Archived Site: Jonestown Survivor

Information Concerning this Archived Site

Source: https://jonestownsurvivor.com (Inactive)

This is the archive of a large website of articles and blogs published in conjunction with the book, Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look. The book and all the material in this archive were written by Laura Johnston Kohl, a member of Peoples Temple who survived the tragedy in Jonestown by being in Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown on 18 November 1978.

Following the twentieth anniversary of the Jonestown tragedy, Ms. Johnston Kohl became a prolific writer and active public speaker, work she continued to do until shortly before her death on 19 November 2019. She also made herself available to family members of those who perished in Guyana and scholars who try to understand the calamity of the ending. Finally, she was a generous contributor of articles and remembrances for the Alternative Considerations site, all of which may be found here.

In the interest of preserving the information from her site for future generations of Jonestown scholars and researchers, the managers of this site obtained permission from Laura’s husband Ron Kohl to archive her work in its entirety. Both the archive and the book itself are published with his permission.

Jonestown Survivor New Spring 2018 Calendar

December 11, 2017

Jonestown Survivor – Spring 2018

Here is my schedule for Spring 2018:

December 14, 2017: Cal State University-San Marcos-Osher class in Murrieta

December 28, 2017: 3-hour Radio Interview “Spaced Out Radio”

January, 2018: Set up summer speaking events

Feb. 11-13, 2018: Speaking in University of Puget Sound classes and Public Meeting

March, 2018: Return trip to Guyana – Georgetown and Jonestown

Cal State University-San Bernadino Osher in Palm Desert (3 classes)

San Diego State University-Osher class

April 4-6, 2018: Speaking at Arkansas Tech University – Anthropology classes

Communal Studies Association – Conference Call

Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley

And,

  • I continue to teach 6th grade language arts in middle school.

  • I am co-editor of the Communal Societies Journal, for an issue dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Jonestown, published by the Communal Studies Association.

  • I am also working on a Fall 2019 Communal Studies Association Conference to be held in Petaluma, California close to the two communities I lived in – Peoples Temple sites and Synanon sites. I hope many former members of each community will participate in a focused Conference on modern communities.

  • I am on the Jonestown Institute’s Speakers’ Bureau and get frequent requests for interviews from local, national, and international media. I have had five lengthy interview over the past few months as the media prepares for the 40th anniversary of Jonestown, next November 18, 2018.

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