{"id":17050,"date":"2013-03-09T21:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=16925"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:45:39","slug":"splash_miketouch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17050","title":{"rendered":"Reflections and Articles by Mike Touchette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike Touchette<\/strong> was among the original pioneers who built Jonestown. He and his wife were in Georgetown on November 18, but several family members died in Jonestown. He may be reached at <a href=\"mailto:MichTouc@aol.com\">MichTouc@aol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><figure id=\"attachment_69287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69287\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/04-touchette.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-69287\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/04-touchette.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/04-touchette.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/04-touchette-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/04-touchette-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/04-touchette-432x432.jpeg 432w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/04-touchette-268x268.jpeg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Touchette in Jonestown&#8217;s early years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40182\">A Place Like No Other: Jonestown\u2019s Early Years<\/a>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29424\">Struggling with Emotion<\/a>\u00a0(2011)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30304\">Paul McCann &#8211; A Remembrance<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mike Touchette was interviewed as part of an Oral History project <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=111236\">by Katherine Klapperich<\/a> in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>He was also interviewed along with Stephan Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=130179\">by Danielle Redifer<\/a> in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":69287,"parent":16994,"menu_order":53,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17050","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17050","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=17050"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132733,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17050\/revisions\/132733"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}