{"id":99789,"date":"2020-06-26T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T23:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=99789"},"modified":"2020-06-29T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:10:38","slug":"affidavits-on-the-paternity-of-john-victor-stoen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=99789","title":{"rendered":"Standardized Affidavits on the Paternity of John Victor Stoen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as Jim Jones was signing <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13827\">affidavits<\/a> about his relationship with Grace Stoen, and as Temple members were writing <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13842\">personal affidavits<\/a> about what they said they knew about Grace, numerous other members in San Francisco joined the campaign by signing short affidavits on what they said they knew about John Victor Stoen\u2019s paternity. The language in these 32 affidavits is identical; all were signed on the same day \u2013 August 20, 1977 \u2013 and all were witnessed by Jim Randolph, who was a Notary Public as well as a Temple member. <\/p>\n<p>These affidavits are all located at Section FF-8-1 \u2013 FF-1-32 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The full citation of the first affidavit, signed by Eva Pugh, for example, would be RYMUR 89-4286-FF-8-1. <\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven of these affidavits are duplicated at the end of Section FF-8, from pages FF-8-50 through FF-8-76.<\/p>\n<p>The affidavit reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I, (name), do hereby swear that I have heard Grace Stoen say that Jim Jones is the real father of John Victor Stoen.<\/p>\n<p>Dated August 20, 1977.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Temple members who signed the affidavit include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sharon Amos, FF-8-18<br \/>\nJack Lovell Beam, FF-8-21<br \/>\nRheaviana Beam, FF-8-29<br \/>\nBonnie Jean Beck, FF-8-11<br \/>\nMaxine E. Betts, FF-8-22<br \/>\nDeborah Blakey, FF-8-16<br \/>\nSandra L. Bradshaw, FF-8-10<br \/>\nJean F. Brown, FF-8-2<br \/>\nTeresa Buford, FF-8-14<br \/>\nRuby Jewell Carroll, FF-8-28<br \/>\nPhyllis Chaikin, FF-8-24<br \/>\nGenevieve Cheek, FF-8-31<br \/>\nTimothy Clancey, FF-8-20<br \/>\nLeona M. Collier, FF-8-4<br \/>\nLaurie E. Efrein, FF-8-26<br \/>\nMaureen C. Fitch, FF-8-3<br \/>\nHue Fortson, FF-8-6<br \/>\nPhyllis D. Houston, FF-8-27<br \/>\nLee Ingram, FF-8-13<br \/>\nFlorida Johnson, FF-8-23<br \/>\nMarceline M. Jones, FF-8-32<br \/>\nEdith Kutulas, FF-8-7<br \/>\nJane E. Mutschmann, FF-8-25<br \/>\nBeatrice A. Orsot, FF-8-15<br \/>\nEva H. Pugh, FF-8-1<br \/>\nJames Robert Pugh, FF-8-5<br \/>\nAndrew M. Silver, FF-8-9<br \/>\nCarol A. Stahl, FF-8-8<br \/>\nKathy Tropp, FF-8-30<br \/>\nRobin Tschetter, FF-8-12<br \/>\nDiane Wilkinson, FF-8-17<br \/>\nVera L. Young, FF-8-19<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FF-8-1-32.pdf\">Affidavits on the Paternity of John Victor Stoen<\/a><\/strong>, RYMUR 89-4286-FF-8-1 \u2013 RYMUR 89-4286-FF-8-32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as Jim Jones was signing affidavits about his relationship with Grace Stoen, and as Temple members were writing personal affidavits about what they said they knew about Grace, numerous other members in San Francisco joined the campaign by signing short affidavits on what they said they knew about John Victor Stoen\u2019s paternity. The language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":99862,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99789","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99789","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=99789"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99860,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99789\/revisions\/99860"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}