{"id":34877,"date":"2013-06-16T00:35:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=34877"},"modified":"2020-12-26T17:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T01:31:48","slug":"purpose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34877","title":{"rendered":"Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   Purpose of the Site              &nbsp;     <strong>Purpose          of the Site<\/strong>     &nbsp;            &nbsp;                          <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo03.jpg\" alt=\"Houses in Jonestown, May 1979\"><br \/>               Houses in Jonestown, May 1979 <\/p>\n<p>         This site was inaugurated prior to the twentieth anniversary of the deaths          in Jonestown, 18 November 1998. Anticipating much media interest and coverage,          as well as scholarly and popular study of Peoples Temple as a result,          the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Dakota          began this website to present accurate, credible, and comprehensive information          about Peoples Temple. The site was designed by a UND Religious Studies          major, Kevin Hozak.<\/p>\n<p>In the years since the site&#8217;s inception, the site has moved to the Department          of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. We have added many          primary source documents to the site, including photographs, audiotape          transcripts, government documents, Peoples Temple-generated documents,          and original articles. Thus our aim is to present as much factual information          as is available, and as many original documents as we are able to identify,          transcribe, and reproduce for anyone wishing to learn more about Peoples          Temple and its members. <\/p>\n<p>The twenty-fifth anniversary of the deaths in Jonestown is coming up          this year on 18 November 2003 and thus we anticipate continued interest          in the people who lived and died in Jonestown. We will be continually          updating the site and adding new material this year and in the years to          come. <\/p>\n<p>                            <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34864\">Back                to the Archive<\/a><\/em><\/strong>           <strong><em><a href=\"#Top\">Back                to the Top<\/a><\/em><\/strong>                       <\/p>\n<p>             &nbsp;            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tip_b4.gif\" alt=\"Spacer\">                           <strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tip_14.gif\" alt=\"Alternative Considerations of Jonestown &#038; Peoples Temple\" ><\/strong>                     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tip_24.gif\" alt=\"Leaf\">                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tip_34.gif\" alt=\"Leaf\" >     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tip_44.gif\" alt=\"Spacer\" >     <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose of the Site &nbsp; Purpose of the Site &nbsp; &nbsp; Houses in Jonestown, May 1979 This site was inaugurated prior to the twentieth anniversary of the deaths in Jonestown, 18 November 1998. Anticipating much media interest and coverage, as well as scholarly and popular study of Peoples Temple as a result, the Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":34801,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34877","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=34877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107930,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34877\/revisions\/107930"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}