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Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple by Rebecca Moore, 2009-03-20
JONESTOWN AND PEOPLES TEMPLE: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Religion</i> by David Chidester, 2005
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple by Deborah Layton, 1999-11-09
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple: An entry from Gale's <i>American Decades: Primary Sources</i>
Dear People: Remembering Jonestown
Gone from the Promised Land by John Hall, 2004-04-01
Hearing the Voices of Jonestown (Religion and Politics) by Mary McCormick Maaga, 1998-05
Death of a Cult Family: Jim Jones (Days of Tragedy) by Sue L. Hamilton, 1989-11

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New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, And Peoples Temple
New Religious Movements, mass suicide, and peoples temple Scholarly Perspectiveson a The first definitive, scholarly study of the jonestown tragedy a
http://www.mellenpress.com/emp/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=1292&pc=9
JIM JONES, JONESTOWN, AND JESUS CHRIST
a month, they would practice ritual mass suicide which Jones of Hearing the Voicesof jonestown Putting a The peoples temple began with a man preaching Christ
http://davidsisler.com/11-14-98.htm

Extractions: JIM JONES, JONESTOWN, AND JESUS CHRIST by David Sisler Guyana is a country of 83,000 square miles located on the northeast edge of South America. It is bordered by Venezuela to the northwest, Brazil on the west and south and by Surinam on the east. Its northern border is the Atlantic Ocean. Seventy percent of Guyana is made up of tropical rain forest. It rains 80 to 100 inches a year and daytime temperatures approach 100 degrees. Guyana has much natural beauty, many rivers and waterfalls, but many Americans do not think about beauty when they think about Guyana. They think about Jim Jones and the deaths by murder or suicide of 913 members of his Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church 20 years ago. Peoples Temple was founded in 1956 in Indianapolis as an integrated church combining religion and socialist politics. Jim Jones claimed a healing ministry which attracted many members. The church became a part of the Disciples of Christ in 1961 and Jones was ordained by that denomination in 1964. In 1965, Jones moved Peoples Temple to the San Francisco area, which he thought would be safe in case of nuclear war. It was also during this time that an organization of concerned relatives was formed in response to reports of beatings and other punishments inflicted on members by Jones and the Temple's leaders. As allegations of wrongdoing increased, Jones moved the Temple to Jonestown, Guyana to escape his perceived threat of media and police persecution.
NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
One was New Religious Movements, mass suicide, and peoples for a Second Look at jonestown,is perhaps voices and viewpoints concerning peoples temple and the
http://www.und.edu/dept/library/Libpub/nrm's.html

Extractions: OF NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS Twenty years ago, on November 18, more than 900 Americans destroyed their children, their parents, and themselves in a remote agriculture project in the South American country of Guyana. People around the world watched in horror as news about Jonestown trickled out slowly. My family viewed events in particular fascination, since my two sisters, my nephew, and many friends were living in Jonestown as members of a religious group called Peoples Temple. What struck us then, and continues to haunt us today, is how the news media and the government demonized the people who died that day. When the Heaven's Gate deaths occurred last year, the media icon for Jonestown re-appeared: an aerial shot of brightly colored bodies lying out under the jungle sun. Because we had known those bodies as living human beings, my family and I tried to humanize the Jonestown victims in discussions with the news media, with officials, and with strangers. Part of that humanization process resulted in writing and editing five books, published by Edwin Mellen Press, which are currently housed in the Chester Fritz Library's regular holdings and in Special Collections. A wave of instant paperbacks came out after November 18, 1978, purporting to tell "what it was really like" inside the "suicide cult." Most of the accounts came from Peoples Temple apostates, that is, former members who had turned from being extremely pro-Temple to extremely anti-Temple. Needless to say, the accounts focused on the lurid and the sensational, and failed to provide any real explanations for why people might leave America and set up a new life in a new land. They also made the deaths inexplicable, the product of people who must have suffered mass delusion, brainwashing, or both.
Facts About The Children Of Jonestown
persists in erroneously calling these deaths a mass suicide. . the children who diedin jonestown were wards negative report about the peoples temple until New
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/peoples-temple-deaths.htm

Extractions: ttp://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/facts.html?FACTNet The facts about the children of Jonestown 1. 287 children died in the Jonestown massacre. 2. According to the Guyanese court which had jurisdiction in the matter, all but three of the deaths in Jonestown were ruled to be the result of murder, not suicide. Source: The New York Times, 12/12/78 3. In spite of this fact, the US news media persists in erroneously calling these deaths a "mass suicide." 4. Many of the children who died in Jonestown were wards of the State of California who had been turned over to Jim Jones and other Temple members by California judges. 5. It was illegal for these children to be removed from California yet, according to the House Foreign Affairs Committee which investigated the matter, no California official ever requested a check into the welfare or whereabouts of these children. 6. While in San Francisco, Jim Jones was engaged in a wide ranging criminal enterprise which included welfare fraud, election fraud, child abuse, and extortion.
Scientology --- Scientology / Jonestown Connection: Sensitive FBI Documents Foun
The two attorneys were present as peoples temple lawyers when Rep Calif.) made thefateful trip to jonestown in November and then Jones led a mass murdersuicide
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/scientology-jonestown.htm

Extractions: Scientology / Jonestown connection: Sensitive FBI Documents Found in Jonestown Ruins Scientology Scientology / Jonestown connection Sensitive FBI Documents Found in Jonestown Ruins The Washington Post 6.1.1979 By Charles R. Babcock, Washington Post Staff Writer Sensitive FBI documents and the makings of a book about allegedly illegal FBI activities have been found among the ruins of the Peoples Temple cult in Guyana. The discovery has triggered an investigation of the book's author, a former FBI agent who has been cooperating with the Church of Scientology in exposing purported FBI wrongdoing. It also has led to an exchange of accusations between Charles Garry and Mark Lane, attorneys for the Peoples Temple cultled by the Rey. Jim Jones, who died Nov. 18 with more than 900 cult members in a mass suicide-murder. Justice Department and FBI spokesmen declined to comment on the matter yesterday. But in telephone interviews, the former agent and Garry, his attorney, said that FBI agents searched their offices a few weeks ago in an effort to recover other copies of the FBI materials found in Jonestown, Guyana. The documents were said to be unrelated to the Peoples Temple.
People's Temple
In 1977, over 1000 peoples temple members including Jim Jones Jones became paranoidthat jonestown was under attack to commit a revolutionary mass suicide began
http://camel2.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/relstudies/290/newage/peoplest.

Extractions: JONESTOWN What was the Peoples Temple? Peoples Temple began in the 1950's in Indianapolis, IN under the leadership of Jim Jones Jones and his followers engaged in numerous activities to help the poor. In addition, they made racial integration central to their work mission. In 1959, Jones affiliated his congregation with the Christian Church(Disciple of Christ) naming it the Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel. After reading an article entitled "Nine Places to in the World to Hide," Jones relocated his family and some 70 followers to northern California thinking that in the case of a nuclear war, they would be safe. There, the church became known as the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ. The three populations within the Peoples Temple included: -people, predominantly Whites, who joined primarily in family groups in the Christian sect in Indiana -young, college-educated Whites who joined Peoples Temple beginning in 1968 in California -Blacks who joined in the early 1970's when the Peoples Temple began urban ministries in California The pressures on Peoples Temple in California prompted preparations to move to Guyana. The first news stories critical of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple began to appear in 1972. And
The People's Temple
The macabre mass suicide and murder was directed by factfinding group that had justleft jonestown. three American newsmen and a peoples temple defector were
http://www.gbs.sha.bw.schule.de/peoples_temple_wpost.htm

Extractions: November 21, 1978 GEORGETOWN, GUYANA With exhortations on the "beauty of dying," the Rev. Jim Jones led 408 of his followers in the Peoples Temple Church to a mass suicide-murder and was himself shot to death, according to reports yesterday from the scene of the massacre. Guyanese authorities said most of the victims appear to have been killed with poison drawn from a vat set in a clearing in Jonestown, the agricultural settlement where Jones' cult was based. Only three of the bodies had gunshot wounds. By late yesterday only a dozen of the several hundred residents of Jonestown who apparently fled into the surrounding forest had returned to the compound. Authorities said the returnees were helping to identify the dead. A survivor of the mass murder-suicide told an investigating group that visited Jonestown yesterday that the poison consisted of cyanide mixed with Kool-aid in a vat. It was administered by Jonestown's staff doctor and nurses to men, women, children and babies. Those who tried to refuse the poison or escape were forced by armed guards to take it. It was not known if Jones was shot by someone else or killed himself.
Jonestown
and scores of bodies. Guyana, jonestown was the site where some 900 members of theCalifornia based peoples temple died in a selfimposed ritual mass suicide.
http://www.farmington.k12.mn.us/3ap70s/jonestown.html

Extractions: Couples with their arms around each other, children holding parents. Nothing moved. One of the first newsman to fly over Jonestown in Guyana described the scene as " IT looked like a parking lot full of cars. When the planned dipped lower, the cars turned out to be bodies. Scores and scores of bodies." Guyana, Jonestown was the site where some 900 members of the California based Peoples Temple died in a self-imposed ritual mass suicide. Back to 70s Main Page
Peoples Temple, EV And CAC
appointed to defend Larry Layton, the former peoples temple member who Leo Ryan atthe airstrip outside jonestown right before the mass suicide occurred
http://www.ex-premie.org/best/Peoples Temple EV and CAC.htm

Extractions: Steve Quint -:- CAC And Recent Exes Forum Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:35 (EDT) Jim 'Terrorism' is a bit strong Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 17:00:50 (EDT) JohnT deeply offended and hurt Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 14:46:51 (EDT) Sir Dave Stuff and nonsense Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:25:01 (EDT) Pat:C) Of course CAC scared me, Steve Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 03:29:15 (EDT) Francesca CAC shook me up too Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:12:35 (EDT) Marianne Only female CAC victim Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:33:14 (EDT) Dermot I understand, Marianne... Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:14:36 (EDT) Deborah You go! Marianne Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 19:18:12 (EDT) Cynthia Go Marianne! Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 17:07:02 (EDT) Marianne Peoples Temple, EV and CAC Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 22:38:00 (EDT) Pat:C) Absolutely ''BEST OF'' Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:35:11 (EDT) Francesca ~) ***BEST OF FORUM!!!***
Jim Jones And Jonestown Bibliography, Indiana Division
Jim Jones and the jonestown murders and mass suicide. L429s Title Seductive poisona jonestown survivor s story of life and death in the peoples temple.
http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/isl/indiana/jimjones.html

Extractions: Jim Jones and Jonestown Resources from the Indiana Division The following materials may be of use when researching Reverend Jim Jones and the Jonestown murders and mass suicide. These materials, as well as the card file indexes listed below, are available for use in the Indiana State Library. For more information, please contact the Indiana Division Books: I 291.23 W515h
LII - Results For "jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978"
http//www.npr.org/programs/specials/jonestown.html Subjects Jones, Jim, 19311978 peoples temple jonestown mass suicide, jonestown, Guyana, 1978 Created
http://www.lii.org/search?searchtype=subject;query=Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jones
L.A. Freelance Journalist, Now In Hiding - MPH, 11/28/78
knew about the horror of jonestown, the peoples temple and Jim of slave labor conditionsat jonestown, the madness of Jones, mass suicide drills, armed
http://www.maebrussell.com/Jonestown/L.A. Journalist Lindsay in Hiding.html

Extractions: His account charged that U.S. consular officials in Guyana had intimate knowledge of the accusations made against Jonestown, and even were involved in the escape of one temple member. Couldn't Get Published But nobody would publish the story. Not even the National Inquirer, which Lindsay said paid him and photographer Cyril Maitland some $10,000 to investigate Jonestown.
Salvation And Suicide
questions about the meaningful history of the peoples temple may be in recognitionof the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at jonestown, this revised
http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-34324-0.shtml

Extractions: Journal of the American Academy of Religion R e-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. For Chidester, Jonestown recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society. "Jonestown is ancient history," writes Chidester, but it does provide us with an opportunity "to reflect upon the strangeness of familiar . . . promises of redemption through sacrifice." David Chidester is Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town and author or editor of 20 books, including American Sacred Space (IUP, 1995), edited with Edward T. Linenthal, and
Jonestown Mass Suicide
Remembering jonestown, NPR interview with mass suicide survivor, Laura JohnstonKohl Alternative considerations of jonestown and peoples temple, San Diego
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/J/Jonestown-mass-suicide.htm

Extractions: World History (home) Encyclopedia Index Localities Companies Surnames ... This Week in History Jonestown mass suicide in the news On November 18 , 914 (or 911) members of the People's Temple (including 276 children), led by the Reverend Jim Jones , committed suicide in their settlement of Jonestown Guyana , mostly by drinking a mixture of Kool-aid and cyanide . Jones and some of the others were killed by gunshots to the head. The deaths followed the killing of U.S. Representative Leo Ryan , who had flown to the site to investigate charges that members of the religious group had been brainwash ed and were under the dictator ial rule of Jones. Ryan was killed when he tried to board his airplane with several members of the group, who had wanted to leave with him. The group had been formed in Indianapolis, Indiana from the . Under pressure the group had moved to San Francisco and following a report in the New West magazine in Jones leased 4,000 acres of land in Guyana and moved himself and his most devoted followers there. Calling it the People's Temple Agricultural Project they grew food and raised animals. Remembering Jonestown , NPR interview with mass suicide survivor, Laura Johnston Kohl "Alternative considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple,' San Diego State University, documented fruitless attempts to gain U.S. government information, personal recollections, essays.
CBS News | Recent Cult Massacres | March 31, 2000 17:26:02
Federal officials called the deaths a mass suicide, but Branch 18, 1978, in jonestown,Guyana, more than 900 wound in the head, led the peoples temple in San
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/03/31/world/main178621.shtml

Extractions: (AP) Ugandan police say more than 900 deaths have been linked to a Christian doomsday cult there, creating an even lager self-destructive toll than that of the Jonestown suicides. But they aren't the only ones. Suicide cults of the last 22 years include: Heaven's Gate: On March 26, 1997, in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., 39 members of a cult called Heaven's Gate were found dead at a rented mansion. They had poisoned themselves with a mixture of applesauce, vodka and barbiturates. The cultists left a video message saying they were shedding their "earthly containers" to join a spaceship trailing the Hale Bopp comet. Order of the Solar Temple: On March 22, 1997, in St. Casimir, Quebec, five members of the Order of the Solar Temple die in a fiery mass suicide. Cult devotees believe suicide transports them to a new life on a planet called Sirius. Order of the Solar Temple: On Dec. 23, 1995, 16 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in a burned house outside Grenoble, in the French Alps. Most of the bodies were arranged in a star shape on the floor.
Books: Me And Mr. Jones (Tucson Weekly . 11-09-98)
Survivor s Story of Life and Death in the peoples temple, by Deborah part of Guyana,913 members living in the jonestown commune commit mass suicide.
http://weeklywire.com/ww/11-09-98/tw_book1.html

Extractions: By Leigh Rich Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple , by Deborah Layton (Doubleday, Anchor Books). Hardcover, $23.95. NOVEMBER 18, 1978 Buried inconspicuously in a remote part of Guyana, 913 members living in the Jonestown "commune" commit mass suicide. Some drink the cyanide-laced Flavour-Aide voluntarily; others are forced at gunpoint. No one is spared. Not even Jim Jones, the "reverend" who deceitfully enticed his followers of the Peoples Temple to this so-called "Promised Land." A man who robbed, raped and tortured his disciples into submission. A man self-proclaimed the reincarnation of Jesus but, for many, now remembered as the devil. Few were closer to Jones than Deborah Layton, a high-ranking Peoples Temple official for nearly a decade and survivor of one of the most baffling tragedies in recent history. Layton's story of escape, bravely recounted in Seductive Poison , unravels the riddles of Jonestown from the inside and documents the rise and fall of one of America's most notorious cult leaders. Executed with precision and emotion, Layton's book serves dual purposes: One, to emphasize how intelligent and independent individuals can become engrossed in a cult; and, two, to educate government officials on the ins-and-outs of cult life so future incidents can be controlled appropriately.
CNN - Jonestown Massacre Memories Linger Amid Rumors Of CIA Link - November 19,
escaped the jonestown massacre, met at a mass grave for The people of jonestown wentto racial harmony and social justice preached by peoples temple leader Jim
http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/19/jonestown.anniversary.01/

Extractions: Web posted at: 4:45 a.m. EST (0945 GMT) OAKLAND, California (CNN) Twenty years ago, more than 900 people drank from a vat of cyanide-laced punch at a jungle settlement and died in a mass suicide that stunned the world. On Wednesday, the people who went to Jonestown in the hope of starting a new society were remembered not just for the way their lives ended on November 18, 1978. On a quiet hillside, relatives of the dead, as well as a few people who escaped the Jonestown Massacre, met at a mass grave for many of the cult victims and remembered how they lived. "The people of Jonestown went to Guyana to live, not to die," said Jynona Norwood, who lost 27 relatives.
Jonestown Mass Suicide - Jim Jones
mass suicide In Guyana. Jim Jones and The People's temple. Good Advice. This was a Christian destructive, doomsday cult founded and led by James Warren Jones (19311978). Jim Jones held degrees from
http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/jonestown

Extractions: Good Advice This was a Christian destructive, doomsday cult founded and led by James Warren Jones (1931-1978). Jim Jones held degrees from Indiana University and Butler University. He was not a Fundamentalist pastor as many reports in the media and the anti-cult movement claim. He belonged to a mainline Christian denomination, having been ordained in the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ. (At the time of his ordination, the DoC allowed a local congregation to select and ordain a minister on their own. However, ordinations conducted without denominational endorsement were not considered valid within the rest of the church.) Some of the Church Members In San Francisco The Peoples Temple was initially structured as an inter-racial mission for the sick, homeless and jobless. He assembled a large following of over 900 members in Indianapolis IN during the 1950's. "He preached a 'social gospel' of human freedom, equality, and love, which required helping the least and the lowliest of society's members. Later on, however, this gospel became explicitly socialistic, or communistic in Jones' own view, and the hypocrisy of white Christianity was ridiculed while 'apostolic socialism' was preached." 1 It was an interracial congregation almost unheard of in Indiana at the time. When a government investigation began into his cures for cancer, heart disease and arthritis, he decided to move the group to Ukiah in Northern California. He preached the imminent end of the world in a nuclear war; Ukiah was judged to be as safe as any when war broke out.
People's Temple - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
People s temple. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The People s temple was acult that is best known for a mass suicide at jonestown on November 18, 1978.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Temple

Extractions: Server will be down for maintenance on 2004-06-11 from about 18:00 to 18:30 UTC. The People's Temple was a cult that is best known for a mass suicide at Jonestown on November 18 . The Temple was founded in , at Indianapolis, Indiana by Reverend Jim Jones . At the time it was a group advocating and aiding social justice. In Indianapolis, and at the California cities of Ukiah San Francisco , and Los Angeles , where Jones extended new branches of his church, they earned a good reputation for aiding the cities' poorest citizens, especially racial minorities, drug addicts, and the homeless. Soup kitchens day care centers, and medical clinics for elderly people were set up, along with counseling programs for prostitutes and drug addicts who wanted to change their lives. Then disturbing accounts began to spring up, told by a few people who had succeeded in leaving the cult . Jones was stealing from his followers, faked the miracle healings, was punishing the members severely and now considered himself the new Messiah By now, journalists, law enforcement officials, and politicians were showing interest in Jones' group. Jim Jones reacted with frequent long and angry speeches, where he claimed that the defectors lied, and the outside world was trying to destroy them. At the time, more former members told of beatings and abuse within the People's Temple, and relatives of members insisted that members were being forced to remain there against their will.
ON THIS DAY | 18 | 1978: Mass Suicide Leaves 900 Dead
of brutal beatings, murders and a mass suicide plan but Leo Ryan s delegation arrivedin jonestown on 14 taking with them about 20 People s temple members who
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/18/newsid_2540000/2540

Extractions: 18 November Search ON THIS DAY by date Day Month January February March April May June July August September October November December Front Page Years Themes Witness ... Text Only 1978: Mass suicide leaves 900 dead The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, have been found in Guyana in South America. Most of the dead - members of the People's Temple Christian Church - had consumed a soft drink laced with cyanide and sedatives. However, the body of the People's Temple charismatic leader, Jim Jones, was said to have a bullet wound in the right temple, believed to be self-inflicted. The deaths are being linked to the earlier killings of five people, including US Congressman Leo Ryan, on a nearby airstrip. Mr Ryan had led a fact-finding mission to the church's jungle settlement - Jonestown - after allegations by relatives in the US of human rights abuses. Last year Jim Jones and most of the 1,000 members of the People's Temple moved to Guyana from San Francisco after an investigation began into the church for tax evasion. People who had left the organisation told the authorities of brutal beatings, murders and a mass suicide plan but were not believed.

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