\u2022 The 2009 book\u00a0Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple<\/i>, which was discussed by author\u00a0Rebecca Moore<\/a>\u00a0and reviewed by\u00a0Rikke Wettendorff<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Matthew Farrell<\/a>\u00a0in last year\u2019s jonestown report, has been reviewed several times in the past year. Additional reviewers include:<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Daniel J. Flynn<\/a>, a critical review which was picked up by numerous blogs; Understanding Jonestown\u00a0<\/i>was also featured in an interview with Moore published in San Diego\u2019s\u00a0Uptown News<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 A radio dramatization of some of the correspondence of the Moore family \u2013 back and forth among the parents John and Barbara Moore, their two daughters in Guyana, Carolyn Layton and Annie Moore, and their third daughter who survived, Rebecca Moore \u2013 was aired on BBC Radio 4 on 13 January 2010. The material was taken from Rebecca Moore\u2019s book,\u00a0The Jonestown Letters: Correspondence of the Moore Family 1970\u20131985<\/em><\/a>, published in 1985 by Edwin Mellen Press. A review of the program appeared on\u00a0That Hideous Man<\/a>\u00a0blog.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jim Jones, Jr., the adopted African American son of Jim Jones who survived the deaths on November 18, 1978 by being in Georgetown for a basketball tournament, appeared<\/a> on\u00a0Oprah<\/i>\u00a0in early May. Oprah\u2019s summary of the appearance is\u00a0here<\/a>. Stories about the appearance include\u00a0Jim Jones\u2019 Son on Oprah Winfrey<\/a>, by Valerie Ferrari on Associated Content (9 July 2010). A commentary for\u00a0the jonestown<\/i>\u00a0report on Jones\u2019 appearance is\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was the second\u00a0Oprah<\/i>\u00a0show during which the talk show host had featured Peoples Temple. In 1988, she brought together several former members to talk about their lives ten years after the tragedy. She considered the reunion one of the\u00a0Top Ten<\/a>\u00a0she had hosted during the life of her show.<\/p>\n \u2022 A movie entitled\u00a0The Jonestown Defense<\/a><\/i>\u00a0is in post-production. The phrase \u201cJonestown defense<\/a>\u201d has recently entered American slang and is defined as a \u201cdefense against a corporate takeover in the form of a poison pill so strong that it threatens the survivability of the target company.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a>Jonestown in Music <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n A number of musical artists and groups have incorporated the icons \u2013 and even the very name \u2013 of Jonestown into their own images in recent months. Among recent discoveries:<\/p>\n \u2022 Described as \u201cpoised\u00a0at the intersection of country and rock\u201d \u2013 and as a cross betweenMotorhead and Merle Haggard\u00a0\u2013 Memphis trio Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre plays\u00a0at honky-tonk, punk and metal venues in the tri-state area of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jonestown is also the name of a four-person British rock band which composes and plays its own music in the \u201cpost punk\/indie\u201d genre. <\/p>\n \u2022 The CD\u00a0Jonestown<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 released by hip-hop artist D-Sisive on November 18, 2008, the 31st anniversary of the deaths in Jonestown \u2013 picked up a good review from the exclaim.ca<\/em>\u00a0website [Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This URL was found to be defunct in December 2022]<\/em>, which said \u201cthe record finds Derek Christoff conceptualizing Jonestown on lyrics rife with personal pain, humour and cultural references. \u2026 That innocence and bitterness shine through on \u2018In the Jungle\u2019 and \u2018One Way Ticket,\u2019 which are superficially bumping and intrinsically disturbing. \u2026 [P]ain with wit.\u201d<\/p>\n The album is available as a\u00a0free download<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The metal rock group, The Acacia Strain, has produced a song called \u201cJonestown\u201d which appears on their\u00a0Wormwood<\/i>\u00a0CD, as well as several places on YouTube, including\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>. The lyrics appear on several locations on the net as well, including\u00a0here<\/a>, here<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0Warning: The lyrics and some of the comments about the music are graphic and explicit.<\/p>\n \u2022 Some bands which do not have Jonestown or Peoples Temple in their names or in the titles of their songs nevertheless have incorporated snippets of tape from the Temple recorded oeuvre into their music. The song \u201cGo Outside\u201d by the group Cults opens with several quotes by Jim Jones from the so-called \u201cdeath tape\u201d \u2013\u00a0\u201cTo me, death is not a fearful thing. It\u2019s living that\u2019s treacherous\u201d \u2013 in the opening bars of music which has been described as \u201cinnocent and balmy.\u201d <\/p>\n \u2022 Peoples Temple, a new dance party in Brooklyn\u2019s Bruar Falls nightclub, debuted in mid-August 2010. The self-described \u201cdegenerate art maven\u201d Sam Mickens who hosts the monthly event says \u201cPeoples Temple will prove an exquisite night where folk from all walks of life can come to drink, dance, and co-exist in the spirit of ecstatic love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In addition to the stories by artists, composers and filmmakers in this section of\u00a0the jonestown report, we learned of these other developments within the past year: \u2022 Lester Kinsolving, whose 1972 series of articles represented the first critical attention focused on Peoples Temple \u2013 and who earned the Temple\u2019s lifetime enmity because of it \u2013\u00a0is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":30364,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30365","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30365","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=30365"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135478,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30365\/revisions\/135478"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0Robert F. Zeidel<\/a>, which was published in California History, the quarterly magazine of the California Historical Society;
\n\u2022 Linda Sargent Wood in the\u00a0Pacific Historical Review<\/a>; and
\n\u2022\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Mark](\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/09a-03-mark%20lane%20photo.jpg\")
\u2022 Mark Lane \u2013 who, along with Charles Garry, was one of the attorneys for Peoples Temple and Jim Jones at the time of the deaths in Jonestown and who, also as with Garry, survived the deaths when he was escorted to the East House in Jonestown \u2013 is completing work on a documentary<\/a>\u00a0film. He is also writing an autobiography.<\/p>\n![\"Koolaid](\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/09a-04-inline%20skating%20koolaid.jpg\")
\u2022 The Jonestown Massacre has also loaned its name to an inline hockey team in North Carolina. Quoting from its\u00a0home page (now defunct), \u201cThe idea of the team came from the incident that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.\u00a0 The clever logo is a Kool-Aid spokesman, The Kool-Aid Man, with deadly \u2018X\u2019s as eyes, indicating his demise.\u00a0 In this case he shall be saying \u2018oh, no!\u2019, instead of his trademark \u2018oh, yeah!\u2019 expression known around the world.\u201d The team finished its 2010 season with a 3-7 record.<\/p>\n![\"Jonestown](\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/09a-05-JT%20tragedy.jpg\")
\u2022 The Jonestown Tragedy, a punk group from McAllen\/Weslaco, Texas, formed in March 2007. According to their\u00a0website<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cthey bring dueling leads, melodic vocal straight up fast progressive punk.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\u201cDrink](\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/09a-06-ice%20cube.jpg\")
\u2022\u00a0According to a\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0by rap critic Henry Adaso, the lead track of Ice Cube\u2019s latest record\u00a0I Am the West<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 entitled\u00a0\u201cDrink the Kool-Aid\u201d \u2013 airs out a number of his music industry hatreds, including a grudge against his producer and former N.W.A. partner Dr. Dre. Ice Cube denied the charges and posted the lyrics to the song on his own site\u00a0\u201cfor everybody who understands style and grace in hip-hop.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Messy](\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/09a-07-cyanide.jpg\")
\u2022 Another rap album \u2013 this one a collaborative effort by\u00a0Messy Marv, The Jacka and Blanco of the Yay Boyz \u2013 entitled\u00a0Jonestown<\/i>\u00a0opens its tracklist with a cut called \u201cCyanide.\u201d The cover art features a metallic vat such as the one used in Jonestown, with five paper cups floating on the surface of a purple liquid.<\/p>\n![\"Tying](\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/09a-08-tying%20tiffany.jpg\")
\u2022 Alternative\/electronica\/goth music artist Tying Tiffany released a CD in June 2010 called Peoples Temple<\/i>. As one website\u00a0review<\/a>\u00a0described it, \u201cPeoples Temple<\/i>\u00a0takes the inspiration from the lack of models, critical awareness and from the feeling of general vacuity pervading in the new generations. It\u2019s no accident that the album title is inspired by the homonymous San Francisco\u2019s cult led by Jim Jones guilty for the \u201978 mass suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Church](\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/09a-09-greetings%20from%20jt.jpg\")
\u2022 The Church of Misery, a Japanese trio described by its fans as in the \u201cStoner\/Traditional Doom\u201d genre of music, released an EP in late November 2009 entitledGreetings from Jonestown<\/i>. \u201cJonestown\u00a0Massacre (Jim Jones),\u201d a 12:47 song leading off the disc, \u201cis a non-stop guitar jam mixed with Jim Jones clips,\u201d according to\u00a0one blogspot<\/a>.<\/p>\n