{"id":70268,"date":"2017-10-02T14:28:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70268"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:21:42","slug":"guyana-after-jonestown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70268","title":{"rendered":"Guyana After Jonestown: A Special Section"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70291\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mapofguyana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-70375\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mapofguyana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70291\">Jonestown from Guyanese Perspectives: An Introduction<\/a>, by Laura Johnston Kohl<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70295\">Jonestown as Continuum<\/a>, by Eusi Kwayana<\/li>\n<li>The Voices\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70297\">Jonestown as a Mystery to Guyanese<\/a>, by Nastassia Rambarran<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70301\">Memories of a 15-Year-Old Girl<\/a>, by Carlotta Melville<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70299\">The Postal Intermediary<\/a>, by Merlyn Alphonso<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70272\">Hitching a Ride Down Memory Lane: With Captain Astill Paul<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70269\">A Story Associated with Jonestown<\/a>, by Lloyd H. Marshall<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70304\">An Airstrip Eyewitness Remembers November 18<\/a>, by Esther English<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70306\">The Trio in the Land Rover<\/a>, by Patricia Waddell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70308\">A Permanent Loss of Respect<\/a>, by Wil A-Pluck<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70310\">The Rest of the Chorus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70275\">Jim Jones and the Guyana Government: A Symbiotic Relationship<\/a>, by Fielding M. McGehee III\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70277\">Miscellaneous Documents on Jonestown Website relating to Temple\/Guyana Relationship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70313\"><em>Joanstown<\/em>: A Different Look at Guyana<\/a>, by Rebecca Moore<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Additional articles by former Temple members which appear on this site include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81213\">Going Home to Guyana<\/a>, by Jordan Vilchez (2018) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81250\">Returning to Jonestown<\/a>, by Laura Johnston Kohl (2018) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81250\">Guyana 40 Years Later<\/a>, by Laura Johnston Kohl (2018) <\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other articles, stories and interviews from Guyanese perspectives which appear on this site include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BCPAeyIhgFo&#038;feature=youtu.be\">Witnessing Jonestown at the End: An Interview with Clifton James<\/a>. Clifton James lived in Port Kaituma and had visited Jonestown six days before the tragedy in November 1978. The interview was conducted in January 2020 by Preston Jones of the <a href=\"https:\/\/military-response-to-jonestown.sdsu.edu\">Military Response to Jonestown<\/a> project.  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=67276\">Jonestown: A Caribbean\/Guyanese Perspective<\/a>, a Speech by Walter Rodney (1979; republished in 2016)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=67895\">Eusi Kwayana Publishes\u00a0<em>A New Look at Jonestown<\/em><\/a> (2016; includes reviews from <em>the jonestown report<\/em> and elsewhere)\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29329\">Other Jonestown Dimensions: Views from Guyana<\/a>, by Eusi Kwayana (2011)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33138\">Book to Consider Jonestown from Guyana Perspective<\/a>,\u00a0by Eusi Kwayana (2007)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30290\"><em>Jonestown Survivor<\/em>: A Recommendation<\/a>, by Eusi Kwayana (2010)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=61391\">Jonestown Revisited<\/a>, by Jan Carew (chapter from <em>A New Look at Jonestown<\/em>; published in 2014)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=61634\"><em>Children of Paradise<\/em> Published<\/a> (2016; includes reviews from <em>the jonestown report<\/em> and elsewhere)<\/li>\n<li>Articles by Antony Arcusa\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=62065\">Jonestown in the books, the books in Jonestown: A hunt in two Guyanese libraries<\/a>\u00a0(2014)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40222\">Ghost Town<\/a>\u00a0(2013)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Articles by Sharon Maas\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40254\">Running Away<\/a> (2013)\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40255\">A Guyanese perspective of Jonestown, 1979<\/a>, by Eileen Cox (2013)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40253\">The\u00a0<em>White Night<\/em>\u00a0Is Over<\/a> (2013)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29411\"><em>White Night:<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>The Novel<\/a> (2011)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=32668\">A Proposal to Restore Jonestown<\/a>, by Roger Arjoon (2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16579\">Guyanese Perspectives on Jonestown<\/a>, by Kahleel Mohammed (2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonestown from Guyanese Perspectives: An Introduction, by Laura Johnston Kohl Jonestown as Continuum, by Eusi Kwayana The Voices Jonestown as a Mystery to Guyanese, by Nastassia Rambarran Memories of a 15-Year-Old Girl, by Carlotta Melville The Postal Intermediary, by Merlyn Alphonso Hitching a Ride Down Memory Lane: With Captain Astill Paul A Story Associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":71043,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70268","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70268"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134504,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70268\/revisions\/134504"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}