Controversy accompanies many attempts, particularly by outsiders, to write about Jim Jones, Peoples Temple and Jonestown, and my article, “From Silver Lake to Suicide,” was no exception. Precious few witnesses to the final apocalypse in Guyana remain, and many differing, often incompatible points of view among historians, survivors, defectors and......
For all photographs, view the corresponding Jonestown slideshow here.
“Dear Folks,” the letter begins, “I think of you when I hear a Beethoven symphony or ...