Stories from Jonestown [electronic resource] / Leigh Fondakowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fondakowski, Leigh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cults--California--History--20th century.

Cults.

Cults--Guyana--History--20th century.

Peoples Temple.

Jones, Jim, 1931-1978.

Jones, Jim.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown, more than eighty members of Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, were elsewhere in Guyana on that day, and thousands more members of the movement still lived in California. Emmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the play and HBO film The Laramie Project, spent three years traveling the United States

Contents:

Days in November

Lost voices

List of interviews

Collect all the tapes, all the writing, all the history

Nobody was paying attention

I was his son

My button was fear

Jonestown vortex

A godly life

A man of his word

The air they breathed

I've been to the shadows

Until we meet again

Take the city today

Too black

Homicide is suicide

We all participated

Sole survivor

Hundreds of kids

This is big

Waylaid

Stigmata

The dream

To whom much is given

Sixty-seven cents

Nefarious

We were rising

The basis of a book

Beyond truth

It's no mystery

The promised land

What a place for them

Exodus

That's Jonestown

The revolution

Death is real

Second chance

The ones who got away

The known dead

My children are there

Conspiracist

Undetermined

Something to gain

Evergreen

I won't say anniversary

A bittersweet gift

After

The 918 deaths of November 18, 1978

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8173-2

OCLC:

827208359