{"id":88111,"date":"2019-04-10T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T23:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=88111"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:45:25","slug":"fbi-section-129-letters-to-dad-n-z","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=88111","title":{"rendered":"FBI Section 129 \u2022 EE-1 \u2022 Letters to Dad (N-Z)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The folder labelled in the Guyana Index<\/em><\/a> as “EE-Letters to Dad” was big enough that the FBI broke it down into four sections, from 126-129. The section \u2013 letters from people whose last name started from N to Z \u2013 consists of 768 pages. The complete PDF appears here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The citation for these documents should open with the FBI\u2019s official designation of these records, which is “RYMUR 89-4286.” Each individual page in these records has a unique number. Page 416 of this document, for example, is marked \u201cEE-1-S-157\u201d. The complete citation for that page, then, would be \u201cRYMUR 89-4286-EE-1-S-157\u201d.<\/p>\n

Note<\/span>: This site features many primary source documents from Peoples Temple, including letters and other writings by members of the Temple and residents of Jonestown. Many of these writings were solicited by the Temple leadership to include confessions of misdeeds and crimes which the members may \u2013 or more often, may not \u2013 have committed. These confessions were tests of the members\u2019 loyalty, but they were collected as a means of leverage to prevent them from speaking out against the Temple in the event of their departure.<\/p>\n

Most of the documents retain their original spelling, with corrections only for clarity and for names.<\/p>\n

Alphabetical listings of the letters appear immediately below. Following those letter listings is listing of people whose writings are significant enough to warrant their own page. The chart underneath catalogues other significant documents located in this section.<\/p>\n

Letters to Dad (N)<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
Letters to Dad (P)<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
Letters to Dad (R)<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
Letters to Dad (S)<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
Letters to Dad (T)<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
Letters to Dad (V-W)<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

The following residents of Jonestown had multiple entries on this page. These pages have been pulled from the letter listings above; in other words, the writings of Eva and Jim Pugh appear below but not on the page of Letters to Dad (P)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Writings of the Oliver Family<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Writings of Bea Orsot<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Writings of the Ponts Family<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Writings of Eva and Jim Pugh<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Writings of Edith Roller<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Writings of Larry Schacht<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Writings of the Swinney Family<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Writings of the Touchette Family<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Writings of Harriet Sarah Tropp<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Collected Writings of Richard Tropp<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Writings of Rita Tupper [Lenin]<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Poetry of Barbara Walker<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

The following is a chart of other significant documents located in this section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
PDF page numbers<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Number of pages<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Citations of pages<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Description<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
PDF<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Text<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
306-312<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
7<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-S-46 \u2013 EE-1-S-52<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n\n
\n
315-316<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
2<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-S-55 \u2013 EE-1-S-56<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n\n
\n
350-357, 363<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
9<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-S-90 \u2013 S-97, S-104<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Reports on Jonestown Residents, Summer 1978<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n
\n
315-316<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
2<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-S-55 \u2013 EE-1-S-56<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Thank you note to Jim Jones<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n
\n
415<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
1<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-S-156<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Tim Stoen breakdown of Temple organization, 1977<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n
\n
416<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
1<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-S-157<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n\n
Text<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The documents in this section were transcribed almost entirely by Alexandra Prince, a professor of Religious Studies at Skidmore College, and their students. The student contributors include Lexi Benfante, Walter Boyce, Olivia Cohen, Marc Combs, Alice Condry-Power, Emily Czelusniak, Jack Denham, Charles DeVos, Dylan Dreizen, Lulu Feeney, Edward Galvao, Sam Hort, Ellis Hemmerdinger, Lily Hudner, Ginny Hunt, Eli Jean-Francois, Anjali Khanna, Grace Mahon, Callahan Mainzer, Nicolo Mazzocca, Kaleb McClain, Maddy Morton, Cooper Rice, Maya Roldan, Emma Rothman, Mbaye Seck, Caleb Taran, Dianne Tarity, and Melanie Yaeger. The editors are grateful for the invaluable work of all of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folder labelled in the Guyana Index as “EE-Letters to Dad” was big enough that the FBI broke it down into four sections, from 126-129. The section \u2013 letters from people whose last name started from N to Z \u2013 consists of 768 pages. The complete PDF appears here. The citation for these documents should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":13761,"menu_order":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88111","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=88111"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134068,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88111\/revisions\/134068"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}