December 4, 1978, Los Angeles Times - UPI, page B29, 10 More Peoples Temple Survivors Arrive in N.Y., [Blog]
wife Sandra Evans, 30, and their children Sonya, 11, Sharla 7, and Shirella, 6,
"Another account was said to have been opened in Panama by a corporation that included the word "Angeliqie in its name."
for Grover Davis interview see "7 survivors barely make flight home" S.F. Examiner, 11-29-78
"Begin Trip Home"
WaPo A-18, 11-29-86
Sharon Amos Harris
3,000 acre site
of the eight: Miguel De Pina
Thrash and Davis
"The others apparently were overlooked in and around the large barracks houses where Jones kept the elderly."
WaPo 11-29-78 Uncertainty Surrounds...
John W. Stahl, from Russellvilly Ky.,
his niece, Robin Tchetter
"could be among the survivors"
"I'm just taking one step at a time," said cult member Raymond Godshalk, 62, of Los Angeles, before leaving Guyana. "I need a few days to think things over. I lost my companion of 38 years. Her name is Viola. She's my wife. Naturally I feel quite badly about it, but you can't cry over spilled milk"
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November 3, 1984, The Nation, The Big Issues, by Richard Falk, 700+ words
...available in the event of nuclear war. That morbid dramatization of resignation summons up memories of the gruesome finale at Jonestown. It also underscores the Mondale-Ferraro ticket's failure to offer voters an alternative to the Administration's dangerous...
March 9, 1986, Chicago Sun-Times, Keneally on the lingering Nazi madness, by Charles H. Gold, 700+ words
...survive World War II, is mad in the way that survivalists are mad, mad in the way that led another "prophet" to create Jonestown a few years ago. Terry, a profoundly innocent young man - one who seems to live completely within his glands - is drawn...
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June 27, 1986, Chicago Sun-Times, Photog Honored, by Marvin Weinstein,
PHOTOG HONORED: Frank Johnston of the Washington Post was named Photographer of the Year for the third time by the White House News Photographers' Association for his series on the return to Vietnam 10 years after the war's end. Johnston also won in 1978 with a series on the drought in the Southwest and in 1979 with photos of the tragic deaths in Jonestown, Guyana.
Among his interesting recollections in a Washington Post interview was this tale of Texas in 1963 when he was working for United Press International:
"Like so many others, I was in a state of shock after the assassination of President Kennedy. But I didn't seem to have the time to stay shocked. Too much happened too quickly.
"I remember the day I was supposed to testify at the Jack Ruby trial. Things were running behind, and there was no room left to sprawl in the witness room. I walked back past the courtroom, down a corridor, and almost collided with a guy holding a woman by the throat and a huge pistol at her head. It was my first hostage situation. I was just about to start shooting pictures when I was shoved from behind by an AP (Associated Press) photographer and into another room.
"I ducked out of a window, went down the fire escape carrying a Nikon with a 200. The gunman went through the court building and out on the street, just as I came off the fire escape. He kept moving, dragging the hostage, gun to her head, with him. I followed him through the 200, and as he passed me, I saw a detective stalking him from on top of a line of cars. When the detective jumped him, I had a good set of pictures - just like on TV."
He served in Vietnam for 13 months and had this to say:
"Let me tell you about a recent discussion with some high-ranking military. It's a kind of a conversation I've had before and it really makes me angry.
"These military people spoke long and loud about the media and coverage of Vietnam. They spoke of inaccuracies and showmanship, and seemed to single out photographers for being particularly inaccurate. I resent this. Completely and totally. I challenged them, as I do anyone, to show me a forged picture from Vietnam; to show me an inaccurate picture from Vietnam; to show me any picture that in any way hurt our war effort or to show how any picture, even out of context, was less than honest.
"The roll call of photographers killed in action in Vietnam is long and honorable. Considerably more honorable than their misguided critics. Pictures still do not lie.
"In fact, there are those of us who feel that a memorial to those dead photographers would now be in order. Not just our own, but those of all countries."
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December 2, 1986, Chicago Sun-Times, Ex-Jones cultist Layton guilty in Guyana plot,
343 words ...Hours after Ryan, three reporters and a Peoples Temple defector were shot to death by an ambush squad Nov. 18, 1978, the Rev. Jim Jones and 912 followers died by poison and gunfire in their agricultural compound called Jonestown.
Michael Sneed joining Sun-Times as columnist
Chicago Sun-Times; December 2, 1986; 448 words ...local reporting on child pornography and then the following year in the foreign reporting category for her coverage of the Jonestown suicides in British Guyana. A native of Mandan, N.D., Sneed grew up in Michigan and graduated from Wayne State University...
December 2, 1986, Chicago Sun-Times, Layton guilty in Jonestown murder plot, 155 words
(PHOTO CAPTION CONTINUED)) for acquittal. He earlier was acquitted in a trial held in Guyana. See related story in 5XM edition, page 24.
TAKE ANOTHER LOOK
Post-Tribune (IN); February 28, 1987; 428 words ...CHALLENGE TO HIS ADMINISTRATION IS A THREAT TO THE CITY'S PROGRESS. ON THE CONTRARY, THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. THIS IS NOT JONESTOWN, GUIANA, AND WE SHOULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO DRINK THE POISON KOOL-AID OF MEDIOCRITY IN CITY GOVERNMENT. ELOISE WILSON GARY
March 4, 1987, The Washington Post, Layton Receives Life Sentence for Jonestown Attack, 322 words...in prison for his part in the 1978 Peoples Temple attack in Jonestown, Guyana, on a congressional investigating party in which...just sentence requires consideration of the environment at Jonestown in which he and others were virtual prisoners," U.S...
March 4, 1987, Chicago Sun-Times, Jonestown figure gets life sentence, 220 words
SAN FRANCISCO Larry Layton, expressing "tremendous grief and remorse," was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for his part in the 1978 Peoples Temple attack on a congressional investigating party in which Rep. Leo Ryan of California was killed. Layton, 41, the only temple member tried in the
Massacre at CBS News leaves 'sense of grief'
Chicago Sun-Times; March 10, 1987; Robert Feder; 700+ words ...who joined CBS as a writer and went on to report many of the world's biggest stories with distinction - from Moscow to Jonestown, from Chappaquiddick to the Kennedy Space Center. "I told Howard I felt a real sense of grief and foreboding for what was...
A HORRIFYING DREAM HOUSE
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); March 11, 1987; Jay Carr, Globe Staff; 559 words ...s shouting), start whacking at one another with power tools, De Palma-style, and narrowly escape being poisoned, Jonestown-style, by the unhinged father. Civilization and its discontents press down upon the family unit with a vengeance. The...
March 29, 1987, Chicago Sun-Times, U.S. must not join `holy war', by Carl T. Rowan, 700+ words ...when there is clear evidence that the TV preachers are violating state and interstate laws against fraud, or moving toward Jonestown-type massacres, should government move in. So, let the evangelicals fight publicly over the spoils of their spoiled profession...
PRAISE GOD, PASS THE BREAD.(Local)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); April 3, 1987; 700+ words ...with kid gloves. It's one of the few aspects of American life that really goes unexamined by the press, until after a Jonestown, that is. So you believe a 1953 Plymouth front fender is the Holy Grail and Yoo-Hoo is a holy sacrament? And there are...
Shiva Naipaul: The Lone Traveler
The Washington Post; April 19, 1987; Anthony Thwaite; 700+ words ...married an English woman, and was happy; but much of his reputation as a writer came from journeys that he made alone-to the Jonestown massacre, for example-with an almost self-conscious notion of purgatorial travail: "All journeys begin in the same...
May 27, 1987, The Washington Post, 36 Who Died On USS Stark Arrive in U.S.; Somber Ceremony In Aircraft Hangar, Barbara Vobejda, 700+ words ...killed in Southeast Asia, the base mortuary handled 21,693 of the Vietnam dead and the 913 victims of the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. Three and a half years ago, the hangar held the bodies of 237 Americans killed in the bombing of the...
June 16, 1987, The Washington Post, Jonestown Cult Survivor Ordered Jailed, 230 words
...of his Dec. 1 conviction on charges of conspiring to kill Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif.) and diplomat Richard Dwyer on Nov. 18, 1978, at a Guyana airstrip near the Jonestown cult settlement in northeast South America.@Slug: A10JON
A QUESTION OF GOOD NEIGHBORS AN ECCENTRIC AND WEALTHY RELIGIOUS SECT IS BUSY CONSTRUCTING A HOLY COMMUNITY AT THE EDGE OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. IT IS NOT GOING OVER WELL WITH MANY IN THIS LAND OF COWBOYS AND CATTLE.
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); August 9, 1987; Jim Robbins; 700+ words ...Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers in 1982 and renamed Rajneeshpuram. People here sometimes also mention the events inJonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 followers of Rev. Jim Jones committed mass suicide as other followers killed a US congressman...
September 22, 1987, The Washington Post; Change in the Soviet Union: Is It Just For Show?, by Peter Osnos, 700+ words ...last week in the foreign ministry book stall was a volume published by the Juridical Press in 100,000 copies, "Murder in Jonestown: Crime of the CIA," arguing that the tragedy in Guyana was the work of U.S. intelligence. Prominently featured was...
September 27, 1987, Chicago Sun-Times, Soul searching: Cults targeting an older pool of recruits
October 9, 1987, Chicago Sun-Times, TV preachers, too, must obey the laws, by Carl T. Rowan, 700+ words ...The First Amendment was too useful a shield for the Rev. Jim Jones and his People's Temple. So in November, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, 911 of Jones' followers died, many of poisoned drinks. Not only were the Bakkers apparently ripping off the...
December 1, 1987, Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management, Good Journalism vs. What Sells, by Ray Cave, 700+ words
Here, in order, are the nine best-selling covers in my eight years as editor of Time: 12/4/78, The Jonestown Massacre; 12/22/80, John Lennon's Murder; 3/19/84, Michael Jackson; 8/2/82, Herpes; 3/6/78, Cheryl Tiegs; 11/7/77, Richard Leakey; 6/2/80, The Mt. St. Helen's Eruption; 2/27/78, Muhammad Ali; and 7/14/80, Aching Backs
March 21, 1988, Post-Tribune (IN) Anti-Cult Group Fights to Get OK For Education Program, 494 words ...week was selected partly to mark the 10th anniversary of the Jonestown tragedy where, on Nov. 18, 913 followers of Jim Jones...death that day in Guyana as he led a fact-finding tour to Jonestown - is a member of the CAN advisory board. "Our visits to...
September 19, 1988, Post-Tribune (IN) Boxes of Jim Jones Documents Surface,
Eight boxes of correspondence and memos from the Peoples Temple commune at Jonestown,Guyana, where 913 people died in a mass suicide 10 years ago, have become available for scholarly review.
Among the documents are dozens of scribbled notes from members suggesting methods of taking revenge on people who defected from the group, which the Rev. Jim Jones formed in Indianapolis in the mid-1950s. Among the proposals was selling them poisoned Christmas candy.
The records, unsealed by a court-appointed receiver and deposited recently at the California Historical Society in San Francisco, reveal the bizarre mental states of members of the Peoples Temple.
September 23, 1988, The Washington Post, Poignant 'Promises'; On WETA, Mitch Snyder's Story, by Tom Shales; 663 words. He was met with wild charges from government officials about a "Jonestown" in the making. The homeless were said to be armed and dangerous. Those making the charges were eventually discredited...
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November 11, 1988, Chicago Sun-Times, 10 years after Jonestown, the intense pain lingers, by Lisa Levitt Ryckman, 700+ words ...the Guyanese jungle encampment known as Jonestown. A decade later, memories of innocents...provides a tale as strange as it is tragic. Jonestown, the agricultural mission that was supposed...warnings. "For every child who died in Jonestown, many more have died since in similar...
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November 14, 1988, The Washington Post, Jonestown Anniversary, 202 words
A commemorative service was held at the Jefferson Memorial yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre in which 913 people died when cult leader Jim Jones led his People's Temple followers in a mass suicide-murder ritual...
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November 18, 1988, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Jonestown Memories, 179 words
Fred Lewis walks through a cemetery in Oakland, Calif., where many unidentified victims of the Jonestown massacre are buried. The mass suicide of more than 900 Americans in Guyana 10 years ago today claimed the lives of eight relatives...
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November 20, 1988, The Washington Post, State Department Services for Citizens Overseas, by James T. Yenckel, 700+ words [Blog]
December 6, 1988, The Washington Post, Caring for Their Own, by Courtland Milloy, 700+ words ...Americans, the small Caribbean country on the northeast coast of South America called Guyana is best known as the scene of the Jonestown massacre 10 years ago. But to the thousands of Guyanese Americans who live in the Washington area, it is their homeland...
January 8, 1989, Chicago Sun-Times, The savvy traveler's survey of State Department services, by James T. Yenckel, 700+ words ...lands in the 1960s and '70s prompted the creation of the office, which faced a horrendous test in its very first week - the Jonestown tragedy in Guyana. "There was no precedent for 900 Americans committing suicide in the jungle," says Michael Mahoney...
January 8, 1989, The Washington Post, Speaking of the Devil: A Matter of Theology, by John Breslin, 700+ words ...on his four-volume historical study of the manifestations of the Evil One from the mists of antiquity to the jungles of Jonestown, and beyond. These four scholarly volumes have been widely reviewed in historical and theological journals as well as...
January 29, 1989, Chicago Sun-Times, What's a cult? It depends who's labeling, by Daniel J. Lehmann; 700+ words ...marginal religious groups think of those groups and where they get their information. "I first noticed it at the time of the Jonestown tragedy," Richardson said. "Even some educated news sources lumped a couple of what I would call the new religions in...
February 19, 1989, Chicago Sun-Times, Cult Awareness Network a group of hate-mongers
February 22, 1989, Chicago Sun-Times, The Cult Awareness Network got a bum rap
February 23, 1989, The Washington Post, In Darkness and Light; Essays on the Good, the Bad & the Funny, by Dennis Drabelle; 700+ words ...weird: this is our little secret." The darker pieces are certainly mesmerizing. One is a report on the mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, which Cahill visited while the bodies were still festering where they had fallen, the other a long dual look at...
April 22, 1989, The Economist (US) Men of parts. (human sacrifice in Mexico) 692 words ...primitive people should remember that a decade ago 900 Americans were persuaded by an equally bizarre cult to commit suicide at Jonestown, Guyana. There is also an uncomfortable parallel with Washington, DC's drug-related shootings: for so long as only...
October 6, 1989, The Boston Globe, Bakker Convicted of Fraud PTL Flock Victimized, Jury Finds, by Paul Nowell, Associated Press, 700+ words ... Potter said. Davis declared the reference to the 1978 murder-suicide of 900 followers of Jim Jones' cult in Jonestown, Guyana, "horrible, absolutely uncalled for." Bakker showed little emotion as the verdict was read. Tears welled in...
October 6, 1989,Chicago Sun-Times, Bakker guilty: PTL leader convicted on all 24 counts, 700+ words ...C. Davis declared the reference to the 1978 murder-suicide of more than 900 followers of Jones' Peoples Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana, "horrible, absolutely uncalled for." Jury foreman Hill, who described himself as a Christian, revealed that...
October 22, 1989,
The Soul of a News Machine
The Washington Post; ; Marc Fisher; 700+ words ...government and big business. The quality was all over the board, from powerful and moving stories, such as a documentary on the Jonestown massacre that won numerous awards, to interminable interviews with droning figures of marginal importance. If government...
November 1, 1989; Chicago Sun-Times, Man's inhumanity seems boundless, by Carl T. Rowan, 626 words ...Czechoslovakia, in 1942; the massacre by Americans of Vietnamese at My Lai; the poisoning of the suicidally faithful at Jonestown, Guyana; the slaughter of his countrymen by Idi Amin in Uganda; the murders of civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss...
November 13, 1989, The Nation, U.S. Uses U.F.O. Aliens for Illegal Drug Sweeps!, by David Corn, 540 words ...specialized in conspiracy theories of the left. The subjects covered in the center's most recent newsletter are telling: the Jonestown massacre seen as a C.I.A. medical experiment; the "I was abducted by a U.F.O." phenomenon seen as the work of...
NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, IT'S UP IN THE AIR CRITICS SAY PROBLEMS ARE AGING STAFF, POWER GAMES.(Show)(Correction notice)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); November 17, 1989; 700+ words ...government and big business. The quality was all over the board, from powerful and moving stories, such as a documentary on the Jonestownmassacre that won numerous awards, to interminable interviews with droning figures of marginal importance. If government..
Answering Ready Reference Questions: Print versus Online
Online; January 1, 1990; Havener, W. Michael; 700+ words ...for specific facts will be labeled factual questions. Here are the six conceptual questions used in this study: 1. The Jonestown massacre took place on November 18, 1978. I need popular articles on it published within a year of that date. 2. I need...
January 11, 1990, The Washington Post, In Europe, Changing With the Audience, by Dale Russakoff,
700+ words ...countering blatant propaganda campaigns-stories of the AIDS virus being an American plot or of the CIA having engineered the Jonestown massacre-said he now pursues subtle and covert schemes that he suspects are Soviet-sponsored, but didn't have time...
Bioethics, medicine, and the moral ground.
Physician Executive; May 1, 1990; Hartwell, Shattuck W., Jr.; 700+ words ...and medicine have lost their moral ground, chaos ensues. Bolshevik Russia, Jazi Germany, and, on a smaller scale, the Jonestown Community in Guyana are examples of moral chaos.) The vision of medicine and its moral ground are strong. Science, technology...
August 17, 1990, The Boston Globe, Don't Think of it As An Invasion It's A Story Idea, by Chris Reidy, Globe Staff, 700+ words ...Israeli commandos rescued hostages in Uganda. Another best seller, which took a month to write, retold the 1978 story of the Jonestown massacre in the jungles of Guyana. Bantam's instant book best seller is "The Simple Solution to the Rubik's Cube...
Douglas Dixon Dies; Was Top D.C. Coroner
The Washington Post; October 9, 1990; Richard Pearson; 700+ words ...on the investigation of the jet airliner collision on the runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands and the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Dr. Dixon was born in East Orange, N.J., and graduated from high school in Rome, Ga. He graduated cum laude...
November 16, 1990, The Boston Globe, It's Perfectly 'Tru' Except For One Joke, by Kevin Kelly, Globe Staff, 700+ words ...
February 11, 1991, Chicago Sun-Times, CNN's Arnett goes where bombs and bullets fly, by Verne Gay, 645 words ...massacre in Guyana. Reese Schonfeld, the founding president of CNN, said Arnett "was so good, and so helpful to us in Jonestown," that the network offered him a job in 1981. Two years ago, a controversy embroiled CNN's Jerusalem bureau. Israeli...
March 15, 1991, The Boston Globe, Ask The Globe, 281 words
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July 23, 1991, Chicago Sun-Times, Scientology dispute flares anew with anti-cult group, by Daniel J. Lehmann, 700+ words ...features the full text by President Patricia Ryan, daughter of the late Rep. Leo J. Ryan, who was killed in the 1978 Jonestown massacre. "Whether or not USA Today should have accepted Scientology's overtly misleading ads is a matter for their own...
Elevated Radon Risk for Passive Smokers
Science News; August 3, 1991; Raloff, Janet; 524 words ...daughters," increased dramatically, report health physicists Raymond H. Johnson Jr. of Key Technology, Inc., in Jonestown, Pa., and Eric Geiger of Radon QC in Palmer, Pa. For instance, within five hours of lighting a single cigarette in one...
Merchants of Venus romance audiences with lush sounds
Chicago Sun-Times; August 16, 1991; Jae-Ha Kim; 700+ words ...Mud Puppies. 10 p.m. tomorrow: Lava Sutra, Kustom Kar Kommandos, Cocktails, Anne B. Davis. 9:30 p.m. Sunday: Jonestown, Vertigo, Cows, Tar. Schubas, 3159 N. Southport (312-525-2508). 10 tonight: Sandra Dee, Vicious Gruv, Graphix...
August 19, 1991, The Washington Post, Deaths: Charles Garry, 700+ words
...included "Growth of the Modern West Indies," "Virgin Islands: Caribbean Lilliput," "With the Saints at the River: The Jonestown Guyana Holocaust" and "Grenada: The Jewel Despoiled." MARIE L. MAIER Doublemint Twin Marie Louise Maier, 77, one of...
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August 31, 1991, The Washington Post, Foreign Service Officer Richard A. Dwyer Dies, 465 words ...Award for Valor for his actions in Guyana during the 1978 Jonestown massacre, died Aug. 29 at Sibley Memorial Hospital of complications...in November 1978, when members of the cult settlement at Jonestown in Guyana attacked a group led by Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif...
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October 4, 1991, Post-Tribune (IN) Former Mormon Has Own, Different Definition of 'Cult' Author to Speak on Secular Humanism, 404 words
SNEED
Chicago Sun-Times; November 28, 1991; Michael Sneed; 691 words ...desert. Covering the Indian Uprising at Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973, and knowing what fear tasted like. Covering the Jonestown, Guyana, massacre and not dreaming about 975 bodies forever and ever. Rafting down the rivers in the Himalayas. Indian...
January 28, 1992, The Washington Post, Focus; The Plots Thicken; Conspiracy Theorists Are Everywhere, by Don Oldenburg, 700+ words
Granddaddy of conspiracy theory stories // Rural couple report odd travelers
Chicago Sun-Times; February 16, 1992; Don Oldenburg; 700+ words ...Sirhan Sirhan, was several feet in front of him? "I consciously decided to question things like what was the CIA doing at Jonestown?" Vankin says. "The more you think like that . . . the way you see things starts to change, and it all looks a lot different...
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March 21, 1992, Albany Times Union, The Politics of Jonestown, 700+ words
...similar number of congressmen replayed the Jonestown hysterics. With their leaders laddling...from us. Welcome to the Politics of Jonestown 1992. To survive in office, tell your...hearing. Unfortunately, the Politics of Jonestown has yet to penetrate these murkier...
July 11, 1992, The Economist (US) The Government's Plantations: the Mississippi Delta. (American Survey), 700+ words
...condition of the 1,400 residents of Jonestown, in Coahoma County. The town could...predicament of rural blacks--only 5% of Jonestown residents are fully employed--stems...cell and from bad diet) is another. Jonestown, fortunately, is not the Delta's...
July 15, 1992, Chicago Sun-Times, Challenging the Conventional Wisdom / Democrats Need to Avoid Proven Disaster Formulas, by Carl T. Rowan, 635 words
...optimistic, unusually united group of Democrats gathering here. But the pressure is still on to force the party to swallow the Jonestown-type Kool-Aid rhetoric of political suicide, with former California Gov. Jerry Brown and an ego-bruised Rev. Jesse...
THE EVOLVING FORTUNE
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); August 30, 1992; 316 words ...Resurrection." The previously unpublished short novel is about the fallout of massive killings reminiscent of 1978's Jonestown cult massacre in Guyana, South America. On the lighter side, Collins and Fortune -- clearly film buffs -- frolic in...
Mackay sequel insightful
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); September 27, 1992; Mitchell Zuckoff, Globe Staff; 608 words ...Ponzi schemes, invaders from Mars) and run to the 1920s Florida land boom, the mob frenzies of soccer, and the power of Jonestown and other cults. Although the subjects seem diverse, they share a common thread that Bulgatz weaves effectively through...
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); November 18, 1992; By Lonnie Hudkins; 700+ words ...at the Colony Theater in New York ... In 1978, California Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four other people were killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Tem ple. The killings were followed by murder and mass suicide, leaving 912 cult members...
`'Children of the Corn' sequel lives down to original
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); January 30, 1993; Jay Carr, Globe Staff; 581 words ...the corn when it starts acting up, and a big lump burrowing at high speeds through the rows like a giant mole during the Jonestown-in-a-cornfield showdown. On the other hand, there's a hint of promise in new director David Price's way of killing...
An Israeli Dilemma
The Washington Post; January 31, 1993; Donald Neff; 700+ words ...the occupied territories is so great that he has called on his devoted band of followers to join him in mass suicide a` la Jonestown if the government ever surrenders them. Friedman asserts that organized pro-Israeli lobbies contribute considerably to...
Texas Standoff Continues; Cult Leader Frees 10 Children; Agents Bring In Armored Vehicles
The Washington Post; March 2, 1993; Mary Jordan Sue Anne Pressley; 700+ words ...adherents worldwide. Many residents feared that the worst was yet to come, predicting that a massacre similar to that in Jonestown 15 years ago was unavoidable. In 1978 900 followers of Rev. Jim Jones perished in a mass murder-suicide in the jungles...
Arsenal Forced ATF Raid // Targets Tipped, Ready for Attack
Chicago Sun-Times; March 2, 1993; Michael Isikoff Pierre Thomas; 700+ words ...analogous to the 1978 mass suicide in Guyana of the followers of the Rev. Jim Jones. "You want to draw the analogy? It was Jonestown," said ATF chief spokesman John C. Killorin. "There was a high potential for that." Added another ATF official...
Texas Standoff Continues; Cult Leader Frees 10 Children; Fear of a 'Jonestown' Led to Raid
The Washington Post; March 2, 1993; Michael Isikoff Pierre Thomas; 700+ words ...Guyana of the followers of the Rev. Jim Jones, according to knowledgeable sources. "You want to draw the analogy? It was Jonestown," said ATF chief spokesman John C. Killorin. "There was a high potential for that." Added another ATF official...
Cult Leader Releases 1, Awaits Sign From God
Chicago Sun-Times; March 5, 1993; Tabassum Zakaria; 558 words ...We're just food for the fire." Agents said they had been concerned from the start about the possibility of another Jonestown - a reference to the 1978 mass suicide of more than 900 followers of Jim Jones at the Peoples' Temple in Guyana.
Waco Cult Story Leads to Media Siege
Chicago Sun-Times; March 6, 1993; Howard Rosenberg; 700+ words ...of Rep. Leo Ryan, whose murder by Jim Jones' followers at Jonestown preceded a mass suicide by Jones and his followers there? Ryan ticked off the similarities between Jonestown and what was happening this week at the besieged Koresh compound...
MEDIA ARE GOING WACKO FOR KORESH CULT CRISIS IN WACO
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); March 8, 1993; HOWARD ROSENBERG - Los Angeles Times; 700+ words ...of Rep. Leo Ryan, whose murder by Jim Jones' followers at Jonestown preceded a mass suicide by Jones and his followers there? Ryan ticked off the similarities between Jonestown and what was happening this week at the besieged Koresh compound...
What Makes a Cult or Fundamentalist?
NPR All Things Considered; March 8, 1993; 700+ words ...Professor of Religion, University of Chicago: Well, cult today is a word very few scholars like to use because after Jonestown and certainly now after Waco, it always is going to stand for the most extreme, destructive and self-destructive religious...
TEXAS STANDOFF BOOSTS PRESSURE ON SIMILAR MONTANA GROUP, LEADER
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); March 13, 1993; MICHAEL HIRSLEY - Chicago Tribune; 700+ words ...objective. They are moved by their emotions and by this type of personality." Like Jim Jones and his followers who died in "Jonestown," Guyana in 1978, David Koresh's group in Mount Carmel "happens to be a cult," she said. Asked how she defined a...
Confessions of a Literary Groupie // Henry Kisor Looks Back on 20 Years as a Book Editor
Chicago Sun-Times; March 21, 1993; Henry Kisor; 700+ words ...during the 1970s and early 1980s. Part of the problem was the novelist's sudden understanding, during the bizarre Age of Jonestown and the Symbionese Liberation Army, that real life beggared the creative imagination. For a while during this unhappy time...
Volunteer Vacations: Finding Fulfillment In Helping Others
Chicago Sun-Times; March 21, 1993; Peter S. Greenberg; 700+ words ...Skiing in the mountains? How about Jonestown, Miss.? No, there's no glossy brochure...poorest counties in America. To get to Jonestown, you drive south from Memphis down Highway...t know any better, you might think Jonestown was a ghost town - with people. So who...
March 24, 1993, The Boston Globe, Instant docudramas: How far can TV go?, by Ed Siegel, Globe Staff, 700+ words ...thought would be exploitative was when CBS announced in the late 1970s that it was producing a movie based on the horror of Jonestown. Visions of group sex and group suicide began dancing in everyone's imagination. Instead, "The Guyana Tragedy: The...
'Cults,' Guns and the Kingdom
The Nation; April 12, 1993; Fogarty, Robert S.; 700+ words ...continues despite a 1985 Columbia Journalism Review article, "The Cult Beat" written by Leslie Brown in the aftermath of Jonestown and the Rajneesh Colony debacles, urging reporters to stop referring to religious groups (however bizarre) as "cults...
As America's Victim, King Frozen in Time
Chicago Sun-Times; April 19, 1993; Richard Roeper; 700+ words ...was an alcoholic who died at 42. His sister, Juanita, disappeared in the mid-1970s; she is thought to have died in the Jonestown mass suicide of 1978. His brother, Juan, spent a year in jail for being part of a mob of young men who beat up a police...
Authorities Had Feared Tragedy That Koresh Foretold
The Washington Post; April 20, 1993; Gustav Niebuhr; 700+ words ...probably everyone in the compound - certainly the adults - were aware of the Jonestown history. So there was a precedent for this sort of thing." The name "Jonestown," from the utopian colony founded in the jungle of Guyana by the charismatic...
April 20, 1993, NPR All Things Considered, Author Compares Davidians to Jonestown Cult, 700+ words ...wrote a book on the murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. At least 900 people...says there was a lesson to be learned at Jonestown that wasn't followed in the siege at...from your writing and studying about Jonestown - and the view of the officials is
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April 11, 1997, National Catholic Reporter, Few Are Aware Who Operates Cult Awareness Network
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When Kids at Stake, Patience Is Primary
Chicago Sun-Times; April 20, 1993; Richard Roeper; 700+ words ...have reason to believe the cult was an immediate threat to neighboring communities? Were there indications of an imminent Jonestown-type massacre? If we had left them alone, how many of the federal agents and cult members who were killed or injured in...
Experts fault federal tactics
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); April 20, 1993; Judith Gaines, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...of Rev. Jim Jones obeyed his order to join him in death by drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide, Levin said. As in the Jonestownepisode, he noted, cultists were completely cut off from outside sources of guidance and support who could have questioned...
Former ATF Agent Assesses Actions Taken by FBI in Waco
NPR Morning Edition; April 20, 1993; 700+ words ...nearly two-month- long standoff in Waco is sadly reminiscent of earlier confrontations. Comparisons are being drawn to Jonestown, Guiana, where more than 900 people committed suicide in 1978. The devastating fire in Waco also recalls the confrontation...
AUTHORITARIAN GROUP MEMBERS HAVE SENSE OF ISOLATION, EXPERTS SAY
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); April 20, 1993; GUSTAV NIEBUHR - Washington Post; 700+ words ...probably everyone in the compound -- certainly the adults -- were aware of the Jonestown history. So there was a precedent for this sort of thing." The name "Jonestown," from the utopian colony founded in the jungle of Guyana by the charismatic...
Waco Action Raises Questions in Washington
NPR All Things Considered; April 20, 1993; 700+ words ...fire started. There might have been people killed who were trying to get out of the compound. SIEGEL: Also, the lesson of Jonestown that wasn't learned. WERTHEIMER: And the top stories in the news. [Newscast] WERTHEIMER: It's All Things Considered...
IN WACO, NEEDLESS TRAGEDY KORESH'S MADNESS MUST TAKE THE MAJOR BLAME
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); April 20, 1993; 456 words ...were needless, terrible deaths, without dignity or meaning. The closest parallel is the Jim Jones cult's mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, 15 years ago. Both incidents are one small step from mass murder -- deadly manipulations of vulnerable people...
Texas Flames Evoke Past Attacks
Chicago Sun-Times; April 20, 1993; 554 words ...fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco also recalled Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978, when 912 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones...that were inside the house. The building was destroyed. Jonestown, 1978 The Rev. Jim Jones, a messianic preacher, had moved...
TEXAS DEBACLE RECALLS JONESTOWN.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); April 21, 1993; 524 words ...Tuesday the similarities between Jonestown and the destruction of Koresh's cult complex in Texas a day earlier. Jonestown "was a lesson for all," yet the...is almost like what happened at Jonestown. (American authorities) had all...
Experts Urge Increased Understanding of Cult Behavior
NPR All Things Considered; April 21, 1993; 700+ words ...Zarroli reports. JIM ZARROLI, Reporter: Incidents such as Jonestown and the siege in Waco, in which a religious cult comes to...threatened, they will take action. All that happened in Jonestown was that Congressman Leo J. Ryan did an investigation - he...
Judgment at Waco
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); April 21, 1993; 700+ words ...messiah, had spun a web of lies, such as denying the likelihood of a mass suicide similar to the gruesome ending of the Jonestown cult in Guyana. Reno has been too quick and too willing to take overall responsibility for the disaster. She has said she...
Schorr Blames Bureaucrats for Waco Disaster
NPR All Things Considered; April 21, 1993; 643 words ...America wants real culprits. In retrospect the mistakes look glaring. Surely the history of religious fanatics from Masada to Jonestown teaches of the potential for self- destruction among zealots under pressure. Surely the siege at Waco that began with a...
Reno, FBI Took Fatal Gamble; Officials Believed Suicides Unlikely
The Washington Post; April 21, 1993; Michael Isikoff Pierre Thomas; 700+ words ...many as two dozen children. After long expressing fears that Koresh was a fanatic capable of leading his followers into a Jonestown-like death pact, the FBI and Reno had concluded last week that the Messianic cult leader was not likely to commit suicide...
Cult Expert Says Followers Are Absolved of Complicity
NPR All Things Considered; April 21, 1993; 700+ words ...conviction, that's a separate issue. In situations like this, for example, the young man that shot Congressman Ryan at Jonestown, he was convicted, so whether my position is going to hold up in court, you know, is a very- that's another matter...
For New Bedford man, no solace in FBI version
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); April 21, 1993; David Arnold, Globe Staff; 584 words ...and worked in a munitions plant. The son was 14 years old in 1978 when 912 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. He recalled gawking at the color photographs of dead bodies, then asking his father -- who at that point was...
WACO REQUIRED PATIENCE, NOT RASH ACTION
The Record (Bergen County, NJ); April 21, 1993; 700+ words ...By storming the facility, however, the federal agents seemed to ensure a disaster. Think back to the mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, or the killings at the Attica State Prison standoff, both in the Seventies. The deaths came when the people under...
PRAY FOR THE POOR CHILDREN WHO PERISHED IN WACO
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); April 22, 1993; KATHERINE LANPHER - St. Paul Pioneer Press; 700+ words ...thought Koresh was Jesus Christ, your maternal or paternal instinct could easily be twisted. Or did someone at the FBI forget Jonestown, where the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid was dispensed to the infants first? The list of other sponsors of the Waco Tragedy...
`Mighty Men' of Cult Enforced Koresh's Rules; Guards May Be Implicated in Deaths
The Washington Post; April 22, 1993; Sue Anne Pressley Mary Jordan; 700+ words ...to law enforcement authorities that Koresh's cult had an organizational structure much like that of Jim Jones's cult in Jonestown, Guyana, more than 900 of whose members perished in 1978. Many of Jones's followers were forced by Jones and his lieutenants...
Misjudgment and Tender Mercies
The Washington Post; April 22, 1993; MARY McGRORY; 700+ words ...s psychiatrists, mothers, overcome by maternal instinct, would grab their children and rush for the exits. What about Jonestown, where mothers helped their children to poisoned Kool Aid? Did she ask, "What's the hurry?" Rookie Reno might have...
Distant Critics Misplace Waco Blame
Chicago Sun-Times; April 22, 1993; Dennis Byrne; 700+ words ...exclusively, on the government's culpability, is as perverse and daffy as trying to blame the late Rep. Leo Ryan for the Jonestown massacre because he went there to investigate allegations against Jim Jones. And, thankfully, Americans aren't buying...
`Mighty Men' Were Cult Warriors
Chicago Sun-Times; April 22, 1993; Sue Anne Pressley Mary Jordan; 683 words ...to law enforcement authorities that Koresh's cult had an organizational structure much like that of Jim Jones' cult in Jonestown, Guyana, more than 900 of whose members perished in 1978. Many of Jones' followers were forced by Jones and his lieutenants...
Daniel Schorr talks with two psychologists with differing views on how the...
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday; April 24, 1993; 700+ words ...University: I'm afraid that each of these incidents - crises - require very specific, ad hoc judgments. Of course. From Jonestown through, historically, the Masada, we have tried to study past such incidents for the lessons that can be learned. And...
Clinton (and the nation) needs a boost
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); April 25, 1993; Robert L. Turner, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...Waco fire. It is hard to be certain what missteps took place there. If nothing had been done, and David Koresh had led aJonestown-style mass suicide by poisoning, many of us would be saying that federal agents should have intervened. Even so, answers...
Watchdogs On The Alert for `Another Waco'
Chicago Sun-Times; April 25, 1993; Fred Bayles; 700+ words ...Texas deaths and the 1978 massacre in Jonestown, Guyana, reflect a vast problem simmering...awareness. "The big explosions like Jonestown or Waco are more exception than the rule...identified by strong leaders such asJonestown's Jim Jones or the Davidians' David...
Daniel Schorr's views on the rational bureaucracy versus David Koresh's...
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; April 25, 1993; 700+ words ...Jim Jones, of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. I went back to read the transcript...supporter, Charles Gary [sp], said that Jonestown had started as a beautiful thing, but that Jim Jones had lost his reason. Like Jonestown, Koresh's ranch apocalypse was a home...
Waco Is Not // Likely to Trigger Suicides
Chicago Sun-Times; April 25, 1993; Zay N. Smith; 339 words ...go up around 6 percent for about two weeks. Then back to normal," Clark said. But there wasn't an increase after the Jonestown massacre, experts say, and it's highly unlikely after Waco. "No correlations there," said Dr. Mary Giffin, a North...
The fiery furnace. (Branch Davidians)(Washington Notebook) (Column)
The New Leader; May 3, 1993; Schorr, Daniel; 700+ words ...of religious fanatics from Masada to Jonestown should have taught us the potential for...to members of the People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, cajoling his flock in 1978...themselves. Some 900 died that way. But Jonestown was 15 years ago, and there was no collective...
How Classrooms Can Get Overdue Improvements
Chicago Sun-Times; May 4, 1993; 700+ words ...and the Attorney General Janet Reno, as usual, is accurately misplaced to make a martyr out of a lunatic and his screwy (Jonestown-type) followers. Any blame for the elimination of the children in the compoung is no one's fault but their own parents...
`Subversive Crafts': art with an attitude
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); May 31, 1993; Christine Temin, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...Center Through June 27 Samplers. Quilts. Teapots. Baskets. Jonestown. The Exxon Valdez. Love Canal. The two lists, one suggesting...a conventional quilt is supposed to be. Laura Baird's "JonestownCarpet" observes the conventions of needlepoint rugs: fine...
STRUGGLE BETWEEN CULTS AND CRITICS GRINDS ON.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); June 13, 1993; 700+ words ...potential movement founded by Werner Erhard; The People's Temple, many of whose members committed mass suicide at the Jonestown encampment in Guyana in November 1978. Kisser and other opponents point to a widening market of recruits being tapped by...
Who Reads Religion News?
Nieman Reports; June 22, 1993; Hoover, Stewart M.; 700+ words ...religious movements abroad. The televangelism scandals showed that religion stories can also be about sex and graft. The Jonestown incident shocked the world. Simply put, religion "happened" and increasingly found its way into the front section of newspapers...
The Beast in the Shadows Behind Religion
Free Inquiry; June 22, 1993; Haught, James A.; 700+ words ...Lanka" "Egyptian Fundamentalists Kill President Sadat" "Sikh Militants Assassinate Indira Gandhi" "900 Take Cyanide at Jonestown" "Christian-Muslim War in Sudan Causes Famine" And now the latest headline: "Waco Cultists Die in Suicide Pyre" At...
IN BRIEF
The Washington Post; June 26, 1993; 700+ words ...streets NW. Call 202-667-4394. Lunch Talk to Examine Waco Tragedy "What We Learned at Waco Was That We Did Not Learn at Jonestown," a lunch discussion by the Rev. Richard L. Dowhower, will be held at noon Thursday at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church...
Cults and Cops
The Humanist; July 1, 1993; O'Sullivan, Gerry; 688 words ...Firearms mouthpiece Jack Killorin told reporters that the original February 28 raid had been intended to head off an expected Jonestown-like event inside the Mount Carmel compound. Now, one tragedy later, we're all left wondering who might have been advising...
HARPER'S INDEX
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); August 29, 1993; 253 words ...Waco, Texas: plus 102. Days elapsed between the fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and the first TV movie about it: 34. Days elapsed between the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown and the first TV movie about it: 513.
For Power, others, war protest was just the beginning
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); September 17, 1993; Thomas C. Palmer Jr., Globe Staff; 700+ words ...I want to convey the kind of edge of the apocalypse they were in that summer," he said. "It had some of the flavor ofJonestown and the Branch Davidian complex -- that end-of-the-world desperation was in the air." "The students, having failed...
David E. Halvorsen, Tribune Editor, Reporter
Chicago Sun-Times; October 1, 1993; 387 words ...News Bureau. At the Examiner, where he also created an investigative unit, he directed coverage of the mass killings in Jonestown, where 912 followers of Jim Jones died in Guyana in 1978. He was editor-in-chief of the Alameda (Calif.) Newspaper...
The Diver and the Deep Blue Sea
The Washington Post; October 10, 1993; Ken Ringle; 700+ words ...and flippered dreamlike daily among the coral caves and castles of the Palancar reef. We both remember learning about the Jonestown massacre on the deck of a sail-powered dive boat as we rode the trade winds out to our underwater Oz. It seemed at the...
VOLUNTEERISM DESCRIBED AS OVERLOOKED TRAIT OF FAITH SCHOLAR SEES MEDIA DISTORTING RELIGION
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); October 16, 1993; DAVE CONDREN - News Religion Reporter; 700+ words ...headlines when a doctor who performs abortions is killed, Salman Rushdie's publisher is assassinated or there is a Waco or a Jonestown, he said. But if you want to learn the biggest religion story in America, he told the gathering, visit the nearest 30...
HALLOWEEN CONCERT PRESENTED BY NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY CONJURED UP THOUGHTS OF GHOSTS, GOBLINS
Post-Tribune (IN); October 31, 1993; 700+ words ...modern compositional techniques to evoke the associations. "Jonestown Echo" (Rev. Jim Jones) set the tone for the entire suite...were very effective in reviving the memory of the tragedy in Jonestown. The other movements of "Spirits" were equally descriptive...
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November 5, 1993, Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, 15 years after Jonestown, conference explores cults, by Theresa Monsour, 700+ words
...suicide of more than 900 people in Jonestown, Guyana, a tragedy highlighted this...investigate the People's Temple in Jonestown. ``In both of these cases, there...Radisson Hotel South is ``Cults: From Jonestown to Waco. A Human Rights Issue...
Cover-to-cover JFK; artful dodging; McEnroe's new racket
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); November 17, 1993; Mark Feeney, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...and Lawrence Wright talks to the three surviving sons of Jim Jones, the cult leader who oversaw the deaths of hundreds at Jonestown, in Guyana, 15 years ago. The intersection of that anniversary with the Branch Davidian episode in Waco earlier this year...
Info Break - Holocaust Museum Requests Fewer Visitors
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday; November 20, 1993; 317 words ...Coming on in 20 minutes on `Weekend Edition' Germans debate whether to build their own Holocaust Museum and 15 years after Jonestown, a discussion with the surviving sons of Jim Jones. Stay tuned. [music] [The preceding text has been professionally...
Rev. Jim Jones' Sons Speak About Jonestown Massacre
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday; November 20, 1993; 700+ words ...than 900 members of a community called Jonestown, which had been created in a clearing...Stephen [sp], and Jim Jr. They had left Jonestown to play in a basketball tournament in...after seeing a runner on the news about Jonestown and their association with Waco and he...
Susan Stamberg Reads Listener Mail
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday; December 4, 1993; 683 words ...may be better off without such museums. They displayed bogus contrition and claimed victim status along with the dead of Jonestown. Would not Germans, likewise, abuse the new science of victimology? ' Lynn Sweezey [sp] of Cambridge, Massachusetts...
Time for Big Red Brat To Call His Last Timeout
Chicago Sun-Times; December 9, 1993; Steve Rosenbloom; 700+ words ...Or perhaps he was seeing a chiropractor after straining his neck looking the other way. Tell you what, Bloomington is Jonestown with rims. The problem child is out of control - again - and there's only one way to teach him a lesson: Send him to his...
Jonestown
The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana; January 1, 1994; Tad Tuleja; 272 words 00-00-0000 Jonestown Jonestown A religious commune based briefly in Guyana which became the site...hands of the press, Jones left for Guyana in 1977 to establish "Jonestown" with several hundred followers. When a California congressman...
utopian communities
The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana; January 1, 1994; Tad Tuleja; 560 words ...to the land" communes in rural areas; and in the 1970s, as religious "cult" leaders--most tragically, Jim Jones ofJONESTOWN--attempted to revive the dream of a heaven on earth. See also LOOKING BACKWARD; B. F. SKINNER.
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Kool-Aid
The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana; January 1, 1994; Tad Tuleja; 224 words
Kool-Aid A brand name for a noncarbonated soft drink invented in 1927 and sold since 1953 by General Foods. Sold in powder form and mixed with water, it is produced in a variety of fruit flavors. A 1960s vogue for LSD-laced Kool-Aid is reflected in the title of Tom WOLFE' s book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968). The drink was also reputedly used at JONESTOWN to mask the poison administered to Jim Jones's followers. In summer camp slang, Kool-Aid or similar fruit drinks are known as bug juice.
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Baltimore Afro-American; January 8, 1994; Ursula V. Battle; 700+ words ...percent of Baltimore's neighborhoods, unemployment is double the national average. In 49 communities, from Sandtown to Jonestown, unemployment exceeds 15 percent."We must spend City dollars to employ local residents to revitalize their own communities...
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THE SONS OF JONESTOWN They survived the massacre their father staged in 1978, but Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr. are still struggling with his...
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); January 13, 1994
The Sons OF Jonestown They survived the massacre their father staged in 1978, but Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr. are still struggling with his grim legacy
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); January 13, 1994; Irene Sege, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...lay dead in the jungle community of Jonestown. The reverend's teetotaling teachings...the suicide or murder of 914 people in Jonestown. Virtually everyone the young men on...friend Johnny Cobb had just returned from Jonestown, where they had helped
Hey! Squash It!
Commonweal; January 14, 1994; McCarthy, Abigail; 700+ words ...where, if only people hadn't panicked, they would have escaped with their lives .... And there was the mass suicide at Jonestown. Charles Mackay's original book was largely about mass movements that had to do with money mania. They included John Law...
Substance Or Intensity: A Question of Faith
Call and Post (Cincinnati); January 20, 1994; Samuel K. Atchison; 700+ words ...society. For example, few would argue that the faith of theJonestown inhabitants -- who believed in the purported divinity of...and more than 900 of his adherents died in South America, Jonestown has become a virtual byword -- a symbol of devotion gone...
Crime Issue Has Racial Overtones
Chicago Sun-Times; January 26, 1994; Carl T. Rowan; 665 words ...uneducated and hopeless. If the political madness about "crime" continues here, the results could be just as tragic as they were in Waco andJonestown. Carl T. Rowan is a nationally syndicated columnist of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Another jolt for Concrete Blonde
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); January 28, 1994; Steve Morse, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...religion ("Jesus Forgive Me for the Things I'm About to Say") and cults ("Jonestown," with its sampled voice of Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown massacre)."I'm a spiritual person, but I'm always very suspicious of...
Concrete Blonde All Shook Up
The Washington Post; February 11, 1994; Joe Brown; 700+ words ...brand of apocalyptic pop, from the riotous metal-gospel of "Jesus Forgive Me (for the Things I'm About to Say)" to "Jonestown," which is introduced by a sample of Jim Jones ranting to his Guyana cult. "Everything is so apocalyptic to me anyway...
DESPITE DARK NIGHT, RANGERS SEE LIGHT.(SPORTS)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); June 1, 1994; 700+ words Byline: Laura Vecsey NEW YORK Maybe this was the way the people of Jonestownlooked, right before the Kool-Aid was handed out. Not scared. Not afraid of what lay ahead. For New York Rangers followers...
Coming to Terms; The daily give-and-take that leads to peace.
The Washington Post; June 17, 1994; Stephen S. Rosenfeld; 700+ words ...archaeologists and historians now see the 1st century mass suicide of Jewish rebels on the Masada rampart as more like a Jewish Jonestown. These inquiries are part of a broad brave revisionist sweep that has left many American perceptions of Israel a generation...
Black Elk's Story: Distinguishing Its Lakota Purpose. (book reviews)
The American Indian Quarterly; June 22, 1994; Pflug, Melissa A.; 700+ words ...on the works of Jonathon Z. Smith, particularly his "The Bare Facts of Ritual" (Imigining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown, 1982). Additionally, in Rice's conclusion, "The Metaphor Is the Message," his interchangeable use of the terms...
The Waco Tragedy
Free Inquiry; June 22, 1994; Haught, James A.; 700+ words ...guns, ammunition, gas masks, and other war supplies. Federal agents heard that the commune contained illegal machine guns, and took steps to disarm the cult. You know the rest of the story. The Waco saga has entered history, likeJonestown
The moth and the flame: religion and power in comparative blur. (The Paul Hanly Furfey Address - 1993) (Transcript)
Sociology of Religion; June 22, 1994; Demerath, N.J., III; 700+ words ...era. But I know too that many more will recall when the tide began to turn. 1979 was the critical year. That was the year Jonestown and its 914 deaths provided a tragic climax to the growing cult phenomenon. The phenomenon had spread sufficiently into the...
Treasury Cracks Down on Secrecy Act Violators
American Banker; September 22, 1994; Henry, Shannon; 700+ words ...Treasury said it considered a change in the bank's management since the time of the violations. The Jonestown Bank and Trust Co., Jonestown, Pa., paid a $12,500 penalty for not filing reports on time. Treasury also considered a change...
Interview With Canadian Cult Expert
NPR All Things Considered; October 5, 1994; 700+ words ...information? Mr. LAVER: Well, of course, this kind of belief runs through most of the tragic cults that we know of, you know, Jonestown. It was a factor in Waco. I suppose the simple answer is that if you believe that the world is about to end, you stop what...
Quiet Cult Meets Grisly Death in the Alps
The Independent (London, England); October 6, 1994; Doyle, Leonard; 700+ words ...Still less did they suspect that their charming corner of Switzerland would one day attract the same degree of notoriety as Jonestownin Guyana and Waco in Texas, where other religious cults played out their doomsday scenarios. Before buying a small farm...
48 Die in Cult Suicide Pact
The Independent (London, England); October 6, 1994; Julian Nundy,; 700+ words ...sect appeared to be under no particular pressure. In previous collective suicides - such as that of more than 900 people in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978 and in Waco, Texas, last year - there was a threat from the authorities. A restaurant owner interviewed...
The Dangerous Cult of Follow My Leader
The Independent (London, England); October 7, 1994; Brown, Andrew; 700+ words ...of their own impotence. In the 1978 Jonestownmassacre in Guyana, there was an expectation...of the outside world break down. The Jonestown commune in Guyana and the Branch Davidian...authority is almost absolute. James Jones in Jonestown is the classic example of such a figure...
Villagers Describe `Tall and Handsome' Cult Leader; `New Religious Movements' Debate Is Renewed
The Washington Post; October 7, 1994; Laurie Goodstein; 700+ words ...to warn of the dangers of marginal cults led by persons who abuse and manipulate their members. They raise the specter of Jonestown, where more than 900 people drank poisoned Kool-Aid at the behest of the Rev. Jim Jones, and Waco, where 84 Branch Davidians...
Swiss Issue Arrest Warrants For Cult Leader and Associate
The Washington Post; October 8, 1994; William Drozdiak; 700+ words ...Others said that Switzerland, which once seemed immune to the kind of extremist violence exemplified by the cult tragedies in Jonestown, Guyana, and Waco, Tex., may have to get used to the risks posed by religious sects that have become more prominent in...
New Questions Raised On Dangers of Cults
Chicago Sun-Times; October 9, 1994; Laurie Goodstein; 659 words ...to warn of the dangers of marginal cults led by people who abuse and manipulate their members. They raise the specter of Jonestown, where more than 900 people drank poisoned punch at the behest of the Rev. Jim Jones, and Waco, Texas, where 84 Branch...
Last week's deaths remind of dangers of elevating religious leaders to gods. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; October 12, 1994; Thompson, Joy; 700+ words ...the mass deaths of 80 followers of David Koresh outside Waco, Texas, in 1993 and 914 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. The incident also highlights the dangers of elevating religious leaders to godlike status: They may...
Cult Leader's Body Found in Burned Chalet; Swiss, Canadian Police Probe Reports of Money-Laundering
The Washington Post; October 14, 1994; Charles Trueheart; 700+ words ...unexplained extermination of 53 members of a quasi-religious cult led by a charismatic figure puts Jouret in a class with the Jonestown mass suicide and killings 15 years ago and the Waco, Tex., conflagration of 1993. Until its cataclysmic end, however...
November 20, 1993, NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday, Rev. Jim Jones' Sons Speak About Jonestown Massacre
Jonestown Memorial Wall Planned
Oakland Post; December 4, 1994; Micheal Ali; 700+ words ...Micheal Ali Oakland Post 12-04-1994 Jonestown Memorial Wall Planned.Sixteen years...International media focused on a village called Jonestown at the edge of the remote rainforest...were shot on site.In the real world, Jonestownshould have never happened, but it did...
In the Worsted Possible Taste
The Washington Post; December 18, 1994; Thomas Beller; 700+ words ...Klux Klan? Bright colors are back. How about a feature on the Khmer Rouge? Wide collars? Why not the death scene from Jonestown? The whole message of fashion magazines is that fashion matters. To enjoy them one must enter a certain credulous state...
And Now, the Solar Temple
Free Inquiry; December 22, 1994; Haught, James A.; 700+ words The Reverend Jim Jones led nine hundred fervent believers into mass murder-suicide at Jonestown in 1977. Many swallowed cyanide and gave it to their children. Ohio cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren made a human sacrifice of a...
Angelos: A Maverick Who Wants to Deal; He Aims to End Strike, Not Befriend Fellow Owners
The Washington Post; February 6, 1995; Mark Maske; 700+ words ...people who were in the room, he said the owners were about to commit "mass financial suicide." He made a reference to "Jonestown," witnesses say, and at one point asked: "When do we pass around the Kool-Aid?" He won't go along with the owners...
The Logic of Opposites
TriQuarterly; March 22, 1995; Rollings, Alane; 605 words ...were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motioning, "No." - Rilke, "Autumn" Serbia is on my back and Jonestown was my failure. And Birmingham, Hiroshima, Belfast: I'm implicated in the world's disgraces. Every mood is in me...
Miraculously, Montana and his image survived.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; April 16, 1995; Killion, Ann; 700+ words ...immediate. He came to us in the Bay Area in the late 1970s, when we were in a disco-induced, inflationary, post-Jonestown, Moscone-Milk funk. Simple, slightly awkward and small-townish, he was an unlikely hero for our hipper-than-thou...
FEELING PIE-EYED AT EASTER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ); April 16, 1995; BILL ERVOLINO; 700+ words ...their pies ... and we'd just eat pies until we passed out on the floor. By 4 p.m. my aunt's living room looked like Jonestown. Ah ... sweet memories ... Flash-forward to last Tuesday morning. The phone rang. It was my mother, the queen of...
The Apocalypse Has Been Postponed
The Independent (London, England); May 16, 1995; Parry, Richard Lloyd; 700+ words ...people, what did it hope to achieve? Even by the most extreme standards - Jim Jones, whose followers killed themselves inJonestown, Guyana; or David Koresh's Branch Davidian sect - Aum Shinri Kyo is an extremely unusual cult. The initial picture of...
Apocalypse Eventually
Insight on the News; May 29, 1995; Witham, Larry; 700 words ...Some militia groups described themselves as law-abiding Christians. "I'm afraid Oklahoma will become the political Jonestown," Tabor says, referring to the 1978 murder-suicide of more than 700 followers of Jim Jones in Guyana. "We don't hear...
CASINO GAMBLING COMES TO N.J.
The Record (Bergen County, NJ); June 4, 1995; 700+ words ...a 27 percent pay increase over three years. Nov. 18: California Rep. Leo Ryan and others in his party are killed near Jonestown, Guyana, by members of a religious cult from his district. A mass suicide of 911 cult members follows. Dec. 9: The state...
Faith & Reason: The Gulf between Radshop and Godshop
The Independent (London, England); June 24, 1995; Hardwick, Chris; 700+ words ...that its belief-system is all-encompassing, that one bookshop stores all the answers. This is the lie which takes us to Jonestown, Waco, and the Aum Shinrikyo. It converts Church to Cult by claiming a monopoly on truth. But truth is mobile and plural...
MTV PROBES 'THE CULT QUESTION'
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); June 27, 1995; JACKIE POTTS - Knight-Ridder; 652 words ...Benedictine monk music, he preaches about the sinister intent of some cults, illustrating his point with footage from the 1978Jonestown massacre suicide cult and the Branch Davidians' Waco inferno. The show also examines emerging sects such as the Church Universal...
WITH HIS SECOND FILM, HAYNES IS 'SAFE': NO PUBLIC FUNDING, NO PUBLIC DEFENSE
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); June 29, 1995; JOHN HARTL - Seattle Times; 700+ words ...s going to start passing out the (poison-laced) Kool-Aid," said Haynes, in a reference to the cult suicides at Jonestown, Guyana. "But he's creating a very closed circuit, and there's a kind of closing down at Wrenwood. It's a self...
CAPITOL INSIGHTS ON THE 1992 ELECTION
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); July 2, 1995; James Brunet Special to the Daily News; 700+ words ...Bush's pollster, Fred Steeper, looked at his surveys and imagined the November election turning into a kind of political Jonestownfor incumbents: a mass immolation ending with a Democrat in the White House and a Republican majority on Capitol Hill. With...
WHOM DO YOU TRUST?
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA); July 16, 1995; Steve Higgins; 700+ words ...suicide if ATF conducted a lengthy siege of the compound rather than attempt a surprise entry, I can only say: Remember Jonestown. Or remember the members of the sect in Canada and Switzerland who committed mass suicide earlier this year. Or look at...
WACO WAS NO ALAMO AND DAVEY KORESH NO DAVY CROCKETT
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); July 16, 1995; STEVE HIGGINS - Washington Post; 700+ words ...suicide if ATF conducted a lengthy siege of the compound rather than attempt a surprise entry, I can only say: RememberJonestown. Or remember the members of the sect in Canada and Switzerland who committed mass suicide earlier this year. Or look at...
REPUBLICANS SHOOT THEMSELVES IN FOOT IN WACO, FOSTER PROBES
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); July 24, 1995; Douglas Turner- News Washington Bureau; 700+ words ...Southwestern desert. Who would have believed that the Grand Old Party would be making a martyr of the creator of a latter day Jonestown, David Koresh, instead of the four young federal law enforcement officers Koresh ambushed in the performance of their duty...
Paradise Horror Claims Jonestown Victims
Los Angeles Sentinel; August 2, 1995; Dennis Schatzman; 700+ words ...08-02-1995 Paradise Horror Claims Jonestown Victims.People with relatives who died in the Jonestown mass suicide and who buried them at Paradise...the mass suicide that took 913 lives in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978, are buried...
IN VOICES AND WORDS, THE SOUL OF PUBLIC RADIO
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); August 13, 1995; KATHLEEN RIZZO YOUNG - News Book Reviewer; 700+ words ...over the radio made a panel for him in the AIDS quilt." In 1978, NPR aired a series called "Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown," culled from 900 hours of audiocassettes confiscated after the mass suicide. The book parallels eerily similar interviews...
GUYANA-ENVIRONMENT: CYANIDE LEAK IS COUNTRY'S WORST DISASTER
Inter Press Service English News Wire; August 23, 1995; Bert Wilkinson; 700+ words ...GEORGETOWN, Aug. 22 (IPS) -- From theJonestown suicides in 1978to wastewater spills...Guyana's major rivers as JimJones and Jonestown revisited. In November 1978, North...place at the cult's jungle commune, Jonestown,several kilometers west of Omai...
Sometimes a Comic Notion
Jerusalem Post; August 25, 1995; Matt Nesvisky; 700+ words ...because Tova Reich cleverly telegraphs her hilariously apocalyptic ending with numerous references throughout the book to the Jonestown massacre. One of her settlers, an Orthodox girl from New York, even postponed her long-planned aliya at the last minute...
August 25, 1995, Chicago Sun-Times, Gail R. Johnson, 71, Funeral Director, 558 words ...for her assistance in the aftermath of the November, 1978, mass suicide of 913 members of the Peoples Temple settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. "By that time, we had developed and specialized in securing all the necessary regulations in the transport of...
BETWEEN THE LINES: The Jewish War, Real And Imagined
The Jewish Week; August 25, 1995; Gary Rosenblatt; 700+ words ...the city of Hebron, at the Ma'arat HaMachpelah, the burial site of the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs. Evocative of Jonestown and Waco as well as Masada, the novel was completed in 1992, before the world knew the names of either David Koresh or Baruch...
Cyanide spill has disastrous effect on Guyana's economy.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; August 25, 1995; Rosenberg, Carol; 700+ words ...government of Prime Minister Forbes Burnham. Now, the gold miners are here _ virtually on the opposite end of the jungle from Jonestown _ because today's government has spurned Burnham's politics and encouraged privatization and foreign investment. Not
DEATHS IN THE NEWS
Chicago Sun-Times; August 27, 1995; 700+ words ...shipping expertise in conjunction with the November, 1978, mass suicide of 913 members of the Peoples Temple settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. Edmond Opler Sr., 98, whose World's Finest Chocolate Inc. helped raise billions of dollars for nonprofit...
Charisma.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; September 1, 1995; Riches, David; 700+ words ...individuals caught up in its affairs - a point which examples in the book, ranging from the rise of Nazism through to theJonestown massacre, well illustrate. For the anthropologist, the challenge of the book lies in its discussions on the psychologica
CAPITOL COMMENTS: Two faces of Republicanism
Call and Post (Cincinnati); September 7, 1995; Gilbert Price; 700+ words ...welfare system, and believe that the system needs to be reformed. Even Jesse Jackson has called the existing welfare system "Jonestown kool-aid," which may taste good for a while but can have deadly consequences.And even Blacks have some concerns regarding...
The Jewish War
Jewish Exponent; September 29, 1995; Matt Nesvisky; 700+ words ...because Reich cleverly telegraphs her hilariously apocalyptic ending with numerous references throughout the book to the Jonestown massacre. One of her settlers, an Orthodox girl from New York, even postponed her long-planned aliyah at the last minute...
October 29, 1995, Oakland Post, Vidal To Lead Council's Diversity Program, by Joseph Debro, 553 words
FOOLS ON THE HILL
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA); December 13, 1995; Bob Zawerucha; 700+ words ...lot of damage in terms of human suffering and propagation of closed-minded ignorance. Can't happen, you say? Remember Jonestown, David Koresh, the nuts going around shooting doctors and gassing medical clinics? Perhaps these are just smokescreens...
The Red Flags of Persuasion
ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; December 22, 1995; Jacobs, Don Trent; 700+ words ...desired end, and if many other factors relating to the emotional stability of the listener come into play, an event such as Jonestowncan occur. To prevent being misled by such language, it is necessary to maintain awareness that it contains persuasive words...
`Psychic' Insists Visions Could Prevent Disasters
Chicago Sun-Times; January 30, 1996; Jeffrey Zaslow; 662 words Dear Zazz: Before the Jonestown massacre, I had a vision about it. I tried to tell my local sheriff, but he didn't understand. I could have warned FBI agents...
The 'Barrel children.'(Jamaican Children Left Behind by Mothers in the US)
Newsweek; February 19, 1996; Larmer, Brook; 700+ words ...going to school and accepting its rules," says Pauletta Chevannes, the principal of a high school in the gang-ridden Jonestown area. She estimates that two thirds of her students have at least one parent living abroad. And some barrel kids don't...
February 25, 1996, Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Officer's Brief Revival Spurs Coma Debate, by Judy Peres, Chicago Tribune, 700+ words ...was hospitalized for the first of 17 operations, and October 1979. "I missed Three Mile Island, John Wayne Gacy, the Jonestown Massacre and two popes," he said. Graff, who is director of audiovisual services at the Marriott Oak Brook Hotel, said...
Fear That Haunts U.S.,
The Mirror (London, England); March 14, 1996; 298 words ...killed himself with his AK47 in Stockton, California, in 1989. In 1984, a man whose parents died in a mass cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, gunned down 13 pupils at a school in Los Angeles, killing one. A woman burst into a class of 11-year-olds...
The Telefaithful
Contemporary Review; April 1, 1996; Arthur, Chris; 700+ words ...of their time every day and dictated much of what they thought about the world. In the aftermath of violent tragedies at Jonestown, Waco and in the Tokyo underground, involving the People's Temple Sect, the Branch Davidians and Aum Shinriko, we have...
MONTANA SENATOR FEARS ANOTHER JONESTOWN BAUCUS SAYS STANDOFF REMINDS HIM OF CULT THAT LED TO SUICIDES
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA); April 1, 1996; Bill Morlin Staff writer; 700+ words ...died in a suicide pact. "I'm not going to carry this analogy too far, but it reminds me a little bit of Jim Jones and Jonestown," Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Sunday of the Justus Township where two dozen fugitives and their friends refuse...
European Investors Plan Development of Austin, Texas, Lake Land.(Originated from Austin American-Statesman, Texas)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; May 28, 1996; Tyson, Kim; 700+ words ...undeveloped parts of the Volente and Jonestown communities, into lots that will sell...Reed estate includes 1,200 acres near Jonestown with 7.1 miles of lake frontage. The first part of the Jonestown land to be developed will include 150...
FBI Stamina Wins Over Time, Critics,
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA); June 15, 1996; D.F. Oliveria/For the editorial board; 532 words ...early weeks of the siege, headlines predicted: "It's going to be worse than Waco" and "Montana senator fears another Jonestown." Armchair quarterbacks, including this newspaper, called for the FBI to use force to end the siege. A slight majority...
July 7, 1996, The Mail on Sunday (London, England) 'It's Hard Now to Imagine Him as a Fresh-Faced Wunderkind; Night & Day,Novels, 700+ words ...very, very fine indeed. John Williams JONESTOWN by Wilson Harris, Faber, [pounds sterling...dreadful massacre - or mass suicide - at Jonestown in Guyana in 1978 is almost too awful...Harris certainly is a good writer, but in Jonestown he gives the impression of being more...
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June 21, 1996, Chicago Sun-Times, Ruling may shut Cult Awareness Network
From Maya to Murder
The Independent (London, England); July 28, 1996; Malik, Kenan; 700+ words ...historical memory. His latest work, Jonestown, tells the tale of one of the more startling...the messianic cult leader Jim Jones. Jonestown had been a Utopian community, aiming...Mrquez and Rushdie made it fashionable.Jonestown is narrated by Francisco Bone, a survivor...
In the Footsteps of the Self-Elected
The Washington Times (Washington, DC); August 4, 1996; Walters, Colin; 700+ words ...Music and the Mind." "Feet of Clay" sets out in discursive vein with short visits to the sinister worlds of Jim Jones of Jonestown, Guyana, and David Koresh, whose Waco, Texas, religious community was incinerated by federal agents. The next chapter...
LOOKING OUT FOR THE WINNING IMAGE
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); August 11, 1996; Barbara Kingsley Orange County Register; 700+ words ...Baseball Enterprises. Murphy, who had the job of marketing Kool-Aid after the drink mix was used in 1978 mass suicides inJonestown, Guyana, was hired to sell pro baseball to "angry" and "disgusted" fans. Sports has long been a vehicle for selling...
Books: That Old Charismatic Feeling
The Independent (London, England); September 15, 1996; F, Michael Church; 700+ words ...died with his in the mass suicide of Jonestown, were case-studies in sinister paranoia...and both were extraordinarily cruel -Jonestown sounds like a Second World War Japanese prison-camp. Yet Jonestown survivors had no regrets: being part...
Suicide and the absence of power
The Tennessee Tribune; October 16, 1996; 700+ words ...political and socio-economic forces.The haunting visions of Jonestown--the alleged, but uncertain, "Kool Aid suicides" of some 900 African-Americans in the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978 -- establish the credible notion that...
Does the future have a future?
USA TODAY; November 1, 1996; Kreyche, Gerald F; 700+ words ...children will have. While it once offered hope and purpose, it now triggers foreboding. The 1978 mass murders and suicides at Jonestown in Guyana were prompted by cult leader Jim Jones, who saw no hope for his people on Earth. The David Koresh-led Branch...
Judge Dread
Artforum International; November 1, 1996; Gilman, Sander L.; 700+ words ...But these texts must have a reader who makes sense of them. Here, too, comes the personification of that authority. In Jonestown and Waco, the gap where that authority was perceived to have existed was filled by the new charismatic leader, whose purpose...
Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict.
Sociology of Religion; December 22, 1996; Stahl, William A.; 700+ words ...which emerges is one of needless tragedy. Primed by a cultural environment hostile to "cults" and desperate to avoid other Jonestown," the FBI mistakenly approached David Koresh as a cynical con man who used "Bible babble" to control his followers and...
Is this the end?,
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); January 1, 1997; Allen, Martha Sawyer; 700+ words ...lyrical texts in the Bible - the Book of Revelation. Various interpretations of the texts have led to such events as the Jonestown massacre, the Branch Davidian inferno and the gassing of innocents in Japan by the Aum Shinri Kyo sect. And it's often...
GUYANA-RELIGION: UNIFICATION CHURCH GIVEN THE BOOT
Inter Press Service English News Wire; February 11, 1997; Bert Wilkinson; 700+ words ...work. But apparently with memories of Jonestownstill fresh in theminds of government...was part of Port Kaituma and wasrenamed Jonestown by the leader. The mass suicide of 914...suspicious groups in theaftermath of Jonestown. "We join with other Guyanese, hoping...
The Healer Who `Helped a Lawyer Lose Faith in His Marriage'; PSYCHIC LAUNCHES LIBEL ACTION OVER ACCUSATIONS OF BRAINWASHING
Daily Mail (London); February 19, 1997; 700+ words ...they split up families, how they brainwash people, how they take people's money and we all know where it ends. `Waco, Jonestown or the mass suicide in Switzerland which took place shortly before this article was published. There is an understandable...
The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America.
Theological Studies; March 1, 1997; Massa, Mark; 700+ words ...ways to the study of American religious history. Eschewing both "denominational history" and the generic "Jamestown to Jonestown" approach to religious history, he has explored a critical but strangely understudied prosopographic niche in American religious...
SECT'S CRITICS SAY FAITH IS IN DECLINE.(NEWS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); March 2, 1997; 700+ words ...concrete bomb shelters, neighbors feared a replay of the mass suicide of more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. But the alert ended without incident. Fundamental changes are now appearing, critics contend...
END MAY BE NEAR FOR THESE PROPHETS OF DOOM DISILLUSIONED MEMBERS ARE LEAVING MONTANA DOOMSDAY GROUP AFTER FALSE ALARMS, JOB CUTS.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 16, 1997; 700+ words ...concrete bomb shelters, neighbors feared a replay of the mass suicide of more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. But the alert ended without incident. Arnone said he believed that the church had lost membership because...
OTHER MASS SUICIDES
Chicago Sun-Times; March 27, 1997; 248 words ...three years, murder-suicides by Temple followers have resulted in 74 deaths in Europe and Canada. Nov. 18, 1978: In Jonestown, Guyana, authorities found more than 900 dead. The Rev. Jim Jones urged his disciples to drink cyanide-laced grape punch...
To understand mass suicides, look past the easy answers.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 27, 1997; Bradbury, Randy; 700+ words ...another mass suicide _ the 1978 tragedy at Jonestown, Guyana, that claimed 914 lives. Moore...friends were among those who died at Jonestown. Her search for answers to explain that...involved in the Rancho Mirage suicides. At Jonestown, she said, the first media images were...
MANSION YIELDS 39 BODIES DEPUTIES FIND CORPSES OF YOUNG MEN, ALL APPARENT SUICIDES, IN HOME RENTED BY QUASI-RELIGIOUS GROUP.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 27, 1997; 700+ words ...three years, murder-suicides by Temple followers have resulted in 74 deaths in Europe and Canada. Nov. 18, 1978: In Jonestown, Guyana, authorities found more than 900 dead. The Rev. Jim Jones urged his disciples to drink cyanide-laced grape punch...
Grisly carnage echoes previous cult horrors.
The Boston Herald; March 27, 1997; Heaney, Joe; 480 words ...recalled nightmarish memories of the 1978 Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide-murder ritual...brought 74 deaths in Europe and Canada. In Jonestown in 1978, the Rev. Jim Jones convinced...Like cult messiahs before and after Jonestown, Jones was a self-styled prophet with...
MASS SUICIDES LINKED TO CHANGING OF SEASONS.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; March 27, 1997; 700+ words ...for ultimate meaning. Suicide claimed the lives of more than 900 people, most of them Americans, in November 1978, at Jonestown in Guyana, victims of a failed experiment in communal living under an authoritarian preacher. In April 1993, more than...
MASS SUICIDES.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; March 27, 1997; 308 words ...alcohol, was poured into a fruit punch the participants shared during the religious ceremony. -- On Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, authorities found more than 900 dead. The Rev. Jim Jones urged his disciples to drink cyanide-laced grape punch...
Similar Incidents in Recent History
The Washington Post; March 27, 1997; 325 words ...the head sometime during the blaze. + Nov. 18, 1978: The Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the liquid were shot.
DOZENS DEAD IN MASS SUICIDE.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); March 27, 1997; 700+ words ...District Attorney Paul Pfingst told the Los Angeles Times, ``This is a Jonestown,'' referring to the 1978 mass suicides of 913 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones inJonestown, Guyana. Most of Jones' Peoples Temple group had committed suicide...
MASS SUICIDES IN HISTORY
ABC World News This Morning; March 27, 1997; MARK MULLEN; 508 words ...stand out in infamy - Solar Temple and Jonestown. (voice-over) The worst mass suicide in modern history was in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. More than 900...cult. Jones was among the dead at Jonestown, a bullet in his head. Just this...
MASS SUICIDES.(Nation/World)
The Capital Times; March 27, 1997; 279 words ...Tijuana, Mexico, 12 people die in a religious ritual, apparently after drinking a poisoned sacrament. Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, authorities found more than 900 dead. Rev. Jim Jones urged his disciples to drink cyanide-laced grape punch
TRAGEDY STIRS JONESTOWN MEMORIES 913 PEOPLE DIED IN JUNGLE.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); March 27, 1997; 531 words ...that occurred on Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, could be heard on a tape recording...women and children, moved with him to Jonestown. They built cottages, workshops and...Press -- Bodies were strewn around theJonestown Commune in Jonestown, Guyana, where...
Ex-Assemblywoman remembers Jonestown tragedy.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 27, 1997; Corcoran, Katherine; 685 words ...Rev. Jones and his secretive colony at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978, Speier's boss...Texas. Cults, particularly in the Jonestown case, tend to act as family and attract...She still doesn't like talking about Jonestown. But she acknowledges that it's a...
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MASS SUICIDES MIRROR SOME ANCIENT BELIEFS.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); March 27, 1997; Griggs, France; 457 words ...always an individual choice in Asian religions, but it's never imposed on an entire congregation as it was by Jim Jones in Jonestown.'' Americans are fascinated by mass suicides, she said, because our society is grappling with the issue of death. Dr...
JONES PREACHED IN ELMWOOD PLACE.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); March 27, 1997; 328 words ...Post staff report One of the largest-ever cult mass suicides involved the deaths of 913 members of the Jim Jones cult in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978. Jones, a self-proclaimed ''faith healer'' who grew up in nearby Richmond, Ind...
March 27, 1997, The Cincinnati Post, Jones Preached in Elmwood Place, Byline: Post staff report
One of the largest-ever cult mass suicides involved the deaths of 913 members of the Jim Jones cult in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978.
Jones, a self-proclaimed "faith healer" who grew up in nearby Richmond, Ind., and performed some of his early "healings" in Cincinnati, started his cult in Indianapolis as a young man in his 20s, then set up the People's Temple in California.
In the 1970's he founded a commune in the Guyanan jungle near Georgetown. Jones ordered his followers to commit suicide after observers were killed after visiting the compound.
Jones, who called himself alternately the ''Prophet of God,'' and ''Father,'' preached a mixture of old-time faith healing, racial integration and Marxism. A native of Lynn, Ind., Jones grew up in Richmond, attended Richmond High School, and met his wife, then a nurse, at Richmond's Reid Memorial Hospital.
He first called himself a Unitarian, then professed other religions. In his 20s, he frequently visited a church in Elmwood Place where he ''healed'' followers at packed meetings. He is buried in Richmond.
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JONESTOWN TOOK SUICIDES TO A NEW LEVEL.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 27, 1997; 432 words ...injected with poison or forced to drink the deadly beverage. Sounds of the carnage that occurred on Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, could be heard on a tape recording left behind. Jones had moved the headquarters of his Peoples Temple to San...
March 27, 1997, Rocky Mountain News - Associated Press, Jonestown Took Suicides To a New Level,
June 21, 1996, Chicago Sun-Times, Ruling may shut Cult Awareness Network
From Maya to Murder
The Independent (London, England); July 28, 1996; Malik, Kenan; 700+ words ...historical memory. His latest work, Jonestown, tells the tale of one of the more startling...the messianic cult leader Jim Jones. Jonestown had been a Utopian community, aiming...Mrquez and Rushdie made it fashionable.Jonestown is narrated by Francisco Bone, a survivor...
In the Footsteps of the Self-Elected
The Washington Times (Washington, DC); August 4, 1996; Walters, Colin; 700+ words ...Music and the Mind." "Feet of Clay" sets out in discursive vein with short visits to the sinister worlds of Jim Jones of Jonestown, Guyana, and David Koresh, whose Waco, Texas, religious community was incinerated by federal agents. The next chapter...
LOOKING OUT FOR THE WINNING IMAGE
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); August 11, 1996; Barbara Kingsley Orange County Register; 700+ words ...Baseball Enterprises. Murphy, who had the job of marketing Kool-Aid after the drink mix was used in 1978 mass suicides inJonestown, Guyana, was hired to sell pro baseball to "angry" and "disgusted" fans. Sports has long been a vehicle for selling...
Books: That Old Charismatic Feeling
The Independent (London, England); September 15, 1996; F, Michael Church; 700+ words ...died with his in the mass suicide of Jonestown, were case-studies in sinister paranoia...and both were extraordinarily cruel -Jonestown sounds like a Second World War Japanese prison-camp. Yet Jonestown survivors had no regrets: being part...
Suicide and the absence of power
The Tennessee Tribune; October 16, 1996; 700+ words ...political and socio-economic forces.The haunting visions of Jonestown--the alleged, but uncertain, "Kool Aid suicides" of some 900 African-Americans in the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978 -- establish the credible notion that...
Does the future have a future?
USA TODAY; November 1, 1996; Kreyche, Gerald F; 700+ words ...children will have. While it once offered hope and purpose, it now triggers foreboding. The 1978 mass murders and suicides at Jonestown in Guyana were prompted by cult leader Jim Jones, who saw no hope for his people on Earth. The David Koresh-led Branch...
Judge Dread
Artforum International; November 1, 1996; Gilman, Sander L.; 700+ words ...But these texts must have a reader who makes sense of them. Here, too, comes the personification of that authority. In Jonestown and Waco, the gap where that authority was perceived to have existed was filled by the new charismatic leader, whose purpose...
Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict.
Sociology of Religion; December 22, 1996; Stahl, William A.; 700+ words ...which emerges is one of needless tragedy. Primed by a cultural environment hostile to "cults" and desperate to avoid other Jonestown," the FBI mistakenly approached David Koresh as a cynical con man who used "Bible babble" to control his followers and...
Is this the end?,
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); January 1, 1997; Allen, Martha Sawyer; 700+ words ...lyrical texts in the Bible - the Book of Revelation. Various interpretations of the texts have led to such events as the Jonestown massacre, the Branch Davidian inferno and the gassing of innocents in Japan by the Aum Shinri Kyo sect. And it's often...
GUYANA-RELIGION: UNIFICATION CHURCH GIVEN THE BOOT
Inter Press Service English News Wire; February 11, 1997; Bert Wilkinson; 700+ words ...work. But apparently with memories of Jonestownstill fresh in theminds of government...was part of Port Kaituma and wasrenamed Jonestown by the leader. The mass suicide of 914...suspicious groups in theaftermath of Jonestown. "We join with other Guyanese, hoping...
The Healer Who `Helped a Lawyer Lose Faith in His Marriage'; PSYCHIC LAUNCHES LIBEL ACTION OVER ACCUSATIONS OF BRAINWASHING
Daily Mail (London); February 19, 1997; 700+ words ...they split up families, how they brainwash people, how they take people's money and we all know where it ends. `Waco, Jonestown or the mass suicide in Switzerland which took place shortly before this article was published. There is an understandable...
The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America.
Theological Studies; March 1, 1997; Massa, Mark; 700+ words ...ways to the study of American religious history. Eschewing both "denominational history" and the generic "Jamestown to Jonestown" approach to religious history, he has explored a critical but strangely understudied prosopographic niche in American religious...
SECT'S CRITICS SAY FAITH IS IN DECLINE.(NEWS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); March 2, 1997; 700+ words ...concrete bomb shelters, neighbors feared a replay of the mass suicide of more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. But the alert ended without incident. Fundamental changes are now appearing, critics contend...
END MAY BE NEAR FOR THESE PROPHETS OF DOOM DISILLUSIONED MEMBERS ARE LEAVING MONTANA DOOMSDAY GROUP AFTER FALSE ALARMS, JOB CUTS.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 16, 1997; 700+ words ...concrete bomb shelters, neighbors feared a replay of the mass suicide of more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. But the alert ended without incident. Arnone said he believed that the church had lost membership because...
OTHER MASS SUICIDES
Chicago Sun-Times; March 27, 1997; 248 words ...three years, murder-suicides by Temple followers have resulted in 74 deaths in Europe and Canada. Nov. 18, 1978: In Jonestown, Guyana, authorities found more than 900 dead. The Rev. Jim Jones urged his disciples to drink cyanide-laced grape punch...
To understand mass suicides, look past the easy answers.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 27, 1997; Bradbury, Randy; 700+ words ...another mass suicide _ the 1978 tragedy at Jonestown, Guyana, that claimed 914 lives. Moore...friends were among those who died at Jonestown. Her search for answers to explain that...involved in the Rancho Mirage suicides. At Jonestown, she said, the first media images were...
MANSION YIELDS 39 BODIES DEPUTIES FIND CORPSES OF YOUNG MEN, ALL APPARENT SUICIDES, IN HOME RENTED BY QUASI-RELIGIOUS GROUP.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 27, 1997; 700+ words ...three years, murder-suicides by Temple followers have resulted in 74 deaths in Europe and Canada. Nov. 18, 1978: In Jonestown, Guyana, authorities found more than 900 dead. The Rev. Jim Jones urged his disciples to drink cyanide-laced grape punch...
Grisly carnage echoes previous cult horrors.
The Boston Herald; March 27, 1997; Heaney, Joe; 480 words ...recalled nightmarish memories of the 1978 Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide-murder ritual...brought 74 deaths in Europe and Canada. In Jonestown in 1978, the Rev. Jim Jones convinced...Like cult messiahs before and after Jonestown, Jones was a self-styled prophet with...
MASS SUICIDES LINKED TO CHANGING OF SEASONS.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; March 27, 1997; 700+ words ...for ultimate meaning. Suicide claimed the lives of more than 900 people, most of them Americans, in November 1978, at Jonestown in Guyana, victims of a failed experiment in communal living under an authoritarian preacher. In April 1993, more than...
MASS SUICIDES.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; March 27, 1997; 308 words ...alcohol, was poured into a fruit punch the participants shared during the religious ceremony. -- On Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, authorities found more than 900 dead. The Rev. Jim Jones urged his disciples to drink cyanide-laced grape punch...
Similar Incidents in Recent History
The Washington Post; March 27, 1997; 325 words ...the head sometime during the blaze. + Nov. 18, 1978: The Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the liquid were shot.
DOZENS DEAD IN MASS SUICIDE.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); March 27, 1997; 700+ words ...District Attorney Paul Pfingst told the Los Angeles Times, ``This is a Jonestown,'' referring to the 1978 mass suicides of 913 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones inJonestown, Guyana. Most of Jones' Peoples Temple group had committed suicide...
MASS SUICIDES IN HISTORY
ABC World News This Morning; March 27, 1997; MARK MULLEN; 508 words ...stand out in infamy - Solar Temple and Jonestown. (voice-over) The worst mass suicide in modern history was in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. More than 900...cult. Jones was among the dead at Jonestown, a bullet in his head. Just this...
MASS SUICIDES.(Nation/World)
The Capital Times; March 27, 1997; 279 words ...Tijuana, Mexico, 12 people die in a religious ritual, apparently after drinking a poisoned sacrament. Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, authorities found more than 900 dead. Rev. Jim Jones urged his disciples to drink cyanide-laced grape punch
TRAGEDY STIRS JONESTOWN MEMORIES 913 PEOPLE DIED IN JUNGLE.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); March 27, 1997; 531 words ...that occurred on Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, could be heard on a tape recording...women and children, moved with him to Jonestown. They built cottages, workshops and...Press -- Bodies were strewn around theJonestown Commune in Jonestown, Guyana, where...
Ex-Assemblywoman remembers Jonestown tragedy.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 27, 1997; Corcoran, Katherine; 685 words ...Rev. Jones and his secretive colony at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978, Speier's boss...Texas. Cults, particularly in the Jonestown case, tend to act as family and attract...She still doesn't like talking about Jonestown. But she acknowledges that it's a...
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MASS SUICIDES MIRROR SOME ANCIENT BELIEFS.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); March 27, 1997; Griggs, France; 457 words ...always an individual choice in Asian religions, but it's never imposed on an entire congregation as it was by Jim Jones in Jonestown.'' Americans are fascinated by mass suicides, she said, because our society is grappling with the issue of death. Dr...
JONES PREACHED IN ELMWOOD PLACE.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); March 27, 1997; 328 words ...Post staff report One of the largest-ever cult mass suicides involved the deaths of 913 members of the Jim Jones cult in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978. Jones, a self-proclaimed ''faith healer'' who grew up in nearby Richmond, Ind...
March 27, 1997, The Cincinnati Post, Jones Preached in Elmwood Place, Byline: Post staff report
One of the largest-ever cult mass suicides involved the deaths of 913 members of the Jim Jones cult in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978.
Jones, a self-proclaimed "faith healer" who grew up in nearby Richmond, Ind., and performed some of his early "healings" in Cincinnati, started his cult in Indianapolis as a young man in his 20s, then set up the People's Temple in California.
In the 1970's he founded a commune in the Guyanan jungle near Georgetown. Jones ordered his followers to commit suicide after observers were killed after visiting the compound.
Jones, who called himself alternately the ''Prophet of God,'' and ''Father,'' preached a mixture of old-time faith healing, racial integration and Marxism. A native of Lynn, Ind., Jones grew up in Richmond, attended Richmond High School, and met his wife, then a nurse, at Richmond's Reid Memorial Hospital.
He first called himself a Unitarian, then professed other religions. In his 20s, he frequently visited a church in Elmwood Place where he ''healed'' followers at packed meetings. He is buried in Richmond.
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JONESTOWN TOOK SUICIDES TO A NEW LEVEL.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 27, 1997; 432 words ...injected with poison or forced to drink the deadly beverage. Sounds of the carnage that occurred on Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, could be heard on a tape recording left behind. Jones had moved the headquarters of his Peoples Temple to San...
March 27, 1997, Rocky Mountain News - Associated Press, Jonestown Took Suicides To a New Level,
It was one of the world's most bizarre disasters, and it took modern suicides to a new level of horror.
More than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones were ordered by Jones to drink cyanide-laced grape punch. Most of them complied, although some were shot, injected with poison or forced to drink the deadly beverage. Sounds of the carnage that occurred on Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, could be heard on a tape recording left behind.
Jones had moved the headquarters of his Peoples Temple to San Francisco in the early 1970s. There, he established a free health clinic and a drug rehabilitation program, eventually becoming chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1976.
But allegations of wrongdoing mounted and Jones moved the settlement to Guyana, the only English-speaking country in South America.
Hundreds of followers moved with him, eager to live the dream of an agricultural commune.
They built cottages, workshops and dormitories in tidy rows, grew fruit and vegetables and raised chickens and pigs over 300 acres.
Then a congressman from San Francisco spent one day at the jungle pavilion investigating allegation of abuse. As Rep. Leo Ryan was preparing to return to the United States with 18 temple members who had wanted to leave, he was ambushed on the airstrip. Ryan, three newsmen and a Temple defector were killed.
Hours later, Jones urged 912 of his followers to drink the grape punch. Children died first; babies were killed by poison squirted into their mouths. Then the adults. Most were poisoned, some forcibly. Some were shot by security guards. Jones was found with a bullet wound in his head.
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An Ancient Tradition of Resurrection, but This Time on Board a Spaceship
The Independent (London, England); March 28, 1997; Brown, Andrew; 700+ words ...there is almost always a final, precipitating cause which can be recognised without any theological training. In the case ofJonestown, it was the group's murder of an investigator which seemed to leave its leader with no choice. He decided that if he was...
Mother Mourns Son She Lost to Cult 21 Years Ago -- and to Death This Week
The Washington Post; March 28, 1997; Sharon Waxman; 700+ words ...teenager, then disappeared for seven years. Desperate to know whether her son was dead or alive, particularly after the 1978 Jonestown massacre, Brown contacted a cult specialist who helped her both to cope with her grief and to confirm that Moore was alive...
CULT MEMBER'S STORY
ABC Good Morning America; March 28, 1997; ELIZABETH VARGAS; 700+ words ...Jackie Leonard (ph), was 72 years old, and over the past 20 years, we've been concerned because of events like the Jonestown massacre, that she was involved even in that group. And so each time something like this happens, the family is very...
Local man compares Rancho Santa Fe mass-suicide to Jonestown.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 28, 1997; Smallwood, Lola; 700+ words ...the Peoples Temple died at Jim Jones' jungle commune. The Jonestown tragedy began when U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan and a band of reporters were gunned down on a airstrip near Jonestown. Ryan planned to investigate the commune in response to allegations...
Deathly spell of doom messiahs
The Independent (London, England); March 28, 1997; Alice Lagnado; 420 words ...for the highest body count when he gave cyanide-spiked grape punch to more than 900 disciples of his People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, in November 1978.Last Saturday, five members of the Order of the Solar Temple, which has claimed 74 lives in...
MSNBC fumbles suicide story.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 28, 1997; Goodman, Tim; 700+ words ...murder, not suicide, without backing up that claim. Bernard Shaw offered little insight, instead rambling on about the Jonestown massacre, which did little to shed light on the current story. But MSNBC stumbled more. MSNBC's John Gibson, a daytime...
Humans, a great mystery.
The Boston Herald; March 28, 1997; 497 words ...mode: "If A and not B, then X; if A and B, then Y." We doubt that any of the poor souls who drank the poisoned brew at Jonestown had such skills. And people who live by deploying logic don't often believe in spaceships that are reached by suicide...
NEWEST CULT TALE IS SAME OLD STORY EXPERTS DESCRIBE PROCEDURE OF TURNING VULNERABLE PEOPLE INTO VICTIMS OF STRONG LEADERS.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 28, 1997; 700+ words ...command, Siegelman said. The third stage in the death spiral is the confrontation - real or imagined. In the case of the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana in 1978, 913 people died because a critical U.S. congressman had flown in to see Jones' jungle...
DEATHS RECALL HORROR OF JONESTOWN.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 28, 1997; 266 words ...things, and then here comes up something else,'' said Lewis, a retired San Francisco butcher who lost 27 family members at Jonestown, a name forever synonymous with mass murder-suicide. ``What they were looking for - what other people are looking for...
SUICIDE IS A WAY OF LIFE FOR SECTS.(News)
The Mirror (London, England); March 28, 1997; Kerr, Jane; 338 words ...includes: 1978 - The Rev Jim Jones, head of the People's Temple in San Francisco, led 914 followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by taking cyanide. Members who refused to swallow poisoned drink were shot. 1990 - Twelve people died at Tijuana...
Rasputins Control Life and Death
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); March 28, 1997; Barry, Nicola; 700+ words ...the edge. There are precedents: Jim Jones and Jonestown, David Koresh and Waco. Now the Computer Cult...police and federal agents ended a 51-day siege. JONESTOWN: 1978 November Jonestown, Guyana Rev Jim Jones led 914 followers to their...
THERE'S NO ANSWER TO THE NIGHTMARE OF WHY.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); March 28, 1997; 700+ words ...Thrash, and she had just returned from Jonestown, Guyana - one of a handful of the Rev...money, and followed him penniless to Jonestown. ``We would have followed him anywhere...The unanswered questions we had after Jonestownare the same unanswered questions we...
PAIN OF RELATIVES.(News)
The Mirror (London, England); March 29, 1997; 276 words ...away. The kids are supposed to run away." But Dick Joslyn, a cult member for 15 years, said: "This is not like Waco or Jonestown. Each one did this of their own volition. "Every step of the way the leaders gave us the option to go forward with the...
In tony hideaway, many feel disconnected from deaths
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); March 29, 1997; Lynda Gorov, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...insisted, will not be identified with mass death in the same way Waco, Texas, was after the Branch Davidians died or as Jonestown, Guyana, was after hundreds of Jim Jones's followers committed suicide together. "Of course no one's happy that it...
CORONER SAYS SOME MALE CULT MEMBERS WERE CASTRATED
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); March 29, 1997; SCOTT LINDLAW - Associated Press; 700+ words ...vehicles" or "containers," and rendezvous with a spaceship they believed was trailing the comet. "This is not like Waco or Jonestown. Each one did this of their own volition even though they were in a cult," said Dick Joslyn of Tampa, Fla., who was...
SEX SHUNNED BY SUICIDE CULT SOME MALES CASTRATED FOR IMMORTALITY.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; March 29, 1997; 700+ words ...or ``containers,'' and rendezvous with a spaceship they believed was trailing the comet. ``This is not like Waco or Jonestown. Each one did this of their own volition even though they were in a cult,'' said Dick Joslyn of Tampa, Fla., who was...
[2] Editorials
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); March 29, 1997; 700+ words ...single one had relatives planning to come to claim the body. This is not a unique shock. We remember all too well Waco and Jonestown. Yet there is something different. The Rev. James Jones and David Koresh believed in a violent end. Some of Jones' followers...
THE GRUESOME DETAILS : SOME SECT MEMBERS WERE CASTRATED.(NEWS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); March 29, 1997; 700+ words ...or ``containers,'' and rendezvous with a spaceship they believed was trailing the comet. ``This is not like Waco or Jonestown. Each one did this of their own volition even though they were in a cult,'' said Dick Joslyn of Tampa, Fla., who was...
Lawrence Lawler dies at 56; headed Minneapolis FBI office; `He was the ultimate professional, totally dedicated.'.(NEWS)(Obituary)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); March 29, 1997; Gale, Elaine; 544 words ...assistant special agent in charge of several high-profile cases, including the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, and the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford. "Under no circumstances would he have talked to me...
WHILE MANY CULTS EXIST, MASS SUICIDES ARE RARE
ABC World News Sunday; March 30, 1997; DEBORAH WEINER, CAROLE SIMPSON; 663 words ...This mass suicide shared something with the mass suicides at Jonestown and at the Order of the Solar Temple -- a similar lethal...every mass suicide in history appears to have a trigger. At Jonestown, it was a confrontation with a U.S. congressman. For...
SUICIDES BRING BACK MEMORIES OF H.I.M.
Post-Tribune (IN); March 30, 1997; 700+ words ...something eerily familiar that I couldn't quite put my finger on. At first I thought I was remembering details from the Jonestown and Solar Temple mass suicides, which also were inspired by charismatic leaders with apocalyptic visions, like Heaven...
America's cults a permanent part of society.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 31, 1997; Lewis, Claude; 700+ words ...and awaited their destiny _ a rendezvous with a UFO they believed was trailing the approaching Hale-Bopp comet. Unlike Jonestown, the Higher Source cult members possessed no weapons of destruction, except for the deadly mixture of alcohol and pudding...
The lessons of Heaven's Gate involve the issues of community and individualism.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; April 1, 1997; Sandon, Leo; 700+ words ...Niebuhr. What does it take for marginal religious groups to startle a nation? The People's Temple Christian Church in Jonestown, Guyana, got our attention in 1978 when 913 of its members died in ritual suicide. It happened again in 1993 near Waco...
Woman may head Guyana
Chicago Sun-Times; April 1, 1997; STEPHANIE ZIMMERMANN; 665 words ...career in racially tense Guyana, a tiny former British colony on the Caribbean coast of South America best known for the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978. Asian Indians make up about half of Guyana's population; blacks account for about 30 percent. When...
FINAL CURTAIN FALLS ON CYBER-AGE DRAMA.(Editorial)(Column)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); April 1, 1997; 700+ words ...particulars another casebook cult scenario to be measured againstJonestown or Waco. Yet it seems even more disturbing because it lacks those...alien catastrophe that cannot happen here - but we're not inJonestown anymore.
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM - 2 RELIGION'S POSITIVE INFLUENCE UPON THE UNITED STATES.(LOCAL)
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); April 2, 1997; 700+ words ...Jim Jones' followers, along with Jones himself, had yet to do themselves in by drinking poison-laced Kool-Aid at Jonestown, Guyana. Nor had Scientology gotten much attention. Wicca was around but it had not intruded into the public consciousness...
TV PRODUCERS WAIT ON HEAVEN'S GATE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); April 2, 1997; Saunders, Dusty; 700+ words ...Francisco area before he established his cult compound. Heaven's Gate has none of that pre-death drama that made the Jonestown story so compelling to many viewers. Television didn't shy away, however, from the tragedies of Waco and Ruby Ridge...
From land boom to Heaven's Gate, great ruses continue.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; April 2, 1997; Lindley, Mary Ann; 700+ words ...Crowds.'' Joseph Bulgatz has updated it with newer examples of gullibility, superstition and ignorance, including the Jonestowntragedy of 1978. Some 900 followers of the charismatic Jim Jones were induced to drink from tubs of cyanide, Valium and...
Nicola Barry; GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR JOHN
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); April 3, 1997; Barry, Nicola; 700+ words ...or battlebus, to brainwash more innocents . Cult experts have been comparing what is going on at Downing Street to Waco or Jonestown. I don't think there is any comparison. In The Major and those other authors of yesterday's suicide pact, oops, sorry...
CULT SUICIDES SHOW THAT INTELLIGENCE ISN'T EVERYTHING.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); April 3, 1997; 700+ words ...to all off-beat religions. But one person's cult is another person's religion. As Tom Wolfe wrote after Jim Jones' Jonestown suicide, a cult is just ''a religion with no political power.'' Had David Koresh bought politicians instead of guns...
A cult's tangled web
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); April 3, 1997; Ellen Goodman, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...videotape filled with excited talk of spacecraft -- in a lush home crammed with desktop terminals. Compared with this, the Jonestownjungle made perverse, horror-tale sense. Maybe indeed "cybercult" should be an oxymoron. But today, it stands as one...
Around the Dial.
The Boston Herald; April 3, 1997; 595 words ...since the cult members apparently took their lives voluntarily, the story is missing conflict. Although the suicides at Jonestown and David Koresh's compound in Waco inspired TV movies, the major broadcast and cable TV networks say they have no plans...
They really believe it--these death cultists. Not San Diego's--I mean the Tory party's
The Spectator; April 5, 1997; Matthew Parris; 700+ words ...party. I realise that. I also realise that the Heaven's Gate 39 had nothing to do with the assembly of 900 who died in Jonestown in 1978, or with those in the Solar Temple sect who have killed themselves in Switzerland and Canada over the past three...
WAKE UP! SUICIDES TEACH A LOT OF LESSONS
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); April 6, 1997; LEO SANDON - Knight-Ridder; 700+ words What does it take for marginal religious groups to startle a nation? The People's Temple Christian Church in Jonestown, Guyana, got our attention in 1978 when 913 of its members died in ritual suicide. It happened again in 1993 near Waco...
CYBERCULT SUICIDE DOESN'T COMPUTE.(Editorial)(Column)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); April 6, 1997; 700+ words ...videotape filled with excited talk of spacecraft - in a lush home crammed with desktop terminals. Compared to this, the Jonestown jungle made perverse horror-tale sense. Maybe, indeed, ``cybercult'' should be an oxymoron. But today, it stands...
Heaven's Gate brings echoes of Jonestown
Chicago Sun-Times; April 6, 1997; Michael Sneed; 700+ words ...November, 1978, two months after I was married, I was sent to Jonestown, Guyana, to cover the deaths of 975 members of a cult led...happy, healthy and acting under his own volition." The Jonestown cult members were not allowed to leave their village. Members...
Christ and Comets
Newsweek; April 7, 1997; Woodward, Kenneth L.; 700+ words ...Earth," a pseudo-Biblical doomsday book that became by far the biggest best seller of the decade. Finally, there was Jonestown, where 914 true believers from the United States kept a Kool-Aid rendezvous with death in 1978. Now, in a grisly footnote...
'The Next Level': How Herff Applewhite, a Sexually Confused, Would-Be Apostle, Led a Flock of Lost New Age Dreamers to Their Deaths
Newsweek; April 7, 1997; Thomas, Evan; 700+ words ...normally the loneliest act, the ultimate alienation. There have been worse mass suicides, but probably not in America, and at Jonestown in Guyana in 1978, those who refused to drink the Kool-Aid were shot. What possessed this self-described "Next Level...
'The Most Horrible Night of My Life.' an Ex-Jonestown Believer on the Pull of Cults - and How His 5-Year-Old Paid the Ultimate Price
Newsweek; April 7, 1997; Stoen, Tim; 700+ words An ex-Jonestown believer on the pull of cults--and...paid the ultimate price. WHEN I WENT TOJONESTOWN with my 5-year-old son, John Victor...hard way. The five months I spent in Jonestown were wonderful. Here were people of...
Local Cult-Busters Use Tragedy to Educate
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); April 7, 1997; Sanchez, Robert; 700+ words ...these kinds of tragedies, sadly," Joy Veinot said. "What has our past few years been like? The Solar Temple, Waco, Jonestown," she said. "They are getting closer together. I think it will get worse." Don Veinot said the coming of the millennium...
THE '70S THEY'RE BAAAAACK SELECTIVE NOSTALGIA REINVENTS THE DECADE OF DISILLUSIONMENT.(Lifestyle)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; April 8, 1997; Conklin, Ellis E.; 700+ words ...wild golf stroke and comical stumbles down the stairs of Air Force One. Later came the madness of Attica, Idi Amin, the Jonestown suicides, and the murder of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk. Gun-shy America, its confidence...
SOMETIMES A CULT IS JUST A CULT.(Editorial)(Column)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); April 19, 1997; 700+ words ...religion, some cults may actually be cults. This is the message that those who have studied cults in the two decades since Jonestown have been trying to get out, especially as we mark today's Waco-Oklahoma City joint anniversary. Yet somehow as Heaven...
NORFOLK AND THE PSYCHIC.(LOCAL)
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); April 23, 1997; 675 words ...chance, how can they have the audacity to charge anyone even one dollar? Nice try, Ms. DeLong, perhaps in another city. Jonestown, Guyana, and the recent Heaven's Gate tragedy - not to mention the numerous cults we already have in Hampton Roads - serve...
N.E. dads fight cult for kids.
The Boston Herald; April 27, 1997; Crittenden, Jules; 700+ words ...other men's wives - a cult leader on a track that can only lead to disaster. Fearful of another Rancho Santa Fe, Waco or Jonestown, two New England men are trying to wrest their children from Yisrayl Hawkins and the cult of at least 1,000 people that...
OGERT FAMILY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); May 1, 1997; 509 words ...of Hoosick Falls, Michele Tower and Gail Tatro of North Adams, MA, Dale Dennis of Bennington, VT, Bonnie McCloud of Jonestown, TN, Dawn Bartlett of Jacksonville, VT and the late Kenneth Norman Ogert, Jr. The funeral will be Saturday afternoo
When Will the Kamikazes Realise the War Is Over?
The Mail on Sunday (London, England); May 11, 1997; 700+ words ...sects - which, come to think of it, they sometimes resembled - the Tory Sceptics simply committed mass suicide, a political Jonestown. I sense that the Tories left in Parliament or Tory commentators have yet to recognise any of this. The candidates for the...
Laser Quest Center to Open in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.(Originated from The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; May 13, 1997; Kittrell, Irvin; 420 words ...new center will open in a 10,000-square-foot space next to the Media Play store in Hills Plaza in the 5000 block of Jonestown Road. Lower Paxton Twp. supervisors have approved a zoning application for the center, but no date for the opening has...
From 'Jonestown.'(fiction)(excerpt)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; June 22, 1997; Harris, Wilson; 700+ words ...of America tells of the "tragedy of Jonestown" and of the scene of "indescribable...the globe when they arrived in stricken Jonestown after the self-inflicted holocaust...angel" in his Church of Eternity in Jonestown. Francisco Bone was born in Albuoystown...
Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister.
Free Inquiry; June 22, 1997; Mackmiller, Dave; 700+ words ...transfusions. But since they die quietly, one by one, they don't make sensational headlines like the multiple deaths at Waco and Jonestown. The book is peppered with news clippings about Witnesses who died by refusing blood. For example, there's the case of...
Wilson Harris: An Introduction
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; June 22, 1997; Adler, Joyce Sparer; 700+ words ...recent works contain many "analytical dialogues," as Hena Maes-Jelinek calls them. This is true of the passage from Jonestown, his new novel, included in this issue. Harris conceives of his novels as epics, a form he believes need not be lost in...
Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements.
Sociology of Religion; June 22, 1997; Beyer, Peter; 700+ words ...section is one on violence in and by NRMs. Justifiably, the core reading here is John Hall's piece on the "apocalypse" at Jonestown framed by interpretative analyses by Thomas Robbins & Dick Anthony and Edgar Mills, Jr. This reviewer wondered, however...
`Waco': Officials' Fatal Vision
The Washington Times (Washington, DC); June 22, 1997; Arnold, Gary; 700+ words ...befell the members of the sect during the FBI assault in April of '93." At the time, he recalls, he thought it was another Jonestown, with the Davidians "pretty much asking for it. . . . My doubts about the government's role were eventually confirmed...
A Wilson Harris checklist.(Bibliography)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; June 22, 1997; Adler, Joyce Sparer; 427 words ...the River of Space (London: Faber and Faber, 1990). Resurrection at Sorrow Hill (London: Faber and Faber, 1993). Jonestown(London: Faber and Faber, 1996). Nonfiction History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas (Georgetown: National...
A Cambodian woman's union fight
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); July 8, 1997; Diane E. Lewis, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...from Cambodia. The job action at her factory was significant enough to attract the attention of Kim An, vice president ofJonestown Bank and Trust Co. in Hershey, Pa. It was An who brought Ou to the United States and organized a three-month speaking...
EASTER WAS, LIKE HIS HOME RUNS, LARGER THAN LIFE
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); September 10, 1997; MILT NORTHROP - News Sports Reporter; 700+ words ...brother to younger black players -- Joe Caffie, Ray Noble and Jose Santiago -- who joined the team the next year. Born in Jonestown, Miss., on Aug. 4, 1915, Easter was well past his athletic prime when he made his major-league debut with the Cleveland...
NOT ALL PRIESTS UPSET BY MERGER PLAN.(Local/Wisconsin)
The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); September 16, 1997; 309 words ...Thomas Lemieux of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Kenosha on Saturday compared the proposal to merge his Catholic parish to a "Jonestown" plan, referring to the 1977 deaths of more than 900 people who were directed by the Rev. Jim Jones to drink poison...
Somewhere New: New & Selected Stories
Studies in Short Fiction; September 22, 1997; Graham, Don; 700+ words ...the "black days of reaction," Collier enjoys deconstructing sensational history, the grassy knoll in Dallas, the Jonestown suicides, the latter of which in a couple of pages of closely reasoned examination, are totally called into question...
Oyster.
World Literature Today; September 22, 1997; Bliss, Carolyn; 700+ words ...names on central female characters. In Borderline it was Felicity; in Oyster it is Mercy Given, who naturally survives the Jonestown (or is it Waco?) style holocaust at Oyster's camp. Finally, the theme of chronologically and geographically displaced...
Cellular One plans to lease large facility
Central Penn Business Journal; October 10, 1997; Valkenburgh, Van Lee, Mary; 362 words ...area, 360deg Communications, announced plans to relocate to Harrisburg. It built a retail store and corporate offices onJonestown Road. That move was the result of 360deg's acquisition of Wireless One, which expanded 360's access to most of the state...
TV Plus; What a Bloody; CARVE-UP
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); October 12, 1997; Robinson, Scott; 700+ words ...have a picnic, no obligation to buy! OVER MY DEAD BODY. Let us prey! There were echoes of the Heaven's Gate Waco andJonestown tragedies in The X Files, when Mulder and Scully became involved with a mind-manipulating religious nut named Vernon...
Cellular One Gets Pennsylvania State Aid.(Originated from The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; October 15, 1997; DeKok, David; 700+ words ...provider in the midstate, said her company did not receive any help from the state when it built a new office recently on Jonestown Road in Lower Paxton Twp. Welch said 360 Communications employs about 300 people in Pennsylvania, including 100 in the midstate...
BROADCASTING'S RACE TO THE BOTTOM
The Herald News - Joliet (IL); December 13, 1997; 697 words The guy's idea of great television involves topics like gang rape, transsexuals, teen-age lesbians or the Jonestown Massacre. To Geraldo Rivera, these are the everyday things that illuminate our lives.Rivera's happiest moment came...
Ex-Chicagoan favored to win Guyana election
Chicago Sun-Times; December 16, 1997; MAUREEN O'DONNELL; 575 words ...activities. They spent several months in jail in the early 1950s. Guyana hit world headlines in 1978 with the mass suicide in Jonestown. "It came as a shock to her," Rosenberg said. Jagan's Chicago roots have been an issue in the election, with opposition...
ARE THE NETWORKS REALLY THIS HARD UP?
The Beacon News - Aurora (IL); December 19, 1997; 700+ words The guy's idea of great television involves topics like gang rape, transsexuals, teen-age lesbians or the Jonestown Massacre. To Geraldo Rivera, these are the everyday things that illuminate our lives.Rivera's happiest moment came...
My Cousin The President, From Chicago To Guyana
The Washington Post; December 21, 1997; Judy Flander; 700+ words ...even a country in South America, formerly owned by the British, that most people know little about, save the infamous 1979 Jonestown Massacre. To kiss her off as a grandmother! This champion of plantation workers, native Amerindians and women's rights...
Murky Moonie Money
Free Inquiry; December 22, 1997; Haught, James A.; 651 words ...concerned, it seems clear, we are dealing with something besides just an exotic cult. The Pak beating smacks strongly of Jonestown. And with Moon lavishing hundreds of millions of dollars a year on newspapers, magazines, and political action groups in...
On Fifth Avenue
Tikkun; January 1, 1998; Ross, Dorien; 522 words ...reality. Whole cultures move into collective avoidance for this reason. High school cliques. McCarthyism. Woodstock. Jonestown. O Mother! In your Bergdorf's raincoat, with a mink collar and belted waist. Collar stylishly turned up against the...
Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America.
Journal of Church and State; January 1, 1998; Pitts, Bill; 700+ words ...movements. Tolerance for NRMs remains low, the authors argue, because of the success of the anti-cult movement since the Jonestown disaster. The anti-cult movement provides an "interpretative framework" which sees the leader as deceiving and controlling...
AIMING FOR SERIOUSNESS, `OYSTER' GETS LOST
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); March 22, 1998; Jodi Daynard; 700+ words ...Oyster" mimics the modernist literary novel -- like "Heart of Darkness" as it might transmogrify itself in our own post-Jonestown, post-Waco era. But if the definition of a "serious" novel is that it ring true to something -- true to its story...
Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict.(Review)
Utopian Studies; March 22, 1998; Cummings, Michael S.; 700+ words ...for governmental intervention, including allegations of child abuse and illegal possession of arms; compare Mt. Carmel to Jonestown; analyze David Koresh's biblical interpretation and the role it played in his behavior; and assess various constitutional...
Death and delivery
Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland); March 29, 1998; Robyn Marsack; 700+ words ...ago the Rev Jim Jones called on his followers to establish Jonestown, in Guyana; undoubtedly they hoped for a new world there...letter, interspersed with an account of the last days of Jonestown and the final, forced mass- suicide, which the narrator...
Dillsburg store serves farmers, sun-downers
Central Penn Business Journal; April 10, 1998; Anonymous; 561 words ...vice president and secretary is Richard Apple. It was incorporated May 1, 1996. Paul L. Herr, manager of Herr Feed in Jonestown, also runs a granary. Most of his customers are farmers who reside in the immediate area, he said. Herr Feed doesn't...
JOHN T. TURNER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); April 10, 1998; 322 words ...John T. Turner, age 61, of Albany, died April 7, 1998 at Veterans Administration Hospital, Albany, NY. He was born in Jonestown, MS to Joe and Carrie Turner, the older of four boys, and resided most of his adult life in Albany. He was the proprietor...
Jonestown, Pa., Computer Distributor Seeks Tax Breaks As It Mulls Move.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; April 13, 1998; 700+ words By Al Winn, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 12--A computer distributor is seeking tax breaks as it considers construction of a large warehouse that would pull its workers out of Dauphin County and into Lebanon County. Ingram Micro Inc., which Fortune
The rise of the grief industry.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; April 17, 1998; Whitcomb, Robert; 700+ words ...a stock collection of cliches and assumptions to fit virtually any situation. It makes one long for the aftermath of the Jonestown mass murder and suicide, in 1979, when the socially acceptable reaction was just astonishment and horror, or even bemusement...
Pat Robertson settles libel suit with rebel professor
AP Online; April 28, 1998; SONJA BARISIC Associated Press Writer; 442 words ...settled the libel suit of a former law professor who claimed the religious broadcaster likened him and other professors to Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones. The settlement was announced as jury selection was underway in the case. Its terms were not disclosed...
TV violence is sickening America's soul.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; May 1, 1998; 700+ words ...effect of television programming on youngsters' normative expectations about conflict resolution. Whether it is Jonesboro or Jonestown, guns or suicide, there appears to be a trend toward violence as the means to achieve an end. How much more violence our...
HAVE SOME CAKE, THEN WE'LL TOUR THE GARDEN
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); May 11, 1998; LIBBY MAEDER - Special to The News; 601 words ...shipped from California in glass vials -- were so hardy. Four days after we put those in the ant farm, it looked like Jonestownafter the Kool-Aid. Maybe we should try kitchen windowsill ants in the ant farm. Outside, mosquitoes bite me when I try...
Revealed at Last: Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls; AS THE MOST REMARKABLE INSIGHT INTO CHRIST'S WORLD IS DISPLAYED IN BRITAIN
Daily Mail (London); May 15, 1998; 700+ words ...punishments, that we see in contemporary messianic sects, from Jim Jones (who presided over the mass suicide of his followers at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978) to David Koresh (who died with his fellow Branch Davidians in the bloody siege at Waco, Texas, in...
Thank you mural much---Toppenish artist works with kids to paint a tribute to helpful nun--Sister Elizabeth Simskins
Yakima Herald-Republic; May 26, 1998; JANE GARGAS Of the Herald-Republic; 700+ words ...cultures. She lives what she believes and touches so many people," said Introcaso. Last winter Sister Liz traveled to Jonestown, Miss., where she volunteered in an after-school educational program for impoverished youth. She was so energized by...
Poetry and Terror in Peter Dale Scott's 'Coming to Jakarta.'
Chicago Review; June 22, 1998; MacPhail, Scott; 700+ words ...investments in extracting maximum profits from the land. After noting the Cold-War choices between nuclear Armageddon or Jonestown mass-suicide, Scott asks: And what if the choices in Java were just as simple - to become a technological graveyard or...
38 Miss. municipalities settle allegations of improper securities actions
AP Online; July 13, 1998; MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer; 700+ words ...Sardis and Winona; and the towns of Bay Springs, Coffeeville, Coldwater, Como, Crenshaw, Edwards, Friars Point, Jonestown, Lambert, Leakesville, Marks, Raleigh, Shaw and Tchula. Copyright 1998 The Associated Press All Rights Reserved.
DISAPPEARANCE 20 YEARS AGO REMAINS A MYSTERY POLICE, AFTER CHASING MANY LEADS, HAVE NO CLUES TO WHEREABOUTS OF FIVE TEENS
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); August 21, 1998; ELLEN WULFHORST; 612 words ...dead, either. Police checked military enrollments and religious cults. They even checked the bodies flown home from the Jonestown, Guyana, mass suicide in 1978 and the victims of Chicago-area serial killer John Wayne Gacy a few years later. There...
Schaefer Revels in Return to State's Campaign Trail: Candidacy an Odd, Old-Fashioned Mix
The Washington Times (Washington, DC); September 9, 1998; Montgomery, Christine; 700+ words ...Wasserman, the governor's former Cabinet secretary, the nickname "Kool-Aid kids" because of their cult-like (think Jonestown) dedication to the man. Michael Golden, who last worked in Mr. Schaefer's press office in 1987, took a two-month...
Cult leader promises followers a new start up the Moonie river
The Scotsman; September 16, 1998; ANNETTE WITHERIDGE In New York and DAVID MONTGOMERY; 700+ words ...shambolic scandal of his heir apparent son's marriage problems. They say the plans have echoes of the agricultural commune of Jonestown, set up by the Rev Jim Jones in the Guyana jungle, where 913 members of the People's Temple committed mass suicide in...
STARR REPORT MAY PROVE TO BE KEY IN MEDIA EVOLUTION A huge, steamy document tests traditional editing limits, processes.
NewsInc; September 28, 1998; 700+ words ...retrospect, they probably should have turned my stomach. When you're in the middle of a story like the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, or the murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, you don't stop to think...
Thinking the unthinkable How does one heal a society decimated by hatred, murder, or genocide? Is forgiveness possible?
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); October 4, 1998; David Mehegan, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...hospitals where Tutsis had fled for safety. Fields and streams and wells were filled with bodies. It was like the scenes ofJonestown magnified more than a thousandfold. As shocking as the deeds are the range and numbers of people who participated: People...
Mass suicide fear as 60 'disciples' vanish with bankrupt cult leader.
Daily Mail (London); October 17, 1998; 347 words ...went bankrupt owing thousands for adverts on to radio stations. Nikki Weaver, who dropped out of the cult two years ago, is terrified her mother and stepfather will join in a mass suicide ritual similar to the Jonestown deaths in 1978.
THE TRAGEDY OF JONESTOWN
ABC 20/20; October 18, 1998; FORREST SAWYER, BARBARA WALTERS, DIANE SAWYER; 700+ words ...you on a spellbinding journey back toJonestown, scene of one of the most horrific acts...this happen again? "The Tragedy Of Jonestown." That story tonight, Sunday, October...years to the mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. DIANE SAWYER, ABC News...
Author offers a fresh look at Moses, warts and all.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; November 4, 1998; Scheinin, Richard; 700+ words ...mixes it with water, a Biblical Kool-Aid that was then forced down the throats of the Israelites. ``It's a little like Jonestown,'' says Kirsch, a literary critic for the Los Angeles Times, who writes about the real Moses in ``Moses: A Life...
As the Number of Potentially-Lethal Sects in the UK Tops 500, the Groups Are Targeting Birmingham in the Run Up to the Millennium
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England); November 8, 1998; 700+ words ...use sinister mind-control techniques to do it. The disturbing news comes as the world faces the 20th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre. On November 18, 1978, cult followers under the control of the Reverend Jim Jones were ordered to kill themselves...
THE WEEK AHEAD
Chicago Sun-Times; November 8, 1998; Gary Wisby; 451 words ...benefit of increasing air traffic." Jonestown forum A cult research and education group...American Family Foundation sponsors "Jonestown Plus 20 Years: What Have We Learned...who was slain in the 1978 massacre at Jonestown, Guyana. Veggie meet "Lifestyles of...
Eyewitness to History
The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); November 10, 1998; Bull, Chris; 700+ words ...stay together? You make it through because you have to make it through. What made it even harder was that it followed the Jonestown event [in which followers of Jim Jones, a cult leader from San Francisco, committed mass suicide]. It was my first day...
20 years later, Jonestown remains enigma
AP Online; November 14, 1998; MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer; 700 words ...others had been shot to death in an ambush at the Jonestown airstrip. They knew it was only a matter of...son, Ed, afraid Jones would sweep him off to Jonestown. Her lesson from Jonestown: Beware of false prophets. ``I never believed...
Caan Clan Make It a Real Family Affair; A Boy Called Hate Channel 5, 10.55pm - 12.45am
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); November 14, 1998; 700+ words ...fully about what they do, and even if it does nothing else for you, it will certainly open your eyes. Witness Channel 4, 9.00 pm TWENTY years ago this week, 913 American citizens were found dead at Jonestown in the Guyanan jungle i
November 14, 1998, AP Online, Twenty years later, a survivor looks back, by Michelle Locke, Associated Press Writer; 700+ words ...14-1998 PIEDMONT, Calif. (AP) _ Jonestown survivor Deborah Layton grew up in a...Layton and her mother, Lisa, arrived at Jonestown, a jungle encampment about 250 miles...window before Layton was born.) In Jonestown, the able-bodied among the 1,000...
The Sins
Daily Mail (London); November 14, 1998; 700+ words ...and stink in the tropical heat. The Jonestown Massacre was complete. When, days later...Deborah Layton heard the news of the Jonestown Massacre on her car radio as she was...committee the true nature of the regime in Jonestown. She told them about Jones's obsession...
Survivor recalls Jonestown horror
Chicago Sun-Times; November 15, 1998; CHARLES LAURENCE; 700+ words ...stood in line in a makeshift compound called Jonestown and swallowed a cup of fruit punch. She closed...Wednesday is the 20th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. It still shocks. Jonestown remains the yardstick by which cult tragedies...
People's Temple Remembered
Oakland Post; November 15, 1998; 407 words ...emotional display of photographs depicting Jonestown, taken by former San Francisco Examiner...finding mission to uncover abuses at the Jonestowncompound.Robinson's stark, black...the installation of a memorial wall for Jonestown victims in a city park.Ethnic NewsWatch...
NEWS DIGEST
The News Sun - Waukegan (IL); November 16, 1998; 661 words Lake County Jonestown cult talk Wednesday Ron Loomis, director of education for the American...present a cult awareness education program titled "Twenty Years After Jonestown, What Have We Learned About Cults? Cults on Campus: The Appeal...
Program Seeks to Prevent Students from Joining Cults
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); November 17, 1998; Przygoda, Mary Jo; 498 words ...on college campuses at a special presentation Wednesday at the College of Lake County. The program, "Twenty Years After Jonestown, What Have We Learned About Cults? Cults on Campus: The Appeal, The Danger," will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in...
REMEMBERING JONESTOWN TWENTY YEARS LATER, A SURVIVOR LOOKS BACK
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA); November 17, 1998; MICHELLE LOCKE, Associated Press; 700+ words ...Columbian 11-17-1998 PIEDMONT, Calif. -Jonestown survivor Deborah Layton grew up in a...Layton and her mother, Lisa, arrived at Jonestown, a jungle encampment about 250 miles...window before Layton was born.) In Jonestown, the able-bodied among the 1,000...
November 18, 1998, The Boston Globe, 20 years later, survivor surveys hell that Jim Jones made, by Renee Graham, Globe Staff, 700+ words SEDUCTIVE POISON A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death...at a self-styled retreat called Jonestown, hundreds of people died during a...the attention given cults began with Jonestown. Its name became "an ominous warning...
November 18, 1998, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Program Aims to Prevent Students from Joining Cults, by Mary Jo Przygoda, 497 words ...cults on college campuses at a special presentation today at the College of Lake County. The program, "Twenty Years After Jonestown, What Have We Learned About Cults? Cults on Campus: The Appeal, The Danger," will be presented at 7
November 18, 1998, The Washington Times, Washington Daybook: Today's Headliners,
276 words JONESTOWN NEWS CONFERENCE - NOON - The Institute for the Study of American Religion...and the mass suicide-murder of 900 members of the Peoples Temple, Jonestown, Guyana. Location: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets...
November 19, 1998, AP Online, Jonestown survivor: `We were just duped', by Michelle Locke,
Associated Press Writer; 688 words ...hillside here, survivors met to remember Jonestown. ``The Peoples Temple members were...every year since. "The people of Jonestown went to Guyana to live, not to die...Wilson followed him. "The people in Jonestown had a vision, had a dream,'' she...
Wake-Up Call
The Sun Reporter; November 19, 1998; 565 words ...assault on an African American Mayor personally. During this historic month in our City, we are reminded of the November 1978 Jonestown tragedy and the deaths of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The pies could have been knives or guns. They...
Cults as Seductive as Ever, Speaker Warns Audience
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); November 20, 1998; Przygoda, Mary Jo; 471 words ...members of the Peoples Temple followed cult leader Jim Jones' orders to commit suicide. However, despite the memories of theJonestown mass suicide, cult expert Ron Loomis told an audience at the College of Lake County that there are more cults today than...
Sights and smells of Jonestown linger still
Chicago Sun-Times; November 22, 1998; Michael Sneed; 700+ words ...of children dying on a starry night in Jonestown, Guyana. It is the white noise of cyanide...children die, but I covered the story of Jonestown. And I clearly remember walking away...The bush plane . . . The only route to Jonestown, mired in the middle of a jungle, was...
November 23, 1998, AP Online, Guyanese president: former government shared blame for Jonestown,
461 words ...country's former government of partial blame for the 1978 Jonestown massacre because it allowed cult leaders to operate "a...focused on the presence of guns and illegal poisons at the Jonestown compound. Copyright 1998 The Associated Press All Rights...
November 23, 1998, The Independent (London, England) Historical Notes: Jonestown, Once a Horror, Now a Joke, by Fred D'Aguiar, 700+ words
November 23, 1998, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 'Seductive Poison' Recalls Hellish Days As a Follower of Jim Jones,656 words ...There, at a self-styled retreat called Jonestown, hundreds of people died during a night...The attention given cults began with Jonestown. Its name became ``an ominous warning...opened fire on those who tried to leave Jonestown. Five people, including California...
November 23, 1998, Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Scholars say they can help FBI on apocalyptic groups; Members of the American Academy of Religion meeting in Florida offered examples of how their understanding of religious movements can help law enforcement officers avoid bloodshed in dealing with them, by Martha Sawyer Allen, 700+ words ...before 900 members committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. No religion experts were asked...Gallagher, of Connecticut College.Jonestown was a more complex situation. Rebecca...lost two sisters and a nephew in the Jonestown disaster. She admits now that for years...
November 27, 1998, The Washington Post, TV Highlights, by David Vail Jackson, 514 words
Newsmagazines Dateline NBC (CC) reports on the 20th anniversary of the Jonestown, Guyana, massacre (Channel 4 at 10).
November 27, 1998, NPR Morning Edition, San Francisco Political Killings, by Richard Gonzales and Bob Edwards, 700+ words ...city Supervisor Dan White. The murders occurred in a disastrous month for the city -- occurring just nine days after the Jonestown massacre in which more than 900 followers of the Reverend Jim Jones, mostly San Franciscans, died in Guyana. NPR's Richard...
November 25, 2003, The Advocate, Death of dreams: in November 1978, Harvey Milk's murder and the mass suicides at Jonestown nearly broke San Francisco's spirit. Eerily, Milk knew and worked with Jonestown founder Jim Jones.
January 1, 1999, Contemporary American Religion, Cult Awareness Network
Death of Dreams: In November 1978, Harvey Milk's Murder and the Mass Suicides at Jonestown
March 22, 2005, Utopian Studies, Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown.(Book Review)by David Chidester,
May 8, 2006, Daily Mail (London) Strachan: Conspiracy Theorists Keep Our Kids Back
September 8, 2006, The Washington Post, The Disbelievers; 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Are Building Their Case Against the Government From Ground Zero,
December 28, 2010, States News Service, Conspiracy Theory Links Israel to Wikileaks; ADL Says Latest 'Big Lie' is Taking Root Among Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theorists,
February 17, 2011, AP Online, Guyana group to rebuild church tied to Jim Jones, 307 words
March 19, 2012, The New American, (South) American Killing Fields: In 1978, the "Reverend" Jim Jones, Who Actually Preached a Message of Atheistic Socialism and Heaven on Earth, by Charles Scaliger,
April 4, 2013, States News Service, Gallego: 'Conspiracy Theorists Hijacked Our Legislature'
More than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones were ordered by Jones to drink cyanide-laced grape punch. Most of them complied, although some were shot, injected with poison or forced to drink the deadly beverage. Sounds of the carnage that occurred on Nov. 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, could be heard on a tape recording left behind.
Jones had moved the headquarters of his Peoples Temple to San Francisco in the early 1970s. There, he established a free health clinic and a drug rehabilitation program, eventually becoming chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1976.
But allegations of wrongdoing mounted and Jones moved the settlement to Guyana, the only English-speaking country in South America.
Hundreds of followers moved with him, eager to live the dream of an agricultural commune.
They built cottages, workshops and dormitories in tidy rows, grew fruit and vegetables and raised chickens and pigs over 300 acres.
Then a congressman from San Francisco spent one day at the jungle pavilion investigating allegation of abuse. As Rep. Leo Ryan was preparing to return to the United States with 18 temple members who had wanted to leave, he was ambushed on the airstrip. Ryan, three newsmen and a Temple defector were killed.
Hours later, Jones urged 912 of his followers to drink the grape punch. Children died first; babies were killed by poison squirted into their mouths. Then the adults. Most were poisoned, some forcibly. Some were shot by security guards. Jones was found with a bullet wound in his head.
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An Ancient Tradition of Resurrection, but This Time on Board a Spaceship
The Independent (London, England); March 28, 1997; Brown, Andrew; 700+ words ...there is almost always a final, precipitating cause which can be recognised without any theological training. In the case ofJonestown, it was the group's murder of an investigator which seemed to leave its leader with no choice. He decided that if he was...
Mother Mourns Son She Lost to Cult 21 Years Ago -- and to Death This Week
The Washington Post; March 28, 1997; Sharon Waxman; 700+ words ...teenager, then disappeared for seven years. Desperate to know whether her son was dead or alive, particularly after the 1978 Jonestown massacre, Brown contacted a cult specialist who helped her both to cope with her grief and to confirm that Moore was alive...
CULT MEMBER'S STORY
ABC Good Morning America; March 28, 1997; ELIZABETH VARGAS; 700+ words ...Jackie Leonard (ph), was 72 years old, and over the past 20 years, we've been concerned because of events like the Jonestown massacre, that she was involved even in that group. And so each time something like this happens, the family is very...
Local man compares Rancho Santa Fe mass-suicide to Jonestown.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 28, 1997; Smallwood, Lola; 700+ words ...the Peoples Temple died at Jim Jones' jungle commune. The Jonestown tragedy began when U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan and a band of reporters were gunned down on a airstrip near Jonestown. Ryan planned to investigate the commune in response to allegations...
Deathly spell of doom messiahs
The Independent (London, England); March 28, 1997; Alice Lagnado; 420 words ...for the highest body count when he gave cyanide-spiked grape punch to more than 900 disciples of his People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, in November 1978.Last Saturday, five members of the Order of the Solar Temple, which has claimed 74 lives in...
MSNBC fumbles suicide story.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 28, 1997; Goodman, Tim; 700+ words ...murder, not suicide, without backing up that claim. Bernard Shaw offered little insight, instead rambling on about the Jonestown massacre, which did little to shed light on the current story. But MSNBC stumbled more. MSNBC's John Gibson, a daytime...
Humans, a great mystery.
The Boston Herald; March 28, 1997; 497 words ...mode: "If A and not B, then X; if A and B, then Y." We doubt that any of the poor souls who drank the poisoned brew at Jonestown had such skills. And people who live by deploying logic don't often believe in spaceships that are reached by suicide...
NEWEST CULT TALE IS SAME OLD STORY EXPERTS DESCRIBE PROCEDURE OF TURNING VULNERABLE PEOPLE INTO VICTIMS OF STRONG LEADERS.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 28, 1997; 700+ words ...command, Siegelman said. The third stage in the death spiral is the confrontation - real or imagined. In the case of the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana in 1978, 913 people died because a critical U.S. congressman had flown in to see Jones' jungle...
DEATHS RECALL HORROR OF JONESTOWN.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); March 28, 1997; 266 words ...things, and then here comes up something else,'' said Lewis, a retired San Francisco butcher who lost 27 family members at Jonestown, a name forever synonymous with mass murder-suicide. ``What they were looking for - what other people are looking for...
SUICIDE IS A WAY OF LIFE FOR SECTS.(News)
The Mirror (London, England); March 28, 1997; Kerr, Jane; 338 words ...includes: 1978 - The Rev Jim Jones, head of the People's Temple in San Francisco, led 914 followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by taking cyanide. Members who refused to swallow poisoned drink were shot. 1990 - Twelve people died at Tijuana...
Rasputins Control Life and Death
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); March 28, 1997; Barry, Nicola; 700+ words ...the edge. There are precedents: Jim Jones and Jonestown, David Koresh and Waco. Now the Computer Cult...police and federal agents ended a 51-day siege. JONESTOWN: 1978 November Jonestown, Guyana Rev Jim Jones led 914 followers to their...
THERE'S NO ANSWER TO THE NIGHTMARE OF WHY.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); March 28, 1997; 700+ words ...Thrash, and she had just returned from Jonestown, Guyana - one of a handful of the Rev...money, and followed him penniless to Jonestown. ``We would have followed him anywhere...The unanswered questions we had after Jonestownare the same unanswered questions we...
PAIN OF RELATIVES.(News)
The Mirror (London, England); March 29, 1997; 276 words ...away. The kids are supposed to run away." But Dick Joslyn, a cult member for 15 years, said: "This is not like Waco or Jonestown. Each one did this of their own volition. "Every step of the way the leaders gave us the option to go forward with the...
In tony hideaway, many feel disconnected from deaths
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); March 29, 1997; Lynda Gorov, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...insisted, will not be identified with mass death in the same way Waco, Texas, was after the Branch Davidians died or as Jonestown, Guyana, was after hundreds of Jim Jones's followers committed suicide together. "Of course no one's happy that it...
CORONER SAYS SOME MALE CULT MEMBERS WERE CASTRATED
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); March 29, 1997; SCOTT LINDLAW - Associated Press; 700+ words ...vehicles" or "containers," and rendezvous with a spaceship they believed was trailing the comet. "This is not like Waco or Jonestown. Each one did this of their own volition even though they were in a cult," said Dick Joslyn of Tampa, Fla., who was...
SEX SHUNNED BY SUICIDE CULT SOME MALES CASTRATED FOR IMMORTALITY.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; March 29, 1997; 700+ words ...or ``containers,'' and rendezvous with a spaceship they believed was trailing the comet. ``This is not like Waco or Jonestown. Each one did this of their own volition even though they were in a cult,'' said Dick Joslyn of Tampa, Fla., who was...
[2] Editorials
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); March 29, 1997; 700+ words ...single one had relatives planning to come to claim the body. This is not a unique shock. We remember all too well Waco and Jonestown. Yet there is something different. The Rev. James Jones and David Koresh believed in a violent end. Some of Jones' followers...
THE GRUESOME DETAILS : SOME SECT MEMBERS WERE CASTRATED.(NEWS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); March 29, 1997; 700+ words ...or ``containers,'' and rendezvous with a spaceship they believed was trailing the comet. ``This is not like Waco or Jonestown. Each one did this of their own volition even though they were in a cult,'' said Dick Joslyn of Tampa, Fla., who was...
Lawrence Lawler dies at 56; headed Minneapolis FBI office; `He was the ultimate professional, totally dedicated.'.(NEWS)(Obituary)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); March 29, 1997; Gale, Elaine; 544 words ...assistant special agent in charge of several high-profile cases, including the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, and the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford. "Under no circumstances would he have talked to me...
WHILE MANY CULTS EXIST, MASS SUICIDES ARE RARE
ABC World News Sunday; March 30, 1997; DEBORAH WEINER, CAROLE SIMPSON; 663 words ...This mass suicide shared something with the mass suicides at Jonestown and at the Order of the Solar Temple -- a similar lethal...every mass suicide in history appears to have a trigger. At Jonestown, it was a confrontation with a U.S. congressman. For...
SUICIDES BRING BACK MEMORIES OF H.I.M.
Post-Tribune (IN); March 30, 1997; 700+ words ...something eerily familiar that I couldn't quite put my finger on. At first I thought I was remembering details from the Jonestown and Solar Temple mass suicides, which also were inspired by charismatic leaders with apocalyptic visions, like Heaven...
America's cults a permanent part of society.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; March 31, 1997; Lewis, Claude; 700+ words ...and awaited their destiny _ a rendezvous with a UFO they believed was trailing the approaching Hale-Bopp comet. Unlike Jonestown, the Higher Source cult members possessed no weapons of destruction, except for the deadly mixture of alcohol and pudding...
The lessons of Heaven's Gate involve the issues of community and individualism.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; April 1, 1997; Sandon, Leo; 700+ words ...Niebuhr. What does it take for marginal religious groups to startle a nation? The People's Temple Christian Church in Jonestown, Guyana, got our attention in 1978 when 913 of its members died in ritual suicide. It happened again in 1993 near Waco...
Woman may head Guyana
Chicago Sun-Times; April 1, 1997; STEPHANIE ZIMMERMANN; 665 words ...career in racially tense Guyana, a tiny former British colony on the Caribbean coast of South America best known for the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978. Asian Indians make up about half of Guyana's population; blacks account for about 30 percent. When...
FINAL CURTAIN FALLS ON CYBER-AGE DRAMA.(Editorial)(Column)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); April 1, 1997; 700+ words ...particulars another casebook cult scenario to be measured againstJonestown or Waco. Yet it seems even more disturbing because it lacks those...alien catastrophe that cannot happen here - but we're not inJonestown anymore.
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM - 2 RELIGION'S POSITIVE INFLUENCE UPON THE UNITED STATES.(LOCAL)
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); April 2, 1997; 700+ words ...Jim Jones' followers, along with Jones himself, had yet to do themselves in by drinking poison-laced Kool-Aid at Jonestown, Guyana. Nor had Scientology gotten much attention. Wicca was around but it had not intruded into the public consciousness...
TV PRODUCERS WAIT ON HEAVEN'S GATE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); April 2, 1997; Saunders, Dusty; 700+ words ...Francisco area before he established his cult compound. Heaven's Gate has none of that pre-death drama that made the Jonestown story so compelling to many viewers. Television didn't shy away, however, from the tragedies of Waco and Ruby Ridge...
From land boom to Heaven's Gate, great ruses continue.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; April 2, 1997; Lindley, Mary Ann; 700+ words ...Crowds.'' Joseph Bulgatz has updated it with newer examples of gullibility, superstition and ignorance, including the Jonestowntragedy of 1978. Some 900 followers of the charismatic Jim Jones were induced to drink from tubs of cyanide, Valium and...
Nicola Barry; GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR JOHN
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); April 3, 1997; Barry, Nicola; 700+ words ...or battlebus, to brainwash more innocents . Cult experts have been comparing what is going on at Downing Street to Waco or Jonestown. I don't think there is any comparison. In The Major and those other authors of yesterday's suicide pact, oops, sorry...
CULT SUICIDES SHOW THAT INTELLIGENCE ISN'T EVERYTHING.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); April 3, 1997; 700+ words ...to all off-beat religions. But one person's cult is another person's religion. As Tom Wolfe wrote after Jim Jones' Jonestown suicide, a cult is just ''a religion with no political power.'' Had David Koresh bought politicians instead of guns...
A cult's tangled web
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); April 3, 1997; Ellen Goodman, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...videotape filled with excited talk of spacecraft -- in a lush home crammed with desktop terminals. Compared with this, the Jonestownjungle made perverse, horror-tale sense. Maybe indeed "cybercult" should be an oxymoron. But today, it stands as one...
Around the Dial.
The Boston Herald; April 3, 1997; 595 words ...since the cult members apparently took their lives voluntarily, the story is missing conflict. Although the suicides at Jonestown and David Koresh's compound in Waco inspired TV movies, the major broadcast and cable TV networks say they have no plans...
They really believe it--these death cultists. Not San Diego's--I mean the Tory party's
The Spectator; April 5, 1997; Matthew Parris; 700+ words ...party. I realise that. I also realise that the Heaven's Gate 39 had nothing to do with the assembly of 900 who died in Jonestown in 1978, or with those in the Solar Temple sect who have killed themselves in Switzerland and Canada over the past three...
WAKE UP! SUICIDES TEACH A LOT OF LESSONS
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); April 6, 1997; LEO SANDON - Knight-Ridder; 700+ words What does it take for marginal religious groups to startle a nation? The People's Temple Christian Church in Jonestown, Guyana, got our attention in 1978 when 913 of its members died in ritual suicide. It happened again in 1993 near Waco...
CYBERCULT SUICIDE DOESN'T COMPUTE.(Editorial)(Column)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); April 6, 1997; 700+ words ...videotape filled with excited talk of spacecraft - in a lush home crammed with desktop terminals. Compared to this, the Jonestown jungle made perverse horror-tale sense. Maybe, indeed, ``cybercult'' should be an oxymoron. But today, it stands...
Heaven's Gate brings echoes of Jonestown
Chicago Sun-Times; April 6, 1997; Michael Sneed; 700+ words ...November, 1978, two months after I was married, I was sent to Jonestown, Guyana, to cover the deaths of 975 members of a cult led...happy, healthy and acting under his own volition." The Jonestown cult members were not allowed to leave their village. Members...
Christ and Comets
Newsweek; April 7, 1997; Woodward, Kenneth L.; 700+ words ...Earth," a pseudo-Biblical doomsday book that became by far the biggest best seller of the decade. Finally, there was Jonestown, where 914 true believers from the United States kept a Kool-Aid rendezvous with death in 1978. Now, in a grisly footnote...
'The Next Level': How Herff Applewhite, a Sexually Confused, Would-Be Apostle, Led a Flock of Lost New Age Dreamers to Their Deaths
Newsweek; April 7, 1997; Thomas, Evan; 700+ words ...normally the loneliest act, the ultimate alienation. There have been worse mass suicides, but probably not in America, and at Jonestown in Guyana in 1978, those who refused to drink the Kool-Aid were shot. What possessed this self-described "Next Level...
'The Most Horrible Night of My Life.' an Ex-Jonestown Believer on the Pull of Cults - and How His 5-Year-Old Paid the Ultimate Price
Newsweek; April 7, 1997; Stoen, Tim; 700+ words An ex-Jonestown believer on the pull of cults--and...paid the ultimate price. WHEN I WENT TOJONESTOWN with my 5-year-old son, John Victor...hard way. The five months I spent in Jonestown were wonderful. Here were people of...
Local Cult-Busters Use Tragedy to Educate
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); April 7, 1997; Sanchez, Robert; 700+ words ...these kinds of tragedies, sadly," Joy Veinot said. "What has our past few years been like? The Solar Temple, Waco, Jonestown," she said. "They are getting closer together. I think it will get worse." Don Veinot said the coming of the millennium...
THE '70S THEY'RE BAAAAACK SELECTIVE NOSTALGIA REINVENTS THE DECADE OF DISILLUSIONMENT.(Lifestyle)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; April 8, 1997; Conklin, Ellis E.; 700+ words ...wild golf stroke and comical stumbles down the stairs of Air Force One. Later came the madness of Attica, Idi Amin, the Jonestown suicides, and the murder of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk. Gun-shy America, its confidence...
SOMETIMES A CULT IS JUST A CULT.(Editorial)(Column)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); April 19, 1997; 700+ words ...religion, some cults may actually be cults. This is the message that those who have studied cults in the two decades since Jonestown have been trying to get out, especially as we mark today's Waco-Oklahoma City joint anniversary. Yet somehow as Heaven...
NORFOLK AND THE PSYCHIC.(LOCAL)
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); April 23, 1997; 675 words ...chance, how can they have the audacity to charge anyone even one dollar? Nice try, Ms. DeLong, perhaps in another city. Jonestown, Guyana, and the recent Heaven's Gate tragedy - not to mention the numerous cults we already have in Hampton Roads - serve...
N.E. dads fight cult for kids.
The Boston Herald; April 27, 1997; Crittenden, Jules; 700+ words ...other men's wives - a cult leader on a track that can only lead to disaster. Fearful of another Rancho Santa Fe, Waco or Jonestown, two New England men are trying to wrest their children from Yisrayl Hawkins and the cult of at least 1,000 people that...
OGERT FAMILY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); May 1, 1997; 509 words ...of Hoosick Falls, Michele Tower and Gail Tatro of North Adams, MA, Dale Dennis of Bennington, VT, Bonnie McCloud of Jonestown, TN, Dawn Bartlett of Jacksonville, VT and the late Kenneth Norman Ogert, Jr. The funeral will be Saturday afternoo
When Will the Kamikazes Realise the War Is Over?
The Mail on Sunday (London, England); May 11, 1997; 700+ words ...sects - which, come to think of it, they sometimes resembled - the Tory Sceptics simply committed mass suicide, a political Jonestown. I sense that the Tories left in Parliament or Tory commentators have yet to recognise any of this. The candidates for the...
Laser Quest Center to Open in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.(Originated from The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; May 13, 1997; Kittrell, Irvin; 420 words ...new center will open in a 10,000-square-foot space next to the Media Play store in Hills Plaza in the 5000 block of Jonestown Road. Lower Paxton Twp. supervisors have approved a zoning application for the center, but no date for the opening has...
From 'Jonestown.'(fiction)(excerpt)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; June 22, 1997; Harris, Wilson; 700+ words ...of America tells of the "tragedy of Jonestown" and of the scene of "indescribable...the globe when they arrived in stricken Jonestown after the self-inflicted holocaust...angel" in his Church of Eternity in Jonestown. Francisco Bone was born in Albuoystown...
Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister.
Free Inquiry; June 22, 1997; Mackmiller, Dave; 700+ words ...transfusions. But since they die quietly, one by one, they don't make sensational headlines like the multiple deaths at Waco and Jonestown. The book is peppered with news clippings about Witnesses who died by refusing blood. For example, there's the case of...
Wilson Harris: An Introduction
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; June 22, 1997; Adler, Joyce Sparer; 700+ words ...recent works contain many "analytical dialogues," as Hena Maes-Jelinek calls them. This is true of the passage from Jonestown, his new novel, included in this issue. Harris conceives of his novels as epics, a form he believes need not be lost in...
Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements.
Sociology of Religion; June 22, 1997; Beyer, Peter; 700+ words ...section is one on violence in and by NRMs. Justifiably, the core reading here is John Hall's piece on the "apocalypse" at Jonestown framed by interpretative analyses by Thomas Robbins & Dick Anthony and Edgar Mills, Jr. This reviewer wondered, however...
`Waco': Officials' Fatal Vision
The Washington Times (Washington, DC); June 22, 1997; Arnold, Gary; 700+ words ...befell the members of the sect during the FBI assault in April of '93." At the time, he recalls, he thought it was another Jonestown, with the Davidians "pretty much asking for it. . . . My doubts about the government's role were eventually confirmed...
A Wilson Harris checklist.(Bibliography)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; June 22, 1997; Adler, Joyce Sparer; 427 words ...the River of Space (London: Faber and Faber, 1990). Resurrection at Sorrow Hill (London: Faber and Faber, 1993). Jonestown(London: Faber and Faber, 1996). Nonfiction History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas (Georgetown: National...
A Cambodian woman's union fight
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); July 8, 1997; Diane E. Lewis, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...from Cambodia. The job action at her factory was significant enough to attract the attention of Kim An, vice president ofJonestown Bank and Trust Co. in Hershey, Pa. It was An who brought Ou to the United States and organized a three-month speaking...
EASTER WAS, LIKE HIS HOME RUNS, LARGER THAN LIFE
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); September 10, 1997; MILT NORTHROP - News Sports Reporter; 700+ words ...brother to younger black players -- Joe Caffie, Ray Noble and Jose Santiago -- who joined the team the next year. Born in Jonestown, Miss., on Aug. 4, 1915, Easter was well past his athletic prime when he made his major-league debut with the Cleveland...
NOT ALL PRIESTS UPSET BY MERGER PLAN.(Local/Wisconsin)
The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); September 16, 1997; 309 words ...Thomas Lemieux of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Kenosha on Saturday compared the proposal to merge his Catholic parish to a "Jonestown" plan, referring to the 1977 deaths of more than 900 people who were directed by the Rev. Jim Jones to drink poison...
Somewhere New: New & Selected Stories
Studies in Short Fiction; September 22, 1997; Graham, Don; 700+ words ...the "black days of reaction," Collier enjoys deconstructing sensational history, the grassy knoll in Dallas, the Jonestown suicides, the latter of which in a couple of pages of closely reasoned examination, are totally called into question...
Oyster.
World Literature Today; September 22, 1997; Bliss, Carolyn; 700+ words ...names on central female characters. In Borderline it was Felicity; in Oyster it is Mercy Given, who naturally survives the Jonestown (or is it Waco?) style holocaust at Oyster's camp. Finally, the theme of chronologically and geographically displaced...
Cellular One plans to lease large facility
Central Penn Business Journal; October 10, 1997; Valkenburgh, Van Lee, Mary; 362 words ...area, 360deg Communications, announced plans to relocate to Harrisburg. It built a retail store and corporate offices onJonestown Road. That move was the result of 360deg's acquisition of Wireless One, which expanded 360's access to most of the state...
TV Plus; What a Bloody; CARVE-UP
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); October 12, 1997; Robinson, Scott; 700+ words ...have a picnic, no obligation to buy! OVER MY DEAD BODY. Let us prey! There were echoes of the Heaven's Gate Waco andJonestown tragedies in The X Files, when Mulder and Scully became involved with a mind-manipulating religious nut named Vernon...
Cellular One Gets Pennsylvania State Aid.(Originated from The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; October 15, 1997; DeKok, David; 700+ words ...provider in the midstate, said her company did not receive any help from the state when it built a new office recently on Jonestown Road in Lower Paxton Twp. Welch said 360 Communications employs about 300 people in Pennsylvania, including 100 in the midstate...
BROADCASTING'S RACE TO THE BOTTOM
The Herald News - Joliet (IL); December 13, 1997; 697 words The guy's idea of great television involves topics like gang rape, transsexuals, teen-age lesbians or the Jonestown Massacre. To Geraldo Rivera, these are the everyday things that illuminate our lives.Rivera's happiest moment came...
Ex-Chicagoan favored to win Guyana election
Chicago Sun-Times; December 16, 1997; MAUREEN O'DONNELL; 575 words ...activities. They spent several months in jail in the early 1950s. Guyana hit world headlines in 1978 with the mass suicide in Jonestown. "It came as a shock to her," Rosenberg said. Jagan's Chicago roots have been an issue in the election, with opposition...
ARE THE NETWORKS REALLY THIS HARD UP?
The Beacon News - Aurora (IL); December 19, 1997; 700+ words The guy's idea of great television involves topics like gang rape, transsexuals, teen-age lesbians or the Jonestown Massacre. To Geraldo Rivera, these are the everyday things that illuminate our lives.Rivera's happiest moment came...
My Cousin The President, From Chicago To Guyana
The Washington Post; December 21, 1997; Judy Flander; 700+ words ...even a country in South America, formerly owned by the British, that most people know little about, save the infamous 1979 Jonestown Massacre. To kiss her off as a grandmother! This champion of plantation workers, native Amerindians and women's rights...
Murky Moonie Money
Free Inquiry; December 22, 1997; Haught, James A.; 651 words ...concerned, it seems clear, we are dealing with something besides just an exotic cult. The Pak beating smacks strongly of Jonestown. And with Moon lavishing hundreds of millions of dollars a year on newspapers, magazines, and political action groups in...
On Fifth Avenue
Tikkun; January 1, 1998; Ross, Dorien; 522 words ...reality. Whole cultures move into collective avoidance for this reason. High school cliques. McCarthyism. Woodstock. Jonestown. O Mother! In your Bergdorf's raincoat, with a mink collar and belted waist. Collar stylishly turned up against the...
Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America.
Journal of Church and State; January 1, 1998; Pitts, Bill; 700+ words ...movements. Tolerance for NRMs remains low, the authors argue, because of the success of the anti-cult movement since the Jonestown disaster. The anti-cult movement provides an "interpretative framework" which sees the leader as deceiving and controlling...
AIMING FOR SERIOUSNESS, `OYSTER' GETS LOST
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); March 22, 1998; Jodi Daynard; 700+ words ...Oyster" mimics the modernist literary novel -- like "Heart of Darkness" as it might transmogrify itself in our own post-Jonestown, post-Waco era. But if the definition of a "serious" novel is that it ring true to something -- true to its story...
Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict.(Review)
Utopian Studies; March 22, 1998; Cummings, Michael S.; 700+ words ...for governmental intervention, including allegations of child abuse and illegal possession of arms; compare Mt. Carmel to Jonestown; analyze David Koresh's biblical interpretation and the role it played in his behavior; and assess various constitutional...
Death and delivery
Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland); March 29, 1998; Robyn Marsack; 700+ words ...ago the Rev Jim Jones called on his followers to establish Jonestown, in Guyana; undoubtedly they hoped for a new world there...letter, interspersed with an account of the last days of Jonestown and the final, forced mass- suicide, which the narrator...
Dillsburg store serves farmers, sun-downers
Central Penn Business Journal; April 10, 1998; Anonymous; 561 words ...vice president and secretary is Richard Apple. It was incorporated May 1, 1996. Paul L. Herr, manager of Herr Feed in Jonestown, also runs a granary. Most of his customers are farmers who reside in the immediate area, he said. Herr Feed doesn't...
JOHN T. TURNER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); April 10, 1998; 322 words ...John T. Turner, age 61, of Albany, died April 7, 1998 at Veterans Administration Hospital, Albany, NY. He was born in Jonestown, MS to Joe and Carrie Turner, the older of four boys, and resided most of his adult life in Albany. He was the proprietor...
Jonestown, Pa., Computer Distributor Seeks Tax Breaks As It Mulls Move.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; April 13, 1998; 700+ words By Al Winn, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 12--A computer distributor is seeking tax breaks as it considers construction of a large warehouse that would pull its workers out of Dauphin County and into Lebanon County. Ingram Micro Inc., which Fortune
The rise of the grief industry.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; April 17, 1998; Whitcomb, Robert; 700+ words ...a stock collection of cliches and assumptions to fit virtually any situation. It makes one long for the aftermath of the Jonestown mass murder and suicide, in 1979, when the socially acceptable reaction was just astonishment and horror, or even bemusement...
Pat Robertson settles libel suit with rebel professor
AP Online; April 28, 1998; SONJA BARISIC Associated Press Writer; 442 words ...settled the libel suit of a former law professor who claimed the religious broadcaster likened him and other professors to Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones. The settlement was announced as jury selection was underway in the case. Its terms were not disclosed...
TV violence is sickening America's soul.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; May 1, 1998; 700+ words ...effect of television programming on youngsters' normative expectations about conflict resolution. Whether it is Jonesboro or Jonestown, guns or suicide, there appears to be a trend toward violence as the means to achieve an end. How much more violence our...
HAVE SOME CAKE, THEN WE'LL TOUR THE GARDEN
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); May 11, 1998; LIBBY MAEDER - Special to The News; 601 words ...shipped from California in glass vials -- were so hardy. Four days after we put those in the ant farm, it looked like Jonestownafter the Kool-Aid. Maybe we should try kitchen windowsill ants in the ant farm. Outside, mosquitoes bite me when I try...
Revealed at Last: Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls; AS THE MOST REMARKABLE INSIGHT INTO CHRIST'S WORLD IS DISPLAYED IN BRITAIN
Daily Mail (London); May 15, 1998; 700+ words ...punishments, that we see in contemporary messianic sects, from Jim Jones (who presided over the mass suicide of his followers at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978) to David Koresh (who died with his fellow Branch Davidians in the bloody siege at Waco, Texas, in...
Thank you mural much---Toppenish artist works with kids to paint a tribute to helpful nun--Sister Elizabeth Simskins
Yakima Herald-Republic; May 26, 1998; JANE GARGAS Of the Herald-Republic; 700+ words ...cultures. She lives what she believes and touches so many people," said Introcaso. Last winter Sister Liz traveled to Jonestown, Miss., where she volunteered in an after-school educational program for impoverished youth. She was so energized by...
Poetry and Terror in Peter Dale Scott's 'Coming to Jakarta.'
Chicago Review; June 22, 1998; MacPhail, Scott; 700+ words ...investments in extracting maximum profits from the land. After noting the Cold-War choices between nuclear Armageddon or Jonestown mass-suicide, Scott asks: And what if the choices in Java were just as simple - to become a technological graveyard or...
38 Miss. municipalities settle allegations of improper securities actions
AP Online; July 13, 1998; MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer; 700+ words ...Sardis and Winona; and the towns of Bay Springs, Coffeeville, Coldwater, Como, Crenshaw, Edwards, Friars Point, Jonestown, Lambert, Leakesville, Marks, Raleigh, Shaw and Tchula. Copyright 1998 The Associated Press All Rights Reserved.
DISAPPEARANCE 20 YEARS AGO REMAINS A MYSTERY POLICE, AFTER CHASING MANY LEADS, HAVE NO CLUES TO WHEREABOUTS OF FIVE TEENS
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); August 21, 1998; ELLEN WULFHORST; 612 words ...dead, either. Police checked military enrollments and religious cults. They even checked the bodies flown home from the Jonestown, Guyana, mass suicide in 1978 and the victims of Chicago-area serial killer John Wayne Gacy a few years later. There...
Schaefer Revels in Return to State's Campaign Trail: Candidacy an Odd, Old-Fashioned Mix
The Washington Times (Washington, DC); September 9, 1998; Montgomery, Christine; 700+ words ...Wasserman, the governor's former Cabinet secretary, the nickname "Kool-Aid kids" because of their cult-like (think Jonestown) dedication to the man. Michael Golden, who last worked in Mr. Schaefer's press office in 1987, took a two-month...
Cult leader promises followers a new start up the Moonie river
The Scotsman; September 16, 1998; ANNETTE WITHERIDGE In New York and DAVID MONTGOMERY; 700+ words ...shambolic scandal of his heir apparent son's marriage problems. They say the plans have echoes of the agricultural commune of Jonestown, set up by the Rev Jim Jones in the Guyana jungle, where 913 members of the People's Temple committed mass suicide in...
STARR REPORT MAY PROVE TO BE KEY IN MEDIA EVOLUTION A huge, steamy document tests traditional editing limits, processes.
NewsInc; September 28, 1998; 700+ words ...retrospect, they probably should have turned my stomach. When you're in the middle of a story like the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, or the murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, you don't stop to think...
Thinking the unthinkable How does one heal a society decimated by hatred, murder, or genocide? Is forgiveness possible?
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); October 4, 1998; David Mehegan, Globe Staff; 700+ words ...hospitals where Tutsis had fled for safety. Fields and streams and wells were filled with bodies. It was like the scenes ofJonestown magnified more than a thousandfold. As shocking as the deeds are the range and numbers of people who participated: People...
Mass suicide fear as 60 'disciples' vanish with bankrupt cult leader.
Daily Mail (London); October 17, 1998; 347 words ...went bankrupt owing thousands for adverts on to radio stations. Nikki Weaver, who dropped out of the cult two years ago, is terrified her mother and stepfather will join in a mass suicide ritual similar to the Jonestown deaths in 1978.
THE TRAGEDY OF JONESTOWN
ABC 20/20; October 18, 1998; FORREST SAWYER, BARBARA WALTERS, DIANE SAWYER; 700+ words ...you on a spellbinding journey back toJonestown, scene of one of the most horrific acts...this happen again? "The Tragedy Of Jonestown." That story tonight, Sunday, October...years to the mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. DIANE SAWYER, ABC News...
Author offers a fresh look at Moses, warts and all.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; November 4, 1998; Scheinin, Richard; 700+ words ...mixes it with water, a Biblical Kool-Aid that was then forced down the throats of the Israelites. ``It's a little like Jonestown,'' says Kirsch, a literary critic for the Los Angeles Times, who writes about the real Moses in ``Moses: A Life...
As the Number of Potentially-Lethal Sects in the UK Tops 500, the Groups Are Targeting Birmingham in the Run Up to the Millennium
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England); November 8, 1998; 700+ words ...use sinister mind-control techniques to do it. The disturbing news comes as the world faces the 20th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre. On November 18, 1978, cult followers under the control of the Reverend Jim Jones were ordered to kill themselves...
THE WEEK AHEAD
Chicago Sun-Times; November 8, 1998; Gary Wisby; 451 words ...benefit of increasing air traffic." Jonestown forum A cult research and education group...American Family Foundation sponsors "Jonestown Plus 20 Years: What Have We Learned...who was slain in the 1978 massacre at Jonestown, Guyana. Veggie meet "Lifestyles of...
Eyewitness to History
The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); November 10, 1998; Bull, Chris; 700+ words ...stay together? You make it through because you have to make it through. What made it even harder was that it followed the Jonestown event [in which followers of Jim Jones, a cult leader from San Francisco, committed mass suicide]. It was my first day...
20 years later, Jonestown remains enigma
AP Online; November 14, 1998; MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer; 700 words ...others had been shot to death in an ambush at the Jonestown airstrip. They knew it was only a matter of...son, Ed, afraid Jones would sweep him off to Jonestown. Her lesson from Jonestown: Beware of false prophets. ``I never believed...
Caan Clan Make It a Real Family Affair; A Boy Called Hate Channel 5, 10.55pm - 12.45am
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); November 14, 1998; 700+ words ...fully about what they do, and even if it does nothing else for you, it will certainly open your eyes. Witness Channel 4, 9.00 pm TWENTY years ago this week, 913 American citizens were found dead at Jonestown in the Guyanan jungle i
November 14, 1998, AP Online, Twenty years later, a survivor looks back, by Michelle Locke, Associated Press Writer; 700+ words ...14-1998 PIEDMONT, Calif. (AP) _ Jonestown survivor Deborah Layton grew up in a...Layton and her mother, Lisa, arrived at Jonestown, a jungle encampment about 250 miles...window before Layton was born.) In Jonestown, the able-bodied among the 1,000...
The Sins
Daily Mail (London); November 14, 1998; 700+ words ...and stink in the tropical heat. The Jonestown Massacre was complete. When, days later...Deborah Layton heard the news of the Jonestown Massacre on her car radio as she was...committee the true nature of the regime in Jonestown. She told them about Jones's obsession...
Survivor recalls Jonestown horror
Chicago Sun-Times; November 15, 1998; CHARLES LAURENCE; 700+ words ...stood in line in a makeshift compound called Jonestown and swallowed a cup of fruit punch. She closed...Wednesday is the 20th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. It still shocks. Jonestown remains the yardstick by which cult tragedies...
People's Temple Remembered
Oakland Post; November 15, 1998; 407 words ...emotional display of photographs depicting Jonestown, taken by former San Francisco Examiner...finding mission to uncover abuses at the Jonestowncompound.Robinson's stark, black...the installation of a memorial wall for Jonestown victims in a city park.Ethnic NewsWatch...
NEWS DIGEST
The News Sun - Waukegan (IL); November 16, 1998; 661 words Lake County Jonestown cult talk Wednesday Ron Loomis, director of education for the American...present a cult awareness education program titled "Twenty Years After Jonestown, What Have We Learned About Cults? Cults on Campus: The Appeal...
Program Seeks to Prevent Students from Joining Cults
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); November 17, 1998; Przygoda, Mary Jo; 498 words ...on college campuses at a special presentation Wednesday at the College of Lake County. The program, "Twenty Years After Jonestown, What Have We Learned About Cults? Cults on Campus: The Appeal, The Danger," will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in...
REMEMBERING JONESTOWN TWENTY YEARS LATER, A SURVIVOR LOOKS BACK
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA); November 17, 1998; MICHELLE LOCKE, Associated Press; 700+ words ...Columbian 11-17-1998 PIEDMONT, Calif. -Jonestown survivor Deborah Layton grew up in a...Layton and her mother, Lisa, arrived at Jonestown, a jungle encampment about 250 miles...window before Layton was born.) In Jonestown, the able-bodied among the 1,000...
November 18, 1998, The Boston Globe, 20 years later, survivor surveys hell that Jim Jones made, by Renee Graham, Globe Staff, 700+ words SEDUCTIVE POISON A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death...at a self-styled retreat called Jonestown, hundreds of people died during a...the attention given cults began with Jonestown. Its name became "an ominous warning...
November 18, 1998, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Program Aims to Prevent Students from Joining Cults, by Mary Jo Przygoda, 497 words ...cults on college campuses at a special presentation today at the College of Lake County. The program, "Twenty Years After Jonestown, What Have We Learned About Cults? Cults on Campus: The Appeal, The Danger," will be presented at 7
November 18, 1998, The Washington Times, Washington Daybook: Today's Headliners,
276 words JONESTOWN NEWS CONFERENCE - NOON - The Institute for the Study of American Religion...and the mass suicide-murder of 900 members of the Peoples Temple, Jonestown, Guyana. Location: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets...
November 19, 1998, AP Online, Jonestown survivor: `We were just duped', by Michelle Locke,
Associated Press Writer; 688 words ...hillside here, survivors met to remember Jonestown. ``The Peoples Temple members were...every year since. "The people of Jonestown went to Guyana to live, not to die...Wilson followed him. "The people in Jonestown had a vision, had a dream,'' she...
Wake-Up Call
The Sun Reporter; November 19, 1998; 565 words ...assault on an African American Mayor personally. During this historic month in our City, we are reminded of the November 1978 Jonestown tragedy and the deaths of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The pies could have been knives or guns. They...
Cults as Seductive as Ever, Speaker Warns Audience
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); November 20, 1998; Przygoda, Mary Jo; 471 words ...members of the Peoples Temple followed cult leader Jim Jones' orders to commit suicide. However, despite the memories of theJonestown mass suicide, cult expert Ron Loomis told an audience at the College of Lake County that there are more cults today than...
Sights and smells of Jonestown linger still
Chicago Sun-Times; November 22, 1998; Michael Sneed; 700+ words ...of children dying on a starry night in Jonestown, Guyana. It is the white noise of cyanide...children die, but I covered the story of Jonestown. And I clearly remember walking away...The bush plane . . . The only route to Jonestown, mired in the middle of a jungle, was...
November 23, 1998, AP Online, Guyanese president: former government shared blame for Jonestown,
461 words ...country's former government of partial blame for the 1978 Jonestown massacre because it allowed cult leaders to operate "a...focused on the presence of guns and illegal poisons at the Jonestown compound. Copyright 1998 The Associated Press All Rights...
November 23, 1998, The Independent (London, England) Historical Notes: Jonestown, Once a Horror, Now a Joke, by Fred D'Aguiar, 700+ words
November 23, 1998, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 'Seductive Poison' Recalls Hellish Days As a Follower of Jim Jones,656 words ...There, at a self-styled retreat called Jonestown, hundreds of people died during a night...The attention given cults began with Jonestown. Its name became ``an ominous warning...opened fire on those who tried to leave Jonestown. Five people, including California...
November 23, 1998, Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Scholars say they can help FBI on apocalyptic groups; Members of the American Academy of Religion meeting in Florida offered examples of how their understanding of religious movements can help law enforcement officers avoid bloodshed in dealing with them, by Martha Sawyer Allen, 700+ words ...before 900 members committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. No religion experts were asked...Gallagher, of Connecticut College.Jonestown was a more complex situation. Rebecca...lost two sisters and a nephew in the Jonestown disaster. She admits now that for years...
November 27, 1998, The Washington Post, TV Highlights, by David Vail Jackson, 514 words
Newsmagazines Dateline NBC (CC) reports on the 20th anniversary of the Jonestown, Guyana, massacre (Channel 4 at 10).
November 27, 1998, NPR Morning Edition, San Francisco Political Killings, by Richard Gonzales and Bob Edwards, 700+ words ...city Supervisor Dan White. The murders occurred in a disastrous month for the city -- occurring just nine days after the Jonestown massacre in which more than 900 followers of the Reverend Jim Jones, mostly San Franciscans, died in Guyana. NPR's Richard...
November 25, 2003, The Advocate, Death of dreams: in November 1978, Harvey Milk's murder and the mass suicides at Jonestown nearly broke San Francisco's spirit. Eerily, Milk knew and worked with Jonestown founder Jim Jones.
January 1, 1999, Contemporary American Religion, Cult Awareness Network
Death of Dreams: In November 1978, Harvey Milk's Murder and the Mass Suicides at Jonestown
March 22, 2005, Utopian Studies, Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown.(Book Review)by David Chidester,
May 8, 2006, Daily Mail (London) Strachan: Conspiracy Theorists Keep Our Kids Back
September 8, 2006, The Washington Post, The Disbelievers; 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Are Building Their Case Against the Government From Ground Zero,
December 28, 2010, States News Service, Conspiracy Theory Links Israel to Wikileaks; ADL Says Latest 'Big Lie' is Taking Root Among Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theorists,
February 17, 2011, AP Online, Guyana group to rebuild church tied to Jim Jones, 307 words
March 19, 2012, The New American, (South) American Killing Fields: In 1978, the "Reverend" Jim Jones, Who Actually Preached a Message of Atheistic Socialism and Heaven on Earth, by Charles Scaliger,
April 4, 2013, States News Service, Gallego: 'Conspiracy Theorists Hijacked Our Legislature'
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