Resources: First-Person Accounts
 
 

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.

Mills, Jeannie. Six Years with God: Life Inside Rev. Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple. New York: A&W Publishers, 1979.

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.

Thrash, Catherine (Hyacinth), as told to Marian K. Towne. The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana. Indianapolis: Marian K. Towne, 1995.

Wooden, Kenneth. The Children of Jonestown. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. (Cites Stanley Clayton extensively.)

Wright, Lawrence. “The Sons of Jim Jones.” The New Yorker 69, no. 39 (22 Nov 1993): 66-89.

Yee, Min S. and Thomas N. Layton. In My Father’s House. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.