- December 3, 2007 An overdue memorial in Oakland, Marshall Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle, California
...On a sloping hill in Oakland beneath a towering eucalyptus will be a black and pink granite monument to the people who died in Jonestown.
The spot is where some 400 bodies now rest, flown back from the jungle outpost where Rev. Jim Jones oversaw the mass murder of his followers in 1978. After several cemeteries turned down requests to bury the dead, Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland accepted the task....
...The new landmark should be ready for next November's 30th anniversary date.
This article appeared on page D - 4 of the San Francisco Chronicle
- Video November 19, 2007 Jonestown Massacre - Survivors share stories of escaping cult death in Guyana jungle, Foxnews.com
- November 18, 2007 Memorial Wall Dedicated To Child Victims Of Jonestown Massacre, KTVU San Francisco
OAKLAND -- A ceremony celebrating the construction of a memorial wall dedicated to American children who lost their lives in a 1978 mass murder and suicide directed by the Rev. Jim Jones in his Jonestown community in Guyana, South America, took place in Oakland today.
The Cherishing the Children Jonestown Memorial Wall will be dedicated to the children whose lives were lost as a result of Jones' actions. Of the 900 people who committed suicide or were murdered, 276 were children...
...Jones' congregation, called the Peoples Temple, moved from California to Guyana in the mid-70s...
- On TV October 7, 2007 Outside The Lines: Jonestown - The Game Of Their Lives, ESPN
...tells the story of the impact basketball has had on the son and grandson of The Rev. Jim Jones, founder of Jonestown and leader of the mass suicide in 1978...
- October 8, 2007 Chat with Jim Jones Jr. - ESPN.com: SPORTSNATION
...On Monday afternoon, Jim Jones Jr., son of Jonestown founder Reverend Jim Jones, will stop by to chat about an ESPN documentary focusing on his father's life, and his son's basketball career...
...Send in your questions now, then join Jones Jr. on Monday at 3pm ET.
- October 5, 2007 Grandson of Jonestown founder is making a name for himself, By Jon Fish and Chris Connelly, Special to ESPN.com
On Sunday, "Outside the Lines" will present a special documentary, Jonestown: The Game of their Lives, which tells the story of the impact basketball has had on the son and grandson of The Rev. Jim Jones, founder of Jonestown and leader of the mass suicide in 1978...
...the documentary features interviews, home video, photos from personal collections and never-before-seen photographs obtained from the FBI.
Watch "Outside the Lines" on Sunday at 9:30 a.m., ET, on ESPN...
- October 3, 2007 Ex-Riordan star Jones discusses Jonestown massacre on ESPN, by Matt Elliser, The Examiner, San Francisco, California
SAN FRANCISCO - Rob Jones, a former Riordan basketball star and two-time Examiner Player of the Year, will be featured on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" on Sunday.
The 19½-minute segment, entitled "Jonestown: The Game of Their Lives," will air at 6:30 a.m. and focus on the effects of the 1978 Jonestown mass murder-suicide. Rob Jones' grandfather was Peoples Temple leader Reverend Jim Jones and his father, Jim Jones Jr., was playing basketball 250 miles away in Georgetown, Guyana, when more than 900 people died deep in the jungle of the South American nation.
"This is very personal in the sense that basketball saved my life," Jones Jr. said...
- September 29, 2007Author wants to talk with those who knew Jim Jones, Palladium-Item, Richmond, Indiana
A Richmond native will be in town Friday and Saturday seeking interviews with anyone who may have known Jim Jones.
Jones, founder of Peoples Temple church and leader of a mass suicide of 913 of his followers in 1978, was born in Lynn in 1931 and graduated from Richmond High School.
Scott Lines, who graduated from RHS in 1967 and is a clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay area, is writing a narrative non-fiction book on the Jones' life...
- Video August 17, 2007 Stephan Jones on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC, Canada
The Jonestown massacre is one of the most notorious mass suicides in history. More than 900 people died there. The quasi-socialist spiritual utopia turned hell on earth was founded by the Reverend Jim Jones.
Stephan Jones, son to Reverend Jim Jones, talks about...wanting to murder his father.
Stephan Jones did not take part in the suicide as he was away, playing basketball with the People's Temple Basketball team...
- August 2, 2007 Jonestown: Was the Story Spiked?, Tom Clavin, The Huffington Post
Pat Lynch, the first female investigative reporter for NBC Evening News...she was taking on another cult: Jim Jones and his followers of the Peoples Temple...
...What revived her desire to get the story out is that recently Lynch has received queries from editors and producers in the U.S. and from Canada, South Africa, and Australia who are embarking on Jonestown-related stories to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the founding of the cult community in Guyana. All have asked the same question of Lynch: "Did you shoot more than 18 minutes of film?"
"We shot in 20-minute sections and then put the film in a canister," Lynch recalled. "There were between 20 and 30 canisters. In addition to that, I personally screened more than three hours of dramatic footage shot inside Jonestown by the cameraman who died doing his job...
...She added: "The recent queries from filmmakers have inspired me to start my investigation of the Peoples Temple once again...
...Lynch is aiming to tell "the real truth about the Jonestown massacre" in a book, which would include how her Peoples Temple series was compiled and then scuttled...
This article originally appeared in the Southampton and East Hampton (NY) Press.
- July 27, 2007 Jonestown Filmmakers Missing the Mark, Pat Lynch, The Huffington Post
...As the NBC Nightly News producer who began shooting a series on destructive cults in March, 1978, the story had come full circle. I personally screened more than three hours of dramatic footage shot inside Jonestown by the cameraman who died doing his job. What happened to it? These queries started my investigation of Peoples Temple once again...
...dangerous story about Peoples Temple was ready for air in October, 1978...
..."NBC BOSS LIFE THREATENED" proclaimed the New York Post banner headline November 2, 1978. "GUARD ON TV CHIEF."...
...On November 18th, 918 people -- including hundreds of children and senior citizens -- were murdered. Some committed suicide...
...So when, 28 years later, I started getting calls about missing NBC footage, the story that haunted me for so many years came back in a rush...
...The Jonestown Institute, which collects primary source information on Peoples Temple...sent me proof they had obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that the FBI is in possession of 12 hours of footage from NBC...
- On TV April 9, 2007 Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple - PBS - American Experience (Photos included)
- Video Temple Members' Stories
- Temple Members' Stories - What was the appeal of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple? By the time of its deadly end in the Guyanese jungle, membership exceeded one thousand people.
- Learn more about the Rev. Jim Jones
- April 9, 2007 "There was no choice in Jonestown that day..." - Oregon Public Broadcasting (Audio included.)
...It includes interviews with an Oregon man who was one of five people to escape Jonestown alive, Tim Carter...
...We offer these extended clips from the interview for a more complete picture of Carter's story.
Please be aware that Tim Carter is explicit about what he saw in the final hours at Jonestown, and listeners will find some material in the interview disturbing...
- April 9, 2007 DVD review: Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple, Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
...This chilling documentary on cult leader Jim Jones and the murder-suicide of more than 900 people in Guyana...
- March 29, 2007 Few reasons, but more details, about Jonestown, by Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
The phrase "drink the Kool-Aid," meaning to follow instructions unquestioningly, has become part of the cultural lexicon...ask anyone under 30 who Jim Jones was and why he's infamous, and you're likely to receive one of those "I know I should know this" stares in return...
...1978, when we learned that more than 900 Americans in Guyana had committed mass suicide by drinking cyanide-spiked...in the documentary "Jonestown" The Life and Death of Peoples Temple"...
- March 28, 2007 Culver City woman apparently locates aunt's grave in Jonestown, Associate Press via sfgate.com
- Movie Review March 16, 2007 Jonestown film shows Hoosier's power, By Kenneth Turan, IndyStar.com
Why? In the nearly 30 years since 909 people died in what's been called history's "largest mass suicide/murder," the question of why so many otherwise seemingly rational human beings drank poisoned Kool-Aid in Guyana has been one of the most haunting of our time.
The riveting documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" comes as close as we are going to get to an answer. Directed by the veteran Stanley Nelson...
- On TV March 11, 2007 Jonestown: Paradise Lost, The History Channel
Framed by recently released, U.S. Government information and eye witness accounts, this special follows Congressman Leo Ryan's fatal journey into "Jonestown", a community carved out of the jungles of Guyana by the followers of messianic/charismatic pastor, Jim Jones...
- March 6, 2007 Son of Jonestown saved by basketball game, James Adams, Globe and Mail, Canada
A basketball game saved Stephan Gandhi Jones's life...
..."This" happens to be Jonestown: Paradise Lost, a 100-minute TV docudrama about the final crazed days of the wannabe multiracial utopia in equatorial South America and the 47-year-old zealot and megalomaniac who ordered the mass suicide and murder, thereby ensuring that Nov. 18, 1978, would be a day that would live in infamy.
His name was the Rev. Jim Jones...The film, directed and written, respectively, by Canadians Tim Wolochatiuk and Jason Sherman, airs on Vision TV on March 13...
- March 5, 2007 Using Jonestown Massacre in name of band is insensitive, hurtful to memories of the dead - Lisa Anderson, Oregon Daily Emerald, University Of Oregon
Band should not evoke Jonestown Massacre in name...
...Jim Jones, the leader of the Jonestown cult...mislead over 900 people during the late 1970s. Among these people was my aunt who perished in Jonestown, Guyana (where the cult moved to from San Francisco in the late 1970s) with other innocent and brainwashed followers in a mass suicide demanded by Jones...
- February 22, 2007 'Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple' - By Barry Paris, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Documentary leads unflinchingly to horrific ending...
...The vats of poison, the bloated bodies under the tropical sun -- unerasable images of a "revolutionary suicide" -- remain, along with unanswered questions in director Stanley Nelson's riveting documentary, "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple."...
- February 9, 2007 Disturbing 'Jonestown' dives into depths of tragedy, By ROBERT W. BUTLER, The Kansas City Star
Nobody knowingly joins a cult, says one of the talking heads in "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple."
Nobody becomes part of a group they think will hurt them...
...Relying on previously unseen film footage, still photos and voice recordings, "Jonestown" paints a portrait of a fantastically charismatic preacher who combined the traditional Gospels with a social message emphasizing communal living and complete racial tolerance...
3 STARS
RATED: NR, contains some profanity
RUNNING TIME: 1:33
PLAYING: Monday through Friday at the Nickelodeon
- February 9, 2007 Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple - By Joe Williams, POST-DISPATCH FILM CRITIC, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
...To get answers, the sober documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" interviews some of the few remaining survivors of the church. Although the film necessarily fails to solve the riddle of Jim Jones, it vividly conveys the terror of what happened to his followers that day and the lingering pain of the people they left behind...
- February 8, 2007 Jonestown Revisited, by Nicholas F. Benton, Falls Church News-Press
...Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre...
...Two new documentary films are circulating about this incident and the circumstances that led to it. One, "Jonestown, a Paradise Lost," has been playing on the History cable TV channel, along with a documentary on the overall history of cults. The other, "Jonestown: the Life and Death of the People's Temple," is the more effective of the two, and has been playing in limited release on movie screens across the U.S....
- Video February 5, 2007 Stanley Nelson & Jim Jones, Jr. in 'Jonestown' - Unscripted, AOL Black Voices
Director Stanley Nelson talks with the son of his documentary subject, Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones.
- February 2, 2007 Jim Jones's Temple of Doom, Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
...Nov. 18, 1978. On that day, close to a thousand adults and children drank the cyanide-laced grape Kool-Aid -- or maybe it was Flavor-Aid...
..."Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple," a somber, solid documentary to parade the whole bleak tale before us again...
...Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple Unrated, 85 minutes...
- January 17, 2007 The mind can be a terrible tool, By Jeff Mullin, ENID NEWS AND EAGLE via Meadville Tribune
...The History Channel this week aired a documentary on Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre...
...In California, Jones recruited young, college-educated white students to go with the large number of working class members. The church expanded into San Francisco in 1972, opening a church in the heart of the largely poor, largely black Fillmore District...
- January 16, 2007 The grandson of Jim Jones is one of the Bay Area's top prep athletes, Will McCulloch, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, California
...Rob Jones has earned All-Metro honors in both basketball and football in a time of athletic specialization...
...Jim Jones Jr. is all too familiar with the Jones name in the news. Ever since Nov. 18, 1978, when his adoptive father, Jim Jones Sr., urged the members of his uprooted San Francisco church in Jonestown, Guyana, to consume cyanide-laced Flavor Aid, his name has been inextricably linked to the Jonestown Massacre. When more than 900 people died in Jonestown, the then-18-year-old Jones Jr. was playing in a basketball tournament in the city of Georgetown, Guyana.
Jones Jr. -- who lost his first wife and unborn child among other family members in the tragedy...
- January 15, 2007 Clocking a Cult's Final Days in Jonestown, by GINIA BELLAFANTE, New York Times (Stephan Jones photo included.)
The People's Temple, the cult that expired in the mass suicide and murder organized by Jim Jones...
...By the early 1970s Mr. Jones, then leading his movement out of San Francisco, had branded himself a Christian Socialist, advocating for the poor and racially oppressed...
...Among its most impassioned players was Stephan Jones, one of Mr. Jones's sons. His testimony, though all too brief, in "Jonestown: Paradise Lost," to be broadcast on the History Channel tonight, is reason enough to watch a documentary that would otherwise merely invite dim circumspection...
- Movie Review January 12, 2007 'Jonestown' recounts descent into madness, by Ty Burr, Globe Staff, The Boston Globe
"Nobody joins a cult -- you just join people you really like," says one of the survivors in Stanley Nelson's documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple." Harrowing and inexorable, the film recaptures the progressive insanity of Jim Jones and the hundreds of worshipers in his thrall, and it certainly gives you willies to last for days. As good as it is, though, "Jonestown," which will air on PBS's "American Experience" in April, never quite burrows to the mystery at its center. You leave with more questions than answers...
- January 11, 2007 Film satisfies jones for massacre answers, By Chelsea Bain, BostonHerald.com
...cult leader Jim Jones and the horrifying mass suicide that occurred in his Guyana temple in 1978, but director Stanley Nelson has the stones.
His documentary, "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple," investigates a church that began with good intentions and ended with 900 people dead.
Some of the survivors (five escaped the massacre and 80 were off the premises) lend their thoughts on the matter...
- The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) (November 18, 1978) - via Internet Archive
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. -Run time: 44:29.73
- November 18, 1978 Transcripts of the so-called "Death Tape" (FBI No. Q042) via Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple
- November 18, 2003 'Suicide Cult': Jonestown, 25 Years Later, The Tavis Smiley Show, (NPR) National Public Radio (Twenty-five years ago today, the world learned that in the remote jungles of Guyana, in a place dubbed Jonestown, more than 900 U.S. citizens committed mass suicide. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to Marshall Kilduff, who reported on the event, now an editorial writer with The San Francisco Chronicle and the author of Suicide Cult.)
- November 17, 2003 Remembering Jonestown, (NPR) National Public Radio (Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the mass suicide and murder in Jonestown, Guyana. More than 900 followers of Reverend Jim Jones were killed after they drank fruit drink mixed with cyanide. The victims included men, women and hundreds of children...) (Audio and photos included.)
- Audio Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown, (NPR) National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. (On November 18, 1978, 913 men, women, and children --followers of cult leader Jim Jones -- died during a mass suicide and murder in Jonestown, Guyana. In the months preceding the tragedy, Jim Jones and his People's Temple followers recorded their thoughts, their problems and their aspirations. The hundreds of hours of audio tape form the basis of the NPR documentary Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown...)
- November 17, 1998 Jonestown Anniversary, All Things Considered audio, (NPR) National Public Radio (Noah talks with Deborah Layton, author of "Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple." 20 years ago tomorrow, the Reverend Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers to their deaths in the jungles of Guyana. Layton had escaped Jonestown several months before, and tried to alert authorities to the insanity and cruelty of life under the rule of Jim Jones...)
- February 5, 2006 People's Temple Choir (mp3s), WFMU
...In 1973, while still in California, the People's Temple Choir recorded a gospel LP called "He's Able". In 1999 Grey Matter Records re-released this album on CD, adding some Jim Jones audio from Guyana as a bonus track...
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