The need for a second look at Jonestown

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244 pages 1989

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A collection of fifteen essays by persons who were touched in some way by the mass deaths in Guyana. The volume includes reflections by former Peoples Temple members, insights by psychologists and counselors, and confessions by relatives vividly reveal what happened to individuals in the decade following November 18, 1978.

Contents:
A San Francisco activist remembers / Fran Peavey
Prophet without honor: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple in Mendocino County / Thomas MacMillan
Notes on Peoples Temple / Carlton Goodlett
Race, religion and belief in San Francisco / Donneter and John Lane
Coercion, control and mass suicide / Chris Hatcher
A light at the end of the tunnel / Garry L. Scarff
Together we stood, divided we fell / B. Alethia Orsot
The emergency relief committee / Donneter Lane, Malcolm Sparer and John O'Connor
After Jonestown: survivors of Peoples Temple / Chris Hatcher
Reflections on the Human Freedom Center / Lowell Streiker
We cannot forget our own / Jynona M. Norwood
The death of two daughters: grieving and remembering / Barbara Moore
Jonestown, Guyana 1988 / Hugh Vandeyar
Life ten years after Jonestown: the Peoples Temple legacy / Kathy Barbour
Jonestown: catalyst for social change / Robert B. Moore

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