{"id":30792,"date":"2013-07-25T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=30792"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:39:31","slug":"carolynintro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30792","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives on Carolyn Layton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Carolyn<\/a>\u00a0\"Carolyn<\/a>\u00a0\"Carolyn\"<\/a>\u00a0\"Carolyn\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With the possible exception of Marceline Jones \u2013 and, of course, the notable exception of Jim Jones \u2013 the member of the Jonestown leadership group about whom this website receives the most inquiries is Carolyn Moore Layton. She is known by many of her relationships \u2013 longtime lover of Jim Jones, mother of Jones\u2019 child Jim Jon (Kimo) Prokes, sister of Annie Moore, former wife of Larry Layton, former sister-in-law of Debby Layton \u2013 as well as the sometimes-mysterious roles she played within the Peoples Temple hierarchy.<\/p>\n

For these reasons, we\u2019ve asked several people who knew Carolyn best \u2013 and, in the case of Rikke Wettendorff, someone who has carefully studied her \u2013 to offer their perspectives on Carolyn.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that Carolyn is the sister and sister-in-law of the managers of this website and editors of the jonestown report<\/em>, Rebecca Moore \u2013 who also wrote a piece for this section \u2013 and Fielding M. McGehee III, respectively.<\/p>\n

1. Carolyn Moore: A Father\u2019s Biography<\/a>, by John V Moore
\n2. Carolyn\u2019s Other Letters<\/a>, by Rebecca Moore
\n3. Carolyn Layton: Jonestown\u2019s American Gothic<\/em><\/a>, by Laura Johnston Kohl
\n4. Carolyn Layton: The Grey Eminence<\/a>, by Mike Cartmell
\n5. Carolyn Layton was a mother too<\/a>, by Rikke Wettendorff<\/p>\n

In 2018, Laura Elizabeth Woollett<\/a>, an Australian writer, published Beautiful Revolutionary<\/a><\/em>, a novel largely drawn upon the life of Carolyn Layton. News about the publication \u2013 including a number of reviews which consider the interpretation of Carolyn for a general audience \u2013 appears here<\/a>. Laura has also contributed two short stories \u2013 early character sketches and deleted passages \u2013 about Evelyn, the central character of her novel. They are Born Again<\/a> (2016) and The Homewrecker<\/a> (2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With the possible exception of Marceline Jones \u2013 and, of course, the notable exception of Jim Jones \u2013 the member of the Jonestown leadership group about whom this website receives the most inquiries is Carolyn Moore Layton. She is known by many of her relationships \u2013 longtime lover of Jim Jones, mother of Jones\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":30920,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30792","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30792","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=30792"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134360,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30792\/revisions\/134360"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}