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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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Survivor Tells Story Of Mass Suicide - The Daily Targum - University
Deborah Layton, survivor of the jonestown mass suicide, is coming out with a bookcalled Her brother was already a member of the People s temple.
http://www.dailytargum.com/news/2003/09/30/University/Survivor.Tells.Story.Of.Ma

Extractions: Layton spoke to University students and professors Wednesday in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. She discussed her membership in the People's Temple, which, she said, will always be remembered in connection with the "Kool-Aid, where a bunch of lunatics killed themselves" to reach a higher salvation. The event Layton spoke of involved the deaths of over 900 people in a South American jungle after they ingested "a concoction of purple Kool-Aid, cyanide, sedatives and tranquilizers," according to the Infoplease Web site. The cult started in California and moved to Guyana, where the mass suicide occurred. Layton said those who died were not unstable at first but felt the need to do a good deed and get somewhere in their lives - and People's Temple just seemed "right." The author said she was mainly attracted to the group because it hoped to solve issues of discrimination and strive for racial justice and equality. She left the group six months before the suicide took place and so she considers herself a survivor of the tragedy. She wrote her memoir - which she said was the key to her life - 20 years after the event.
People's Temple
New Religious Movements, mass suicide and People s temple. Sociological People s temple and jonestown A Corrective Comparison and Critique.
http://science.gcc.edu/reli/kemeny/people's_temple.htm

Extractions: People's Temple By Sanford Groff Primary Popular Books on The Peoples Temple Jones, Mother. Thoughts of Mother Jones: Compiled From Her Writings and Speeches Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1971. Krause, Charles A. Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account . New York: Berkley, Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison: a Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple . New York: Doubleday, 1998. Secondary Scholarly Books on The Peoples Temple Alinin, S.F. and Antonov, B.G. and Itskov, A.N. The Jonestown Carnage - A CIA crime Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987. Appel, Willa. Cults in America . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. Beckford, James A. Cult Controversies . New York: Tavistock Publications, Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. Crimmins, John Hugh. The performance of the Department of State and the American Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana in the People's Temple Case . Washington, D.C.:
USA Today (Society For The Advancement Of Education): JONESTOWN MASSACRE: The Un
Jim Jones and the mass suicide of hundreds of people in jonestown, Guyana. Milk disassociated himself from the temple and believed that jonestown
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2644_127/ai_53630954

Extractions: Advocate, The Air Force Journal of Logistics Air Force Law Review Air Force Speeches ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports JONESTOWN MASSACRE: The Unrevealed Story USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education) Jan, 1999 by Jeff A. Schnepper Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. The testimony of Rev. Jim Jones' mistress opens a Pandora's box of sex, lies, drugs, politics, and murder. IN NOVEMBER, 1978, the world was stunned by dramatic pictures and stories about Rev. Jim Jones and the mass suicide of hundreds of people in Jonestown, Guyana. While the deaths were real, the stories were fabrications created to cover up the theft of more than $26,000,000, planned mass murder (not suicide), and the fiscal rape of the treasury of San Francisco by corrupt politicians. Jones' second in command, Teresa Buford, was a survivor of the massacre. Her confession, revealing the true nature of what happened, details Jones' blueprint for creating his own nation, funded by U.S. taxpayers' dollars stolen as part of San Francisco's corrupt political system. Buford's allegations have been supported by Charles Garry, Jones' first lawyer, eight boxes of notes and correspondence found by The New York Times, and newly unsealed records turned over to the California Historical Society. In my research, all discrepancies between what she alleged and what was reported in 1978 have been resolved by independent documentation supporting her position. I believe Buford. This is her story.
The Jonestown Massacre
to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing.The jonestown cult (officially named the People s temple ) was founded
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/jonestown1.html

Extractions: Ministry of Terror The Jonestown Cult Massacre by Elissa Haney The vat containing Jones' deadly concoction sits amid the bodies of his followers on Nov. 20, 1978. (Source/AP) Two decades ago an unusual series of events led to the deaths of more than 900 people in the middle of a South American jungle. Though dubbed a "massacre," what transpired at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing.
The Jonestown Massacre
Shortly before the mass suicide, US Congressman Leo Ryan was assassinated on Jones the People s temple Full Gospel Church, in Indianapolis by 1963.
http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/express/religion/jonestown.html

Extractions: HOME ABOUT SEARCH COMMENTS? On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of a religious group led by the Reverend Jim Jones were killed in an apparent mass suicide. The megalomaniac Jones convinced most of his followers to drink a cyanide mixture. Some, including Jones, were shot, either in suicide or murder. Shortly before the mass suicide, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan was assassinated on Jones' orders. Ryan had just landed in Guyana to investigate alleged human rights abuses at Jonestown. Jim Jones, born May 13, 1931 in Lynn, Indiana , had his own religious congregation, the People's Temple Full Gospel Church, in Indianapolis by 1963. Jones led the interracial congregation (rare at the time) with faith healing, visions and advice from extraterrestrials. After spending a short time in Brazil, Jones moved his congregation to California . He eventually moved it again to an isolated area of Guyana jungle, naming the new settlement after himself. Rumors abound of government connections to the Guyana tragedy. A former Jones cult member, Phil Kerns, wrote a book claiming that "Jones was a Marxist who had numerous contacts with officials of both the Cuban and Soviet governments."
A Journal Of Alternative News
The last visitor to Jim Jones and the People s temple in jonestown was US a bunch of lunatics who committed an unparalleled act of mass suicide.
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Who Was Jim Jones.html
A Journal Of Alternative News
My name is Laurie Efrein Kahalas, and I was with the peoples temple for The horrendous mass death at jonestown burst onto the world press in November,
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Jonestown Dismantling the Disinformation
Prehistoric: Jonestown `diary Of The Dead' Resurfaces [09-18-88]
900 people died a decade ago in a mass murdersuicide at a Guyana cult While Prokes survived the temple commune s mass suicide, a few
http://www.subgenius.com/subg-digest/ancient/0505.html
Reviews For Seductive Poison
A jonestown suvivor s story of life and death in the peoples temple, On the20th anniversary of the mass suicides/murders at jonestown, Guyana,
http://www.deborahlayton.com/reviews.html

Extractions: Book Reviews Complete Reviews The following is a partial listing.... Personal Comments " Seductive Poison is an absolutely riveting story, told as memoir but with the pulse-pounding suspense of a murder mystery. I read Layton's account non-stop through the night, unable to let go, struck by the realization that this is not simply an account of a bygone tragedy. It has great relevance to many of the terrible events we see unfolding today, for this is a story about those who seek a better world and are then inextricably caught in a plan to end it. This is a universal tale about ideology gone awry."
Peoples Temple :: New Revelations On Jonestown Tragedy
Religion news about peoples temple, religious cults, sects and world OAKLAND One day after the jonestown mass suicides in 1978 in the jungle of
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9204-New_revelations_on_Jonestown_tragedy.html
How Jones Used Drugs - SF Exam. 12/28/78
Dale Parks, a temple defector who was a nursing supervisor at jonestown, that narcotics might have been used to pave the road for mass suicide.
http://www.maebrussell.com/Jonestown/How Jones Used Drugs.html

Extractions: Dale Parks, a temple defector who was a nursing supervisor at Jonestown, said he was shocked at the quantity of drugs found at the medical clinic there: "There's no way that many people were receiving treatment. I know they were using things to keep people under control, but not like this."
The People's Temple - Leigh Fondakowski
The People s temple review of documentary theater piece about the San jonestown, of course, refers to the Guyana location of a 1977 mass suicide by
http://www.culturevulture.net/Theater8/PeoplesTemple.htm

Extractions: Hand-carved sese wood mask from West Africa "I’m so tired of hiding my life," says a black actor playing a Jonestown survivor in the new docudrama . Jonestown, of course, refers to the Guyana location of a 1977 mass suicide by the followers of the Reverend Jim Jones. , by the same creative team that conceived the highly-lauded The Laramie Project , makes clear that Jonestown itself is only part of the story, death just the tragic ending. Along the way, life for the members of the California-based group was full of idealism, love, and foot-tapping music. Jones’ brilliant formula for a cult: a combination of religion, politics, community-building and free food. Like Adolph Hitler, Jones was a superb public speaker, and someone who knew how to incite. The play, presenting a script patched from archives and new interviews, is all individual voices, presented in character by twelve actors on a stage lined with storage cartons. There is no dialoguethe play is 100% narration. This technique runs the risk of going dry, and indeed, a certain rhythmic sameness begins to emerge after a few hours (the play runs for almost three hours, including intermission). The lack of interaction may protect audiences from the usual evangelist caricature and overblown theatrics, but it also dulls things down and creates an almost academic context for the "action."
Jim Jones
the day after announcing his intention to leave the People s temple. Congressman Leo J. Ryan and the 900person mass suicide at jonestown, Guyana.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/cult/reverend-jim-jones/

Extractions: rotten Library Biographies Religion ... Cult leaders Failed monkey salesman. Despite his sociopathy, one must give Jim Jones mad props for loyalty and people management skills. First, he transforms his seemingly mainstream San Francisco congregation into a full-blown religious cult. Next he convinces the government of Guyana to give him 300 acres of South American jungle, and relocates 1,100 cult members to this distant hellhole. Finally, in 1978 after it all goes horribly wrong, Jones still manages to convince 900 of them to swallow poison in massively parallel suicide , the likes of which the world had never seen. Arrested in a cruisy restroom in Los Angeles. By the way, it wasn't Kool-Aid. It was Flavor Aid ®. Different company altogether. 13 Dec 1973 The Reverend Jim Jones is arrested in a cruisy movie theater bathroom in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Jones had the bad luck to hit on an undercover LAPD vice officer while masturbating in the Westlake Theatre men's room. 5 Oct 1976 Bob Houston is pushed under a train, the day after announcing his intention to leave the People's Temple.
The Jonestown Massacre: CIA Mind Control Run Amok? * David Icke E-Magazine Mind
By 1963 he had his own congregation in Indianapolis The People s temple Full Joyce Shaw, a former member, once mused that the mass suicide story was a
http://www.davidicke.net/mindcontrol/research/re020600a.html

Extractions: The cultists were brainwashed by the megalomaniac Jones, who had named their jungle village after himself and held them as virtual slaves, if not living zombies. Jones himself was found dead. He'd shot himself in the head, or someone else had shot him. Square-jaw, jet black hair and sunglasses, looking like a secret service agent on antipsychotic drugs, Jones takes his place alongside Charles Manson in America's iconography of evil. Not long after the slaughter in Jonestown, whispers beganstrange hints of human experiments in mind control, even genocide, and the lurking presence of the CIA. At the very least. these stories maintained, the U.S. government could have prevented the Jonestown massacre, but instead it did nothing. At worst, Jonestown was a CIA-run concentration camp set up as a dry run for the secret government's attempt to reprogram the American psyche. There are suggestions of parallel "Jonestowns" and that the conspiracy did not end with the deaths in Guyana.
Lessons From Jonestown
Lessons from jonestown. The mass suicide of People s temple followers 25 yearsago teaches psychologists what happens when social psychology is placed in
http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/jonestown.html

Extractions: Print version: page 36 In the middle of the jungle in Guyana, South America, nearly 1,000 people drank lethal cyanide punch or were shot to death, following the orders of their leader, Jim Jones. Mothers and fathers gave the deadly drink to their children and then drank it themselves. People screamed. Bodies trembled. And within a few minutes on Nov. 18, 1978, 912 people were dead. Jones' followers originally came to the Guyanese community, known as Jonestown, seeking paradise and an escape from racism and persecution in the United States. Instead, they found something that resembled a concentration camp in which they worked long hours with little food and much abuse, those who escaped Jonestown have reported. Twenty-five years later, social psychologists continue to examine how Jones came to command such enormous influence over his followers' thoughts and actions. Jonestown, they say, offers important lessons for psychology, such as the power of situational and social influences and the consequences of a leader using such influences to destructively manipulate others' behavior.
Father Cares: The Last Of Jonestown
leader Jim Jones died during a mass suicide and murder in jonestown, Guyana.In the months preceding the tragedy, Jim Jones and his Peoples temple
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/jonestown.html

Extractions: Select a Program Tapes and Transcripts All Things Considered® Anthem At the Opera Billy Taylor's Jazz The Diane Rehm Show Jazz from Lincoln Center Jazz Profiles JazzSet with Branford Marsalis Latino USA Living on Earth Lost and Found Sound Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Morning Edition® NPR Playhouse NPR World of Opera Only a Game Public Interest Radio Expeditions Rewind Says You! St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Selected Shorts Sounds Like Science Sunday Baroque Talk of the Nation Todd Mundt Show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me Weekend All Things Considered Weekend Edition - Saturday Weekend Edition - Sunday Weekly Edition - The Best of NPR News World Radio Network from NPR NPR Worldwide Jim Jones Courtesy: Laurie Efrein Kahalas, author, Snake Dance: Unraveling the Mysteries of Jonestown (Trafford Publishing, 1998) Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown On November 18, 1978, 913 men, women, and children followers of cult leader Jim Jones died during a mass suicide and murder in Jonestown, Guyana. In the months preceding the tragedy, Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers recorded their tho ughts, their problems and their aspirations. The hundreds of hours of audio tape form the basis of the NPR documentary Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown Airing in 1981, the documentary was written by James Reston, Jr and Noah Adams, and produced by Deborah Amos. It was based on the tapes Reston acquired under the Freedom of Information Act, and won most major broadcast awards including the Dupont Col umbia Award, the National Headliner Award and the Prix Italia.
Photojournalism And The American Presidency - David Hume Kennerly
mass suicide in jonestown, Guyana, © David Hume Kennerly, UT Center for American Jim Jones was the charismatic leader of the People s temple,
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/photojournalism/detail.php?nickname=kennerly&picid=6
Jonestown 20 Years Later
To this day, Guyanese hardly regard the mass suicide/murder as being a part of jonestown Owing to the fact that the People s temple was coming under
http://www.guyana.org/features/jonestown_20.html

Extractions: Stabroek News Mainpage Contact Us E-mail Directory Discussion Forum Special Feature Remembering Jonestown It was twenty years ago last week that news of the events at Jonestown was broadcast to an incredulous public. To this day, Guyanese hardly regard the mass suicide/murder as being a part of their own local history, and in a sense they are right. While the Jonestown residents occupied a portion of Guyana's land space, they were not incorporated into its body politic. For the most part United States citizens, they acted out a tragedy which was peculiarly American in its origins as well as its character. The sheer numbers involved - 909 in the final count - will cause Jonestown to be remembered for as long as mankind walks this planet. There are precedents for it, but the best known of them - the suicide pact of 960 Jewish Zealots at the fortress of Masada - has been questioned by archaeologists, while that at Saipan, when 1,000 Japanese civilians threw themselves from a cliff just before the island was taken by American forces during the Second World War, has been lost in the mind-boggling statistics of death for that war as whole. If anything good at all can be said to have come out of such a mind-numbing event, it can only be that we have since become more conscious and wary of cults in general, although that still has not prevented other cult suicides. As is it, Jonestown stands as the archetypal example of the dangers of suppressing the rational faculty and that small inner voice of conscience, and allowing another to do the thinking for us.
Jonestown 20 Years After.
On November 18, 1978, some 900 members of the People s temple Cult, died ina ritual of mass suicide and murder at jonestown near Port Kaituma in
http://www.guyana.org/features/jonestown20.html

Extractions: They escaped it all: From left Deborah Tochette, 23; Paula Adams, 23; Stephan Jones, 19; and basketball coach Lee Ingram speaking to the press after the mass suicide 20 years ago. On November 18, 1978, some 900 members of the People's Temple Cult, founded by Indiana-born Rev Jim Jones, died in a ritual of mass suicide and murder at Jonestown near Port Kaituma in Guyana's jungle. A visiting United States congressman, three news reporters and cult defectors were shot to death. The majority of the people were United States citizens from San Francisco, California, where the cult had been based before Jones started moving his flock to the Guyana jungle in 1974. The congressman, Leo Ryan, had come to Guyana at the insistence of relatives of some cult members who had reported that their relatives at Jonestown were being held against their will, beaten and subjected to suicide drills. During Ryan's visit to the cult site, some 20 members decided to defect, some of them were shot dead at Port Kaituma airstrip as they were about to board a Guyana Airways chartered plane back to Timehri. The rest of the cult members in Jonestown were fed, some forcibly, a mixture of cyanide and Kool Aid. Some cult members who were in Georgetown, were murdered by Jones's lieutenants. Jones's son Stephan and members of a People's Temple basketball team, who were also in Goergetown escaped harm. Jones himself was found dead with a single bullet wound to the head.
The People's Temple
Jim Jones leads his People s temple flock in a 1976 protest on behalf of local Jones was gathering residents of jonestown for a mass suicide attempt,
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.

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