{"id":67888,"date":"2016-10-21T15:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T22:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=67888"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:19:42","slug":"tim-stoen-publishes-marked-for-death","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=67888","title":{"rendered":"Tim Stoen Publishes <i>Marked For Death<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/stoen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-67890\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/stoen.jpg\" alt=\"stoen\" width=\"226\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/stoen.jpg 288w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/stoen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/stoen-268x268.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Marked for Death: <\/em><em>My War with Jim Jones the Devil of Jonestown<\/em>, a memoir by former Temple attorney Timothy O. Stoen, was published at the end of 2015. As the author describes the book on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Marked-Death-Jones-Devil-Jonestown\/dp\/1511757434\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1473649845&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=%22Marked+for+Death%22+stoen\">Amazon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is a first-hand account of my experiences as his attorney, enemy, and postmortem target. It is also a modern, tribal version of an age-old story: &#8216;Power tends to corrupt,&#8217; said Lord Acton, &#8216;and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now a prosecuting attorney in Mendocino County in northern California, Stoen granted an interview to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukiahdailyjournal.com\/general-news\/20151213\/mendocino-county-history-tim-stoen-authors-book-about-his-role-in-the-peoples-temple\">Ukiah Daily Journal<\/a> as part of its December 13, 2015 description of the book.<\/p>\n<p>This book was reissued with a new cover, amplifications, new photographs, and back-cover endorsements, under the title <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Love-Them-Death-Devil-Jonestown\/dp\/153747877X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1491343190&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=timothy+stoen\"><em>Love Them to Death<\/em><\/a> in March 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Among the reviews of the book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theava.com\/archives\/50717\">Tim Stoen\u2019s New Book About His Role In The People\u2019s Temple<\/a>, by KC Meadows, <em>Anderson Valley Advertiser<\/em>, December 16, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/the-man-jim-jones-hated-most-speaks\/\">The Man Jim Jones Hated Most Speaks<\/a>, by Daniel Flynn, <em>The American Spectator,<\/em> April 22, 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An undated description of the book on <a href=\"http:\/\/booklife.com\/project\/marked-for-death-13100\">Booklife<\/a> includes several interviews from the Amazon website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two additional reviews appear in this edition of <em>the jonestown report<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=67307\">Review Essay: Tim Stoen, Peoples Temple, the Concerned Relatives, and Jonestown<\/a>, by John R. Hall<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=67502\"><em>Marked for Death<\/em>: A (jumping over the) Cliffs Notes review<\/a>, by Matthew Thomas Farrell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tim Stoen also discusses the book and his experience with Jim Jones in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SO9me64amtE&amp;feature=youtu.be\">youtube video<\/a> filmed at the men&#8217;s breakfast in Fort Bragg in February 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marked for Death: My War with Jim Jones the Devil of Jonestown, a memoir by former Temple attorney Timothy O. Stoen, was published at the end of 2015. As the author describes the book on Amazon: &#8220;It is a first-hand account of my experiences as his attorney, enemy, and postmortem target. 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