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A Thousand Lives A Thousand Lives Julia Scheeres In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with … OL16099613W
A thousand lives A thousand lives Julia Scheeres What started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978. OL16450780W
Dear people Dear people Denice Stephenson More than a quarter of a century after the fall of Peoples Temple, in which the world witnessed the devastating loss of over nine hundred lives - including those of Congressman Leo J. Ryan and severa… OL18360154W
Peoples Temple and Black religion in America Peoples Temple and Black religion in America Anthony B. Pinn,Rebecca Moore The Peoples Temple movement ended on November 18, 1978 in their utopianist community of Jonestown, Guyana, when more than 900 members died, most of whom took their own lives. Only a handful lived to … OL19572854W
Jonestown survivor Jonestown survivor Laura Johnston Kohl Laura Johnston Kohl was a teen activist working to integrate public facilities in the Washington, D.C., area. She actively fought for civil rights and free speech, and against the Vietnam War through… OL19950564W
Stories from Jonestown Stories from Jonestown Leigh Fondakowski The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the … OL19956974W
White Nights, Black Paradise White Nights, Black Paradise Sikivu Hutchinson In 1978, Peoples Temple, a Black multiracial church once at the forefront of progressive San Francisco politics, self-destructed in a Guyana jungle settlement named after its leader, the Reverend Jim… OL20846560W
And Then They Were Gone And Then They Were Gone Ron Cabral,Judy Bebelaar Of the 918 Americans who died in the shocking murder-suicides of November 18, 1978, in the tiny South American country of Guyana, a third were under eighteen. More than half were in their twenties or… OL21738636W
Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple Rebecca Moore Most people understand Peoples Temple through its violent disbanding following events in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 Americans committed murder and suicide in a jungle commune. Media cover… OL24547890W
Marrow Marrow darlene anita scott *"Grape is the sweetest betrayal. There is no removing the stain Of it say moms everywhere & Even if kids choose it last; They choose it, as loyal To its sugar as any...."* When authorities conver… OL25302311W
Salvation and suicide Salvation and suicide David Chidester Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of t… OL2625185W
Valor Untold Valor Untold Richard D. Newton It has been 42 years since the tragic November 1978 mass suicide/murder of American citizens at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. In the intervening four decades, so mu… OL26426693W
Before White Night Before White Night Joseph Hartmann Bill Hausman, an American diplomat in Guyana, has scarcely heard of Jonestown, the religious “paradise” that has recently established itself deep in the Guyanese jungle. He knows very little about th… OL27027434W
The Death of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple The Death of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Chris Saunders On the morning of November 19, 1978, the bodies of over 900 Americans were found scattered all over a small commune in northwestern Guyana, South America by the Guyana Defense Force. It was clear tha… OL27027438W
Marked for Death Marked for Death Timothy Oliver Stoen "I have Tim Stoen...in my psyche tonight... I'm a man filled with rage... I could kill him. I could really kill him. Literally kill him... I got the man that'll get him. All I got to do is say the wo… OL27043644W
Awake in a nightmare Awake in a nightmare Ethan Feinsod This book is based on the *only eyewitness account*, never previously published, of one of the most dramatic and horrifying events of our times. On November 18, 1978, 914 men, women, and children—all… OL4296656W
Jesus and Jim Jones Jesus and Jim Jones Rose, Stephen C. *Jesus and Jim Jones* is a moving and incisive reflection on one of the most shocking public events of the 1970s. It contains the most far-reaching collection of documents about Jim Jones and the Peo… OL5269854W
Six years with God Six years with God Jeannie Mills Peoples Temple insiders leave church and lead a very unsure existance OL6573737W
White night White night John Peer Nugent On November 18, 1978 nearly one thousand American men, women and children died, in a so-called "mass suicide" in a place called Jonestown, Guyana. White Night is the first full account of the true st… OL6577305W
Hold hands and die! Hold hands and die! John Maguire **Tragedy in Guyana** **Why?** - Over 900 dead. - Ambush and Murder. - Suicide. The question is 'how could it happen?' How could one man induce over a thousand Americans to give up their… OL6818422W
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