articles by David Parker Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67044\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wise.jpg\" alt=\"wise\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wise.jpg 160w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wise-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>David Parker Wise\u00a0was a\u00a0Pastor of the Los Angeles branch of Peoples Temple. He also managed the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161006145545\/http:\/\/www.jonestownlegacy.com\/\">Jonestown Legacy<\/a><\/i> website. Mr. Wise was most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bXS7kSYaHo0&#038;feature=youtu.be\">interviewed<\/a> in November 2019 for <a href=\"https:\/\/military-response-to-jonestown.sdsu.edu\">the Military Response to Jonestown website<\/a>. His email address is <a href=\"mailto:hopetek@gmail.com\">hopetek@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peoples in the Temple knew him as &#8220;David Wise,&#8221; since that was his adopted name. In more recent years, he has returned to Parker, the surname of his birth-father.<\/p>\n<p>Also in recent years, Mr. Wise has become active with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeenergyparty.org\/\">Free Energy Party<\/a>, which seeks to &#8220;usher\u2026 in a world of: Free Energy, Cures for Diseases, and Organic Agriculture.&#8221; A video of Mr. Wise describing its work appears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wPhCMkUx7Cc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29474\">Don\u2019t Drink the Kool-Aid<\/a>\u00a0(2011)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31954\">Mind Control and Torture, Or, Mass Murderers, Megalomaniacs, and Fear Mongers<\/a> (2006)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31955\">ReUnited after 35 years through the Alternative Considerations Website<\/a> (2006)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31956\">Supporting Preconceptions: A review of the Jonestown film<\/a> (2006)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=32397\">Jonestown, the CIA and the Mystery Tape<\/a> (2005)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17014\">Sex in Peoples Temple<\/a> (2004)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17067\">25 Years Hiding from a Dead Man<\/a> (2003)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":16994,"menu_order":58,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17029","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17029","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=17029"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134506,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17029\/revisions\/134506"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}