![]() ![]() Their stories show how Jones created a mixed-race church focused at first on issues of racial equality and social justice. ![]() The author asked her interviewees to recollect their lives, tell her what they thought about Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of Peoples Temple, and, if they were members, how they were drawn to him, what they experienced as members of his church, and what their lives have been like in the aftermath of the tragedy. ![]() A collection of sympathetic interviews with members of the Peoples Temple and others who were connected with the mass suicide/murders of more than 900 people at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978.įondakowski, who shaped some 300 hours of taped interviews into the play The People’s Temple, expands the material into this full-length book. ![]()
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