Personal Reflections
  
 

Jonestown Photo

The articles below offer a wide range of perspectives on the life of Peoples Temple, the deaths in Jonestown, and the 26 years that have passed. All were written by former members and relatives of the people who died. While each individual story brings a powerful voice to any consideration of the events of 18 November 1978, their totality contributes to an even more important - if sometimes cacophonous - body of work. For that reason, these stories may also be found on our growing online collection of perspectives at http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/PersonalReflections/personal_reflec.htm.

We invite other members and families of Peoples Temple - whatever your views on the tragedy of Jonestown and the factors that led to its end - to join in this chorus. Contact us at remoore@mail.sdsu.edu or fieldingmcgehee@yahoo.com so that we may add your story.

    1. Beneath the Surface
    2. 25 Years Later
    3. Connecting the Dots: Group Goals, Self-Expression, and Suicide to Planetary Survival
    4. A Jonestown story by Hue Fortson
    5. Notes from a Dead Socialist
    6. "Portraits of Patti Chastain Haag"
    7. Peoples Temple Was Not a “Cult of Assassins” by Laurie Efrein Kahalas
    8. Sex in the City? Make That, The Commune by Laura Johnston Kohl
    9. Grieve, Forgive and Let Go by Hattie Newell
    10. The Pain That Never Leaves by Barbara Sines
    11. A Story of Deprogramming by Neva Sly Hargrave
    12. My Life In – and After – Peoples Temple by Juanell “Nell” Smart
    13. Sex in Peoples Temple by David Wise


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