JONESTOWN SURVIVOR and Articles Posted on Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple Site
Reflections and Articles by Laura Johnston Kohl Since 2004, I have been writing and reflecting on my decade in Peoples Temple. Much of the writing I have done has ended up on the website of The Jonestown Institute, available at this link. My dearest friends and members of the survivor community Fielding McGehee and Rebecca Moore work tirelessly to keep this wonderful resource free and available to the public. Many of my beliefs immediately after the murders in Jonestown were false. It has taken a lot of my deeper study and time for me to even allow my feelings to evolve. ...
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Three months ago, a Dover, Delaware Forensics Investigator discovered the cremated remains of nine Jonestown victims in an abandoned funeral home. For the past several months, a number of people from the media, The Jonestown Institute, and the Dover Forensics Investigators Office worked to locate the family members and relatives of these nine remains. I was delighted to be able to help with the location of living relatives. Seven of the nine were successfully located, with several of the families deciding to have their loved ones buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, with the over-four-hundred other victims. The cremains of ...
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NEW DEAL! If you order one of my signed books off of my website:www.jonestownsurvivor.com, I will be able to GIVE you a free audible book! Once you order off of my site, I will let you know the password for the free audible book! And, I hope to hear from you soon! Deadline October 31,2014
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My book is in a brand new format - it is now an AUDIBLE BOOK! I have FIVE free audio books of JONESTOWN SURVIVOR: An Insider's Look that I am GIVING AWAY to the first five people who email me at ljohnstonkohl@gmail.com. As of 7:30 am on Saturday, 10/18/14. You can sign up for Audible Books to get discounts and great prices on the top seller of audible books - ask for more info.
» continue readingJONESTOWN SURVIVOR: An Insider’s Look is now available in audio!
My book is now available in audio: PLAY AUDIO SAMPLE Jonestown Survivor: An Insider's Look Written by: Laura Johnston Kohl Narrated by: Sarah Van Sweden Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins Unabridged Audiobook More ▼ Laura Johnston Kohl moved to California to join her sister. Soon after that, she was introduced to Peoples Temple and spent the next nine years in California and Guyana. She was away from Jonestown on the day when 913 of her friends and family died. The next twenty years were spent recovering, and rebuilding her life. For the first ten years, she lived in Synanon, a residential community. The following ten years, with her husband and young ...
» continue readingJONESTOWN SURVIVOR RADIO INTERVIEW OCT. 11
Jonestown Survivor will be on this Radio Show at 7:26 a.m. on October 11: Doug Wagner Host of the WMT Morning Show 5-9am | On-Air Personality iHeartMedia o 319.395.0530 x118 | m 319.721.3789 600 Old Marion Road NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 DouglasWagner@iHeartMedia.com
» continue readingJONESTOWN SURVIVOR – Setting 2014-15 Schedule
I set up my year's calendar around this time. Universities are now ready to look at their calendars to schedule me in. Here is my information: Hello again! I am setting up my schedule for the next two semesters. There is always a lot going on so I thought I’d fill you in! • This November is the 36th anniversary of Jonestown. • Nine cremated remains of Peoples Temple members were found in an abandoned funeral home in Dover Delaware. Survivors and the Jonestown Institute have managed to find and contact family members of seven, and hope to find the remaining two ...
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I was interviewed by Michael Chen of Channel 10 News this week. Channel 10 News with Michael Chen 9/18/14 SAN DIEGO - Two more sets of family members have been tracked down after a stunning discovery of the cremated remains of nine Jonestown Massacre victims. Some 35 years after the tragedy that captured a world's attention, the emotions have barely faded for Laura Johnston Kohl, who survived because she wasn't living at the main encampment. "I do get emotional. Some call it PTSD - 'Peoples Temple Stress Disorder,'" said Johnston Kohl. More than 900 members of the Peoples Temple, led by American preacher Jim Jones, ...
» continue readingJONESTOWN SURVIVOR SHARES WONDER OF DEEP FRIENDSHIPS
UNITY I have taken on a new project since I retired from twenty-five years of teaching on June 12, 2014. A psychologist friend and I got a $10,000 grant to gather an Oral History Collection of Peoples Temple and Jonestown survivors and family members. It has been a deeply meaningful project for me already. I have interviewed and recorded Oral Histories from five good friends. My Peoples Temple family is a connection I treasure with people of every background. In interviews with just these five, I have recorded how this diverse group came to Peoples Temple ...
» continue readingJONESTOWN SURVIVOR Helps Find Homes for Cremated Jonestown Friends
CREMATED REMAINS OF JONESTOWN MEMBERS FOUND On Thursday morning, August 7, 2014, I got a heartbreaking email. It started like this: “I pray this email finds you, I have also attempted to connect with you on Facebook®. My name is James Patton, I am a forensic Investigator for the Delaware State Medical Examiner. On 7/31/2014 I was called to respond to an abandon funeral home in Dover Delaware where 38 boxes of cremated remains were found, 9 of which were victims of the Jonestown incident in 1978.” I immediately emailed ...
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