Primary source documents—that is, materials generated by Peoples Temple members, government agencies, relatives and family members, and others directly connected to the historical events of Peoples Temple and Jonestown—are available through several venues beyond this website.
Researchers will find online catalogue records for primary source materials relating to Peoples Temple in Worldcat, http://www.worldcat.org. Guides or finding aids to larger collections that provide more detailed information may be searched in the Online Archive of California (OAC) at http://www.oac.cdlib.org.
The California Historical Society (CHS) is the chief repository for materials related to Peoples Temple. These materials include organizational and personal papers, legal documents, financial records, and photographs. CHS currently holds many individual collections that form the Peoples Temple Collection. The California Historical Society http://www.california historicalsociety.org is located at 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, California 94105. The North Baker Research Library is open to the public, but researchers are encouraged to email or call ahead for hours prior to visiting. Contact the Library by email at reference@calhist.org or call 415-357-1848 ext. 228.
The Special Collections at San Diego State University Library and Information Access has the “Peoples Temple Collection” MS-0183. A “Biographical and Historical Note” prepared by Jennifer Martinez describes the collection at http://scua2.sdsu.edu/archon/index.php?p= collections/findingaid&id=106&q= . The SDSU Special Collections maintains a complete archive of all transcripts and audiotapes, and maintains other documents and papers, some of which are unique to the collection, and some of which duplicate materials held at the California Historical Society. Contact Special Collections by email at scref@rohan.sdsu.edu, or call 619-594-6791.
A final place to find primary sources about Peoples Temple and Jonestown is the American Religions Collection (ARC) at the Donald C. Davidson Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara, http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/research/arc.html. J. Gordon Melton gathered items that were generated by Peoples Temple, which include church bulletins, newsletters, flyers, and correspondence. For more detailed information on materials in ARC, call the Special Collections office at U.C.S.B. 805-893-3062.
“Information Meeting on the Cult Phenomenon in the U.S.” Transcript of Proceedings, U.S. Senate, February 5, 1979, 96th Congress, 1st Session.
The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy: Report of a Staff Investigative Group to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, House Document No. 96-223, May 15, 1979, 96th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979. [Cited throughout as House Committee Report.]
“The Death of Representative Leo J. Ryan, People’s Temple, and Jonestown: Understanding a Tragedy.” Hearing by Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, May 15, 1979, 96th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.
“Findings of GAO study on California placement and federal funding of foster children under guardianship of members of Peoples Temple religious group in Jonestown, Guyana.” In Abuse and Neglect of Children in Institutions, 1979 Hearings before the Subcommittee on Child and Human Development, U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, May 31, 1979.
“The Performance of the Department of State and the American Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana in the People’s Temple Case” a.k.a. “The Crimmins Report.” U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., May, 1979.
“Investigative Report on Peoples Temple.” Department of Social Services, State of California, Sacramento, Calif., November, 1979.
“Report of Investigation of Peoples Temple.” Office of the Attorney General, State of California, Sacramento, Calif., April, 1980.
“Cult Awareness Week,” House Joint Resolution 390, 100th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C., 1988.
Ahlberg, Sture. Messianic Movements: A Comparative Analysis of the Sabbatians, the People’s Temple and the Unification Church. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1986.
Anthony, Dick and Thomas Robbins. “Religious Totalism, Exemplary Dualism, and the Waco Tragedy.” In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. Ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Barker, Eileen. “Religious Movements: Cult and Anticult Since Jonestown.” Annual Review of Sociology 12 (1986): 329-346.
Bromley, David G. and Anson D. Shupe Jr.. Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.
Cesbro, James and David McMahan. “Media Construction of Mass Murder-Suicides as Drama: The New York Times Symbolic Construction of Mass Murder-Suicides.” Communications Quarterly 54, no. 4 (2006): 407-25.
Chidester, David. “Rituals of Exclusion and the Jonestown Dead.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56, no. 4 (Winter 1988): 681-702.
_____. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1988. Revised ed. titled Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple and Jonestown, 2003.
_____. “Saving the Children by Killing Them: Redemptive Sacrifice in the Ideologies of Jim Jones and Ronald Reagan.” Religion and American Culture 1, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 177-201.
Crist, R. E. “Jungle Geopolitics in Guyana.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 40 (1981): 107-14.
Hall, John R. “The Apocalypse at Jonestown.” In In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America. Ed. Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1981, pp. 171-190. Reprinted from Transaction/Society 16, no. 6 (September/October 1979): 52-61.
_____. “Collective Welfare as Resource Mobilization in Peoples Temple: A Case Study of a Poor People’s Religious Social Movement.” Sociological Analysis 49, Supplement (December 1988): 645-775.
_____. Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1987; reprint 2004.
_____. “The Impact of Apostates on the Trajectories of Religious Movements: The Case of Peoples Temple.” In Falling From the Faith: The Causes, Course, and Consequences of Religious Apostasy. Ed. David G. Bromley. Beverley Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1988, pp. 229-50.
_____. “Jonestown in the 21st Century.” Transaction/Society 41, no. 2 (January/February 2004): 9-11.
_____. “Peoples Temple.” In America’s Alternative Religions. Ed. Timothy Miller. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York, 1995, pp. 303-11.
_____. “Public Narratives and the Apocalyptic Sect: From Jonestown to Mt. Carmel.” In Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict. Ed. Stuart A. Wright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 205-235.
Hall, John R. and Philip Schuyler. “Apostasy, Apocalypse, and Religious Violence: An Exploratory Comparison of Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, and the Solar Temple.” In The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements. Ed. David G. Bromley. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998, pp. 141-69.
Hall, John R., with Philip D. Schuyler and Sylvaine Trinh. Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Harding, Vincent. “My Lord, What a Mourning: Jonestown is America.” In The Other American Revolution, by Vincent Harding. Atlanta: Institute of the Black World, 1980.
Introvigne, Massimo. Idee che uccidono. Jonestown, Waco, il Tempio Solare. Milan: Pessano MIMEP-Docete, 1995.
Johnson, Doyle Paul. “Dilemma of Charismatic Leadership: The Case of The Peoples Temple.” Sociological Analysis 40 (1979): 315-23.
Levi, Kenneth, ed. Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones’ People’s Temple Movement. University Park, Penn.: Penn State Press, 1982.
Lewis, Gordon K. “Gather with the Saints at the River:” The Jonestown Guyana Holocaust 1978. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico: Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1979.
Lincoln, C. Eric and Lawrence H. Mamiya. “Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion.” Religious Life 49 (1980): 6-23. Reprinted in Rebecca Moore, Anthony B. Pinn, and Mary R. Sawyer, eds. Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America. Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2004, pp. 28-46.
Lindt, Gillian. “Journeys to Jonestown: Accounts and Interpretations of the Rise and Demise of People’s Temple.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 37, nos. 1 & 2 (Fall-Winter 1981-1982): 159-74.
Maaga, Mary McCormick. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Chapter available here.
_____. “‘No One Commits Suicide’: The Need for a Sociology of Knowledge for the Women of Peoples Temple.” Paper given at the Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 6-8 November, 1992, Washington, D.C.
McCloud, Sean. “From Exotics to Brainwashers: Portraying New Religions in Mass Media.” Religion Compass 1, no. 1 (2007): 214-28.
Melton, J. Gordon. Peoples Temple and Jim Jones: Broadening Our Perspective. New York: Garland, 1990.
Moore, Rebecca. “‘American as Cherry Pie:’ Peoples Temple and Violence in America.” In Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases. Ed. Catherine Wessinger. Syracuse N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000, pp. 121-137. Available online here.
_____. “A Demographic Study of Black Involvement in Peoples Temple: What the Numbers Say.” In Moore, Pinn, and Sawyer, 57-80.
_____. “Drinking the Kool-Aid: The Cultural Transformation of a Tragedy.” Nova Religio 7, no. 2 (November 2003): 92-100. Available online here.
_____. “Is the Canon on Jonestown Closed?” Nova Religio 4, no. 1 (October 2000): 7-27.
_____. “Jim Jones.” Article in The Encyclopedia of African American Folklore. Ed. Anand Prahlad. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 2005.
_____. “Jim Jones.” Article in The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2d edition. Ed. Lindsay Jones. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
_____. “Jonestown in Literature: Caribbean Reflections on a Tragedy.” Literature and Theology. In Press.
_____. “Peoples Temple.” Article in The 21st Century Encyclopedia of the World Religions. Ed. J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2002.
_____. “Peoples Temple.” Article in Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. Ed. Richard Landes. New York and London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 305-8.
_____. “Peoples Temple: A Typical Cult?” In Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America, Vol. 2. Ed. Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft. Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 2006, pp. 113-34.
_____. “Peoples Temple Revisited: A Review Essay.” Nova Religio 10, no. 1 (August 2006): 111-18.
_____. “Reconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories About Jonestown.” In Controversial New Religions. Ed. James Lewis. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 61-78. Reprint of article in Journal of Popular Culture 36, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 200-20. Also online here.
_____. “The Sacred and the Profane in Wilson Harris’ Jonestown.”
_____. A Sympathetic History of Jonestown. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1985.
_____. “The Transformation of Peoples Temple in California: From Pentecostal Church to Political Movement.” In Pacific Beliefs: Religious and Cultural Transformations in California. Ed. Brian Froese. Logan, Ut.: Utah State University Press, accepted for publication.
Moore, Rebecca and Fielding M. McGehee, III, eds. The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989.
_____. New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and Peoples Temple: Scholarly Perspectives on a Tragedy. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989.
Moore, Rebecca, Anthony B. Pinn, and Mary R. Sawyer, eds. Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America. Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2004.
Pozzi, Enrico. Il Carisma malato. Il People’s Temple e il suicidio collettive di Jonestown. Naples: Liguori, 1992.
Richardson, James. “Peoples Temple and Jonestown: A Corrective Comparison and Critique.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 19, no. 3 (1980): 239-255.
Robbins, Thomas. “Reconsidering Jonestown.” Religious Studies Review 15, no. 1 (January 1989): 32-37. (This article was expanded into “The Second Wave of Jonestown Literature,” noted below.)
_____. “Religious Mass Suicide Before Jonestown: The Russian Old Believers.” Sociological Analysis 47, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 1-20.
_____. “The Second Wave of Jonestown Literature: A Review Essay.” In Moore and McGehee. New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and Peoples Temple, pp. 113-134.
Robbins, Thomas and Dick Anthony. “Sects and Violence: Factors Enhancing the Volatility of Marginal Religious Movements.” In Armageddon at Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict. Ed. Stuart A. Wright. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 236-59.
Smith, Archie Jr. “An Interpretation of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown: Implications for the Black Church.” PSR Bulletin Occasional Paper 58, no. 2 (February 1980). Reprinted in Moore, Pinn, and Sawyer, pp. 47-56.
_____. The Relational Self: Ethics and Therapy from a Black Church Perspective. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1982. (The last chapter discusses Peoples Temple.)
_____. “We Need to Press Forward: Black Religion and Jonestown, Twenty Years Later.”
Smith, Jonathan Z. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Smith, Karin A. “A Taxonomy of Jonestown.” M.A. Thesis. San Francisco and Oakland: California College of the Arts, 2007.
_____. “A Taxonomy of Jonestown: What Isn’t in the Envelope Just Before it Isn’t.” Sightlines, online journal of California College of the Arts, http://sites.cca.edu/currents/sightlines/index.html.
Stephenson, Denice, ed. Dear People: Remembering Jonestown. San Francisco and Berkeley: California Historical Society and Heyday Books, 2005.
Weightman, Judith. Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.
Wessinger, Catherine. How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000.
_____. “1978—Jonestown,” chapter from How the Millennium Comes Violently online here.
_____. “How the Millennium Comes Violently: A Comparison of Jonestown, Aum Shinrikyo, Branch Davidians, and the Montana Freemen.” Dialog 36, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 277-88.
_____. “How the Millennium Comes Violently,” chapter from How the Millennium Comes Violently online here.
Black, Albert. “Jonestown: Two Faces of Suicide: A Durkheimian Analysis.” Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior 20, no. 4 (Winter 1990): 285-306.
Brown, Norman R., Lance J. Rips, and Steven K. Shevel. “The Subjective Dates of Natural Events in Very Long-term Memory.” Cognitive Psychology 17, no. 2 (April 1985): 139-177.
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Dunning, Christine M. and Milton N. Silva. “Disaster-Induced Trauma in Rescue Workers.” Victimology 5, no. 2 (supp. 4) (1980): 287-297.
Dwyer, Philip M. “An Inquiry into the Psychological Dimensions of Cult Suicide.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 9, no. 2 (Summer 1979): 120-127.
Harrary, Keith. “The Truth About Jonestown.” Psychology Today 25 (March 1992): 62-69; reprinted in Religious Cults in America. Ed. Robert Emmet Long. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1994, pp. 10-20.
Hochman, John. “Miracle, Mystery, and Authority: The Triangle of Cult Indoctrination.” Psychiatric Annals 20, no. 4 (April 1990): 179-184, 187.
Hoyt, Michael F. “Observations Regarding Patients’ Reactions to the Jonestown Massacre and the Moscone-Milk Assassinations.” Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 9, no. 2 (April 1981): 303-309.
Jones, David R. “Secondary Disaster Victims: The Emotional Effects of Recovering and Identifying Human Remains.” American Journal of Psychiatry 142, no. 3 (March 1985): 303-307.
Jorgensen, Danny. “The Social Construction and Interpretation of Deviance: Jonestown and the Mass Media.” Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 (1980): 309-332.
Kroth, Jerry. “Recapitulating Jonestown.” Journal of Psychohistory 11, no. 3 (Winter 1985): 383-93.
Lasaga, Jose I. “Death in Jonestown: Techniques of Political Control by a Paranoid Leader.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 10, no. 4 (Winter 1980): 210-13.
Nesci, Domenico Arturo. The Lessons of Jonestown: An Ethnopsychoanalytical Study of Suicidal Communities. Rome: Società Editrice Universo, 1999.
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Bellefountaine, Michael. A Lavender Look at Peoples Temple. Unpublished manuscript in private collection.
Coser, Rose L. and Louis Coser. “Jonestown as Perverse Utopia.” Dissent 26, no. 2 (1979): 158-62.
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The Disciple: Journal of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 131, no. 7 (July 1993) has three articles which look at the Disciples of Christ’s relationship with Peoples Temple.
DisciplesWorld 7, no. 9 (November 2008) has five articles and an editorial commemorating the thirty-year anniversary of the deaths in Jonestown.
Eco, Umberto. “The Suicides of the Temple.” In West of the West: Imagining California. Ed. Leonard Michaels, David Redi, Raquel Scherr. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989, pp. 311-15.
Kilduff, Marshall and Phil Tracy. “Inside Peoples Temple.” New West Magazine 17 (August 1, 1977): 30-38. Available online here.
Naipaul, Shiva. Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy. New York: Penguin Books, 1980.
Reiterman, Tim, with John Jacobs. Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982.
Reston, James Jr. Our Father Who Art in Hell. New York: Times Books, 1981.
Reston, James Jr. and Noah Adams. “Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown.” National Public Radio Education Services, Audiocassettes. Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, 1981.
Rose, Steve. Jesus and Jim Jones: Behind Jonestown. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1979.
Witten, Manley. “Guyana: The Autopsy of Disbelief.” Lab World (March 1979): 14-19.
Brailey, Jeffrey. The Ghosts of November: Memoirs of an Outsider Who Witnessed the Carnage at Jonestown, Guyana. San Antonio, Tex.: J & J Publishers, 1998.
Feinsod, Ethan. Awake in a Nightmare. Jonestown: The Only Eyewitness Account. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981. (Information provided by Odell Rhodes.)
Kahalas, Laurie Efrein. Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown. New York: Red Robin Press, 1998.
Kern, Phil and Doug Wead. People’s Temple, People’s Tomb. Plainfield, N.J.: Logos International, 1979.
Klineman, George and Sherman Butler, and David Conn. The Cult that Died: The Tragedy of Jim Jones and the People’s Temple. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980.
Krause, Charles, with Laurence M. Stern, Richard Harwood and the staff of the Washington Post. Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account. New York: Berkley Publishing, 1978.
Lane, Mark. The Strongest Poison. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1980.
Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
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Moore, Rebecca. In Defense of Peoples Temple. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
_____. The Jonestown Letters: Correspondence of the Moore Family 1970-1985. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.
Thielmann, Bonnie, with Dean Merrill. The Broken God. Elgin, Ill.: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1979.
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Wooden, Kenneth. The Children of Jonestown. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. (Cites Stanley Clayton extensively.)
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De Angelis, Gina. Jonestown Massacre: Tragic End of a Cult. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 2002.
Dieckmann, Ed Jr. Beyond Jonestown: ‘Sensitivity Training’ and the Cult of Mind Control. Torrance, Calif.: Noontide Press, 1981.
_____. The Secret of Jonestown: The Reason Why. Torrance, Calif.: Noontide Press and Decatur, Ga.: Historical Review Press, 1981
Endleman, Robert. Jonestown and the Manson Family: Race, Sexuality and Collective Madness. New York: Psyche Press, 1993.
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_____. “Jonestown, CIA, Assassinations, Drugs and Mind Control.” Critique: A Journal of Conspiracies and Metaphysics 6, no. 1,2 (Spring/Summer 1986): 39-63.
Landau, Nathan. Heavenly Deceptor. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Sound of Music Publishing, 1992.
Kilduff, Marshall and Ron Javers. The Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana. New York: Bantam, 1978.
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Maguire, John and Mary Lee Dunn. Hold Hands and Die. New York: Dale, 1978.
McBirnie, W. S. The Untold Story of Jonestown. Glendale, Calif.: Community Churches of America, 1979.
McCoy, Alan W. The Guyana Murders. San Francisco: Highland House, 1988.
Meiers, Michael. Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?: A Review of the Evidence. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
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Nugent, John Peer. White Night: The Untold Story of What Happened Before—and Beyond—Jonestown. New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, 1979.
White, Mel. Deceived. Old Tappan, N.J.: Spire Books, 1979.
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D’Aguiar, Fred. Bill of Rights. London: Chatto and Windus, 1998.
Fondakowski, Leigh, with Greg Pierotti, Stephen Wangh, and Margo Hall. The People’s Temple. Minneapolis, Minn.: The Guthrie Theater, 2005/2006.
Harris, Wilson. Jonestown. London: Faber and Faber, 1996.
Hirschman, Jack. The Jonestown Arcane. Los Angeles: Parentheses Writing Series, 1991.
Parker, Pat. Jonestown and Other Madness. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1985.
Reston, James Jr. “Jonestown Express.” Plays in Process 5, no. 10 (1984).
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