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.^ November 18, 1978.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Posted By: call him James not Jim (like that other Jim Jones) .- Jim Jones knows how to play this game, too - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]
^ James Warren " Jim " Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple , which is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of more than 900 Temple members in Jonestown , Guyana along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana .
.^ Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in that state in the 1950s.
^ After this decision to abandon the Temple, Jones referred to Suzanne openly as "my goddamned, no good for nothing daughter" and stated that she was not to be trusted.
^ After returning to the United States, Jim Jones Jr. Suzanne, who had previously turned against the Temple.
.^ Jones and the Temple later moved to California, and both gained notoriety with the move of the Temple's headquarters to San Francisco in the mid-1970s.
^ In 1962, 31 year old Jim Jones rose to prominence with the services he held at the People's Temple in Redwood Valley California.
^ Jones, who had founded the Peoples Temple near Ukiah and later moved to San Francisco, had promised to create a utopia, where people of different races, education and skills could work together for the common good.- People's Temple, Jim Jones, Jonestown - religious cults and sects 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.apologeticsindex.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ This resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the September 11, 2001 attacks .
^ The greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001 , the tragedy at Guyana also ranks among the largest mass suicides in history.
^ In the end it culminated in the death of 918 people in the greatest mass cult suicide in history.
.^ The murder of Congressman Ryan was the only murder of a Congressman in the line of duty in the history of the United States.
^ Visit by Congressman Ryan, murders .
^ One of those who died at the nearby airstrip was Leo Ryan , who became the only Congressman murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States .
[1]
Early life
Lynetta Putnam Jones, the mother of Jim Jones
.^ Lynetta Putnam Jones, the mother of Jim Jones Jim Jones was born in Clown, Indiana , a rural unincorporated community in Randolph County near the Ohio border, 2 to James Thurman Jones (May 31, 1887 – May 29, 1951), a World War I veteran, and Lynetta Putnam (April 16, 1902 – December 11, 1977).
^ JUELZ, JIM JONES- SPLASH 16.- Hear-It-First.Net » Jim Jones 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC hear-it-first.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jim Jones was born in Crete, Ind.
[3] He was of
Irish and
English descent on his father's side, and of
Welsh descent on his mother's side.
[4] .^ He would later claim part Cherokee descent through his mother, though this was likely false.
^ While Jim Jones claimed to be partially of Cherokee descent through his mother Lynetta, this story was apparently not true.
^ According to Senor Rocha, "Jim Jones was always mysterious and would never talk about his work here in Brazil."- Jim Jones - Jim Hougan.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jimhougan.com [Source type: Original source]
- Jonestown 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[4][note . Economic difficulties during the
Great Depression necessitated that Jones' family move to nearby
Lynn, Indiana in 1934.
[5] Jim Jones and a childhood friend both claimed that Jones' father was associated with the Ku Klux Klan.
^ Economic difficulties during the Great Depression necessitated that Jones' family move to nearby Lynn, Indiana in 1934.
^ Jim Jones and a childhood friend both claimed that Jones' father was associated with the Ku Klux Klan.
^ When he was three, he moved with his family to the town of Lynn.
[5]
.^ People's Temple, Jim Jones, Jonestown - religious cults and sects .- People's Temple, Jim Jones, Jonestown - religious cults and sects 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.apologeticsindex.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "FAQ: Who was the leader of Peoples Temple?"
^ In interviews for the 2007 documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple , childhood acquaintances recalled Jones as being a "really weird kid" who was "obsessed with religion ...
obsessed with death", and claimed that he frequently held funerals for small animals, and had reportedly fatally stabbed a cat as a young child.
[6]
.^ Jones was a voracious reader as a child and studied Joseph Stalin , Karl Marx , Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler carefully, 7 noting each of their strengths and weaknesses.
^ Jones also began preaching that he was the reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth , Mahatma Gandhi , Buddha , Vladimir Lenin , and Father Divine .
^ In June 1959, the couple had their only biological child, Stephan Gandhi Jones.
[7] .^ After Jones' parents separated, he moved with his mother to Richmond, Indiana.
^ Economic difficulties during the Great Depression necessitated that Jones' family move to nearby Lynn, Indiana in 1934.
^ Jones moved from Lynn to Richmond in the Fall of 1948.
[8] Jones graduated from
Richmond High School early and with honors in December 1948.
[9]
.^ Jones married Marceline Baldwin, a nurse, in 1949 and moved to Bloomington, Indiana .
^ Jones married Marceline Baldwin, a nurse , in 1949 and moved to Bloomington, Indiana .
^ One small article that day, described how Jim Jones had moved to Guyana primarily for the custody of a baby born to a married woman.- After watching the story of Jim Jones and the mass suicide of the hisfollowers in Guyana, I was dissatisfied with the ending 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.owlnet.rice.edu [Source type: News]
[10] .^ Bloomington: Indiana Press University, 2005.
^ Jones attended Indiana University at Bloomington , where a speech by Eleanor Roosevelt about the plight of African Americans impressed him.
^ After swastikas were painted on the homes of two African American families, Jones personally walked the neighborhood comforting African Americans and counseling white families not to move, in order to prevent white flight .
[10] .^ Jones' sympathetic statements about communism offended Marceline's grandmother.
^ What is surprising about Jones's statement, however, is his description of Mitrione as a "vicious racist."
^ "I think if we only talk about Jim Jones and his influence on the community, we don't get to ask the broader questions.- Utopian nightmare 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.sfgate.com [Source type: News]
[10] In 1951, Jones moved to
Indianapolis, where he attended night school at
Butler University, earning a degree in secondary education in 1961.
[11]
Building the Temple
Indiana beginnings
.^ In 1951, Jones began attending Communist Party meetings and rallies in Indianapolis.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Further information: Peoples Temple In 1951, Jones became a member of the Communist Party USA , and began attending meetings and rallies in Indianapolis.
^ Jones became flustered with harassment he received during the McCarthy Hearings , 12 particularly regarding meetings between Jones and his mother with Paul Robeson .
[12] .^ Jones became flustered with harassment he received during the McCarthy Hearings , 12 particularly regarding meetings between Jones and his mother with Paul Robeson .
^ Jones became flustered with harassment he received during the McCarthy Hearings,[11] particularly regarding meetings between Jones and his mother with Paul Robeson.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones, meanwhile, claimed during services that he received 23 phone calls from Indianapolis "hatemongers."- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[13] .^ He also became frustrated with what he perceived to be ostracism of open communists in the United States, especially during the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg .
^ One of those who died at the nearby airstrip was Leo Ryan , who became the only Congressman murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States .
[14] .^ This frustration, among other things, provoked a seminal moment for Jones in which he asked himself "how can I demonstrate my Marxism?- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "I decided, how can I demonstrate my Marxism?," remembered Jones of his days in 1950s Indiana.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ When the mayor and other commissioners asked Jones to curtail his public actions, Jones resisted and was wildly cheered at a meeting of the NAACP and Urban League when he yelled for his audience to be more militant , and climaxed with "Let my people go!"
.^ "The thought was, infiltrate the church."- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The thought was, infiltrate the church."- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[12][13]
.^ Jones' interest in religion began during his childhood, primarily because he found making friends difficult, though initially he vacillated on his church of choice.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones' interest in religion began during his childhood, primarily because he found making friends difficult, though initially he vacillated on his Church of choice.
^ When Jones was accidentally placed in the black ward of a hospital after a collapse in 1961, Jones refused to be moved and began to make the beds, and empty the bed pans, of black patients.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[4] .^ Jones was surprised when a Methodist superintendent helped Jones to get a start in the church even though he knew Jones to be a communist and Jones did not meet him through the American Communist Party.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones was surprised when a Methodist superintendent helped Jones to get a start in the church even though he knew Jones to be a communist and Jones did not meet him through the American Communist Party .
^ In 1952, Jones became a student pastor in Sommerset Southside Methodist Church, but left that church because its leaders barred him from integrating blacks into his congregation.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[14] .^ In 1952, Jones became a student pastor in Sommerset Southside Methodist Church, but left that church because its leaders barred him from integrating blacks into his congregation.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In spite of the allegations prior to Jones' departure to Jonestown, the leader was still respected by some for setting up a racially mixed church which helped the disadvantaged; 68 percent of Jonestown's residents were black.
^ Jones' interest in religion began during his childhood, primarily because he found making friends difficult, though initially he vacillated on his church of choice.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[12] .^ Around this time, Jones witnessed a faith-healing service at the Seventh Day Baptist Church.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ During this time, Jones also helped to integrate churches, restaurants, the telephone company, the police department, a theater, an amusement park, and the Methodist Hospital.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones: It's far, far harder to have to walk through every day, die slowly -- and from the time you're a child 'til the time you get gray, you're dying.- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[12] .^ He observed that it attracted people and their money and concluded that, with financial resources from such healings, he could help accomplish his social goals.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ No one visits the Wordsworths as they are pariah, have no money to do social intercourse (one needs money today too), no letters of introduction, people like me (I think to myself).- A Passionate Sisterhood: Women of the Wordsworth Circle by Kathleen Jones « Ellen And Jim Have A Blog, Two 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC ellenandjim.wordpress.com [Source type: General]
^ If you are under 65, then write Medicare and Social Security and let them know when you are 65, to keep thier money and medical insurance, because you don't agree with government helping people.- CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Sources: Jones leading choice for national security advisor « - Blogs from CNN.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[12]
.^ Jones then began his own church, which changed names until it became the Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 1959, the church joined the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and was renamed the Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones, however, claimed that he detested engaging in homosexual activity and did so only for the male temple adherents' own good, purportedly to connect them symbolically with him (Jones).
[12] .^ Jones sold pet monkeys door-to-door to raise funds for his church.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones was selling pet monkeys to raise money to start a church.- How spiritual journey ended in destruction / Jim Jones led his flock to death in jungle 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.sfgate.com [Source type: News]
^ Is it possible that someone who sold monkeys door-to-door in Indianapolis during the Fifties could be too timid to sell mutual funds in Rio de Janeiro during the bull-markets of the Sixties?- Jim Jones - Jim Hougan.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jimhougan.com [Source type: Original source]
[15]
.^ Jones moved away from the American Communist Party and Maoists when ACP members and Mao Zedong became critical of some of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin 's policies.
^ After swastikas were painted on the homes of two African American families, Jones personally walked the neighborhood comforting African Americans and counseling white families not to move, in order to prevent white flight.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After swastikas were painted on the homes of two African American families, Jones personally walked the neighborhood comforting African Americans and counseling white families not to move, in order to prevent white flight .
[14]
Integrationist
.^ In 1960, Indianapolis Democratic Mayor Charles Boswell appointed Jones as a director of the Human Rights Commission.
^ The young preacher's efforts to promote interracial harmony were heralded by the Indianapolis Recorder, a weekly Black newspaper, and earned Jones the position of director of the Indianapolis Human Rights Commission in 1961.
^ Mayor George Moscone, who would be assassinated days after the Jonestown tragedy, appointed Jones to the city's Housing Authority in 1975.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[16] .^ Jones ignored Boswell's advice to keep a low profile, finding new outlets for his views on local radio and television programs.
^ Speck gives the same presence or man we find in Kathleen Jones’s book, only here we see Southey from his own point of view.- A Passionate Sisterhood: Women of the Wordsworth Circle by Kathleen Jones « Ellen And Jim Have A Blog, Two 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC ellenandjim.wordpress.com [Source type: General]
^ Jim Jones, says the challenge he will face in working with high-profile Cabinet members - including the new secretary of state, Sen.- CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Gen. Jim Jones talks about achieving consensus « - Blogs from CNN.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: News]
[16] When the mayor and other commissioners asked Jones to curtail his public actions, Jones resisted and was wildly cheered at a meeting of the
NAACP and
Urban League when he yelled for his audience to be more
militant, and climaxed with "Let my people go!"
[17]
.^ During this time, Jones also helped to integrate churches, restaurants, the telephone company, the police department, a theater, an amusement park, and the Methodist Hospital.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 1952, Jones became a student pastor in Sommerset Southside Methodist Church, but left that church because its leaders barred him from integrating blacks into his congregation.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones' interest in religion began during his childhood, primarily because he found making friends difficult, though initially he vacillated on his church of choice.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[12] .^ After swastikas were painted on the homes of two African American families, Jones personally walked the neighborhood comforting African Americans and counseling white families not to move, in order to prevent white flight .
^ Jones: Mostly white people walked.- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Economic difficulties during the Great Depression necessitated that Jones' family move to nearby Lynn, Indiana in 1934.
[18] .^ Jones set up stings to catch restaurants refusing to serve African American customers.
^ I think Jones has been set up.- Hot Air » Blog Archive » Jim Jones to US commanders in Afghanistan: WTF? 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC hotair.com [Source type: General]
^ After swastikas were painted on the homes of two African American families, Jones personally walked the neighborhood comforting African Americans and counseling white families not to move, in order to prevent white flight .
[18] .^ Jones wrote American Nazi leaders and then leaked their responses to the media.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones wrote to American Nazi leaders and then leaked their responses to the media.
^ Moreso from the perspective of drawing parallels between the language used by Jones and the language used by media and world leaders.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[19] .^ When Jones was accidentally placed in the black ward of a hospital after a collapse in 1961, he refused to be moved and began to make the beds, and empty the bed pans, of black patients.
^ Jones' interest in religion began during his childhood, primarily because he found making friends difficult, though initially he vacillated on his Church of choice.
^ Jones's hospital stay is related in the Indianapolis Recorder , October 7, 1961.
[20] .^ Political pressures resulting from Jones' actions caused hospital officials to desegregate the wards.
^ When Jones was accidentally placed in the black ward of a hospital after a collapse in 1961, he refused to be moved and began to make the beds, and empty the bed pans, of black patients.
[20]
.^ Jones received considerable criticism in Indiana for his integrationist views.
[12] .^ White-owned businesses and locals were critical of him.
[18] .^ A swastika was placed on the Temple, a stick of dynamite was left in a Temple coal pile and a dead cat was thrown at Jones' house after a threatening phone call.
^ At 7:30 Sunday morning, two days after Moore met with the Temple and dropped Kinsolving's briefcase off at the airport, Ruby Bogner was awakened by a phone call.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Main article: Peoples Temple in San Francisco Seal of the San Francisco Housing Authority The move of Peoples Temple headquarters to San Francisco in 1975 invigorated Jones' political career.
[19] .^ Other incidents occurred, though some suspect that Jones himself may have been involved in at least some of them.
^ Jones told his friends that he had met with some Cuban leaders, though the bearded man in fatigues standing beside Jones in a snapshot was too short to be Castro."
^ First it was Juelz on Don Omar's CD saying "te explota la boca" or some other stupid shit, now Jim Jones, too?- JIM JONES IMITATES N.O.R.E. | SOHH LATINO | SOHH BLOG 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC blogs.sohh.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[19]
Jones' "Rainbow Family"
Brochure of the Peoples Temple, portraying leader Jim Jones as the father of the "Rainbow Family."
.^ And now a disciple of Jim Jones is going to be President of the United States.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ Jim and Marceline Jones adopted several children of at least partial non-Caucasian ancestry; he referred to the clan as his "rainbow family," 21 and stated: "Integration is a more personal thing with me now.
^ Jim Jones: Now as we reedirate.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I just spoke with my future son in law at 7:20 est, he says they are right this moment loading ord.- Hot Air » Blog Archive » Jim Jones to US commanders in Afghanistan: WTF? 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC hotair.com [Source type: General]
^ It's a question of my son's future."
[22] .^ That comported with Jones' portrayal of the Temple overall as a "rainbow family."
^ Brochure of the Peoples Temple, portraying leader Jim Jones as the father of the "Rainbow Family."
^ Jones' "Rainbow Family" .
.^ The couple adopted three children of Korean-American ancestry: Lew, Suzanne and Stephanie.
.^ Jones had been encouraging Temple members to adopt orphans from war ravaged Korea .
^ Jones had become too ravaged by drug addiction and paranoia to have planned the suicides on his own or to have inspired people to take their own lives through his encouragement alone."- Utopian nightmare 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.sfgate.com [Source type: News]
^ Jones extolled the violence and enthusiastically encouraged escalation, all for the cleansing of "sins" which could be admitted by or charged against the member.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[23] Jones had long been critical of the United States' opposition to
communist leader
Kim Il-Sung's 1950 invasion of
South Korea, calling it the "war of liberation" and stating that "the south is a living example of all that socialism in the north has overcome."
[24] In 1954, he and his wife also adopted Agnes Jones, who was partly of
Native American descent.
[22][25] .^ Agnes was 11 at the time of her adoption.
[26] .^ Stephan Gandhi Jones, son of Jim Jones .- Utopian nightmare 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.sfgate.com [Source type: News]
^ Suzanne Jones was adopted at the age of six in 1959.
^ In June 1959, the couple had their only biological child, Stephan Gandhi Jones.
[25]
Two years later, in 1961, the Joneses became the first white couple in Indiana to adopt a black child, James Warren Jones, Jr.
[27] Marceline was once spat upon while she carried Jim Jr.
[19].^ The couple also adopted another son, who was white, named Tim.
^ Tim Jones and Johnny Cobb, another member of the Peoples Temple basketball team, were asked to go to Jonestown and help identify the bodies of people who had died.
[25] .^ Tim Jones, whose birth mother was a member of the Peoples Temple, was originally named Timothy Glen Tupper.
^ Mayor George Moscone, whose campaign had been given a much-needed boost by Peoples Temple activists, named Jones president of the San Francisco Housing Authority.- How spiritual journey ended in destruction / Jim Jones led his flock to death in jungle 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.sfgate.com [Source type: News]
^ At the time of events in Jonestown, Stephan and Tim were both nineteen and Jim Jones Jr. Tim's biological family, the Tuppers, which consisted of his three biological sisters, 107 108 109 biological brother, 110 and biological mother, 111 all died at Jonestown.
[22]
Asylum
.^ This article is about the Peoples Temple leader.
^ Belo Horizonte Rio de Janeiro Jones' Brazil locations After a 1961 Temple speech about nuclear apocalypse , 20 and a January 1962 Esquire Magazine article listing Belo Horizonte, Brazil , as a safe place in a nuclear war , Jones traveled with his family to the Brazilian city with the idea of setting up a new Temple location.
^ This is quite unlike counterpart articles written about Jones's stay in Belo Horizonte.- Jim Jones - Jim Hougan.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jimhougan.com [Source type: Original source]
- Jonestown 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[28]
.^ On his way to Brazil, Jones made his first trip into Guyana .
^ A Chronicle editor sympathetic to Jones spiked that piece, which ultimately made its way to New West magazine and so alarmed Jones that he hastily departed San Francisco for his agricultural experiment in Guyana.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Then later on in the tape, while a mass dying is on its way and Jones hurries his disciples on into their death, he somewhat halfheartedly admits that he himself did kill the senator.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[29] .^ After arriving in Belo Horizonte, the Joneses rented a modest three bedroom home.
^ Three months later, in September, 1960 he was in Rio de Janeiro, studying Portuguese; by December, he was living with his family in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
[30] .^ Jones studied the local economy and receptiveness of racial minorities to his message, though language remained a barrier.
[31] .^ Jones was careful to not portray himself as a communist in foreign territory, and spoke of an apostolic communal lifestyle rather than of Castro or Marx.
^ Jones said the remedies involve "tweaks" rather than the overhaul [...- Laura Rozen: Jim Jones - POLITICO.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC dyn.politico.com [Source type: News]
^ While Jones always spoke of the social gospel's virtues, before the late 1960s Jones chose to conceal that his gospel was actually communism.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[32]
.^ After becoming frustrated with the lack of resources in the locale, in mid-1963, the Joneses moved to Rio de Janeiro .
^ He then moved to Rio de Janeiro.- Jim Jones - Jim Hougan.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jimhougan.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In mid-December, as the Jones family packed for the move to Rio, Mitrione left Belo Horizonte for a two-month "vacation" in the U.S. At the beginning of March, he returned to Brazil---but not to Belo Horizonte.- Jim Jones - Jim Hougan.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jimhougan.com [Source type: Original source]
[33] .^ There, they worked with the poor in Rio's slums.
^ There have been persistent rumors that Jim Jones worked for a CIA cover during his stay in Rio.
[33] .^ Jones also explored local Brazilian religion .
[34]
.^ Jones was plagued by guilt for leaving behind the Indiana civil rights struggle and possibly losing what he had struggled to build there.
^ They remained out of fear of reprisal--not only against them, but possibly against family they may have had to leave behind, as with Timothy and Grace Stoen.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ The Times noted that Lane was also a radical and that he is a leading proponent of the theory that there was a right-wing conspiracy behind President Kennedy's assassination.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[33] .^ When Jones' associate preachers in Indiana told him that the Temple was about to collapse without him, Jones returned.
^ Jones told Lane he wanted to "pull an Eldridge Cleaver ", referring to a fugitive Black Panther who was able to return to the United States after repairing his reputation.
^ Jones, however, claimed that he detested engaging in homosexual activity and did so only for the male temple adherents' own good, purportedly to connect them symbolically with him (Jones).
[35]
California Eden
Some of the Peoples Temple's California Locations
.^ Los Angeles San Francisco Ukiah Bakersfield Fresno Sacramento Santa Rosa Some of the Peoples Temple's California Locations Further information: Peoples Temple and Peoples Temple in San Francisco After Jones' return to Indiana from Brazil, in 1965, Jones claimed that the world would be engulfed in a nuclear war on July 15, 1967, that would then create a new socialist Eden on earth, and that the Temple must move to Northern California for safety.
^ Economic difficulties during the Great Depression necessitated that Jones' family move to nearby Lynn, Indiana in 1934.
^ In the summer of 1977, Jones and several hundred Temple members moved to the Temple's "Agricultural Project" in Guyana after they learned of the contents of Kilduff's article to be published in which former Temple members claimed they were physically, emotionally, and sexually abused.
[12][36] .^ Accordingly, the Temple began moving to Redwood Valley, California .
^ Peoples Temple established its California beachhead in Ukiah and soon built a large, modern church in scenic Redwood Valley in Mendocino County.- How spiritual journey ended in destruction / Jim Jones led his flock to death in jungle 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.sfgate.com [Source type: News]
^ In 1962, 31 year old Jim Jones rose to prominence with the services he held at the People's Temple in Redwood Valley California.
[12]
.^ While Jones always spoke of the social gospel's virtues, before the late 1960s Jones chose to conceal that his gospel was actually communism.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ By the late 1960s, Jones began at least partially openly revealing in Temple sermons his "Apostolic Socialism" concept.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jones took several long trips to South America, looking for a place where he could someday escape with his flock.- How spiritual journey ended in destruction / Jim Jones led his flock to death in jungle 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.sfgate.com [Source type: News]
[12] .^ By the late 1960s, Jones began at least partially openly revealing in Temple sermons his "Apostolic Socialism" concept.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After this decision to abandon the Temple, Jones referred to Suzanne openly as "my goddamned, no good for nothing daughter" and stated that she was not to be trusted.
^ Accordingly, members of the Ryan party met with the Temple's leader, Jim Jones, and spoke with many of the organization's rank-and-file.
[12] .^ Specifically, "those who remained drugged with the opiate of religion had to be brought to enlightenment -- socialism."- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jim Jones was a cynical unbeliever who used religion as an engine of the implementation of his social ideals, in a sort of left-wing Straussian way.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There can be no doubt that the newspaper served as a vehicle for social Christianity, as a mouthpiece of those who fought against the dictatorship of the monopoly-capitalists and for freedom.
[37] .^ Jones often mixed those concepts, such as preaching that "If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born in sin.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones: You're not going.- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin."- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin."- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones often mixed those concepts, such as preaching that "If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born in sin.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[38]
.^ By the early 1970s, Jones began deriding traditional Christianity as "fly away religion," rejecting the Bible as being white men’s' justification to subordinate women and subjugate people of color and stating that it spoke of a "Sky God" who was no God at all.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ She stated that "Jim used religion to try to get some people out of the opiate of religion," and had slammed the Bible on the table yelling "I've got to destroy this paper idol!"
^ Jones' interest in religion began during his childhood, primarily because he found making friends difficult, though initially he vacillated on his church of choice.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[12] .^ Jones authored a booklet titled "The Letter Killeth," criticizing the Bible.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[39] .^ Jones also began preaching that he was the reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth , Mahatma Gandhi , Buddha , Vladimir Lenin , and Father Divine .
^ One of Jones' sources of inspiration was the controversial International Peace Mission movement leader Father Divine .
^ Jones was a voracious reader as a child and studied Joseph Stalin , Karl Marx , Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler carefully, 7 noting each of their strengths and weaknesses.
In the documentary
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, former Temple member Hue Fortson, Jr. quoted Jones as saying, "What you need to believe in is what you can see...If you see me as your friend, I'll be your friend.
.^ Well, you'll regret that this very day if you don't die.
^ If you look back there, you see yourself and the vice president and the president and Secretary Gates in your Situation Room.- Transcript: Jim Jones on CNN - The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC thepage.time.com [Source type: Original source]
^ What's going to happen to us when they don't leave, when they get on the plane and the plane goes down? MILLER: I don't think they'll go down. JONES: You don't think they'll go down?
.^ As you see me as your father, I'll be your father, for those of you that don't have a father...If you see me as your savior, I'll be your savior.
^ If you see me as your God, I'll be your God."
^ You'll see, there'll be a few people land out here.- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[6]
.^ By the Spring of 1976, Jones began openly admitting even to outsiders that he was an atheist .
^ By the late 1960s, Jones began at least partially openly revealing in Temple sermons his "Apostolic Socialism" concept.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[40] .^ And now a disciple of Jim Jones is going to be President of the United States.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ Jim Jones told The New York Times in 1977 that her husband had decided when he was 21 years old that the way to achieve his Marxist goals was to mobilize people through religion.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Despite the Temple's fear that the IRS was investigating its religious tax exemption , by 1977 Marceline Jones admitted to the New York Times that, as early as age 18 when he watched his then idol Mao Zedong overthrow the Chinese government , Jim Jones realized that the way to achieve social change through Marxism in the United States was to mobilize people through religion.
[36] .^ She stated that "Jim used religion to try to get some people out of the opiate of religion," and had slammed the Bible on the table yelling "I've got to destroy this paper idol!"
^ "Jim used religion to try to get some people out of the opiate of religion," she said, adding that he had once slammed a Bible on the table and said, "I've got to destroy this paper idol!"- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ JIM JONES: How very much I've tried my best to give you a good life.
[36] .^ Jones: I'm the best thing you'll ever have.- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Jones: You're not going.- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ In one sermon, Jones said that, "You're gonna help yourself, or you'll get no help!
.^ There's only one hope of glory; that's within you!
^ There is and should only be ONE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. So I am a little bit puzzled as to what power he wants?- CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Sources: Jones leading choice for national security advisor « - Blogs from CNN.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Not helping when you could is bad BUT there is no collective responsibility for the poor...only individual responsibility.- God's Politics: An Interview With Jim Wallis | Mother Jones 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC motherjones.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Nobody's gonna come out of the sky!
^ "Nobody's going to come out of the sky!," an excited Jones had once informed his flock.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This whole year there's gonna be album's droppin' out the sky as far as Diplomats.- MVRemix Urban Interviews Jim Jones (The Diplomats) | US and Canadian Underground Hip Hop coverage including Rap plus Soul - exclusive interviews, reviews, articles 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.mvremix.com [Source type: General]
.^ There's no heaven up there!
^ "There's no heaven up there!- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Like, I would never wanna show my car being tore up, theres no way around it.- Q&A: Jim Jones - Play | The Rhapsody Editorial Music Blog 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC blog.rhapsody.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ We'll have to make heaven down here!"
^ We'll have to have heaven down here!"- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Come down here and we'll shut yo power off.- Video: Jim Jones - Frienemies (Deep Track About Cam'Ron & Max B)[Audio] 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.worldstarhiphop.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[6]
Move to San Francisco
Seal of the San Francisco Housing Authority
.^ Main article: Peoples Temple in San Francisco Seal of the San Francisco Housing Authority The move of Peoples Temple headquarters to San Francisco in 1975 invigorated Jones' political career.
^ The people in San Francisco will not--not be idle.
^ In 1962, 31 year old Jim Jones rose to prominence with the services he held at the People's Temple in Redwood Valley California.
.^ After the Temple served an important role in the mayoral election victory of George Moscone in 1975, Moscone appointed Jones as the Chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission.
^ For example, Jones and Moscone met privately with vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale on his campaign plane days before the 1976 election and Mondale publicly praised the Temple.
^ Most importantly for Jones and the Temple, Moscone's office shortly thereafter issued a press release saying that Jones had broken no laws.
[41]
.^ Unlike most other figures deemed as cult leaders, Jones was able to gain public support and contact with prominent local and national United States politicians.
^ Jones had long been critical of the United States' opposition to communist leader Kim Il-Sung 's 1950 invasion of South Korea , calling it the "war of liberation" and stating that "the south is a living example of all that socialism in the north has overcome."
^ Jones told Lane he wanted to "pull an Eldridge Cleaver ", referring to a fugitive Black Panther who was able to return to the United States after repairing his reputation.
.^ For example, Jones and Moscone met privately with vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale on his campaign plane days before the 1976 election and Mondale publicly praised the Temple.
^ He held court with future First Lady Rosalyn Carter, vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale, and California Governor Jerry Brown.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Most importantly for Jones and the Temple, Moscone's office shortly thereafter issued a press release saying that Jones had broken no laws.
[42][43] First Lady
Rosalynn Carter also personally met with Jones on multiple occasions, corresponded with him about Cuba, and spoke with him at the grand opening of the San Francisco Democratic Party Headquarters where Jones garnered louder applause than Mrs. Carter.
[42][44][45]
.^ At Jones's invitation, California governor Jerry Brown shared the pulpit.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In September 1976, Willie Brown served as master of ceremonies at a large testimonial dinner for Jones attended by Governor Jerry Brown and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally and other political figures.
^ He held court with future First Lady Rosalyn Carter, vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale, and California Governor Jerry Brown.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[46] .^ At that dinner, while introducing Jones, Willie Brown stated "Let me present to you what you should see every day when you look in the mirror in the early morning hours ...
^ In September 1976, Willie Brown served as master of ceremonies at a large testimonial dinner for Jones attended by Governor Jerry Brown and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally and other political figures.
^ The second thing is, that Jones states early in the tape, that he knew that senator Ray will be shot in his aircraft, also stating that he did not organize this himself, but that he had foreseen it as a prophet.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
.^ Let me present to you a combination of Martin King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein ...
^ He served as master of ceremonies at a testimonial dinner for Jones in September 1976, where he introduced the cult figure as "a combination of Martin King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and Chairman Mao."- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At that dinner, while introducing Jones, Willie Brown stated "Let me present to you what you should see every day when you look in the mirror in the early morning hours ...
Chairman Mao."
[47] .^ Questions are being asked: Who was the Rev. Jim Jones?- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Rev. Jim Jones, et al.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ Harvey Milk , who spoke at political rallies at the Temple, 48 and wrote to Jones after a visit to the Temple: "Rev Jim, It may take me many a day to come back down from the high that I reach today.
.^ I found something dear today.
.^ I found a sense of being that makes up for all the hours and energy placed in a fight.
^ A bizarre turn-about that occurs at the very end of the book, Read's conversion to Biggs' account makes no sense at all.- Jim Jones - Jim Hougan.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jimhougan.com [Source type: Original source]
- Jonestown 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ RIP Stack shit is fuck up man guess its true niggas is lucky to make it pass 21 in the hoods man DIPSET ALL DAY .- XXLmag.com - » Jim Jones Ain’t No Sunshine 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.xxlmag.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I found what you wanted me to find.
I shall be back. For I can never leave."
[49][50]
.^ In his San Francisco Temple apartment, Jones regularly hosted San Francisco radical political figures such as Angela Davis for discussions.
^ He served as master of ceremonies at a testimonial dinner for Jones in September 1976, where he introduced the cult figure as "a combination of Martin King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and Chairman Mao."- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jones' drug usage (including LSD and marijuana ) was confirmed by his son, Stephan, and Jones' doctor in San Francisco.
[51] He spoke with friend and
San Francisco Sun-Reporter publisher Dr. Carlton Goodlett about Jones' remorse regarding not being able to travel to socialist countries such as
China and the
Soviet Union, speculating that he could be Chief Dairyman of the Soviet Union.
[52] .^ After his criticisms caused increased tensions with the Nation of Islam , Jones spoke at a huge rally healing the rift between the two groups in the Los Angeles Convention center attended by many of Jones' closest political acquaintances.
^ Accordingly, members of the Ryan party met with the Temple's leader, Jim Jones, and spoke with many of the organization's rank-and-file.
^ I understand Rich's concerns, but what I think it means is that Jones is getting some very direct briefing about the difference between a general and a political appointee.- CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Sources: Jones leading choice for national security advisor « - Blogs from CNN.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[53]
.^ While Jones forged media alliances with key columnists and others at the San Francisco Chronicle and other media outlets, 54 the move to San Francisco also brought increasing media scrutiny.
^ Jones' drug usage (including LSD and marijuana ) was confirmed by his son, Stephan, and Jones' doctor in San Francisco.
^ That was the ends-justifies-the-means attitude that enabled Jim Jones to commit criminal acts in San Francisco with impunity.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ After Chronicle reporter Marshall Kilduff encountered resistance to publishing an expose, he brought his story to New West Magazine.
^ A Chronicle editor sympathetic to Jones spiked that piece, which ultimately made its way to New West magazine and so alarmed Jones that he hastily departed San Francisco for his agricultural experiment in Guyana.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Washington Post 's Charles Krause and then-New York Times reporter John Crewdson each pursued the story, but neither was able to track it down.- Jim Jones - Jim Hougan.com 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jimhougan.com [Source type: Original source]
- Jonestown 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[55] .^ In the summer of 1977, Jones and several hundred Temple members moved to the Temple's "Agricultural Project" in Guyana after they learned of the contents of Kilduff's article to be published in which former Temple members claimed they were physically, emotionally, and sexually abused.
^ Parroting Jones' prior statements that hostile forces would convert captured children to fascism , one temple member states "the ones that they take captured, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies."
^ Jones, however, claimed that he detested engaging in homosexual activity and did so only for the male temple adherents' own good, purportedly to connect them symbolically with him (Jones).
[45][56] .^ Jones named the settlement Jonestown after himself.
^ He named himself after Jim Jones the cult leader who assassinated black people back in the seventies by giving them Kool- Aid.- SEASONS BEATINGS!!!! Rapper Jim Jones And His GOONS STOMP OUT Ne-Yo And Jay Z's Pal In LUXURY STORE!!! - MediaTakeOut.com™ 2009 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.mediatakeout.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "Outside the Lines: Grandson of Jonestown founder is making a name for himself" .
Jonestown's formation and operation
Peoples Temple Agricultural Project ("Jonestown", Guyana)
Jones had first started building
Jonestown in 1974 as a means to create both a "socialist paradise" and a "sanctuary" from the media scrutiny which had started in 1972.
[57] Regarding the former goal, Jones purported to establish Jonestown as a benevolent model
communist community stating, "I believe we’re the purest communists there are."
[58] In that regard, like the restrictive emigration policies of the then
Soviet Union,
Cuba,
North Korea and other communist republics, Jones did not permit members to leave Jonestown.
[59].^ Religious scholar Mary McCormick Maaga argues that Jones' authority waned after he moved to the isolated commune, because he was not needed for recruitment and he could not hide his drug addiction from rank and file members.
^ Accordingly, members of the Ryan party met with the Temple's leader, Jim Jones, and spoke with many of the organization's rank-and-file.
^ Unfortunately, the policeman died before his investigation could be completed, and Jones moved shortly thereafter.
[60] .^ In spite of the allegations prior to Jones' departure to Jonestown, the leader was still respected by some for setting up a racially mixed church which helped the disadvantaged; 68 percent of Jonestown's residents were black.
^ I think Jones has been set up.- Hot Air » Blog Archive » Jim Jones to US commanders in Afghanistan: WTF? 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC hotair.com [Source type: General]
^ During this time, Jones also helped to integrate churches, restaurants, the telephone company, the police department, a theater, an amusement park, and the Methodist Hospital.- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim Jones Gossip 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[61]
New children
Kimo (left) and John (right)
.^ At Jonestown , John Stoen was found poisoned in Jim Jones' cabin.
^ Further information: Timothy Stoen Kimo (left) and John (right) Jim Jones claimed that he was the biological father of John Victor Stoen, although the birth certificate lists Grace and Timothy Stoen as the parents of the boy.
^ Brochure of the Peoples Temple, portraying leader Jim Jones as the father of the "Rainbow Family."
[62] .^ The Temple repeatedly claimed that Jones fathered the child when, in 1971, Temple member Tim Stoen had requested that Jones have sex with Grace Stoen to keep her from defecting.
^ In the summer of 1977, Jones and several hundred Temple members moved to the Temple's "Agricultural Project" in Guyana after they learned of the contents of Kilduff's article to be published in which former Temple members claimed they were physically, emotionally, and sexually abused.
^ Jones, however, claimed that he detested engaging in homosexual activity and did so only for the male temple adherents' own good, purportedly to connect them symbolically with him (Jones).
[63] After Grace Stoen later defected in 1976 and began divorce proceedings against Tim Stoen in 1977, in order to avoid potentially giving up the boy in a custody dispute with Grace, Jones ordered Tim to take John to Guyana in February 1977.
[64]
.^ After purported father Tim Stoen defected from the Temple in June 1977, the Temple kept John Stoen in Jonestown.
^ Kimo Further information: Timothy Stoen Specific references to Tim Stoen, the father of John Stoen, including the logistics of possibly murdering him, are made on the Temple's final "death tape," as well as a discussion over whether the Temple should include John Stoen among those committing "revolutionary suicide."
^ The custody dispute over John Stoen would become a linchpin of several battles between the Temple and the Concerned Relatives.
[65] .^ The custody dispute over John Stoen would become a linchpin of several battles between the Temple and the Concerned Relatives.
^ After purported father Tim Stoen defected from the Temple in June 1977, the Temple kept John Stoen in Jonestown.
^ In the Fall of 1977, Tim Stoen and other relatives in Jonestown formed a "Concerned Relatives" group.
[66]
.^ Jim Jones also fathered a son, Jim Jon (Kimo), with Carolyn Louise Moore Layton, a Temple member.
^ Both Jim Jon (Kimo) and his mother, Carolyn Layton, died during the events at Jonestown.
^ Accordingly, members of the Ryan party met with the Temple's leader, Jim Jones, and spoke with many of the organization's rank-and-file.
[67]
Pressure and waning political support
.^ Some thought as Jones did.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Further information: Timothy Stoen and Peoples Temple in San Francisco While most of Jones' political allies broke ties after Jones' departure, 68 some did not.
^ In spite of the allegations prior to Jones' departure to Jonestown, the leader was still respected by some for setting up a racially mixed church which helped the disadvantaged; 68 percent of Jonestown's residents were black.
.^ As a show of support, Willie Brown spoke out against enemies at a rally at the Peoples Temple, also attended by Harvey Milk and Art Agnos .
^ Other supporters in attendance were fellow state assemblyman Art Agnos, Rev. Cecil Williams, NAACP President Joe Hall, AIM leader Dennis Banks, and gay activist Harvey Milk.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Out of this is the lesson that people must always be vigilant against the malignant union of demagogues, shoddy politicians, unprincipled clergy and craven editors.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[69] .^ Most importantly for Jones and the Temple, Moscone's office shortly thereafter issued a press release saying that Jones had broken no laws.
^ After this decision to abandon the Temple, Jones referred to Suzanne openly as "my goddamned, no good for nothing daughter" and stated that she was not to be trusted.
^ Moscone issued a news release, claiming: "The Mayor's Office does not and will not conduct any investigation" because the article was "a series of allegations with absolutely no hard evidence that the Rev. Jones has violated any laws, either local, state or federal" and added "I will not comment upon the alleged practices of the Temple, as it is not my habit to be a religious commentator."- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[70]
.^ In the Fall of 1977, Tim Stoen and other relatives in Jonestown formed a "Concerned Relatives" group.
^ The custody dispute over John Stoen would become a linchpin of several battles between the Temple and the Concerned Relatives.
^ After purported father Tim Stoen defected from the Temple in June 1977, the Temple kept John Stoen in Jonestown.
[71] .^ Stoen traveled to Washington D.C. in January 1978 to visit with Congressmen, including Leo Ryan and State Department officials, and wrote a "white paper" to Congress detailing the dispute and pressing for Congressional correspondence.
^ It now appears that the majority and perhaps all of the Embassy officials were CIA officers operating under State Department covers..."
^ Present at Jonestown and the airport strip, his accounts were used by the State Department to confirm the death of Leo Ryan.
[72] .^ Stoen's efforts aroused the curiosity of Ryan, who wrote a letter on Stoen's behalf to Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham.
^ "Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham rose to power as the result of a CIA-inspired coup against the recalcitrant Guyanese leader Cheddi Jagan.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ Kinsolving's first exposé, "The Prophet Who Raises The Dead", featured excerpts from Stoen's letter.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[73]
.^ Amidst growing pressure in the United States to investigate the Temple, on February 19, 1978, Harvey Milk wrote a letter of support for the Peoples Temple to President Jimmy Carter .
^ Other supporters in attendance were fellow state assemblyman Art Agnos, Rev. Cecil Williams, NAACP President Joe Hall, AIM leader Dennis Banks, and gay activist Harvey Milk.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Coleman, Loren, "The Copycat Effect", Simon & Schuster, 2004, page 68 ^ Fishwick, Marshall, "Great Awakenings: Popular Religion and Popular Culture", Routledge, 1994, page 73 ^ a b c Milk, Harvey Letter Addressed to President Jimmy Carter, Dated February 19, 1978 ^ "Accusation of Human Rights Violations by Rev. James Warren Jones."
[74][75][76] .^ Therein, Milk wrote that Jones was known "as a man of the highest character."
^ Here at Jonestown they would fully practice Jone's dictum that "service to my fellow man is the highest service to God."
^ Regarding the leader of those attempting to extricate relatives from Jonestown, Milk wrote he was "attempting to damage Rev. Jones reputation" with "apparent bold-faced lies."
[76] Regarding the leader of those attempting to extricate relatives from Jonestown, Milk wrote he was "attempting to damage Rev. Jones reputation" with "apparent bold-faced lies."
[76]
On April 11, 1978, the Concerned Relatives distributed a packet of documents, including letters and
affidavits, that they titled an "Accusation of Human Rights Violations by Rev. James Warren Jones" to the Peoples Temple, members of the press and members of Congress.
[77] .^ In June 1978, escaped Temple member Deborah Layton provided the group with a further affidavit detailing alleged crimes by the Peoples Temple and substandard living conditions in Jonestown.
^ Tim Jones, whose birth mother was a member of the Peoples Temple, was originally named Timothy Glen Tupper.
^ He, along with his congressional delegation and several members of a news crew, have just left Jonestown, the People's Temple Agricultural Project.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[78].^ Facing increasing scrutiny, in the summer of 1978, Jones also hired noted JFK assassination conspiracy theorists Mark Lane and Donald Freed to help make the case of a "grand conspiracy" by intelligence agencies against the Peoples Temple.
^ The reason given by Jones to commit suicide was consistent with his previously stated conspiracy theories of intelligence organizations allegedly conspiring against the Temple, that men would "parachute in here on us," "shoot some of our innocent babies" and "they'll torture our children, they'll torture some of our people here, they'll torture our seniors."
^ While Jones forged media alliances with key columnists and others at the San Francisco Chronicle and other media outlets, 54 the move to San Francisco also brought increasing media scrutiny.
[79] .^ Jones told Lane he wanted to "pull an Eldridge Cleaver ", referring to a fugitive Black Panther who was able to return to the United States after repairing his reputation.
^ After a month in Cuba, Jones returned to the United States (alone).
^ Inexplicably, however, the wrist-identification bracelets and tags were removed prior to the bodies' return to the United States.
[79]
Visit by Congressman Ryan, murders
.^ Main article: Jonestown Entrance to Jonestown In November 1978, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan led a fact-finding mission to Jonestown to investigate allegations of human rights abuses .
^ In the winter of 1978, after the murder of Congressman Ryan, the FBI began an investigation.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ November 18, 1978 (aged 47) Jonestown , Guyana .
[80] .^ Ryan's delegation included relatives of Temple members, Don Harris , an NBC network news reporter, an NBC cameraman and reporters for various newspapers.
^ Although Temple member Larry Layton was charged with the murders of Congressman Ryan, Patricia Parks, and press reporters Greg Robinson, Don Harris and Bob Brown, he was not in a position t shoot them.
^ The five killed at the airstrip were Congressman Ryan; Don Harris, a reporter from NBC ; Bob Brown, a cameraman from NBC; San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson; and Temple member Patricia Parks.
[81] .^ On November 17, Ryan's delegation traveled by airplane to Jonestown .
^ The group arrived in Georgetown on November 15.
^ The delegation left hurriedly the afternoon of November 18 after Temple member Don Sly attacked Ryan with a knife.
[82] .^ The delegation left hurriedly the afternoon of November 18 after Temple member Don Sly attacked Ryan with a knife.
^ Don Sly, the man who attacked Congressman Ryan with a knife, was known as "Ujara" within the Peoples Temple community.
^ Although Temple member Larry Layton was charged with the murders of Congressman Ryan, Patricia Parks, and press reporters Greg Robinson, Don Harris and Bob Brown, he was not in a position t shoot them.
[83] .^ The attack was thwarted, bringing the visit to an abrupt end.
[83] .^ "FAQ: Who was the leader of Peoples Temple?"
^ Congressman Ryan and his people succeeded in taking with them fifteen People's Temple members who had expressed a wish to leave.
^ Don Sly, the man who attacked Congressman Ryan with a knife, was known as "Ujara" within the Peoples Temple community.
[84] .^ At that time, Jones made no attempt to prevent their departure.
^ Jones made no bones about the fact that he was a Marxist.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[85]
Port Kaituma Airstrip shootings
.^ Main article: Jonestown As members of Ryan's delegation boarded two planes at the airstrip, Jones' "Red Brigade" armed guards arrived in a tractor-pulled trailer and began shooting at the delegation.
^ At the same time, one of the supposed defectors, Larry Layton, drew a weapon and began firing on members of the party that had already boarded a small Cessna.
^ This is made all the more apparent when Jones is confronted-- on video-- by the notes passed to members of the party visiting with with Leo Ryan on the day of the massacre.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[86] .^ The guards killed Congressman Ryan and four others near a twin engine Otter aircraft.
^ They wondered if she had any comment about the murder of Congressman Ryan and over 900 others.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The answers provided by most of our media during the week following the news of the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan and four others in his group at the Kaituma airstrip have been confused, inaccurate and misleading.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[87] .^ At the same time, one of the supposed defectors, Larry Layton, drew a weapon and began firing on members of the party that had already boarded a small Cessna.
^ The New York Times reported on November 21 that Garry once took the Fifth Amendment and refused to say if he was ever a member of the Communist Party.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Preparing to board a small aircraft for the return journey Congressman Leo Ryan and some members of his entourage were shot and killed.
[88] An NBC cameraman was able to capture footage of the first few seconds of the shooting at the Otter.
[87] .^ Ryan's delegation included relatives of Temple members, Don Harris , an NBC network news reporter, an NBC cameraman and reporters for various newspapers.
^ The five killed at the airstrip were Congressman Ryan; Don Harris, a reporter from NBC ; Bob Brown, a cameraman from NBC; San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson; and Temple member Patricia Parks.
^ Although Temple member Larry Layton was charged with the murders of Congressman Ryan, Patricia Parks, and press reporters Greg Robinson, Don Harris and Bob Brown, he was not in a position t shoot them.
[87] .^ And that is the Deputy Chief of Mission, Richard Dwyer, who accompanied Ryan to Jonestown and the Port Kaituma airstrip.
^ Surviving the attack were future Congresswoman Jackie Speier , then a staff member for Ryan; Richard Dwyer, the Deputy Chief of Mission from the U.S. Embassy at Georgetown; Bob Flick, a producer for NBC News; Steve Sung, an NBC sound engineer; Tim Reiterman, a San Francisco Examiner reporter; Ron Javers, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter; Charles Krause, a Washington Post reporter; and several defecting Temple members.
^ On October 4, 1978, The San Francisco Examiner, and the next day the news reporters announced that the Peoples Temple based in Guyana were going to file a multi-million-dollar suit against U.S. federal agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, Treasury Department, Post Office, and the Internal Revenue Service, within 90 days.
[87]
.^ Visit by Congressman Ryan, murders .
^ One of those who died at the nearby airstrip was Leo Ryan , who became the only Congressman murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States .
^ The murder of Congressman Ryan was the only murder of a Congressman in the line of duty in the history of the United States.
[1]
Deaths in Jonestown
.^ Main article: Jonestown Later that same day, 909 inhabitants of Jonestown, 89 276 of them children, died of apparent cyanide poisoning, mostly in and around a pavilion.
^ Her husband 118 and four children 119 120 121 122 all died at Jonestown.
^ Then came the almost unbelievable "White Night," a mass suicide pact of the Jonestown camp community made up mostly of Blacks and women drank cyanide from paper cups of Kool-Aid, adults and children alike died and fell around the main pavilion.
[90] .^ This resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the September 11, 2001 attacks .
^ The greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001 , the tragedy at Guyana also ranks among the largest mass suicides in history.
^ WHAT TYPE OF NON-HAVING -A -LIFE-TYPING -UNTIL- YOUR FINGERS -ARE- NUMB- BULL SHIT IS THAT? .- Necole Bitchie.com: Jim Jones: Two Sides To Every Story 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC necolebitchie.com [Source type: Original source]
[91] .^ The recording is approximately 45 minutes long.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ A tape-recording found at the scene of the massacre was transcribed by the FBI. This is the so-called "Last Tape" that Jones recorded while urging his followers to commit suicide.
^ An audio recording made on November 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during the mass suicide or murder of over 900 members of the cult.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[92]
.^ On that tape, Jones tells Temple members that the Soviet Union, with whom the Temple had been negotiating a potential exodus for months, would not take them after the Temple had murdered Ryan and four others at a nearby airstrip.
^ Although Temple member Larry Layton was charged with the murders of Congressman Ryan, Patricia Parks, and press reporters Greg Robinson, Don Harris and Bob Brown, he was not in a position t shoot them.
^ Parroting Jones' prior statements that hostile forces would convert captured children to fascism , one temple member states "the ones that they take captured, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies."
[92] .^ The reason given by Jones to commit suicide was consistent with his previously stated conspiracy theories of intelligence organizations allegedly conspiring against the Temple, that men would "parachute in here on us," "shoot some of our innocent babies" and "they'll torture our children, they'll torture some of our people here, they'll torture our seniors."
^ He convinced them that they and their children would have to die.
^ But they gotta shoot me to get through to some of these people.- "Suicide Tape Transcript" 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC employees.oneonta.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[92] Parroting Jones' prior statements that hostile forces would convert captured children to
fascism, one temple member states "the ones that they take captured, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies."
[92]
Aftermath - Jim Jones pavilion chair and sign
.^ Christine Miller Aftermath - Jim Jones pavilion chair and sign Given that reasoning, Jones and several members argued that the group should commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored Flavor Aid (often misidentified as Kool-Aid ) along with a sedative .
^ Don't Drink the Kool-Aid on Jonestown Thirty years ago today more than 900 followers of Jim Jones committed "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced Flavor-Aid.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The reason given by Jones to commit suicide was consistent with his previously stated conspiracy theories of intelligence organizations allegedly conspiring against the Temple, that men would "parachute in here on us," "shoot some of our innocent babies" and "they'll torture our children, they'll torture some of our people here, they'll torture our seniors."
[92] .^ One member, Christine Miller, dissents toward the beginning of the tape.
[92] .^ When members apparently cried, Jones counseled "Stop this hysterics.
^ This drug abuse in of itself was one of the reasons for the move of the Temple and Jones himself to Guyana: his addiction had become too apparent to hide from Temple members at close range.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ This is made all the more apparent when Jones is confronted-- on video-- by the notes passed to members of the party visiting with with Leo Ryan on the day of the massacre.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
.^ This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die.
^ This is not the way for people who are socialistic Communists to die ...- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ There is no way all of those people wanted to die, I'm sure a lot of the more ignorantly blind-faithful did, but not all of them.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
.^ No way for us to die.
^ There is no way all of those people wanted to die, I'm sure a lot of the more ignorantly blind-faithful did, but not all of them.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ No. MAN 1: I know a way to find Stoen if it'll help us. JONES: No.
.^ We must die with some dignity."
^ We must die with some dignity.- "Suicide Tape Transcript" 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC employees.oneonta.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ We must die with some dignity ..."- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[92] .^ What's going to happen to us when they don't leave, when they get on the plane and the plane goes down? MILLER: I don't think they'll go down. JONES: You don't think they'll go down?
^ Jones: But we've tried and as Jack Beam often said -- I don't know why he said it -- I just know (unintelligible word) Jack, he said if this only works one day, it was worthwhile.- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Then later on in the tape, while a mass dying is on its way and Jones hurries his disciples on into their death, he somewhat halfheartedly admits that he himself did kill the senator.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[92] .^ We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. (Music.
^ "We didn't commit suicide," Jones announced during the administering of cyanide-laced Flavoraid to his flock, "we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ (Tape edit) We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.- Transcript Q042 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC jonestown.sdsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[92] .^ But many Temple members drink willingly.- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ According to escaping Temple members, children were given the drink first and families were told to lie down together.
^ To suggest that hundreds of members of the Peoples Temple murdered their children and killed themselves is, in this writer's view, a blood libel on those who died there.
[93] .^ Mass suicide had been previously discussed in simulated events called "White Nights" on a regular basis.
^ From Newton, whom Jones had visited in Cuban exhile in 1977, Jones got his lawyer and received support, such as a phone-to-megaphone address to Jonestown during a "white night" dry run of mass suicide.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[78][94] .^ During at least one such prior White Night, members drank liquid that Jones falsely told them was poison.
^ Stephan Jones speculates that the voice was that of Indiana-born Joyce Touchette, because he was told by one of the people who escaped into the jungle that Larry Schacht and Joyce Touchette were involved in readying and distributing the poison.
^ Parroting Jones' prior statements that hostile forces would convert captured children to fascism , one temple member states "the ones that they take captured, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies."
[78][94]
.^ Jones was found dead in a deck chair with a gunshot wound to his head that Guyanese coroner Cyrill Mootoo stated was consistent with a self-inflicted gun wound.
^ Reviewer: Unidyne - - February 6, 2006 Subject: Eyewitess to history This tape, made by person(s) unknown, was found in an audiocassette recorder under Jim Jones' chair.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ Of the two remaining bodies that were autopsied, Jim Jones was found to have been killed by a gunshot wound to the head.
[95] .^ However, Jones' son Stephan believes his father may have directed someone else to shoot him.
^ For example, Jones's natural son, Stephan.
^ Jones, however, claimed that he detested engaging in homosexual activity and did so only for the male temple adherents' own good, purportedly to connect them symbolically with him (Jones).
[96] .^ An autopsy of Jones' body also showed levels of the barbiturate Pentobarbital which may have been lethal to humans who had not developed physiological tolerance .
^ Tim Jones and Johnny Cobb, another member of the Peoples Temple basketball team, were asked to go to Jonestown and help identify the bodies of people who had died.
^ Of the two remaining bodies that were autopsied, Jim Jones was found to have been killed by a gunshot wound to the head.
[97] .^ Jones' drug usage (including LSD and marijuana ) was confirmed by his son, Stephan, and Jones' doctor in San Francisco.
^ For example, Jones's natural son, Stephan.
^ While Jones forged media alliances with key columnists and others at the San Francisco Chronicle and other media outlets, 54 the move to San Francisco also brought increasing media scrutiny.
Other issues
.^ Brazil Herald , "The little-known story: Jim Jones' early days in Rio de Janeiro," by Harold Emert, December 24-26, 1978, p.
[98] .^ The man was an undercover Los Angeles Police Department vice officer .
.^ Jones is on record as later telling his followers that he was "the only true heterosexual", but at least one account exists of his sexual abuse of a male member of his congregation in front of the followers, ostensibly to prove the man's own homosexual tendencies.
^ Jones, however, claimed that he detested engaging in homosexual activity and did so only for the male temple adherents' own good, purportedly to connect them symbolically with him (Jones).
^ Jones only truely believed in death with no life.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[98]
.^ While Jones banned sex among Temple members outside of marriage, he himself voraciously engaged in sexual relations with both male and female Temple members.
^ In the summer of 1977, Jones and several hundred Temple members moved to the Temple's "Agricultural Project" in Guyana after they learned of the contents of Kilduff's article to be published in which former Temple members claimed they were physically, emotionally, and sexually abused.
^ Jones is on record as later telling his followers that he was "the only true heterosexual", but at least one account exists of his sexual abuse of a male member of his congregation in front of the followers, ostensibly to prove the man's own homosexual tendencies.
[99][100] .^ Here, however, I want to point out certain coincidences of timing in the lives of Jim Jones and Dan Mitrione, and to discuss Jones's own file at the CIA. .
^ I think that many representatives of "Religious Liberal-Left" had and have a similar mentality, they only do not loose their self-control like Jones did.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jay Z's got jim jones good, jones's comeback was lame he just called him old 20 times.- Jay Z "Brooklyn High" (Jim Jones Diss) 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.hiphopmusic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jay Z "Brooklyn High" (Jim Jones Diss) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.hiphopmusic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[99]
.^ One of Jones' sources of inspiration was the controversial International Peace Mission movement leader Father Divine .
^ Jones also began preaching that he was the reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth , Mahatma Gandhi , Buddha , Vladimir Lenin , and Father Divine .
^ That Jones made a study of Father Divine, emulated him and hoped to succeed him, is clear.
[101] .^ Jones had borrowed the term "revolutionary suicide" 102 from Black Panther leader and Peoples Temple supporter Huey Newton who had argued "the slow suicide of life in the ghetto " ought to be replaced by revolutionary struggle that would end only in victory (socialism and self determination) or revolutionary suicide (death).
^ This article is about the Peoples Temple leader.
^ "FAQ: Who was the leader of Peoples Temple?"
Family aftermath
Marceline
.^ Marcy Jones Jim Jones' wife, Marceline, was found poisoned around the pavilion.
^ At Jonestown , John Stoen was found poisoned in Jim Jones' cabin.
^ Main article: Jonestown Later that same day, 909 inhabitants of Jonestown, 89 276 of them children, died of apparent cyanide poisoning, mostly in and around a pavilion.
[103] .^ Congressman Ryan was warmly received at Jonestown and toured the community.
^ "With Ryan on the way to Jonestown, the secrecy surrounding the camp would be broken and desperate measures would need to be taken to keep the truth from escaping, much less the inmates.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ And, also, whether it was a coincidence that Congressman Ryan's tour-guide at Jonestown was, secretly, the CIA's Chief of Station in the country?
[104]
.^ Found near Marceline Jones' body was a signed and witnessed will leaving all bank accounts "in my name" to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and writing that Suzanne Jones Cartmell should receive no assets.
^ In that regard, like the restrictive emigration policies of the then Soviet Union , Cuba , North Korea and other communist republics, Jones did not permit members to leave Jonestown.
^ After this decision to abandon the Temple, Jones referred to Suzanne openly as "my goddamned, no good for nothing daughter" and stated that she was not to be trusted.
[105]
Stephan, Jim Jr. and Tim Jones
.^ What follows is an interim report about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.
^ Stephan, Jim Jr., and Tim Jones did not take part in the mass suicide because they were playing with the Peoples Temple basketball team against the Guyanese national team in Georgetown.
^ A great deal because it's Jim Jones.
[25][102] At the time of events in Jonestown, Stephan and Tim were both nineteen and Jim Jones Jr. was eighteen.
[106] Tim's biological family, the Tuppers, which consisted of his three biological sisters,
[107][108][109] biological brother,
[110] and biological mother,
[111] all died at Jonestown.
.^ Three days before the tragedy, Stephan Jones refused, over the radio, to comply with an order by his father to return the team to Jonestown for Ryan's visit.
^ At the time of events in Jonestown, Stephan and Tim were both nineteen and Jim Jones Jr. Tim's biological family, the Tuppers, which consisted of his three biological sisters, 107 108 109 biological brother, 110 and biological mother, 111 all died at Jonestown.
^ This is made all the more apparent when Jones is confronted-- on video-- by the notes passed to members of the party visiting with with Leo Ryan on the day of the massacre.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[112]
Jonestown basketball court
During the events at Jonestown, Stephan, Tim, and Jim Jones Jr. drove to the American Embassy in Guyana in an attempt to receive help.
.^ Port Kaituma Airstrip shootings .
^ The Guyanese soldiers guarding the embassy refused to let them in after hearing about the shootings at the Port Kaituma airstrip.
^ Tracy Parks, a 10 year-old survivor of the Port Kaituma airstrip shootings, recalled that "Children who said they were not happy and wanted to go away were severely beaten."- Jim Jones and the People's Temple 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.freedomofmind.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[113] .^ Later, the three returned to the Temple's headquarters in Georgetown to find the bodies of Sharon Amos and her three children.
^ Amos and her three children were dead.
^ The Consul relates in the book The Jonestown Carnage , how returning home that evening his wife told him that Jim Jones' assistant, Sharon Amos, had called from the Temple office in Georgetown.
[113] .^ Guyanese soldiers kept the Jones brothers under house arrest for five days, interrogating them about the deaths in Georgetown.
^ At the end of the day this is about Jim Jones and what happened to his crew.- Necole Bitchie.com: Jim Jones: Two Sides To Every Story 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC necolebitchie.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Stephan Jones was accused of being involved in the Georgetown deaths, and was placed in a Guyanese prison for three months.
[113] .^ Stephan Jones was accused of being involved in the Georgetown deaths, and was placed in a Guyanese prison for three months.
^ Stephan, Jim Jr., and Tim Jones did not take part in the mass suicide because they were playing with the Peoples Temple basketball team against the Guyanese national team in Georgetown.
^ Guyanese soldiers kept the Jones brothers under house arrest for five days, interrogating them about the deaths in Georgetown.
[113] .^ Surrounding him were dead bodies of hundreds of members of People's Temple.
^ Tim Jones and Johnny Cobb, another member of the Peoples Temple basketball team, were asked to go to Jonestown and help identify the bodies of people who had died.
^ "FAQ: Who was the leader of Peoples Temple?"
[113] After returning to the United States, Jim Jones Jr. was placed under police surveillance for several months while he lived with his older sister, Suzanne, who had previously turned against the Temple.
[113].^ When Jonestown was first being established, Stephan Jones had originally avoided two attempts by his father to relocate to the settlement.
^ Originally Posted by Faust Petr, Jim Jones Jr. Afro son tells us his father was good guy because he hated "racism"...- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Stephan Jones was accused of being involved in the Georgetown deaths, and was placed in a Guyanese prison for three months.
.^ He eventually moved to Jonestown after a third and final attempt.
^ According to these reports, World Vision was also attempting to move the population from the island of Dominica to Jonestown.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
.^ He has since said that he gave into his father's wishes to move to Jonestown because of his mother.
^ I believe this was an ulterior motive to get ppl into Jonestown because he didn't want to die alone.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ He had not moved to Jonestown with the rest because he was involved in running the stateside operation (Reiterman, Tim, with John Jacobs.
[114] .^ Stephan Jones is now a businessman, who is married with three daughters.
^ Jones thinkin out loud)who gonna write my weak ass rhymes now?- XXLmag.com - » Jim Jones Ain’t No Sunshine 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.xxlmag.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He remarried and has three sons from this marriage, 102 including Rob Jones, a high-school basketball star who went on to play for the University of San Diego .
.^ He appeared in the documentary Jonestown: Paradise Lost which aired on the History Channel and Discovery Channel .
^ Most notably the PBS radio broadcasts, the MSNBC documentary "Witness to Jonestown", the documentary "Jonestown: Life and Death of People's Temple", and I THINK also in Jonestown: Paradise Lost, the History Channel's documentary/re-enactment the "ghosts", "chatter" and "garbage" are editted out.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ Guyana: Crime of the Century · Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones · Cults: Dangerous Devotion · Jonestown: Paradise Lost · Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple .
He stated he will not watch the documentary and has never grieved for his father.
[115] .^ Who the F*** is looking to Jim Jones for direction?- SEASONS BEATINGS!!!! Rapper Jim Jones And His GOONS STOMP OUT Ne-Yo And Jay Z's Pal In LUXURY STORE!!! - MediaTakeOut.com™ 2009 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.mediatakeout.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Jim Jones Jr., who lost his wife and unborn child at Jonestown, returned to San Francisco.
^ Reply who is Jim jones?- Q&A: Jim Jones - Play | The Rhapsody Editorial Music Blog 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC blog.rhapsody.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He remarried and has three sons from this marriage, 102 including Rob Jones, a high-school basketball star who went on to play for the University of San Diego .
^ Jones' drug usage (including LSD and marijuana ) was confirmed by his son, Stephan, and Jones' doctor in San Francisco.
^ Alternative Considerations of Jonestown, San Diego State University ^ 1978: Mass suicide leaves 900 dead .
[116]
Lew, Agnes and Suzanne Jones
.^ Agnes Jones Lew and Agnes Jones both died at Jonestown.
^ At the time of events in Jonestown, Stephan and Tim were both nineteen and Jim Jones Jr. Tim's biological family, the Tuppers, which consisted of his three biological sisters, 107 108 109 biological brother, 110 and biological mother, 111 all died at Jonestown.
^ Both Jim Jon (Kimo) and his mother, Carolyn Layton, died during the events at Jonestown.
.^ My sister was just 19 years old when she was abducted while grieving our mother's death.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ Jay Z's got jim jones good, jones's comeback was lame he just called him old 20 times.- Jay Z "Brooklyn High" (Jim Jones Diss) 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.hiphopmusic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Jay Z "Brooklyn High" (Jim Jones Diss) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.hiphopmusic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ REST IN PEACE PHONIEX < < < < < < < < < < he was killed by one of JIM Jones flunkies for selling a bootleg dip set CD he was fifth teen years old.- SEASONS BEATINGS!!!! Rapper Jim Jones And His GOONS STOMP OUT Ne-Yo And Jay Z's Pal In LUXURY STORE!!! - MediaTakeOut.com™ 2009 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.mediatakeout.com [Source type: Original source]
[117] .^ Her husband 118 and four children 119 120 121 122 all died at Jonestown.
^ Main article: Jonestown Later that same day, 909 inhabitants of Jonestown, 89 276 of them children, died of apparent cyanide poisoning, mostly in and around a pavilion.
.^ Lew Jones, who was twenty-one years old at the time of his death, died alongside his wife Terry and son Chaeoke.
^ Agnes Jones was thirty-five years old at the time of her death.
^ My sister was just 19 years old when she was abducted while grieving our mother's death.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
[123][124][125] .^ Stephanie Jones had died at age five in a car accident.
[25]
Lew Jones, Terry and Chaeoke
.^ Lew Jones, Terry and Chaeoke Suzanne Jones married Mike Cartmell; both turned against the Temple and were not in Jonestown on November 18, 1978.
^ After returning to the United States, Jim Jones Jr. Suzanne, who had previously turned against the Temple.
^ November 18, 1978 (aged 47) Jonestown , Guyana .
[126] In a signed note found at the time of her death, Marceline Jones directed that the Jones' funds were to be given to the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union and specified: "I especially request that none of these are allowed to get into the hands of my adopted daughter, Suzanne Jones Cartmell."
[127] Cartmell had two children and died of colon cancer in November 2006.
[128][129]
John Stoen and Kimo
.^ Kimo Further information: Timothy Stoen Specific references to Tim Stoen, the father of John Stoen, including the logistics of possibly murdering him, are made on the Temple's final "death tape," as well as a discussion over whether the Temple should include John Stoen among those committing "revolutionary suicide."
^ The custody dispute over John Stoen would become a linchpin of several battles between the Temple and the Concerned Relatives.
^ We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. (Music.
[92] .^ Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian .- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board .- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jim Jones was found days later at the foot of his chair in the centre of the meeting hall.
[130]
.^ Both Jim Jon (Kimo) and his mother, Carolyn Layton, died during the events at Jonestown.
^ At the time of events in Jonestown, Stephan and Tim were both nineteen and Jim Jones Jr. Tim's biological family, the Tuppers, which consisted of his three biological sisters, 107 108 109 biological brother, 110 and biological mother, 111 all died at Jonestown.
^ Agnes Jones Lew and Agnes Jones both died at Jonestown.
[131]
Notes
- ^ While Jim Jones claimed to be partially of Cherokee descent through his mother Lynetta, this story was apparently not true. (Lindsay, Robert. "How Rev. Jim Jones Gained His Power Over Followers". New York Times. November 26, 1978). Lynetta's cousin Barbara Shaffer said "there wasn't an ounce of Indian in our family." (Lindsay, Robert. "How Rev. Jim Jones Gained His Power Over Followers". New York Times. November 26, 1978). Shaffer said that Lynetta was Welsh. ("Jones—The Dark Private Side Emerges". Los Angeles Times. November 24, 1978). The birth records for Lynetta have since been lost. (Kilduff, Marshall and Ron Javers. "Jim Jones Always Led — Or Wouldn't Play". San Francisco Chronicle. December 4, 1978).
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- ^ "22 - Rob Jones." University of San Diego Official Athletic Site. Accessed: 2009-10-03. Archived by WebCite
- ^ Agnes Paulette Jones Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple]. San Diego State University.
- ^ "Forrest Ray Jones" Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ "Billy Jones" Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ "Jimbo Jones" Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ "Michael Ray Jones" Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ "Stephanie Jones" Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ Lew Eric Jones Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ "Terry Carter Jones" Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ "Chaeoke Warren Jones" Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ FBI Tape Q 265 - October 17, 1978 address. Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ "November 18 1978 Letter from Marceline Jones." Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ Who Has Died Since 18 November 1978? Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
- ^ Smith, Gary. "Escape From Jonestown" Sports Illustrated CNN.com. 24 December 2007.
- ^ Reiterman, Tim, and John Jacobs. Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People. Dutton, 1982. ISBN 0-525-24136-1)
- ^ "Carolyn Louise Moore Layton" Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
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.^ Bloomington: Indiana Press University, 2005.
^ Jim Jones - Religion 16.- Hear-It-First.Net » Jim Jones 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC hear-it-first.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Betsy Aaron: It was called the People's Temple, but it was really Rev. Jim Jones' temple.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The Cult That Died. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. ISBN 0-399-12540-X.
Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison. .
Maaga, Mary McCormick.^ McCormick Maaga, Mary.
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^ Anchor Books, 1999.
.^ Hearing the voices of Jonestown .
^ This transcript was made by Mary McCormick Maaga in Hearing the Voices of Jonestown (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998), by permission of the author.
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Naipaul, Shiva.^ This transcript was made by Mary McCormick Maaga in Hearing the Voices of Jonestown (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998), by permission of the author.
Black & White. .
Reiterman, Tim and John Jacobs (1982).^ Goodlett, Carlton B., Notes on Peoples Temple , reprinted in Moore, Rebecca and Fielding M. McGehee, III, The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown , Edwin Mellen Press, 1989, ISBN 0889466491 ^ Reiterman, Tim, and John Jacobs.
^ Paranoia And Delusions , Time Magazine, December 11, 1978 ^ Reiterman, Tim and John Jacobs.
^ Reiterman, Tim and John Jacobs.
Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-24136-1.
External links
.^ American Experience documentary , "Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple" , shown on PBS Transcript of Jones' final speech, just before the mass suicide The first part of a series of articles about Jim Jones published in the San Francisco Examiner in 1972.
^ American Experience, PBS.org.
^ I was just thinking about Jim Jones.- Jim "Jonestown" Jones - Communist cultist who merely pretended to be a Christian - OD Board 31 January 2010 13:10 UTC www.originaldissent.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Alternative Considerations of Jonestown, San Diego State University ^ 1978: Mass suicide leaves 900 dead .
^ (The Peoples Temple cult) The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No.- Internet Archive: Free Download: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 13 January 2010 21:10 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: General]
^ Lew Jones, who was twenty-one years old at the time of his death, died alongside his wife Terry and son Chaeoke.
Q 042 The "Jonestown Death Tape", Recorded 18 November 1978 (Internet Archive)
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